The Long Dark is one of those games that keep’s showing up on everyone’s “Most Anticipated Games” list, even though we’ve seen relatively little of it since it was funded on Kickstarter last year. However, all of that changed in September when the game was…
Buck Wild Over The Deer God Alpha by Julie Morley [divider] The power of deer puns shall entertain you! In the several months I’ve been writing about Crescent Games’ The Deer God, I may have suffocated you all with my continuous usage of horrible deer…
Old West JRPG Boot Hill Heroes Released; Let’s Talk to the Developer with Greg Micek [divider] [dropcap]B[/dropcap]oot Hill Heroes is a game we’ve covered several times here on Cliqist, including a glowing review from Mitchell. The development has had it’s share of ups and down,…
DICETINY (a mashup of the words “dice” and “destiny”) is a game after my own heart. It mashes up a variety of excellent game types into one project. Like board games, card games, and RPGs? Then you should definitely take a look at developer Fakedice’s…
Let’s Chat about Ascent, The 270 Billion Star System Space MMO with Julie Morley [divider] Ascent is a PvE space-oriented MMO with over 270 billion star systems to explore and it is on Kickstarter, aiming to raise $35K. It is developed by Australian studio, Fluffy…
Thanks to games like Minecraft and a litany of similar titles that have followed, many gamers (including myself) suddenly believed “voxel-based” games to be comprised of blocky shapes. Voxel Quest immediately proves this notion wrong with a world that looks quite attractive (and not outwardly…
Puzzle platformers are an incredibly rich genre filled with titles. As such, it always seems a bit worrying when a new one comes out. Luckily, The Sixth Chaos looks to offer its own unique aspects despite having a similar visual aesthetic to Limbo. It seems…
Eurico is an ex-pizza delivery guy who’s been dragged into the investigative studies of the occult with the famous detective Dog Mendonca. He is tired, unpaid, and smack dab in the middle of a mystery. The mystery of Dog Mendonca’s strange disappearance, in fact, and…
Boss Fight Books: Super Mario Bros. 2 by Jon Irwin by Marcus Estrada [divider] [dropcap]T[/dropcap]o non-gaming fans, Super Mario Bros. 2 is just another one of those “Mario games” that have been popular since the 80s. But to those of us who know at least…
Erin Reynolds on the Return of VR Survival Horror, Nevermind. with Julie Morley [divider] Back in August, we interviewed Erin Reynolds, the creator of Nevermind and founder of Flying Mollusk. Around that time, the Nevermind team had just partnered with Intel and received enough funding…
A few weeks ago we posted a news article about Seldon Crisis, an Isaac Asimov inspired MMO that the developers claimed would be “…the largest sandbox universe ever created.” For a mere £250,000 the developers were going to create an epic game that would put…
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…
Humanity was doing very well for itself in the year 2259. It had finally begun to colonize new worlds outside of Earth and make alliances with alien nations. However, things took a turn as our space colonies were taken down one by one. The…
Lets Talk High Flying Strategy title, Highlands with Jonathan Ortega Every day we see new Kickstarter campaigns launch; it’s a seemingly endless sea of games to back out there. After a while though, things start blending together, title images start looking the same when you’re…
After Ken Levine announced the “winding down” of Irrational Games, much of the staff was forced to seek out new jobs. As we’ve seen earlier this week, some teamed up to create Day for Night Games. That developer is currently Kickstarting The Black Glove. Now we…
Have you always wanted to build your own town? It is defintely something that seems fun, although learning how to operate heavy machinery, take care of permits, and pay hefty amounts to actually do it make the reality far less appealing. In Buildanauts absolutely everyone…