Another day, another Kickstarter campaign being updated after a year of silence. This time around it’s Mechagami, a 2D arcade platformer by developer Joe Rheaume. It collected $5,338 in July 2014, with an expected release date of December that year. That didn’t happen, and now…
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Josh Griffiths is a writer and amateur historian. He has a passion for 3D platformers, narrative-driven games, and books. Josh is also Cliqist’s video producer. He’s currently working on his first novel, and will be doing so on and off for the next decade.
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Since we published our article on the absence MegaTokyo, there have been two new updates on the Kickstarter page. If you recall, we talked with developer Fred Gallagher, and he hadn’t gone missing in action so much as he just stopped posting updates directly on…
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Battalion 1944 feels somewhat quaint after the release of Battlefield 1, doesn’t it? It was supposed to be this big return to old school, multiplayer WWII shooters, then DICE makes an old school multiplayer game of their own, but set in WWI. Developer Bulkhead Interactive…
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Once again it should come as little surprise what our pick of Kickstarter Game of the Week is. Undertale Charity Fanart Book by the charity organization Gamers For Good was the obvious choice. The book will feature over 900 submissions from over 450 artists around…
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Back From Hell by Photoplay Games is here to take your hard cash through demonic means. Not to be confused with Slain: Back from Hell, this particular return from the underworld is a “CRPG Puzzle/Adventure game set in two worlds.” One of these worlds is…
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You may remember the first person exploration game Sunset from Kickstarter a few years ago. You may also remember its developer, Tale of Tales. They announced that Sunset was a financial failure, and that they felt they had no choice but to walk away from…
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Fourth time’s a charm, right? That’s what developer David Prassel is hoping after launching yet another Kickstarter campaign for his game, ORION. The first campaign was a success, titled Orion: Prelude, raising $17,686 way back in July 2011. The game was eventually finished and released…
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It’s appropriate that the US election is just days after Halloween. This election has been a hell on earth, scarier than anything you’ll see today. So to celebrate today’s Halloween spookiness, we’ve decided to dedicate an entire episode of Kicked! to games about this here…
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How have we not done Iron Tides sooner? Because other games have come up that I wanted to cover. But! That shouldn’t turn you away from this incredible looking turn-based/exploration game from developer Crash Wave Games. Iron Tides is a genre mash-up of survival, exploration,…
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Bud Spencer and Terence Hill are two filmmakers from the 70’s and 80’s, who starred together in such films as They Call me Trinity, Trinity is Still My Name, and My Name is Nobody. It’s hard to say just how famous they are, I’ve never…
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What would you get if you mixed a cute 2D mascot platformer with Metal Gear Solid? Probably something resembling Nyx the Chameleon by MoonRift Entertainment, who are seeking $10,000 to finish the game. It bills itself as a “stealth/action/platforming side-scroller,” platformer with a classic 90’s-esque…
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Do you know what’s never cute? Cannibalism. Yet that’s exactly the tone Tan Qi Rong is going for with MeatPossible. Just look at the icon art: a pig with a piece of bacon wrapped around its nose. It’s horrifying, it’s disgusting, yet it’s also absolutely…
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Cars have four wheels and occasionally star in terrible movies. That’s about the extent of most of the Cliqist staff’s knowledge of cars. We like to think we know a good racing game when we see it though, and Apex Racing League is a good’un….
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$21,326,021. That is what developer Ozman is asking for their Kickstarter game, Samadhi. But this isn’t just any game, oh no. This is a game adaptation of a fan-written book that is both a sequel and prequel to Shibumi. Not only that, but it will…
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Trackless hasn’t wasted any time on Fig. Only a day after launch, the game already raised half of its $20,000 goal with 27 days left. We wrote about Trackless a few weeks ago without much of an idea of what the game would be, other than…
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Thanks to Battlefield 1, many have recently learned there was indeed a World War I, and that World War II wasn’t named by the Xbox marketing team. Or Battlefield 1’s for that matter. We’ve already seen our first World War I game post-Battlefield 1 on…