Dujanah slips into a windowless room with purple walls, and a soft piano ballad named “Mothers were all darlings” begins to play. What of footprints? A grounded falsetto asks. What of satin? of tea-stains? kindling? nail files? Seven expectant mothers sit in a circle, and…
Billed as equal parts shooter, platformer, stealth exploration, and puzzle game, AREA has high aspirations for itself. But take even a cursory glance at gameplay clips and it’s easy to see that this very unique experience could actually bring all of those elements into one…
Some of you probably remember hearing about Way to the Woods a few years ago. Back then, it was touted as a stunningly beautiful game created by a 16-year-old developer. Well, a lot’s changed since then. For example, Way to the Woods is now a stunningly beautiful game created by…
Cliqist’s award-winning* YouTube series Kicked! is back again. Today we’re delving back into the world of Star Citizen. Developed by Wing Commander mastermind Chris Roberts and his company Cloud Imperium Games, Star Citizen’s crowdfunding campaign was the most successful ever. How’d that Happen? Star Citizen…
As the new Kickstarter title Forgive Me My Henchmen shows, being on the receiving end of an action hero’s rampage can be a terrifying experience. Not The Hero’s Story Developed by Blake McDermott, the game’s premise is simple. As a typical movie crime lord, players…
Life is Strange: Before the Storm is one of those rare spin-offs that’s actually better than the original. With a richer story and deeper characters, its shorter three episode arch leaves a greater impact than Dontnod’s Life is Strange. With the bonus episode Farewell, developer…
FTL: Faster Than Light developers Subset Games have created something truly remarkable with Into the Breach; a turn-based strategy that game manages to create divergent, unpredictable scenarios without relying on randomness. Subset’s latest offering follows in the footsteps of FTL by creating tense standoffs where the systems tell…
In Where the Water Tastes Like Wine, stories live everywhere people do. They are clustered in towns, tucked into nooks in mountain ranges, and spread out across the whole of the continental United States. Some of the stories that these characters tell you will feel…
You’re traveling through another game, a game not only of tanks and treads but of tryhards. You’re moving into a server of both salt and sorrow, of wins and wonder. You’ve just entered: The Gold Room. In celebration of Twitch’s Indie Amplifier contest Treadnauts developer, Topstitch…
Monsters, mechs, and mayhem, oh my! It’s time once again to kick off our Game of the Month coverage and this month we’ve selected the newly released turn-based strategy juggernaut, Into the Breach. Developed by Subset Games, the team that brought us FTL, Into the…
You’ll spend half of your time in Deep Sixed looking at the in-game manual, and that’s not necessarily a bad thing. The game requires patience and precision to play. It offers all of the tedium associated with the flight simulator genre minus the piloting. Failure after catastrophic…
What do Fez II, The Dead Linger, and Yogventures all have in common? They are all canceled games that will never see a release date. Not fully anyway. Indie video game developers have a lot of freedom in how they do things, that’s what happens…
In Moving, you control a parasitic plant. By hopping into deer, you can move. That’s good news for a plant; as the game’s title suggests, it’s your goal to spread as far from your pond home as possible. By controlling the deer, you can also…
Hamilton and Baxter are, presumably, this good bird and his wonderful snail friend. I’m not sure which is which, but personally I’d like to think that Hamilton is the mollusc that’s catching a ride and Baxter is his patient steed. Regardless, Hamilton and Baxter are…
Seemingly combining Guitar Hero and Fruit Ninja, Bailey Snyder’s first game, Katto, takes a different approach to the rhythm game genre. In Katto, players wield two katanas as a number of objects fly toward them to the beat of a song. The player must destroy…
The indie gaming platform Jump continues to expand its library with the announcement of its March additions lineup. Set to release one per week throughout the month, the platform currently has four new titles scheduled to become available to subscribers. The titles offered range from…