'"The indie game I'm making and three inspirations behind it"' a list of games by MendelPalace | Backloggd (2024)

Millennium Actress + Nier: Automata + In the Mood For Love

Flowers of Evil + Mushishi + Coraline

Amnesia: The Dark Descent + Resident Evil 2 Remake + Alien: Isolation

Ys + Hydlide II + Bobo the Cat (also the Site of Reversible Destiny, athletic game shows like Takeshi's Castle, and walking outside a lot)

King of Fighters 2002 + Blazblue + SCWU

Dark Souls + Sekiro + Donkey Kong 64

Wario Land 4 + Crash Bandicoot 2 + Beavis & Butthead

Hyper Boxing + Super Smash Bros. 4 + Under Night In-Birth

Tropical Malady + The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin + Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life (also Harvest Moon: Back to Nature and Diaries of a Spaceport Janitor)

Radiant Silvergun + Zone of the Enders: The 2nd Runner + Metal Gear Solid (also Armored Core: For Answer, Blame!, Ace Combat 3: Electrosphere, and RayStorm)

Sort or 'Splode (from New Super Mario Bros/Super Mario 64 DS) + Ed, Edd, n Eddy + Crash Bandicoot

Lisa the Painful + The Binding of Isaac + Hieronymus Bosch

Pokemon + Animorphs + Puella Magi Madoka Magica (also Digimon, Grant Morrison's Doom Patrol, and that video of Toto's "Africa" playing in an empty mall)

On Formally Undecidable Propositions of Principia Mathematica and Related Systems by Kurt Gödel + a mosaic of Byzantine emperor Justinian altered to make him appear smiling + the Saguaro Cactus (also Cat Manning, Alfred Whitehead & Bertrand Russell, and the Sonoran Desert)

Cowboy Bebop + Blades in the Dark + Disco Elysium

All Quiet on the Western Front + Resident Evil 2 + Resident Evil 4

Resident Evil 2 + Silent Hill + Final Fantasy VII (also the Pirates of the Caribbean ride, abandoned amusem*nt parks in general, and the transporter accident from Star Trek: The Motion Picture)

Knightmare (TV show) + the Deathtrap Dungeon books + AtmosFear: The Gatekeeper

[Damien Crawford's Golf Experience 2024]

Mario Golf: Super Rush + Neo Turf Masters + Desert Bus

Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon + Jackie Chan's Action Kung-Fu + Kizuna Encounter

Planescape: Torment + There Is No Antimemetics Division: qntm + Red Plenty: Inside the Fifties' Soviet Dream by Francis Spufford

Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker + Persona 5 + Hallstatt, Austria

Neon Genesis Evangelion + Metal Gear Solid 2 + Dark Souls

Tetsuo the Iron Man + Happiness dir. Todd Solondz + Chrono Cross

Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening + Wolfenstein 3D + Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc

The Oregon Trail + The Exorcist III + 80s Satanic Panic

Action DOOM 2 + Condemned: Criminal Origins + Dishonored

Iron Lung + FTL + Subnautica

Mad Max: Fury Road + Mortal Engines + STALKER: Shadow of Chernobyl

Cave Story + Hero Core + Metroid

Deus Ex + Akira + Kingdom Hearts

Diablo II + classic Squaresoft games + Merlion, Singapore

Disco Elysium + This War of Mine + Pathologic 2 (and The Sacrifice by Andrei Tarkovsky, Carnage by Roman Polanski, and High Rise by JG Ballard)

Seiklus + Kirby's Adventure + Pokémon G/S/C

Thief + Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth + Bloodborne

The Lost Vikings + The Lord of the Rings Vol. 1 (SNES) + Child of Light

Might & Magic VI + Legend of Grimrock + Realms of the Haunted

It Follows + Gregory Crewdson + House of Leaves

The Last Express + Infidel! + Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness (and Johnny Five from Short Circuit, The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolf + Babylon 5 + Citadels of Mystery by L. Sprague de Camp & Catherine C. de Camp

The Science Fiction Hall of Fame Volume IIB + Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Eye of the Beholder + WaxWorks

Horse Gas Mask + Brown + Vladimir Lenin

Nier: Automata + Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild + Hades (also Bayonetta, Risk of Rain 2, Crypt of the Necrodancer, and Nuclear Throne)

Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past + Neon Genesis Evangelion + Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind

Takeshi's Challenge + Romancing Saga 3 + Hunter X Hunter

Alice: Madness Returns + Cult of the Lamb + Ib

Jean Seberg and Otto Preminger on the Ed Sullivan Show | Jane Fonda hangs with Warhol and Candy Darling whilst filming Klute in NYC | Alex Cox presents Moviedrome on BBC2

Super Metroid + Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons + Chip's Challenge

Ninja Scroll + Kirby and the Forgotten Land + The White Goddess: A Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth by Robert Graves

Neuromancer by William Gibson + The Wandering Earth by Cixin Liu + The City of Brass by S.A. Chakraborty

The Silver Case + Yakuza 0 + Serial Experiments Lain

King's Field IV + Condemned: Criminal Origins + Silent Hill 4

Yomawari: Night Alone + The Witch's House MV + Rhapsody: A Musical Adventure (also The Invisible Life of Addie Larue by V.E. Schwab, The Crucible by Arthur Miller, and The VVitch

Super Mario Bros. 2 + Super Metroid + Duck Tales (Capcom's other Disney games, Wonderboy: The Dragon's Trap, Castlevania II, Hollow Knight, Calvin & Hobbes, and the Little Nemo comic strips)

Mirror's Edge + Silent Hill 2 + Blame!

