When it was first announced earlier this year in March 2017, The Occupation immediately had me intrigued. With its 1980’s spy thriller plot, player-driven narrative, and promise of a real-time ticking clock, how could you not be? Unfortunately, the game has flown drastically under everyone’s…
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I’m here to say that The Voxel Agents’ The Gardens Between has flown under Cliqist’s radar for far too long. First announced years ago on the developer’s website, The Gardens Between was featured at Indie Megabooth at PAX East and at PAX Australia. A trailer…
1921 Paris is a connotatively loaded setting for the Kickstarter funded Jennifer Wilde. Societal disillusionment and post-modernism inspired many artistic expats in Paris. This game, however, draws from that well but distills it into a more light-hearted point-and-click adventure and mystery game. The protagonist, Jennifer Chevalier,…
You may want to take a seat before reading this next sentence, maybe get a glass of water or take a deep breath. Unbox (the console version is called Unbox: Newbie’s Adventure) is a modern day 3D platformer that isn’t trying to model itself off…
Roughly one month out from the release of his popular prison break sim sequel, we reached out to Chris Davis of Mouldy Toof Studios to recap his success with The Escapists. Davis has come a long way from being a one-man development team crowdfunding his…
I enjoy reading almost every piece of information released on projects I’ve backed on Kickstarter. However, sometimes an update comes along that has less than good news. Unfortunately, the latest update for Project Resurgence is nothing but bad news. I’ll get into the details below, but…
Supergiant Games have already established themselves as a developer to watch. Their previous work includes the critically acclaimed action RPGs Bastion and Transistor. Their newest title, Pyre is releasing on July 25th and features their biggest and most imaginative world to date. The new party-based…
History and video games are like peanut butter and chocolate. They fit together perfectly, and until the day comes when David Hayter clones himself, there shall be no better pairing. It’s such a shame that there aren’t more history-focused games out there. It’s a bigger…
Solo indie developer, Steve Gabry of Portable Moose planted the seeds of a dark mystery in his warped adventure game, Sally Face. With the second of five episodes freshly released, let’s take a look at what we know and what we think we know about…
“As soon as we saw it we loved it and we knew we wanted to get involved in any way that we could,” said Tim Schafer in a promotional video. Schafer just announced Double Fine Presents, a new publishing arm of his (once?) beloved indie…
Do the words “Red Dead Redemption” get you excited? If you’re anything like me – or 90% of the gaming population – then of course they do. And although developer 612 Games wants the 90% to quit comparing their upcoming western MMORPG Wild West Online…
Can you guess how many heroic stories are yet untold? I bet that you’ve heard about Nikola Tesla. He was an extraordinary person: scientist, inventor, dreamer. He formed the world as we known it. There are a lot of mysteries surrounding him and there is…
The game industry can feel a little obsessive in it’s race to make every game bigger and better than anything that has come before it. Enough so, that if a AAA game isn’t absolutely innovative in every aspect it runs the risk of failure. Meanwhile,…
“We’ve had some people get pretty negative about our mother’s death, and how that delayed YIIK, and things like that,” Andrew Allanson says, “so we’re a bit weary of getting too personal these days.” September 2016. The world was in a state of unease and…
It’s not often that we get a World War I game, much less one that’s a first person shooter. That’s exactly what EA gave us last year with Battlefield 1, whom continues drip-feeding players content that should have been there from the start. Now imagine…
The other day, Cliqist Editor-in-Chief and longtime table eater Greg Micek and I were discussing our Where Are They Now? on Keiji Inafune. He suggested that, for the most part, gaming pundits and backers are too harsh on Japanese developers who use crowdfunding. Kickstarter backers…