In July, Sold Out Games announced their stunning looking walking-simulator/adventure game The Occupation would release October 9, 2018. The news was carried not on the back of a tough work-horse, nor the wings of a thousand doves, only a single press release. No official announcement…
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We at Cliqist have long kept our eyes on White Paper Games’ The Occupation. Set in an alternate history 1980’s England, you play a journalist who’s taken it upon himself to find the truth behind a terrorist attack that’s led to the Union Act. The…
When it was first announced earlier this year in March 2017, The Occupation immediately had me intrigued. With its 1980’s spy thriller plot, player-driven narrative, and promise of a real-time ticking clock, how could you not be? Unfortunately, the game has flown drastically under everyone’s…
It’s always unlikely an indie game is going to steal the show at E3, but you never know when it could happen. At E3 2015, IGN nominated Abzu, Ad1ft, and Cuphead as their Game of the Show that year. In 2016, Night in the Woods…
2018, another in a growing line of trash-fire years, is finally over. On the indie gaming front, it was okay year, if not spectacular. Return of the Obra Dinn, A Case of Distrust, and WayHaven Chronicles: Book One are likely the only games your humble…
My Memory of Us is a charming title that uses a beautiful art style with a whimsical touch to tell a story about two children during the Nazi Occupation of Poland. Its gameplay is mainly simple puzzle solving and travelling left and right on it’s linear…
Double Fine’s annual Day of the Dev event, designed to showcase the hottest and most underrated indie games, is set for 2017. Totally free of charge for everyone, the event will be hosted in San Francisco on November 11, 2017. Double Fine also recently announced…
Like a wistful dream, E3 2017 has come and gone, and we’re left scratching our heads. Was any of it real? What actually happened? Why did it have to go away? The most pressing question of all is “where were the indie games?” For a…
Fullbright may not have invented the walking simulator with Gone Home, but they perfected it. Released in 2013, Gone Home set the standard for a genre with its engrossing narrative and laid back gameplay. The gameplay was so laid back that people dubbed the game…
To possibly and literally attack a colonizer with a book, keep an eye out for the Filipino fighter Bayani: Kanino Ka Kakampi?!, recently showcased at IndieCade 2018. At the Santa Monica College Center for Media and Design, IndieCade attendees could duel each other in the…
Here is an example of a bad story: Once, there was a frog that wanted a bowl of cereal. The cereal he wanted was expensive, but he had no money because he was frog, and frogs are staunchly anti-capitalist. He stole the cereal, and had…
Game development is expensive, often prohibitively so. Akimbo Creations learned this lesson when they began work on their first game, Arc Continuum back in 2015. Arc was successfully pitched to and received funding from the Canadian Media Fund, but the funds were not enough to include…
Many RPGs pride themselves on an in-depth character creation system; whether it be molding your best cartoony self in Saints Row or adjusting every last facial detail in Dragon Age Inquisition. There’s something for every gaming enthusiast out there. Soulbound Studios’s upcoming MMORPG Chronicles of…
Rogues Like Us wants to be one of the first 3D Rogue-like Hack and Slash games to hit Steam shelves. It was originally the visuals in the Kickstarter video that caught my eye. It’s not that they’re particularly stunning, but they do stand out. The…
[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…
When you’re launching a new Kickstarter campaign there are lots of things you should do. Do make an engaging video. Do give lots of game information. There’s even more things you should make sure you avoid; the most important of which is to not use…