If you look at the history of Kickstarter you’ll find a few game types that tend to do well on the platform. Roguelikes, Metroidvanias, and Survival games seem to do disproportionately well on the platform; especially compared to the likes of first person shooters and…
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Every week we take a brief look at all of the Kickstarter 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 in one place…
Every week we take a brief look at all of the Kickstarter 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 in one place…
There was a darkness. A horrible, ancient darkness that somehow made its way to our world. It eradicated everything in its path, leaving few survivors. Our world became a wasteland, filled with darkness and cruel creatures created to kill. This is the world of Noct….
On one level, Buck is a game about a teeny tiny, adorable-ass dog that was the lifelong friend of the lead developer of Buck. This is a game about that dog. In Buck, however, a couple things are different about old Buck. What kind of…
If there’s two things I hate in the gaming industry today that everyone else loves, it’s Bethesda and nostalgia. Bethesda has a long record of suing indie developers over spurious copyright claims while pretending to be the victim. Meanwhile they’ve been ruining Fallout and The…
Games based on historic events have a surprisingly bad track record on Kickstarter. Or maybe it’s not that surprising, judging by a similar video we did looking at crowdfunded sports games. Historical games, like sports games, are a niche, and being a niche within the niche…
One year after successfully raising $2,933,252 for Wasteland 2, inXile Entertainment returned to Kickstarter to fund their new project, Torment: Tides Of Numenera. Set in Monte Cook’s tabletop RPG setting of Numenera, Torment promised to be a rich story-driven, isometric RPG. Backers flocked to the…
Apocalypse Now: The Game. Yes, that is officially a thing that wants to exist. As of January 24th a Kickstarter campaign to adapt Francis Ford Coppola’s 1979 psychological Vietnam War drama into the videogame format is underway. Do we get a scene where we press…
The changes made by Steam to their score system on September 12th may seem fairly minor, but there are some potentially major ramifications for crowdfunded games. User scores on Steam will no longer include reviews linked to key-activated games. Which, of course, is how almost all…
Let me start by saying that I love historical, World War-based games. Whether it’s a good old Call of Duty 2 or a more unorthodox and charming Valiant Hearts doesn’t really make a difference – I find the setting to carry an oddly specific and magical essence in all cases. That’s one of…
How many Kickstarter-funded games make it to the PlayStation 4? Almost every Kickstarter campaign for a video game has PC as their target platform. It’s only an elite few who aim to bring their game to a console, and fewer still who manage it. Indeed,…
Every so often here at Cliqist, we like to produce some Top 10 articles and videos. I’d make a joke about how we do it because they’re popular, but seeing as how I do that in every accompanying article I write for these videos, people…
InSomnia is a “brutal dieselpunk” RPG heavily inspired by the original Fallout games and Wasteland 2. It takes cues from other RPG’s and more modern gaming, but if you didn’t know better you’d think you were playing Fallout 4 as designed by its original developers,…
Do you remember Fear Effect? It was that old PS1 game that had the Resident Evil style camera angle. Yeah, that one with that’s remembered as a classic thanks to it’s marketing campaign? Well, that franchise is back with Fear Effect Sedna on Kickstarter. This…
If there is one thing I’ve learned about indie game development during my time with Cliqist it’s this: it’s competitive, and without an established, dedicated fan base you wont get far. Examples of success include games like Wasteland 2 and The Dwarves (not yet released but it…