It has been a while since I tried out the Early Access build of We Happy Few. The latest improvements introduced in ‘The Clockwork Update‘ promise to improve the technical performance and quality of nearly every in-game encounter. No small task, but certainly one Compulsion…
Typical – you wait ages for a new Sega Genesis game and then two come along at once. Coffee Crisis was successfully funded last month, and now UK creator Matt Phillips is hoping for similar success with his own campaign for platformer Tanglewood. However with…
News that Plague Road is coming to PS Vita already had backers overjoyed. Arcade Distillery’s twisted turn-based tactical rogue-like is about halfway to its $30,000 funding goal on Kickstarter. Hoping to get that little extra push, the team has decided to offer a limited print…
I love it when an unsuccessfully funded project returns to crowdfunding for another attempt. It’s always disheartening to see one you’ve backed fall far from the mark, but with Stardrop, Joure Visser is trying again to get money from fans. The first attempt left a…
Despite setting a hard release date for April 2016, You Are Not The Hero hasn’t shown much development progress this year. This planned release date has long since passed, but only two updates have been added since that time. This isn’t particularly reassuring for backers. You Are…
Strap on your belly dancing costumes kids, it’s time to hair-whip it good. That’s right, after $776,084 in sweet Kickstarter money and just over 3 years, Shantae: Half-Genie Hero has finally received an actual, honest to goodness, digital release date. Developer, Wayforward announced in a…
Escape rooms are pretty popular right now. For the uninitiated, you pay someone to lock you and a few friends in a room. Then they laugh as you try to solve puzzles to free yourselves. Depending on the skill-set of your friend-group this can either be…
Sundae Month raised $9,350 on Kickstarter for their weaponized child-rearing simulator, Dad Quest. The game put players in the patriarchal role of a father raising their indestructible child to battle for supremacy, or something. Basically, the premise was utterly ridiculous in all the right ways….
Remember back when crowdfunded games would take risks and give gamers something different than the standard offerings? Those were the days, right? Now with platforms like Fig and Indiegogo offering crowdfunding as an investment option, safer, more marketable games are making a comeback. It’s a…
Following hot on the heels of last month’s highly anticipated matchmaking overhaul, indie MOBA Awesomenauts is ready for its next big update. On December 14th, Ronimo Games will release the Awesomenauts 3.4: Prime Time update. The new update will add a couple features promised in the…
Ever since games have existed there have been a group of adults trying to coerce kids into learning from them. This attempt to make learning fun, while well-intended, is often met with copious amounts of eye-rolling from actual kids. Such was the basis for my…
It should be painfully apparent by now that I’m a fan of adventure games. I’m especially partial towards the Sierra On-Line style of play. So it should come as to no surprise that I’ll take a look at a game inspired by these titles. Enter…
[Correction: It has been pointed out to us that Eco was actually funded on Kickstarter last year. This new Indiegogo campaign doesn’t seem to be official and is likely a scam. The links have been removed, but you can still keep up with the official…
Retro gamers gotta game, it’s sort of their thing. Understandably, it’s not easy to find spiffy new games for outdated consoles. Occasionally a crowdfunded project will come along that can fill that void. Saber Rider and the Star Sheriffs ran a successful Kickstarter campaign by…
I’m a huge fan of gender bender games. Recently I’ve been enjoying each update for Max’s Big Bust, an interesting take on the genre by Lached Up Games. I’ve gotten to know Lach since the previous Kickstarter, so it should come as to no surprise…
Tis the Season for Holiday promotions and Larian Studios has already decked their halls with a Divinity: Original Sin 2 advent calendar. Each day, leading up to December 25th, fans can check out the Divinity website for a festively updated picture. The photo changes ever so slightly…