Here is a nice poem about design: Design, Design. All up in your mind. You use your mind, to make designs. Beautiful. I literally cannot stop crying. Here’s the nominees for the IGF 2018 Excellence in Design category. Into the Breach In our hands-on preview…
Nintendo Switch owners looking for a dose of ’90s nostalgia have an answer in Nightmare Boy, set to release later this month. Set to release January 16 on the Nintendo eShop, The Vanir Project’s title is one of many older indie games to find a…
Here is an example of a bad story: Once, there was a frog that wanted a bowl of cereal. The cereal he wanted was expensive, but he had no money because he was frog, and frogs are staunchly anti-capitalist. He stole the cereal, and had…
We all know the scene by now; Moonlight bleeds through a crack in the blinds, catching steadily rising smoke. A half-abandoned cigarette rests on the lips of an ashtray. Pensive Jazz leaks from an old radio, interrupted by bursts of thunder. A dapper detective with…
Acclaimed indie developer Edmund McMillen has more than a few big plans for 2018, according to a recent Q&A. Posted to his official Twitter on January 9, the Q&A covers some frequently asked questions McMillen has received recently. While some pertained to simple issues like…
Trüberbrook is one of those projects that seem to inject some life back into Kickstarter. It feels like just yesterday that German devs btf launched the crowdfunding campaign for their charmingly beautiful adventure Trüberbrook. It came as no surprise then that they reached the minimum funding…
Have you ever wanted to manage a cyberpunk speakeasy? Well, then The Red Strings Club is the game for you! The Red Strings Club is Deconstructeam’s newest game. Like with their first game, Gods Will Be Watching, they have Devolver Digital as a publisher. The…
The chaotic puzzle-meets-tower defense title Gunhouse may have found its perfect home on the Nintendo Switch. Fast Firing, Block Busting Action In a post made to Twitter on January 9, developer Necrosoft officially announced their game would be available on Nintendo’s newest console later this…
Wintermute is Gary Paulsen’s Hatchet in a Cormac McCarthy universe. It’s Yevtushenko’s “People”, read to an audience of frozen corpses. The story is a melancholy song of solitude and snow, of love and perilousness, but it is sung against the vengeful, screaming winds of Mother…
Remember back when you were a kid and you believed that when you grew up you could do anything? Think back on all the exciting dreams you had. All the things you were going to do once you were finally old enough. Alright, now look…
WWII First person shooters are a dime a dozen on Kickstarter, but oddly flight sims (particularly those who ever release) are a rarer bird. The devs at Atomic Jelly decided this could not stand. With help from Polish publisher, Movie Games, they set out to…
I started listening to the soundtrack for Eden’s Last Sunrise the other day, straight after I finished the demo. I haven’t stopped since. There’s game music that feels half-hearted; there because it’s expected. Then, there’s music that is so wonderfully evocative of a certain era…
The Legend of Zelda formula has been a timeless one, but also something that few companies other than Nintendo have taken a successful stab at. Ittle Dew and Oceanhorn have both attempted to provide different Zelda-like experiences, but with mixed results. Oceanhorn felt like a…
Steampunk Survival RTS They Are Billions is spreading with all the ferocity of a staggering, lurching, festering horde of dancing squirrels (You thought I was going to say zombies, didn’t you.) Unlike the animated corpses that inhabit its apocalyptic world, however, this intense strategy game…
It looks like something won’t be rotten in the state of Denmark, and in Elsinore, for too long. Golden Glitch Studios has been working on Elsinore for more than three years. All in all, making a game where you put a different spin on Hamlet and…
Breaking News: In a Kojima-esque act of postmodern subterfuge, and following in the clandestine footsteps of Frog Fractions 2, it turns out that Pigeon Dating Sim Hatoful Boyfriend has a brand new entry to the franchise. Yep. That’s right. The sequel to 2015’s Hatoful Boyfriend:…