TumbleSeed Devs Dial Back Difficulty Amid Critical Reception
There are few experience more painful than to spend years working on a project only to have it poorly received. When publisher, aeiowu released...
History Offers Glimpse of Horror In The Town Of Light
Psychological horror reaches deeper into our primal fear reactions. Rather than overt jumpscares and spooks our terror is born from attempting to understand the...
Tsioque Adds a Good Dog And Needs To Come Out Soon
It’s been a while since developer OhNoo Studio has reached out to touch base with their Kickstarter backers. With the Steam page for their...
Nex Machina – Looking Backwards, Moving Forwards
Housemarque founders Ilari Kuttinen and Harri Tikkanen are very open about their love for classic coin-op arcade titles like Defender, Robotron: 2084 and Smash...
Space Odyssey Is Drawing Kickstarter Backers Into An Endless Development Void
Science sure is swell, isn’t it? It makes up the very fabric of our existence and yet it has never enjoyed the level of...
Making Activism Sexy With Animalia Vengeance
Developer agendas have become the activist's Rorschach test in video games. Some people claim to see them spelled out clearly while others only see...
How Little Indie Verdun Stands Up to the Multi-Million Dollar Battlefield...
It’s not often that we get a World War I game, much less one that’s a first person shooter. That’s exactly what EA gave...
An Open Letter Regarding Platform Shooter Android Hunter A
Hello Cliqist readers,
My name is Vijay Kumar, and my team and I have been hard at work creating a next generation platformer shooter. The...
Ealdorlight Procedurally Unlocks Player’s Potential As Their Story Unfolds
Veteran crowdfunding developer, Chris Parsons has returned to Kickstarter with a follow up to his relationship-focused space game, Sol Trader. In Ealdorlight, players engage...
Kickstarter Game of the Week: LUCAH
A game’s atmosphere is a big part of selling players on the story. A horror game set in a bright, beautiful location probably won't...
Hands-on with YIIK: A Postmodern RPG
The first time I saw YIIK: A Postmodern RPG, I felt excited and a little worried. I've previously mentioned both my love of the Earthbound/Mother series...
The Problem With StarFlint’s Kickstarter Backer Only In-Game Rewards
As they approach the Kickstarter finish line the creators of sci-fi comedy adventure StarFlint has added a new reward item to the list of offerings....
Japanese Game Developers Kickstarter Struggles
The other day, Cliqist Editor-in-Chief and longtime table eater Greg Micek and I were discussing our Where Are They Now? on Keiji Inafune. He...
Can Pathfinder: Kingmaker Break From Pathfinder’s Troubled Kickstarter Past?
Up until 2007, The Paizo Publishing company made a name for themselves publishing Dungeons and Dragons magazines. When Wizards of the Coast chose not...
The Underground King Sends Steam Greenlight Out With A Bang
With only 15 minutes until Valve closed submissions to Steam Greenlight, Developers, Alex Nechita and Alex Nae, introduced The Underground King to the world....
Shots Fired: TinyBuild Calls Out Buka Entertainment Over Shady Dealings
Tinybuild Games CEO, Alex Nichiporchik has come forward with some damning accusations against Russian game publisher, Buka Entertainment. Accusations which he claims have lead...