Living in an apartment is an odd experience in some ways. It is only thin walls which separate you from other people living out their lives nearby. Although we all feel that our joys and troubles are uniquely are own, it’s really the case that…
Finch is a bit of an odd creature. He is somehow both frog and human, and this has left him as an outcast from the other frogs. Even so, he became one heck of a cocky creature and is the “chosen one” who will fulfill…
[dropcap size=big]A[/dropcap]s a writer of queer fiction, I’m fairly open about my bisexuality. Getting married to a man and becoming a mother didn’t make this magically go away. These days, the way I scratch that non-hetero itch is by reading books, comics, and playing the…
[dropcap size=big]A[/dropcap]fter a hugely successful Kickstarter campaign and a lengthy Early Access, InXile Entertainment’s highly anticipated Wasteland 2 debuted. The second franchise installment dropped in 2014, continuing the narrative from 1987’s Wasteland. I reviewed the beta and final cut earlier, but never had the opportunity…
[dropcap size=small]S[/dropcap]ince I began at Cliqist, I’ve had to review a number of crowdfunded games, and I noticed something odd happening to my average number of positive game experiences. It was going up! This is unusual because I’m typically a very picky gamer who dismantles everything from…
In The Intergalactic Trashman, there was a massive war which ended up sending tons of garbage spiraling out in space. As this simply wouldn’t do, space trashmen were established to pick up all the rubbish and dispose of it properly. Two members of the Intergalactic…
Antigravity racers (AG racers) used to be an incredibly hot genre. And then, out of nowhere, they suddenly dried up. The biggest genre mainstay, WipEout, saw its releases dwindle to once every few years, with the latest in 2012. By then it seemed that the…
Red Awakening’s campaign recently launched on the 22nd, and it has 30 days to raise £100,000 (or $150,555.50) by May 22nd. This stealth horror FPS game is an unusual one, inspired by slasher movies and classic FPS games of the 90s and 00s. The setting is…
[dropcap size=big]”Y[/dropcap]ou gotta do what you gotta do.” That seems to be the motto in every post-apocalyptic wasteland tale since the dawn of the genre, but this mantra is beat into you throughout Dead Synchronicity: Tomorrow Comes Today, a dark point-and-click adventure game set in…
That header is not slander against the upcoming adventure/survival/strategy fusion game Deadwood: The Forgotten Curse, which is played in two major phases. For those of you familiar with The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, you may recall the extra dimension added when…
[dropcap size=big]A[/dropcap]lthough I don’t particularly define myself as a “journalist,” I am pretty aware of the grind associated with writing content on the web. It is at times joyful, and other times quite soul-sucking if you let it be all about the money. But, with…
[dropcap size=big]A[/dropcap]t the beginning of April we took a quick look at Izle, an action adventure RPG funding on Kickstarter. Now that the developers at Area Effect have released a playable demo, we finally get a hands-on look at what Izle is all about. In a…
I’ll admit that, despite being a diehard visual novel fan, it is becoming increasingly hard to keep up with every English-language release. When Invisible Apartment launched on Steam for free I definitely took notice, but haven’t been able to play it yet. Vysoko Anime Production…
A surprising amount of distinct visual novels launched this week on Kickstarter. One of these titles is Herald by Wispfire. Although, that’s not the perfect description as the game is actually a mix between point and click adventure gameplay and visual novel storytelling. Players assume…
In a world very much like our own, Millennium Blades is the world’s most popular collectible card game. Continuously in print for more than a thousand years, the game has seen thousands of expansions and billions of cards. Millennium Blades is a board game about…
Winterflame: The Other Side is an upcoming game based off the Vandaria series. Like a few other Kickstarter projects before it, this name isn’t one known worldwide, but in Indonesia is a huge property. A whole assortment of mixed media spinoffs have been made under…
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