Here’s an interesting campaign. DrawAndRace4 is the fourth in a series of user-generated racing games, but that’s not the most interesting part for us at Cliqist. What stands out most is that this series has been funded entirely by Kickstarter since its inception. Developer R.D. Merrifield…
It’s hard to say what it is about games dealing with space combat that draw so much attention, but we rarely go a month without seeing one on Kickstarter. The funny thing is, everyone seems to be creating their own distinct iterations of the massive…
SolarFall Games has a big project on their hands with Umbra, the open world hack n’ slash game. The title has hit Kickstarter, seeking a whopping $225k in funds. To be perfectly honest, any project asking for more than $20k these days has me doubtful of…
While I can understand the need for a market to grow and change, I have to say, I find it disappointing that slower paced, atmospheric survival horror has fallen to the wayside. These days, people want the quick scares of Five Nights at Freddy’s, or…
[dropcap size=big]I[/dropcap]’m going to start this review off by getting something off of my chest: I’m not much of a car buff. I’m not even a little bit of a car buff, in fact I’m probably as from a car buff as can be. Before…
[dropcap size=big]W[/dropcap]ith its campaign finally ticking into the hours mark, I managed to get my hands on a copy of the demo for No One But You from the game’s creator Kyle Tyner. Being essentially a dating sim visual novel I didn’t expect a whole…
Millions of players around the world love traditional MMORPGs. Millions of others also love arena PvP titles. So what would happen if you combined the two in a new game? Well, that’s what Fairytale Distillery are attempting with Das Tal. This game provides semi-randomly generated…
The tower defense genre is pretty awesome, although some may find that it appears to stagnate fairly often. There’s only so many ideas one can inject into the genre, right? Developer Solitude Entertainment hopes to break out of the expected tower defense niche with Hydraulic…
Those who were on Kickstarter in 2012 should recognize the name Hero-U: Rogue to Redemption. Lori and Corey Cole are well known in the adventure game community for their work on Sierra On-Line’s Quest for Glory series and they’ve returned to Kickstarter to get funding…
[dropcap size=big]W[/dropcap]hile some might think that Mystic Searches is somehow a new game project (I certainly did at a glance) this is actually the second crowdfunding campaign for a singular project that began in September of 2014, The New 8-Bit Heroes. That campaign was successfully funded for…
Dating visual novels seem to be on the rise lately. And AJ Tilley is back with his latest title, Divine Slice of Life. For those who backed Echo Tokyo, anyone who pledged to a tier that got a copy of the game will get a…
[dropcap size=small]W[/dropcap]interflame: The Other Side is a 2D adventure puzzle game being developed by Artoncode. I managed to have some time to sit down and play their demo that they have for download on their Kickstarter page. In Winterflame you play as Lev, a human incapable of…
[dropcap size=big]C[/dropcap]loudrunner Studios is getting down to the tail end of their Kickstarter campaign for Melancholy Republic, so they’re making the rounds wrangling up the last of the pledges needed to make their $11,071 funding goal. As we’ve mentioned before the game draws much of its stylistic influence…
Adventure games appear to be cropping up on Kickstarter almost faster than we can keep up with these days. One of the latest point and click adventures is called The Mystery of Oak Island, and it’s based on a real life mystery surrounding treasure beneath…
On the first day of its campaign, Tokyo Dark was a success with backers and nailed its $33,000 funding goal. This 2D mystery point-and click adventure game is the latest from the Square Enix Collective, a platform that has certain similarities to Steam’s Greenlight in that…
Indie games are an increasingly important part of the video game industry. Although they’ve always been around, it’s only in the past decade or so that the concept of “indie development” has finally made its way into the mainstream. At a time like this, Independent…