INTRODUCTION Tormentum: Dark Sorrow is a powerful, haunting, and surreal world that manages to create a sense of unease in the player without a whole lot of posturing. If you’d like my full thoughts on the game, see my review, but here I will endeavor…
The majority of crowdfunded video games, and an increasing amount of games in general, are available as digital downloads. Many have predicted that at some point games are on a path to become purely digital commodities! As such, we’ve started to see a few teams strike…
[dropcap size=big]O[/dropcap]n My Own looks like the kind of game that folks are really into these days. It’s pixelated and all about surviving as a lone bearded fellow in a vast landscape. Despite the fact that folks can play it through a Android/iOS preview or…
[dropcap size=big]E[/dropcap]very month on Kickstarter is filled with success, failure, and tons of excitement. As such, February featured a whole host of great projects which found themselves funded! If you want a general look at all 27 successful video games then you can check it…
[dropcap size=big]T[/dropcap]urn based tactic games are a special kind of beast, you have to have deep customization in order to offset the potential monotony and annoyance of waiting for yoru turn. Not only that, but it also helps to have beautiful graphics and memorable lore…
What’s better than blowing up your friend in a videogame? Blowing your friend up in a space video game. What is better than that? Playing as a gelatinous mass in space that picks up guns they bump into and then using said guns to blow…
[dropcap size=big]T[/dropcap]he harsh and desolate realm of space can feel cold, lethal, and mysterious. Do you think you have what it takes to survive the dangers of space-exploration? Reassembly asks player to prove it by giving them rich and in-depth control over their fleet. Customize…
[dropcap size=big]T[/dropcap]he holiday season is over: Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year’s Eve, and Valentine’s Day. You can even argue that Halloween is a part of the bunch. What do they all have in common? Creating a frame of time when many crowdfunding campaigns fail! But what if…
[dropcap size=big]E[/dropcap]very week we take a brief look at all of the Kickstarter video game 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…
[dropcap size=big]T[/dropcap]here are games of all sorts out there, but how many have ever allowed you to be a paparazzi? It’s an ingenious concept that has rarely been utilized, which helps makes Paparazzi stand out immediately. This PC and Wii U release is best suited…
[dropcap]W[/dropcap]ith more than $1,000,000,000 worth of pledges and 79,000 successful funded projects, it’s easy to say Kickstarter has been a successful, if not the most successful, crowdfunding platform. However, games only encompass a very small percentage of the overall amount of what’s on Kickstarter. Kickstarter…
[dropcap size=big]S[/dropcap]portball Manager is an interesting title. The game takes place in a future where there are no other sports besides Sportball because they all either caused riots or got too boring to watch. In this future you play as a regional team manager so…
Meowl Game Company first jumped onto the Kickstarter bandwagon in 2014 to launch a visual novel by the name of Change! Unfortunately, it didn’t garner enough attention and was left unfunded. Now they’re back again to hopefully get their game funded – and it seems…
Synesthesia, as defined by Wikipedia, is “a neurological phenomenon in which stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway leads to automatic, involuntary experiences in a second sensory or cognitive pathway.” Spectrum: An Elegy for Piano lets us inhabit the shoes of someone living with a form…
What is Therefore? Even after looking over the Indiegogo campaign page it isn’t immediately clear. The game seems spiritual, calming, and presented with a pixel aesthetic. Because it seems much is going to be left up to player interpretation, here’s the best that I can…
Perhaps 2015 will be known as the “Year of Promising JRPGs.” Recently we saw the incredible success of Edge of Eternity and now another (although completely different sort of JRPG) launched on Kickstarter. It’s called Melancholy Republic and cites its inspirations from some of the…
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