Within an hour of the Project: RUDRA campaign launching it had already received a ‘Projects we Love’ badge from Kickstarter. But almost a week later and things are looking pretty bleak with only 1% of the $75,000 goal reached. Why aren’t backers as impressed as the…
I’ll be the first to admit I’m not much of a fan of Metroidvania type games these days. I just don’t have the reflexes for it anymore. However, Anew: The Distant Light does look like an interesting game despite the genre it’s in. The graphics…
Less than a year out from a successful Kickstarter campaign, Lightspeed Frontier is nearly ready to make its Steam Early Access debut. The project managed to surpass its extremely conservative $2,500 funding goal, but just barely. In our initial coverage we’d wondered how such a…
It’s good and bad news this week for PxlPlz, developers of Robo Puzzle Smash. Yes it’s been Greenlit on Steam which is a very positive step for any aspiring PC game. But with only a week left the Kickstarter campaign has so far only raised…
Apocalypse Now: The Game. Yes, that is officially a thing that wants to exist. As of January 24th a Kickstarter campaign to adapt Francis Ford Coppola’s 1979 psychological Vietnam War drama into the videogame format is underway. Do we get a scene where we press…
I’m all for games that have the themes of love, respect, and tolerance. However, it’s hard to see any of that in a campaign where you don’t know anything about it. The Saint Road is supposedly a game where you play as Catholic saints and heroes,…
I love comedy adventure games, so backing Paradigm was a no-brainer back when it ran on Kickstarter. That was nearly two-and-a-half years ago. While far from the most outstanding game I backed, it’s still been in development for a while. However, I’m always willing to wait…
Momentum can make or break a crowdfunding campaign. That’s why most successful developers say that running and promoting their campaigns was pretty much a full time job. So what happens if, through no fault of the developer, a campaign is abruptly suspended? After a rough week, Shadow…
You know, we get a lot of scams on Kickstarter. It’s bound to happen on a platform where you can ask people to pay for your product before you’ve even made it. But sometimes we get some truly magical attempts. Enter Alien: Terraforma. Just check…
It’s no secret that I’m a huge fan of adventure games, just as it’s no secret that I love text adventures. I grew up on the classics from Infocom, so when I found out that Bob Bates was back with a comedy adventure called Thaumistry…
We at Cliqist loved playing through the dark sci-fi isometric adventure game Stasis. Well, the people at Brotherhood Games are back on Kickstarter with a post-apocalyptic tale called Beautiful Desolation. I backed it without a second thought, but it does look like a great game….
Even if you love strategy games to death, you probably hate waiting for your turn. Sure, you can watch the enemy’s moves and calculate a solid plan to counter, but sometimes you play with one of those guys that really mulls over their every decision….
History can be boring. It’s important to learn about and study, but it can just be so… dry, sometimes. Luckily(?), Wayward Studios is working on Countryballs, which seeks to make history more fun. Countryballs is a 2D platformer beat-em-up. The campaign revolves around the world’s…
After successfully funding their tabletop occult high school RPG back in 2014, Liberi Gothica Games has continued to expand the Breakfast Cult universe. With expansion packs still in the works the team has returned to Kickstarter to bring backers a new way to play. Seeking…
Through crowdfunding, backers are able to share in the joys and sorrows of game development. Unfortunately, some developers have taken advantage of their “close-knit” funding communities, using project updates as more of a personal blog while development languishes in the background. Such has increasingly become…
Arnie Jorgensen and John Watson took a risk leaving Bioware to found their own studio, Stoic. As indie developers, success and failure hinged on being able to fund their next project. Imagine their surprise when their studio’s debut title, The Banner Saga managed to raise over 700%…