Virtual Russian Roulette Absolutely Terrified Me in Gods Will Be Watching By Marcus Estrada [divider] Note : This piece includes and discusses spoilers for Chapter 2 of Gods Will Be Watching. Gods Will Be Watching is a diabolically difficult (at its intended difficulty) point and…
Night Trap ReVamped is in Need of Help By Marcus Estrada [divider] [dropcap]N[/dropcap]ight Trap, released in 1992, was one of the early full motion video (FMV) games. This odd tale of vampires, er, “augs” invading a suburban slumber party felt like a teen horror flick…
I’m such a good chef, man. At least, in Fish Cook I can pretend my meals are burn proof. Back in 2013, James Ernest released Fish Cook, a tabletop game about maintaining your reputation as the best fish chef of existence. We play as chefs…
Thoughts of a Troubled Detective Another View of Jenny LeClue [divider] Ah, the thrill of the chase! Oh, the mental invigoration of a puzzle! For so long, I’ve yearned for a real challenge in this town. Arthurton, so beautiful, sweet, and innocent resting upon layers of…
When I look at the Space Simulator Kickstarter campaign, I can’t help but think of the Space Sphere from Portal 2, chanting about space happily. “I’m in space.” “SPAAAACE!” Who never wanted to be an astronaut when they were a kid? I mean, really, who…
After working on this project during his final year of college for roughly a year, Ricardo Hyde is determined to make Zone 416 a complete and well rounded RTS zombie game. With the help of $25K hopefully gained through Kickstarter by September 8th, he can…
One thing we dread the most about going on picnics (or outside in general for that matter – if you ever even go outside, that is) is the bugs. And there is nothing more infuriating than a group of hungry ants finding their way to…
Red Katana is an Argentinean game development studio with several notable titles under their belts, including Evil Fight Club. Now, they’re developing a game that is the perfect marriage between X-COM, Fallout, and Shadowrun to give the turn-based and strategy game genres a bit of…
I was born in 1995, and while, yes, that means I’m a filthy 19-year old kid and you can’t believe a word I write, it doesn’t mean that I don’t absolutely adore 80’s movies. That’s something that the developers of Rose and I share, but we don’t…
Visual novels plague Kickstarter. Maybe plague is too harsh. Aggressively inhabit may be a little more accurate. They are absolutely everywhere, and whether or not you think that’s a good thing or not, it’s a fact that visual novels often fail to mix things up….
Designing Engine, an indie game studio from Samara, Russia, has a point. Station is a game without any resources, experience points, multiplayer, PvP levels, or purchasable items. There is no room for additional content as the story is fitted into a singular game. It’s true,…
Fads pass, and if you ask me, it’s about time for our obsession with zombies to simmer down. Zombies are cool, we get that, but the complete uncontrolled deluge of zombie-related games is driving me up a wall. We need to switch gears and kind…
There is no surplus of good action RPGs out there, which has always surprised me. Action gameplay blended with the satisfying, driving progression of an RPG has always seemed like a winning formula to me, but finding games like this – games that don’t treat…
Back in May, Black Forest Games launched a Kickstarter campaign for DieselStörmers to make it to Steam Early Access. Last month, they met their deadline and released the Early Access version of the game on Steam. I was able to interview Mario Ragusa from Black…
I’ve talked about Tetris Syndrome a time or two here in Cliqist but never when actually talking about Tetris itself. People still craze over Tetris to this day – and why wouldn’t they? It’s addictive, challenging, and refines your problem solving. But what if we…
Sometimes it takes multiple tries to get something right and CG Development decided it was time for a second try with Enchanted Kingdom. We covered Enchanted Kingdom (then Enchanted Kingdome) a few weeks back with much anticipation for this campaign. Things were looking extremely promising…