Despite being a fan of the strange and macabre, zombie stories have never really appealed to me. Perhaps it’s because most games feature just you, and maybe a few friends, taking on hordes of these undead without any real substance beyond getting gooey rotting bits…
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I See Dead People – Whispering Willows Reviewed By Julie Morley [divider] For the entirety of Chapters 1-3, I was on the edge of my seat. With a captivating story meshed with complicated puzzles, Whispering Willows is an absolute must play for a pleasant scare…
What do Fez II, The Dead Linger, and Yogventures all have in common? They are all canceled games that will never see a release date. Not fully anyway. Indie video game developers have a lot of freedom in how they do things, that’s what happens…
The Big List of Discounted Crowdfunded Games in the 2014 Steam Holiday Sale by Marcus Estrada [dropcap]T[/dropcap]he annual Steam Holiday Sale is now upon us! No matter what you may or may not celebrate personally, it’s incredibly hard for PC gamers to ignore this event….
Kickstarter’s Top 50: How Good Are They? by Marcus Estrada [dropcap]D[/dropcap]espite being around for many years, it wasn’t until a few massive projects landed on the site that most video game players earnestly began to back projects. It’s fitting that the project that started this…
Horror can be highly subjective. A frightening experience to one person is a minor irritant to another, and finding a perfectly scary formula for everyone is all but impossible. As the independent industry has proven on a number of occasions, horror is better suited to…
As Halloween approaches, people may seek out different flavors of fictional horror, including video games. Accounting+ can provide a spooky time; played out in a VR game that successfully and unnervingly immerses you into frenetic reality-jumping. It’s a game that reflects well on the intentions…
Feel the spirits around you! Akupara Games announces the release date of Whispering Willows on the Nintendo Switch for September 27, 2018. Journey as Elena in this award-winning story as she explores the haunted Willows Mansion in hopes to find her father, more about herself, and…
Wintermute is Gary Paulsen’s Hatchet in a Cormac McCarthy universe. It’s Yevtushenko’s “People”, read to an audience of frozen corpses. The story is a melancholy song of solitude and snow, of love and perilousness, but it is sung against the vengeful, screaming winds of Mother…
Last year was a rough one for developer Yangyang Mobile. They had just raised $33,946 on their 2015 Kickstarter campaign and were in full development of their horror visual novel, The Letter. After barely meeting their goal they found themselves hounded by drama. Eventually, the team had…
Neo-Victorian Skirmish Squad has an extensive past, one that’s richer than its present and likely its future. Its Kickstarter campaign began September 5, 2013, with Terncraft Games at the helm. The Kickstarter page tells us David Sushil is the man behind the company. But he’s…
The concept of flow, although originally nestled exclusively within the field of psychology, is a term used by many game designers when looking at achieving “immersiveness” and atmosphere in interactive form. It basically describes the moment when someone enters a highly focused mental state, forgetting…
Do you remember Fear Effect? It was that old PS1 game that had the Resident Evil style camera angle. Yeah, that one with that’s remembered as a classic thanks to it’s marketing campaign? Well, that franchise is back with Fear Effect Sedna on Kickstarter. This…
Every week we take a brief look at all of the Kickstarter 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 in one place…