Black Dream Plus

One of those gems that you can only find by scrolling through games for like a solid ten minutes.

Play as a voluptuous supernatural investigator named Anna who travels to an amusement park constructed inside the imagination of a friendly gentleman who makes churros, cosplay outfits, and dances for her, where she decides to retire from her job and takes over the park, making that gentleman her father, and a self-doubting coworker tasked with detaining her into her boyfriend, while dealing with the mess a cute, awkward, and equally busty nightmare-fueled girl causes all over the place. You basically get that and a whole bunch of other things in Black Dream, an adorable, fascinating, and overall sexy and strangely wholesome game. The protagonist is very whimsical but self-assured, and the characters have distinct personalities revealed with an incredible amount of original handmade full-screen pixel art scenes. It feels like something you would discover on the PC-98, or a classic OVA made into an interactive anime adventure. It's not a visual novel, but not quite a regular RPG. To say it's a hidden object game is not descriptive enough either I feel. Basically, Black Dream is like a toybox for you to uncover a ton of cute and well-made novelties that combine into an adventure with a comical, quirky, and surprisingly sentimental story. The overall impression Black Dream gives is very much like a lucid dream, with curious, richly detailed, and highly animated environments. A core part of the game is obtaining cute and sexy outfits for Anna that show up in nearly all the hand-drawn cutscenes and the main battle system that drives the gameplay. These outfits can also change the way characters respond to you, and even unlock achievements, hidden scenes, and endings. Black dream has quite a lot to discover, and gets you interested from the start with a great animated title screen and introduction. The game prevents routine as it keeps reinventing itself as you play it. Even with a roughly seven hour runtime to uncover everything, it never feels like you see anything twice. You can easily tell that Black Dream is a labor of love. Overall, I'd have to say this game is a very fun and good-natured adventure, and makes the best use out of one of the oldest (and greatest) rpgmaker engines. It just got a massive free upgrade too that overhauled the artwork, gameplay, and cutscenes, making it a much better and overall more coherent experience. While it's not made for any particular audience from what I can tell, Black Dream is one of those obscure indie games I think anybody willing to jump into something strange will enjoy quite a lot. Definitely a recommendation from me.