When Cliqist covered Shape of the World back in the halcyon days of 2015 – back when dinosaurs roamed the earth and prehistoric humanity had to contend with just seven Fast and the Furious movies – we praised its “gorgeous vistas”, “beautiful abstraction”, and invited…
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A lot of folks out there have a distaste for the exploration genre of games (often called “walking simulators” by their detractors) but for those that enjoy them, they’re a great, relaxing experience. Personally I do love titles of this sort, from Proteus to Eidolon,…
My first play through of Headliner: NoviNews ended with a world in disarray. A politician was dead, my brother was in prison and I was fired from my job. Being an editor is hard work. Fake News Placing you in the role of a new…
Indie film company FilmCow, founded by Jason Steele, is behind viral hits Llamas with Hats and Charlie the Unicorn—but FilmCow has also made games too, through its Cat Night Games subdivision. The Raccoon Who Lost Their Shape is one of them, a quirky game where…
There are so many elements that need to come together to make an indie game successful. Occasionally, a project will try to circumvent one or more of these elements to its determent. Such is the case of the curious would-be game, In The World of…
As Valve taught us many years ago, steam makes everything better. Well, almost everything. Big Way Games hopes to add sandbox survival games into that list with Steam Hammer, now on Kickstarter. Steam Hammer is a steampunk survival game set in a dreary, unforgiving world….
Imagine a world made entirely out of wool, fabric, and cotton. It’s bright and colorful, yet full of danger and secrets. This is the kind of world that Woven, a new game on Kickstarter, hopes to share with you. Woven is a puzzle adventure game…
The Apocalypse. Armageddon. The end of the world. Call it what you will, but braving extinction is a tale that has captured the minds of humanity since the dawn of time. Or at least since the Bible gave us Revelations. And there are plenty of…
Seeing a massively multiplayer online game on Kickstarter is a rare occurrence and one that I’ve only seen a very few times in the past. Severed World is a 2D MMORPG that utilizes 16-bit graphics reminiscent of the old Legend of Zelda games and uses…
Still Games on Open World Action Adventure, Animal Gods with Ahmad Khan. [divider] Animal Gods is a beautiful looking action adventure game from the developers at Still Games. In the game players must explore an ancient open world environment that’s been full of cursed creates. In addition…
Few games really appreciate that multiplayer gaming is more than just talking to your guild mates through a headset. Multiplayer gaming is about sharing laughs and strangling your friends, and every time that kind of multiplayer is included in a game, a blue shell gets…
The Independent Games Festival has revealed their finalists for the 2018 main competition. In a post to the festival’s main website, IGF revealed their nominees for their 2018 awards ceremony, scheduled for March 21, 2018 during the Game Developer’s conference in San Francisco, California. Of…
How many Kickstarter-funded games make it to the PlayStation 4? Almost every Kickstarter campaign for a video game has PC as their target platform. It’s only an elite few who aim to bring their game to a console, and fewer still who manage it. Indeed,…
[dropcap size=big]C[/dropcap]an you believe we’ve already made it halfway through the year? Hundreds of Kickstarter campaigns have come and gone in this short span of time, and as always, only a select few end up victorious. Today we’re looking at those fortunate successes for the…
[dropcap size=big]C[/dropcap]urious to see which Kickstarter video game campaigns reached their funding goals in 2015? You’re in the right spot! Below is our official list which is updated on a weekly basis. For in-depth analysis be sure to take a look at our monthly analysis…
[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…