Bayani: Kanino Ka Kakampi?!, a fighting game featuring a roster based on historical figures from Filipino history, is scheduled for Steam early access on June 12. It also currently has a free demo available. Created by Filipino developer Ranida Games, Bayani was showcased during last…
In this day and age indie gaming can be harder and harder to define. A lot of the time outdated perceptions don’t help with the problem of telling which games are, or aren’t, indie. We decided it was time for this to stop, so we’ve…
With art reminiscent of a children’s picture book or bandes dessineés (Franco-Belgian comics), Soup Raiders follows an anthropomorphic animal cast that sails a sea of soup. Armed with an imaginative premise, this quirky tactical RPG is the brainchild of Switzerland-based Team KwaKwa. According to Elias…
Cyberpunk investigation game Tales of the Neon Sea is neon noir given a bright, cartoonish re-imagining. There are also some cats thrown in, for good measure. Developed by Palm Pioneer and published by Beijing-based Zodiac Interactive, Tales of the Neon Sea released this month to…
LudoNarraCon, indie label Fellow Traveller’s first digital convention celebrating narrative video games, will have several games exhibiting this weekend on May 10-13. Among them is Failbetter Games’ Sunless Skies, a gothic horror RPG and the sequel to their 2015 release Sunless Sea. The 2018 Develop…
After appearing at PAX East and Day of the Devs during GDC, mutant soap opera Mutazione will be one of over 20 games exhibited at the digital convention LudoNarraCon hosted on Steam this weekend. Developed by Die Gute Fabrik, the game’s story begins when a meteor…
Check out a game convention from the comfort of your home this weekend with LudoNarraCon, presented by indie label Fellow Traveller. As indicated by the title, the digital convention, hosted via Steam on May 10-13, will focus on narrative video games. To digitally replicate a…
Old Man’s Journey is our featured game for the physical indie release of the week. This limited release comes from a small publisher named Red Art Games. Red Art Games is based out of Paris, France. They’ve published several games for the Vita and PlayStation…
ARTE, a Franco-German TV channel that features several documentaries and films, also makes games. According to GamesIndustry.biz, ARTE experiments with video games as a new way to tell documentary-style stories. Their current catalog consists of Vectronom, Vandals, Californium, Type: Rider, Homo Machina, Alt-Frequencies, A Fisherman’s…
Lumines Remastered is our physical indie release of the week. The block-dropping rhythm puzzler is getting a deluxe (and ultimate) treatment from Limited Run Games. Both the Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4 are getting physical editions with this release. Lumines was originally released back in…
Playable for the first time at GDC 2019, Creature in the Well is Flight School Studio’s newest project. It was part of the Indie MEGABOOTH at GDC, providing a chance for players to try it out. When I first laid eyes on it, the title…
Dystopia is an interesting branch of fiction and has led to some pretty damn interesting indie games over the years. Below, we present our take on the top 5 games which fit the Indie Dystopian model, as well as a few honorable mentions to fill…
Light&Dark takes the ever popular rouguelike genre and breathes a kooky, Wednesday Addams sort of life into it. Developed by Under the Stairs and ZEROLife, Light&Dark‘s premise isn’t too different from something like Luigi’s Mansion. You know, if it were a 2D rouguelike platformer. You play…
Switch ‘N’ Shoot is a space shmup (shoot ’em up) from developer Matt Glanville. It’s wonderfully simple, and terribly addictive. Switch ‘N’ Shoot was previously released for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android. Recently it was released for Nintendo Switch, and the platform fits this game…
Dedicated to making the sound of games, Chase Bethea interned at Mobotory games while studying music at Moorpark College. Besides earning his associate’s degree in Music Theory and Composition at Moorpark, he also went on to earn another associate’s in Audio Engineering from the Los…
For people who enjoyed the Advance Wars-like strategy of the 2017 release Tiny Metal, developer AREA 35 is making a sequel. Named Tiny Metal: Full Metal Rumble, the sequel was featured at GDC 2019 alongside various Unreal games. Epic Games hosted it as one of…