Look at that title. Just look at that gorgeous collection of words, all side-by-side and stuff. I’m not going to pretend I’m not excited about this game, alright? I always open with a paragraph about the significance of a game’s overall hook – that one…
Now on Kickstarter is Trouble in the Manor, a multi-player online horror game about survival for PC, iOS, and Android. In a haunted manor far away, ten strangers are stuck together for unknown reasons. An ancient vampire, Count Murdock, lives in the basement and will…
We’ve been seeing a lot of point and click games getting crowdfunded lately – it’s pretty fantastic if you ask me. Everybody loves a small dose of nostalgia and point and click adventure games seem to deliver well in that department. Combining a nostalgic genre…
Back in May, we covered the first Adventures of Pip Kickstarter campaign a little bit. Personally, I was excited about the idea: an itty, bitty pixel evolving into a complete character level by level. It’s different, I loved it, and I certainly wasn’t the only…
Backers of The Long Dark got some good news today, which means everyone interested in he snow-bound survival sim also get good news. First off is that the sandbox alpha has been sent to more backers (hello!). While it doesn’t contain any of the games’ mysterious…
GaymerX2 Panel Report: We’re Already Here – Empowering Female and Queer Creative Voices By Marcus Estrada [divider] Panelists: Aevee Bee, Josie Doggett, Emilia Schatz [dropcap]O[/dropcap]ne thing that I often hear parroted within gaming culture (and certainly the assumption from outside parties) is that women are…
Panchito Chepas. A Crazy & Unexpected Adventure By Julie Morley [divider] Panchito Chepas resembles nothing I have seen before and it’s made its way to IndieGogo. Panchito is a bit of a weird character, seemingly innocent, and winds up in an old town drained of…
Dungeonmans, A Classic Turn-Based RPG By Charlotte “Charlie” Humphries [divider] For those of you with time to spare, step closer, here, towards my lair. I have a short story to tell, one of monsters, spells and heroes who fell. Dungeonmans is here to stay; grab…
Sixty Second Shooter Prime Reviewed By Marcus Estrada [divider] When it comes to independent games I like to think I’m somewhat on top of releases. Of course, there’s just such a massive amount of them that a lot passes right by. Sixty Second Shooter was…
Sienna Storm Kickstarter Off to a Shaky Start By Ahmad Khan [divider] When you read that the lead writer of Dues Ex is coming together with the game-designer of Star Wars: Kotor 2, and the guy who worked on the Magic card series to launch…
Fall In Love With Death In Shadowgate By David Lins [divider] Last week, I was given a chance to explore Zojoi’s reimagined Shadowgate for the first time. If you look at my preview, you can see that I was quite impressed with how the game…
A Gameplay Analysis of Transistor By Julie Morley [divider] Transistor is our August 2014 “Not Crowdfunded, But…” title. For more Transistor content head over here. [divider] [dropcap]F[/dropcap]irst of all, I want to begin this article with the most enthusiastic expression of joy and completeness, as well as some…
We here at Cliqist love crowdfunded games, but we are gamers just like you guys, and that means we play, well, everything. The “Not Crowdfunded, But…” series will be a regular dose of non-crowdfunded magic from us to you, covering everything from the latest Gears of…
Wim Wouters on a ‘Crazy Year’ for GriN and their New Game Woolfe By Brad Jones [divider] “It’s been a crazy year,” says Wim Wouters, founder and CEO of GriN, a studio that has undergone something of a momentous rise over the course of 2014….
It looks like the Maksym Pashanin drama is coming to a close; or at least part of it is. The Desert Sun is reporting that the Confederate Express and Knuckle Club developer that holed up in an Airbnb rental with his brother by way of…
Red Baron Kickstarter Postmortem By Brad Jones [divider] [dropcap]L[/dropcap]ate last year, flight simulator legend Damon Slye returned to the genre with a Kickstarter campaign intended resurrect the dormant Red Baron series. The first game in the series, released in 1990, was widely regarded as one…