Welcome to Herald – an interactive period drama about colonialism. Well, technically it’s about a steward by the name of Devan Rensburg. He serves aboard the merchant ship, the HLV Herald in the 19th century. Or he would, if developer Wispfire hadn’t made one tiny miscalculation…
The Kickstarter campaign for Stoic’s epic conclusion to the Banner Saga series quickly obliterated it’s $200,000 funding goal. With nearly 6,000 backers rallying behind them, Stoic took to Reddit on last week for an “Ask Me Anything” community interview. Participants included; Stoic Founders John Watson and…
The team at Spiritwalk Games are all members of the unique social landscape that is Twitch’s streaming community. For their new project, Shardbound, they knew they wanted to design something that would give Twitch Streamers and their viewers a way to experience the game together….
Lobster, otherwise known as Ian Kragh, is one of the most prolific miners of Kickstarter video game data around. Read almost any Kickstarter thread in a video game forum and you’ll most likely seem him chime in with a mind blowing amount of data, analysis,…
By now those of you who’d been keeping tabs on Mobot Studios’ platformer, Knite & The Ghost Lights have already read the bad news. Nearly 4 years after successfully raising $43,768 on Kickstarter, Mobot Studios has officially shut down. Mobot Founder, James Fletcher has promised…
The world of Survival Horror is a scary one. Not only because of the thrills, but because it’s a somewhat hard genre to love. Back in the day it was all the rage, but it’s been years since we’ve seen a steady stream of horror…
Imagine you’re twenty years out into deep space. You’re on an important mission, one that will save your people, but you’re all alone and in hostile, strange territory. That feeling of isolation, inspired by games like Metroid, is the key element to Anew: The Distant…
Sometimes less is more. And nowhere is this more apparent than in Code 7. The latest update for this text-based hacking adventure has mentioned an interesting change in their release schedule. The biggest news is that the number of episodes has been lowered. Instead of…
Survival horror is an interesting genre. It can mean different things to different people. For me, it’s all about exploration and strange occurrences. While it does look like it has plenty of jump scares, Falling Doors does have the atmosphere I’m looking for. The best…
I enjoy a good “furry” game. I’ll freely admit that. Of course, aside from the anthropomorphic animals there’s more I look for in a title of this type. In the case of Winds of Change, this would have to be both in the story and…
Developer a2z(Interactive); has just kicked off another year working to deliver their FPS survival game, Survive the Nights. The open-world sandbox takes place on a collection of post-apocalyptic, zombie infested islands, like so many other games before it. What sets Survive the Nights apart, however…
Who in the world is Lobster Sundew? Lobster, otherwise known as Ian Kragh, is one of the most prolific miners of Kickstarter video game data around. Read almost any Kickstarter thread in a video game forum and you’ll most likely seem him chime in with…
I tend to find platformers and beat-em-up games to be a bit too twitchy for my taste. However, with the right gameplay style or setting it could still be fun to play. While I know little about FictionSphere, it does have the makings of something…
It always saddens me when I hear bad news about a project I’ve backed. It’s even worse when it was one I gave money to years ago. Unfortunately, Knite & The Ghost Lights has been plagued with some development issues. As of the latest update,…
I haven’t really enjoyed many platformers in recent years. However, that doesn’t mean I won’t play them. They just need to have something unique or special to get me to look at it. Prisma & the Masquerade Menace looks to be one such title. The…
Back in 2014 when James Wearing of Elastic Games launched his Kickstarter campaign for multiplayer survival horror title Last Year, people were pretty excited. The concept was still fresh and interesting, a group of players teaming up to escape the grasp of an overpowered player-controlled…