Nidhogg is a game lauded for its simplicity. You play a mess o’ pixels, run to one side of the screen, fight another stack of pixels in a fencing duel, and that’s about it. It doesn’t seem like there’s much to add, or maybe there’s…
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Indie horror games, perhaps more than any other genre, seem to suffer a lack of originality. How many haunted asylums can you reasonably traverse before you feel like you’ve seen it all before? So, when developers experiment with a new mechanic, gamers take notice. This brings us…
YIIK: A Postmodern RPG might be the most interesting game nobody knows about. For the uninitiated, here’s a rundown that should get your mouth watering. YIIK is a surrealist RPG heavily inspired by the Mother series. It’s set in a 1999 rural American town, plagued…
When it comes to horror, few names are as well known as Howard Phillips Lovecraft. His macabre stories of the unknown have captured the attention of many fans of the genre, as well as writers. However, his works don’t always work well with the interactive…
More and more video games are coming into their own as a storytelling medium. Indie games especially have made incredible strides towards exploring the possibilities of narrative-driven experiences. Dim Bulb Games is looking to push the envelope even further with their collaboratively written, narrative game,…
It’s always unlikely an indie game is going to steal the show at E3, but you never know when it could happen. At E3 2015, IGN nominated Abzu, Ad1ft, and Cuphead as their Game of the Show that year. In 2016, Night in the Woods…
In 2013, Coffee Yao set out to craft a horror title derived from East Asian elements rarely utilized in games. His 2D atmospheric side-scroller, Detention incorporated a mixture of Taoism and Buddhist beliefs set against traditional Chinese culture. The game was selected for the E3…
Hide and seek can sometimes be fun, like when you’re babysitting your niece and tell them to hide so you can get your work done. It’s not so fun when a game that you plonked your hard-earned money down for insists on playing, though. Shenmue…
After being Kickstarted back in 2015, developer Nathanael Weiss is nearly ready to release his procedurally generated, Zelda-like action-adventure RPG, Songbringer. Funded for $15,063, the game was selected as one of the 12 participants in the Indie Mega Booth for E3 2017. Here’s what you…
Known for teaming up with Sony to bring us Life is Strange, Dontnod Entertainment is planning to give E3 2017 attendees a bite of their newest title. They officially announced Vampyr in January of 2015. The developers have said to expect the game’s release later this…
A few weeks ago, Indie Megaboth, a conglomeration of indie game developers who come together to present their games at large expos, announced they were holding a public event at E3 2017. This year’s E3 is notable in that it’s the first ever open to…
Here is a new table showing the Kickstarter videogame launch window covering March to May 2017. When should, and shouldn’t, you launch your videogame Kickstarter campaign over the next few months? March 2017 has the retail launch of the Nintendo Switch. That may be a…
When Life is Strange: Before the Storm debuted at E3 2017, I wrote two articles tearing it to shreds. The first, We Don’t Need a Life is Strange Prequel, questioned the need for such a game. We already know all we needed about the relationship…
Insurgency: Sandstorm was one of the biggest surprises from E3 2017, if not the biggest. In case you missed this one, here’s a quick summary of the single player campaign, new to the Insurgency franchise: this is a first-person shooter in which you play a…
Life is Strange fans had an eventful E3 this year. Developer Dontnod announced they’re working on a sequel before the show, and series publisher Square Enix revealed Before the Storm, a prequel to the original game. The news was a real mixed bag, as the…
Recently, we named Vampyr the Most Disappointing Game at E3 2017. My Cliqist colleague and longtime Edward Cullen cosplayer Joanna Mueller has long written about the troubled Dontnod follow-up to Life is Strange. She’s called for more information about the game from the developers, considering…