20 Severely Underrated 90s Video Games You Forgot You Loved

3. The Neverhood - PC, PSX, 1996

This game suffered because it came out at the wrong time. From Doug TenNapel, the animator of the irritating and over-popular Earthworm Jim series, The Neverhood was a beautiful claymation point-and-click adventure. And therein lies the game's undoing, because both point-and-click and anything not using polygons were unceremoniously pushed into obscurity in the late 90s. In this beautifully bizarre adventure, you control Klaymen Klaymen, a clay man who's tasked with saving the Neverhood from a despot called Klogg. Unlike many point-and-click adventures, the puzzles don't get too obtuse, so you can enjoy the quirky humour and unique visuals without spending hours fitfully clicking on random combinations of items in a desperate attempt to progress through the game. It received excellent reviews upon release, and has since grown to become something of a luxury item, with copies of the game fetching $50-$100 these days. But it was just a bit too quirky for gamers of the late 90s, who were seduced by the novelty of rudimentary 3D graphics - no matter how ugly they were at the time. The Neverhood sold 42,000 copies, but Gateway purchased 600,000 copies to pre-install on its computers, making it probably the greatest pre-installed PC game of all time; though it's a harsh fate to have been lumped in with the likes of Solitaire and Minesweeper...