Unsure of your preferences with games, but Shattered Pixel Dungeon is free, offline, no ads, and the only purchases are for aesthetics to support the app. It's an 8-bit rogue like, and never the same game twice.
I played the hell out of this game back in the day. Still love it.
Extra points for it for the frisbee catching dog bonus game.
Birdhouse in Your Soul by They Might Be Giants. No reason really. It's just fun.
Not sure about underrated, but definitely mostly unknown anymore, would have to be Star Control 2.
The exploration, combat, and humor are all just so involving. I can pick it up now and enjoy it as much as I did decades ago.
Add to it, Marble Drop and Full Tilt from Maxis. Marble Drop was a fun puzzle game with marbles in intricate machines, and Full Tilt was three Pinball games, one of which was the original Space Cadet Windows later used with XP. The other two tables were pirate and dragon slaying based, but equally as engaging for me
I had three cats once named Creampuff, Caspar, and Milquetoast due to this song.
I can attest to the seat for Ohio. Gerrymandering and Trumpism have turned this state red, when by most accounts it should have more variety. After seeing friggin J.D. Vance somehow getting elected albeit offering nothing other than support for Trump, then I can't see anyone blue winning the Senate seat until redistricting is finalized and fairer.
Daddy like, what Daddy like
Ay, I'm being gay ova here!
For me, this controller (neo Geo pad) worked so much better than anything else out there at the time, short of an arcade stick. The directional pad is what I wish all others would at least attempt to do, rather than four individual buttons.
The Master System version included a hidden level and boss that I don't believe were on any other ports. I could be completely wrong, as I'm going off memory from a long time ago.
That hidden level was quite difficult for me then. Probably still is.
That can't happen soon enough.