It's Dangerous Dave in the Haunted Mansion. It's a Romero game from the Softdisk days so there's plenty of gore. There's also unique death portraits for the player based on which monster kills you and those are great as well.

I love the game but if you're a new player just know that it's very unforgiving. Try to kill enemies from as far away as you can and get used to prefiring the green slimes.

https://www.gog.com/game/dangerous_dave_pack

No prob, I'm curious to see if this manages to stay up or what.

Very interesting, I'm surprised it works as well as it does. I also have nostalgia for emulation - namely using no$gb (no cash gameboy) via DOS (I think) to play Pokemon Red and Blue.

I just checked and the emulator is still around and you can get the DOS version but it looks to be a much later version than the I one I used in ~97

Bleem! and Nesticle are also quite nostalgic for me too.

Sweet, thanks for the recs, I'll check em both out, starting with the original. I vaguely recall seeing someone call Blitzkrieg a semi-spiritual successor and if that's the case I'm all in.

Sounds intriguing, I'll give it a go. The handful of tactics games I've played I enjoyed a lot so could be quite good.

I am a (very casual) 40k fan and the Space Hulk poster always catches my eye but I've been put off by the fact that it's a old strategy (feels hard to get into) but knowing it's actually good makes it worth trying. Thanks for the recommendations yo.