The very basis of a platformer is predicated on a player’s determination. “Thank you, Mario! But our princess is in another castle!” is the defining instance of the genre’s inherent notion of insisting on progression in the face of adversity. Without an end goal, however…
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After covering the Kickstarter for The Darkside Detective: Season 2, Cliqist followed up with the project’s Ireland-based developer, Spooky Doorway, for an email interview. As the developing game’s title indicates, this is not Spooky Doorway’s first trip to the Darkside. Released on multiple platforms, The…
XGen Studios is thrilled to officially release The Low Road on Nintendo Switch, available today alongside an update to its original release on Steam, offering up quality of life changes and reworked voice acting. This marks XGen’s fourth console release and second Nintendo title. XGen’s…
With over 1,000 games on the Nintendo Switch, it can be hard to figure out which ones are worth your time. While there are many more deserving games that didn’t make it onto this list, here are what we believe to be the ten best…
As February winds down, so too does our Game of the Month coverage for My Time at Portia. For an early access release, this little crowdfunded gem has kept most of us enraptured over the past few weeks. The perfect mix of cheerful life sim…
When most first see Throughline Games’ upcoming adventure platformer Forgotten Anne, it’s hard not to draw a comparison to Studio Ghibli. A titan of Japanese animation for decades, Ghibli is not only a legendary studio in the anime community, but a standard fans of the…
If the numbers are anything to go by, it’s unlikely players have had their fill of the delicious, fleshy taste of Numantian Games’s lurch-away success, They Are Billions. It’s still in early access, and is yet to feature the promised story campaign, but that hasn’t stopped…
As a student, some of my favourite games included using ketchup instead of pasta sauce, writing essays based on Wikipedia entries, and losing my will to live on a daily basis. I thought I was pretty big deal for getting out with a degree, but…
While indie gaming has definitely found more mainstream appeal over the years, most gamers only ever scratch the surface of what it offers. While it’s easy to catch the latest Steam sensation or YouTube darling, a fair number of foreign games never make a blip…
It’s hardly a secret that text adventures have been a passion of mine since I was young. I played them extensively, even before I picked up a graphical adventure game. I couldn’t get enough of the titles from Infocom and others. When Parsely Games was brought…
Blasphemous hit Kickstarter just a few weeks ago, and already it’s crushed its goal. The upcoming action-platformer takes inspiration from Dark Souls and Castlevania, and looks to be a bloody, disturbing trip. It also has some incredible looking pixel art to say the least. The…
Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night is progressing nicely. It’s not playing hide and seek like its Japanese cousin, Shenmue 3, and it’s no MIA like Echoes of Eternea. At last year’s E3, lead developer Koji Igarashi revealed not only gameplay, but also a backer exclusive…
Since the days of Dungeons and Dragons, RPG’s have relied on the tried and true method of number based tactics. Want to storm the castle and save the princess? Better hope you roll high enough on your badass stat. Typically these numbers are buried in…
In the old days, many RPGs featured pixel-art, creating a unique look and feel to them. For many, this style has its charm, and Tilfinning (just Till for short) hopes to bring that charm to the modern day with Shrine of Orm, now on Kickstarter….
Shakespeare’s Hamlet is not exactly known for being a feel good romantic comedy. Characters are more likely to meet quick and grisly deaths than be adequately wooed into a relationship. This hasn’t stopped Golden Glitch Studios from making conscientious decisions regarding consent in their upcoming…
Adventure games are a curious phenomenon on Kickstarter. For every successful campaign there seems to be one that didn’t make it. I previously looked at the success to failure ratio, but in this article I want to specifically take a look at ten Kickstarter horror…