It’s that time of year again, summer video game sales! GOG was first out of the gate with their sale, and they started things off strong with some amazing deals. In the interest of showing off the large number of great Kickstarter funded games available, as well…
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The Big List of Discounted Crowdfunded Games in the 2014 Steam Holiday Sale by Marcus Estrada [dropcap]T[/dropcap]he annual Steam Holiday Sale is now upon us! No matter what you may or may not celebrate personally, it’s incredibly hard for PC gamers to ignore this event….
Kickstarter’s Top 50: How Good Are They? by Marcus Estrada [dropcap]D[/dropcap]espite being around for many years, it wasn’t until a few massive projects landed on the site that most video game players earnestly began to back projects. It’s fitting that the project that started this…
Welcome back to Cliqist, everyone! It’s so nice to see your smiling faces back here, and to thank you for your continued loyalty to our great regime, I’m going to supply you with all the news you could possibly need (under the assumption that all…
Lord Winklebottom Investigates is a classic point-and-click adventure that puts you in the role of a gentleman giraffe. Developed by Cave Monsters, an English one-woman studio, the game is currently seeking funding on Kickstarter. Set in an alternative version of the 1920s, Lord Winklebottom Investigates…
Awesome Games Done Quick 2019 has finally begun! The bi-annual speedrun event will be benefiting the Prevent Cancer Foundation, which focuses on cancer prevention and early detection, both within the United States and internationally. Running from January 6th to 11th, the biggest speedrunning organization in…
2018 has been a wonderful year, there has been so many excellent indie games on all the platforms to play! Not to mention all the mainstream title too. Unfortunately I started on the scene a bit late so there is a huge backlog of awesome…
With the recent news of Microsoft’s likely purchase of Obsidian Entertainment, a chapter is closed on one of the greatest independent RPG makers gaming has ever seen. Obsidian, founded in 2003 by five former developers from Black Isle Studios, never shied away from taking risks….
Hello and welcome to the final part in our History of Indie Games. Over the past 6 weeks we have examined the long and complex history of indie games and their journey from bedroom obscurity to mainstream titans. This week on our final excursion we’ll…
Horror can be highly subjective. A frightening experience to one person is a minor irritant to another, and finding a perfectly scary formula for everyone is all but impossible. As the independent industry has proven on a number of occasions, horror is better suited to…
If you’re into horror, you’ve likely heard the term “pacing” before. A lot of people—critics, especially, because we’re smarmy pricks with English degrees—bring it up whenever they write about horror games. A lot of us are quick to point out that many horror games fall…
Back in February, we reported that the Kickstarter-funded Last Life, by Rocket Science Amusements was no longer in active development. Project lead Sam Farmer wrote an update detailing how Double Fine backed out of publishing the game, and how he tried and failed to find…
Dariusz G. Jagielski continues to work toward playfully adding to the vast number of simulator games out there with his first project, Computer Virus Simulator. Hopefully offering a different gameplay experience in the process—one where you can play as a computer virus, in something of a twist…
While Shovel Knight joining Super Smash Bros. Ultimate as an assist trophy is a step forward for indie game involvement in the popular fighting series, people are likely to wonder if he’ll become a fully playable character at some point. But what about other indie…
Video games often get accused of desensitising players by bombarding them with a constant stream of violence and death. It doesn’t take a genius to work out that while we are indeed subjected to this, it’s unlikely to impact how you deal with these things…
The Nintendo Switch has changed the face of indie gaming and the gaming industry as a whole. Larger companies were already promoting indie developers more, but Nintendo’s Switch changed industry the most. On the Nintendo eShop, fourteen of the thirty games currently featured are indie…