Red Dead Redemption 2 is a vast landscape absorbed in chaos, dread, and desperate survivalism. The game is fundamentally designed around violence as the answer to all of the player’s problems, demanding they lay waste to any and all in their path marked red on…
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Holy Potatoes! A Spy Story?! is the latest in a long line of games which all seem to feature anthropomorphic potatoes for some reason. Each of the games in the series have featured different settings and themes but they’ve all been casual simulation games. This…
Beyond Blue is the latest game from the publisher behind the ground-breaking Never Alone. It’s a game that invites players to be a part of a research mission in the uncharted ocean, placing exploration and experience of the deep unknown at the heart of gameplay. However, it…
The very basis of a platformer is predicated on a player’s determination. “Thank you, Mario! But our princess is in another castle!” is the defining instance of the genre’s inherent notion of insisting on progression in the face of adversity. Without an end goal, however…
Once known as the “defender of the downtrodden” when it came to indie games, it appears that Valve wants to try and compete with Sony and Microsoft for AAA developers. In an announcement made late last week, the company laid out a revenue sharing plan…
Nintendo is unquestionably the most popular video game company in the world. The Switch is more popular than racism, YouTube is swarming with twenty to thirty-something year old white men making hundreds of Nintendo retrospective videos, and Mario’s got a great butt. With that kind…
Funding for Indie Games on Kickstarter isn’t what it was. That’s why it’s so impressive when a game finds an audience so quickly that it smashes all of its targets. OMNO is one of those games. Originally seeking £28,407, OMNO has raised over £70,000 and surpassed…
She and the Light Bearer is a point-and-click adventure and playable fairytale that dwells on the frailty of nature. Developers Mojiken Studio just recently pushed out a demo featuring the first chapter and finally lets us get a look at the game aside from its…
Distress is one of the best games of 2018. Almost no one has said a word about it. The visual novel from Game Informer Associate Editor Javy Gwaltney deserves to be on your radar, though. With eye-catching art from Ian Higginbotham and burbly synth rock…
Nidhogg 2 is another in what is becoming a long line of very good indie games that are arriving on the Nintendo Switch. There are so many arriving every day that the really good titles can sometimes feel as though they are being drowned out….
Aces of the Luftwaffe Squadron is a bullet hell, vertical scrolling shooter, taking place at the end of World War II. When Aces starts the German army hasn’t been defeated therefore it is up to you to take them down. They have set their eyes on…
QC Games, an independent game developer comprised of AAA veterans and cutting-edge creators, today announced that its first game project, Breach, will be entering Steam Early Access in January 2019. Combining intense third-person gameplay action, RPG game features, and phenomenal visuals, players will be able…
With the 2018 Christmas season upon us it’s time to wrap ourselves up warm, pour a hot cup of…something, and sit back with a few indie gems. In this case when we say indie gems we actually refer to some truly awesome lumps of indie…
There are plenty of games out there with overt Christmas themes, as some of our December content will have indicated. Sometimes games that are perfect for the Holiday season miss out on the limelight because they don’t quite wear their Christmassy nature on their sleeves….
Party Hard 2 is the sequel fans of the original game were likely hoping would come along some day. The problem is that Pinkol Games might have tried a little too hard to duplicate what made the first title a cult hit. The title even launched…
Where the Water Tastes Like Wine understands that America is a nation of shared experiences. Myths and legends resound throughout culture, built upon through word of mouth, weaving each individual across every city and state into a large tapestry. One “grand story,” as the game…
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