Gone Home isn’t fun. It doesn’t ask you to solve any puzzles or complete any challenges. Instead, it asks you to simply look around a house. And because of this, Gone Home is able to tell you a story that is both heartbreaking and heartwarming,…
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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…
Last Life is a stylistic point and click adventure that raised $103,058 on Kickstarter in 2014. Developed by Sam Farmer, this would have been the first game published by Double Fine. The company was already familiar with creating and running a Kickstarter campaign. But after…
The decapitated head of my enemy lays upon the ground before me. I deftly scope it up and hurl it at his comrades laughing gleefully before tearing them to shreds as well. This is Wulverblade. Following up a successful Switch release last Fall, Developers Fully…
Freebird Games’ Finding Paradise doesn’t care what you want. It doesn’t care about genre expectations or consistency in game mechanics. The game has a story to tell, and you’re either along for the ride or you aren’t. Fortunately, the tale of Finding Paradise is a…
“It won’t make sense, but you’ll get it.” This was my introduction to Wattam. From creator Keita Takahashi, who brought the world Katamari Damacy and Noby Noby Boy, Wattam is a game about friendship and explosions. After playing the demo at PAX South I can…
This past year was a phenomenal one for artistic video games, so its no surprise there are such strong contenders for the Independent Gaming Festival’s Excellence in Visual Art award. From rubber hose cartoon animation to decadent alien temples, serene autumnal town streets to fractured…
Maggese Games‘s Don’t Make Love has been nominated for Best Student Game at this year’s IGF awards. Artist Nina Kiel was kind enough to chat with Cliqist about inspiration, romance mechanics, and the essence of the tragedy at Don’t Make Love’s core. Blossoming Romance Cliqist: Hi…
In a 2018 roadmap published on January 3, New World Interactive announced that it would be putting Insurgency: Sandstorm‘s story campaign on ice. “The single player and cooperative story has been canceled for release, and will be considered again at a later date,” wrote the…
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…
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…
Remember how we all laughed together and said how terrible 2016 was? Well, it turns out 2017 was even worse overall. Luckily there was a bevy of great games to keep our worries at bay. Indie gaming in particular had a great year, with such…
Rumu loves cleaning. Wine. Toast. Ada the cat’s paw prints. It doesn’t matter. Anything to keep the house sparkling for David and Cecily – the smartest, clumsiest humans in the world. David might leave his shirts lying around. Cecily might drop her teacup. Rumu doesn’t…
Dungeon crawlers hack away the RPG formula to its harshest edges. There are no eclectic quest-givers confidently slouching in the corner of the tavern. No lively chats with party members before setting out into the wilderness. No, all that is left is skulking isolation and…
Science-Fiction has yet to exhaust the cyberpunk space. The ongoing Kickstarter project Sense seeks to shine another neon light on the disparity between futuristic innovation and societal structures. Having been to Hong Kong, I can assuredly say that that city, and as it exists within…
Post-apocalyptic worlds are gloomy places. I understand everything you’ve ever loved has been reduced to a puddle of goo, but maybe if you spent more time repairing society and a bit less moaning about the mutants chewing your face off, you might feel better. There’s…