Numantian Games knew what they were doing with Lords of Xulima. Mostly positive Steam reviews and over 1,300 backers don’t lie. The 2D isometric, turn-based RPG successfully raised $35,657 on Kickstarter back in 2013. The game has since released on Windows, Mac, and Linux systems. It’s…
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During a live interview from EGX, developer Failbetter Games has announced the upcoming sequel to their crowdfunded title, Sunless Sea. The new game will be called Sunless Skies and the Kickstarter campaign will launch in February of 2017. This announcement comes hot on the heels…
It’s appropriate that the US election is just days after Halloween. This election has been a hell on earth, scarier than anything you’ll see today. So to celebrate today’s Halloween spookiness, we’ve decided to dedicate an entire episode of Kicked! to games about this here…
There are so many interesting looking projects seeking crowdfunding that inevitably some fall through the cracks. Usually the developers promise to see the game through to completion anyway, but considering how many funded games just disappear, it’s easy to dismiss these claims. At least, until…
Remember the old days, when games didn’t grind the action to a halt to show you a half-baked 15-minute cutscene about why the main character needs to Shoot the Bad Guys? Ruckert Broductions hopes to bring you back to those days with Redie (pronounced “re-die”,…
Megatokyo is an iconic web comic that has spawned several graphic novels and plenty of merchandise. In 2013, co-creator Fred Gallager launched a Kickstarter to transform Megatokyo into a visual novel. The other creator, Rodney Caston, left the project before the Kickstarter began. By the…
We last wrote about The Hero Trap over a year ago. If you’ve forgotten, it was described by developer Smashworx as “a frenetic rogue like like where dungeon dwellers are hellbent on your destruction.” Sounds riveting, doesn’t it? Well, you’re going to have to find…
Very rarely does the average gamer get to see development first-hand. Thanks to crowdfunding, more and more developers are pulling back the curtain. Double Fine’s documentary on the making of Broken Age is the most extensive behind the scenes look at “how the sausage is…
Our weekly dose of hot takes, occasionally well formed opinions, and fevered outbursts is back. Yup, it’s time for the Question of the Week! This week our question is inspired by the Seven Deadly Sins of Kickstarter video game campaigns. What’s your Kickstarter pet peeve? Laguna Levine My big…
Another Monday means another episode of the award winning Cliqist series – Kicked! This week’s episode is all about Kingdom Come Deliverance, an RPG with a unique twist. Well, it shouldn’t be unique at all, but in the world of video games it’s about as…
Our weekly dose of hot takes, occasionally well formed opinions, and fevered outbursts is back; yup, it’s the Question of the Week! Last week was E3 so of course this weeks question deals with the massive gaming show : What E3 2016 game or reveal has you the most…
This is Cliqist’s fifth post on Chronicles of Elyria, and if you’ve gotten around to reading our previous articles on the massively hyped MMORPG, you’re probably still trying to wrap your head around the ambitiousness and scale of Soulbound Studio’s upcoming project. We know now…
If you are a fan of flight simulators and aerial dogfights, then chances are you’ve heard of Oleg Maddox and Ilya Shevchenko. Two names, not so much spoken by the community, but spat out by all but their fans. However, it wasn’t always this way….
One of the things they tell you when you launch a Kickstarter is to ask for the absolute minimum amount needed. Being someone who launched two Kickstarters (and failed to get funding for both) I used to receive a lot of advice that I found…
An animated, wise old man once cryptically stated that “you can’t rush art“. However, when you’re a backer, you typically fall into one of two camps: The Investor or The Customer. Where The Investor will gladly back the campaign with an amount that they’re comfortable…
“Be careful with the other lot. They owe a lot of people lots of money. Numerous Kickstarter’s, failing to deliver to backers, failing to pay for PR services, art work, sounds and more. They’ve done this to me and five others.” It was a warm…