[dropcap size=big]I[/dropcap]’ve been enjoying the episodic adventure game AR-K as it’s been released and with each chapter it continues to unravel the mystery of the mysterious golden orb and how it relates to the equally mysterious District 8. In The Great Escape, the third installment…
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Fans of point-and-click adventure game AR-K can now rejoice as the third chapter of the ongoing sci-fi comedy now officially has a release date. According to the latest update, you can download and start playing it on July 14. That’s like only a week away….
By Marcus Estrada [divider] If one thing is certain about the current state of gaming, it’s that adventure games never actually died. As of late, the genre seems increasingly active with new titles arriving with increasing frequency. AR-K is one such adventure game from Gato…
World War II isn’t the only historical period that gets to have fun on Kickstarter. There are plenty (read: a few) games that found success by breaking away from the mold. There are games about the American Civil War, Medieval Europe, and… well, that’s it…
Creative Intelligence Arts (CIA, Inc.) used Kickstarter to raise $1,014,600 back in the crowdfunding golden year of 2013. Staffed by a number of AAA veteran developers, CIA pitched Project Phoenix as an astounding squad based JRPG RTS. Fans were excited about the premise with 15,802 backers pledging their support….
Last week, my colleague and prom fan on anime night Serena Nelson wrote an article detailing the success and failure rate of point and click adventure games on Kickstarter. She’s a big fan of the genre, and seeing her break down the genre in terms…
Carlo Thomas over at single player focused games site OnlySP has posted an impressively extensive interview with Airship Syndicate, the folks behind Battle Chasers: Nightwar. The action JRPG was funded on Kickstarter back in October with a massive haul of over $856k against a $500k…
Ever since the Kickstarter campaign for the 5 vs 1 slasher movie inspired action game Last Year launched on Kickstarter I’ve been skeptical of it. At first it wasn’t anything serious, just another developer launching a campaign with no game to show, a few pieces…
This week marks the 2 year anniversary of Cliqist officially launching. In that time we’ve published over 2,400 articles worth of videogame crowdfunding coverage. That number pales in comparison to other sites, but it’s something I’m very proud of; especially when you consider that in…
For those unfamiliar with it, Last Year is a 5 vs 1 multiplayer game themed around slasher films. One player is the killer while the other four band together as a group of young adults. The campaign launched and found a surprisingly late surge in funds…
[dropcap size=big]E[/dropcap]very week we take a brief look at all of the Kickstarter video game campaigns that launched in the previous week. This isn’t to say that all of these projects are worth your hard earned cash, but with any luck having all of them…
[dropcap size=big]A[/dropcap]lthough episodic games have been around for quite some time now, it is really in this post-Telltale Games’ The Walking Dead world that we see developers excited to utilize this release mechanism. As they’ve become known today, episodic games are anywhere from two episodes…
[dropcap size=big]P[/dropcap]eter Molyneux, the man known best for Dungeon Keeper, Populous, and the Fable series has long since been viewed as someone who promises far more than his games can possibly deliver. Despite that, fans have tended to find his enthusiasm endearing, while the larger…
[dropcap size=big]I[/dropcap]t used to be the achievements in games were reserved for actual feats, something players had to work for, like completing a challenging level, defeating a difficult boss, reaching a high score or perhaps even winning. Now players receive them for just about everything. This…
We’ve talked about the Kickstarter funded horror survival game Last Year a couple times here on Cliqist. First there were some concerns with how the game was being funded, and how prepared the developers were to deliver on their promises. Then we speculated on whether or not Last…
The Kickstarter campaign for Last Year may not have had much information beyond a basic pitch, but people were apparently very excited. By the end it raised over double the funding goal – $114,711 CAD in all. The pitch pegged this as an “asymmetrical multiplayer…