Blame! + Nier: Automata + Doom 2016

Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening + Castlevania + Bloodborne

Ultra Fight Da Kyanta 2 + Pizza Tower + Melty Blood: Actress Again Current Code

Akira + Post Void + Mullets! (also Doom, Hotline Miami, and Masked Rider)

Super Mario RPG + Who Framed Roger Rabbit + Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (also M&L: Superstar Saga, Paper Mario, Persona, Parasite Eve, FF7, and general Sega Genesis vibes)

Raiden Fighters + Muchi Muchi Pork + Darius Gaiden

Uninvited + Noroi: The Curse + Tokyo Videos of Horror

City of Lost Children + Simon the Sorcerer + Escape from LA

The Little Prince + Cave Story + Hyper Light Drifter (also Yume Nikki)

Legacy of the Wizard + Zelda II: Link's Adventure + The Guardian Legend (also Castlevania 2, Earthbound, and Atlantis no Nazo)

Sega Rally Championship + Initial D + The Fast & The Furious: Tokyo Drift

Sega Rally Championship + Mario Kart 8 + Driver: San Francisco (also Stuntman and Crazy Taxi)

Deus Ex + Yume Nikki + Behold!!! the Protong

Virginia Mishnun-Hardman + Beneath a Steel Sky + GoBots (also Fallout and Planescape: Torment)

Escape From New York + Johnny Mnemonic + Metal Gear Solid (also Shatterhand and Power Blade)

Metal Slader Glory + Famicom Detective Club Part II (SNES) + Bubblegum Crash (PCE)

Hydlide + Ancient Ys Vanished + Romancing Saga: Minstrel Song

Gundam Wing: Endless Duel SFC + Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers: Fighting Edition + Power Quest (also Street Fighter II on GB and TMNT: Tournament Fighters on NES)

Dark Souls III + Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow + Kirby 64: The Dream Shards (and Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia, Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask, Brave Fencer Musashi, and Hollow Knight)

Moebius + Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind + Carlo Scarpa

Metal Gear Solid + Neon Genesis Evangelion + The Matrix (and Kamen Rider)

Kirby's Dream Land + Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening + Final Fantasy VI

Splatoon + Spirited Away + Tintin

F.E.A.R. + Doom 3 + Hard Boiled dir. John Woo

[Sheep Lass]
Legend of Zelda NES + Adventure + Fear & Hunger

Solaris + Moon + Primer + Mulholland Drive + Yume Nikki + Silent Hill 4: The Room + Jacob's Ladder + The Lighthouse + Blade Runner + Ghost in the Shell + Prey 2017 + Perfect Blue + Bakemonogatari + 2001: A Space Odyssey + Madoka Magica + BLAME! + Neon Genesis Evangelion + Pulse/Kairo

Slave Zero + Hagane + Cannon Dancer (also Kakugo No Susume, Bio-Booster Armour Guyver, and Nagai's Devilman

Neon Genesis Evangelion + Florence and the Machine - Ceremonials + Disco Elysium

Nier Replicant & Gestalt + LiEat: The Lie-Eating Dragon & The Gold Thief + the 2020 US election

Jet Set Radio + Shadow of the Colossus + Super Mario Galaxy

Neotokyo + Mirror's Edge + Ghost in the Shell

Mega Man Zero 3 + Sonic Advance + Iain M. Banks

Policenauts + Snatcher + Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney

Angel's Egg + Macross: Do You Remember Love + RuPaul's Drag Race

The Colonel's Bequest + Nancy Drew + The Chzo Mythos series

A Warning to the Curious + The Blood on Satan's Claw + Suspiria (2018)

Blame! + Dark City + Resident Evil

Neon Genesis Evangelion + Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock + Nightmare by Avenged Sevenfold

Power Drift + Choro Q + Sega Rally Championship (and SCUD Racer + Grand Theft Auto: Vice City + Dragon Ball)

Marathon + Hyper Light Drifter + Spyro the Dragon

Princess Mononoke + Attack on Titan + Berserk

Heretic + Hexen 2 + Duke Nukem 3D

Yu Yu Hakusho + Samurai Champloo + Gurren-Lagann (also Evangelion, Red Line, and Cowboy Bebop)

Crazy Taxi + Sonic the Hedgehog + N64-era collectathon platformers (also taxis, pizza, and Baddiewinkle)

MOON: Remix RPG Adventure + Earthbound + ???

Hades + Risk of Rain 2 + Genshin Impact (and Helldivers II)