INTRODUCTION Tormentum: Dark Sorrow is a powerful, haunting, and surreal world that manages to create a sense of unease in the player without a whole lot of posturing. If you’d like my full thoughts on the game, see my review, but here I will endeavor…
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[dropcap size=big]N[/dropcap]ostalgia is a powerful influence. Few things are more tempting than the nostalgia for a simpler time without the worries of trans fats and rent; when all you had to worry about was keeping your grades up and beating Metroid. I mean who wouldn’t…
[dropcap size=big]I[/dropcap]t’s time to put on the metal records kids, because today we’re talking about Tormentum: Dark Sorrow, a dark horror adventure game that looks like the illegitimate child of Metallica and H.R. Giger. The project was funded between June 2nd and August 1st 2014,…
[dropcap size=big]W[/dropcap]elcome to the Cave of Destiny brave adventurer! I am the voice of the heroes! I will be your guide throughout your journey to becoming a great…wait what? You’re not an adventurer who is seeking fortune and glory? You’re looking for…a missing cow. But…
[dropcap size=big]T[/dropcap]he first utterance of a game known only as “Project Scissors” by Hifumi Kono was a tremendously exciting event. As a fan of the Clock Tower series, it was something I wanted to see more of in the modern gaming landscape. Other developers have…
Kickstarter MIA: Panic Over Dungeon Panic by Julie Morley [divider] [dropcap]W[/dropcap]here to begin, where to begin… Dungeon Panic was an ambitious project launched on Kickstarter back in December 2012 by three gaming enthusiasts: comic veteran Josh Lesnick (NSFW Comics: Girly, You Suck), John King, (main developer),…
Every week we take a brief look at all of the Kickstarter video game campaigns that launched in the previous week. This isn’t to say that all of these projects are worth your hard earned cash, but with any luck having all of them in…
Despite a childhood obsession with everything medieval, I can’t say that most games pulling from that timeframe have ever intrigued me. Most of them were simply too rigid or gave you too much control. All I wanted to be was one combatant on a massive…
[dropcap]A[/dropcap]lien: Isolation, as I’ve stated in my review, is quite possibly the best videogame based on the Alien franchise to date. It had a lot of competition for that title, though. Perhaps you’d like to take a look at those games? Well, I decided to…
Every week we take a brief look at all of the Kickstarter campaigns that launched in the previous week. This isn’t to say that all of these projects are worth your hard earned cash, but with any luck having all of them in one place…
Every week we take a brief look at all of the Kickstarter campaigns that launched in the previous week. This isn’t to say that all of these projects are worth your hard earned cash, but with any luck having all of them in one place…
The members of Pittsburgh-based studio Castle Pixel are no newbies to the process of crowdfunding a game. Last year, they launched a campaign for their sci-fi adventure game Rex Rocket and successfully released it in August. Now the team is back with another game idea…
Every week we take a brief look at all of the Kickstarter campaigns that launched in the previous week. This isn’t to say that all of these projects are worth your hard earned cash, but with any luck having all of them in one place…
Every week we take a brief look at all of the Kickstarter campaigns that launched in the previous week. This isn’t to say that all of these projects are worth your hard earned cash, but with any luck having all of them in one place…
Plenty of games go out there and brag about their customization options, classic gameplay, and procedurally generated “infinite” content, but few games bring as much to the table as Stash, an upcoming turn-based loot extravaganza from Frog Dice, the creators of Reign Maker and Tower…
Will Dube Talks Vikings, Killing, & Jotun By Nathaniel Liles & Julie Morley [divider] We here at Cliqist love talking directly to developers about their games. We’re able to circumvent the usual PR fluff and get right to the questions we want the answers…