@michael Your excitement was infectious, because if there's one format I love for raving about weird games, it's an internet forum!!!!

Hey, I'm Amy and I love old first person shooters the most and would, ironically, die for Clive Barker's Undying. I have a still-active occasional Unreal Tournament 2004 pickup game crew, for which I wrote an autoinstaller for the widescreen/FOV fix patch that normally requires a manual INI file edit, to save my friends time. (I haven't uploaded it anywhere but for them.) Does UT2004 count as fringe now that you can't buy it anymore? IDK.

I also enjoy a wide variety of other non first-person non shooter games, including recent Itch metroidvania Tres-bashers, the original gold box Pool of Radiance, Phantasmagoria 2: A Puzzle of Flesh (that flesh really was puzzling), and I recently got Need for Speed Underground 2 working on win10 in widescreen with my xbone controller.

Is there a canonical definition of what makes a game fringe for this forum's purposes, or is it more impressionistic like "what does your heart tell you?" UT2004 and Need for Speed were big at the time, but it's been quite a time since. Time blows a bunch of sand that buries things, like a poignant shot in an old movie.

https://possumcreekgames.itch.io/wanderhome is also a good broadly friendly (family included) TTRPG, but doubles as a really cozy beautiful art book. Check out these two splash pages:

first one
second one

edit: changed those to links because they're Large

https://possumcreekgames.itch.io/wanderhome is also a good broadly friendly (family included) TTRPG, but doubles as a really cozy beautiful art book. Check out these two splash pages:

first one
second one

edit: changed those to links because they're Large

@michael Your excitement was infectious, because if there's one format I love for raving about weird games, it's an internet forum!!!!

Hey, I'm Amy and I love old first person shooters the most and would, ironically, die for Clive Barker's Undying. I have a still-active occasional Unreal Tournament 2004 pickup game crew, for which I wrote an autoinstaller for the widescreen/FOV fix patch that normally requires a manual INI file edit, to save my friends time. (I haven't uploaded it anywhere but for them.) Does UT2004 count as fringe now that you can't buy it anymore? IDK.

I also enjoy a wide variety of other non first-person non shooter games, including recent Itch metroidvania Tres-bashers, the original gold box Pool of Radiance, Phantasmagoria 2: A Puzzle of Flesh (that flesh really was puzzling), and I recently got Need for Speed Underground 2 working on win10 in widescreen with my xbone controller.

Is there a canonical definition of what makes a game fringe for this forum's purposes, or is it more impressionistic like "what does your heart tell you?" UT2004 and Need for Speed were big at the time, but it's been quite a time since. Time blows a bunch of sand that buries things, like a poignant shot in an old movie.