The Legend of Zelda formula has been a timeless one, but also something that few companies other than Nintendo have taken a successful stab at. Ittle Dew and Oceanhorn have both attempted to provide different Zelda-like experiences, but with mixed results. Oceanhorn felt like a…
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It looks like something won’t be rotten in the state of Denmark, and in Elsinore, for too long. Golden Glitch Studios has been working on Elsinore for more than three years. All in all, making a game where you put a different spin on Hamlet and…
Being a website, Cliqist doesn’t need sleep – but if it did, it would have nightmares of you running out of stuff to play. Since Jay started highlighting some of the best short indies around in her Weekindies section, it seemed right to do an…
Turn-based RPGs are my bread and almond butter. As such, during its tenure on Kickstarter Battle Chasers Nightwar was a deafening bleep on my radar (as well as on Cliqist‘s). However, before playing it I wanted to be prepared with all the story information I…
I never used to be much of a fan of puzzle games. Part of that’s because I’m stupid, but I always thought the majority of them are boring. You play one, you’ve played them all. But these days, there’s more variety in the puzzle gaming…
As the Alien franchise has long recognized, the truly ferocious power of sci-fi horror rests in absolute isolation. Feeling utterly cut off from the safety of home and any promise of help. Sunless Skies, Failbetter Games’ successor to their bleak rogue-like Sunless Sea derives its appeal…
Remember how we all laughed together and said how terrible 2016 was? Well, it turns out 2017 was even worse overall. Luckily there was a bevy of great games to keep our worries at bay. Indie gaming in particular had a great year, with such…
The sleeper hit ‘Doki Doki Literature’ has received new content in the form of a community-driven mod, ‘Monika After Story’. Download your perfect girlfriend today!
The 3D puzzle adventure game Broken Reality successfully met its funding goal on Kickstarter a little under two days from the end of its campaign. In an update posted to the game’s campaign page January 3, the game’s developers Dynamic Media Triad announced that the…
The Independent Games Festival has revealed their finalists for the 2018 main competition. In a post to the festival’s main website, IGF revealed their nominees for their 2018 awards ceremony, scheduled for March 21, 2018 during the Game Developer’s conference in San Francisco, California. Of…
There’s an odd sadness to the twee, fuzzy notes that greet you on starting The Onus Helm. They ripple up from darkness, sweet but heavy, scraping themselves along the torchlit stone walls. There is an unsettling spaciousness to the room, too. Cavernous and claustrophobic at once,…
Fans will have to wait a bit longer for Edmund McMillen’s next title, The Legend of Bum-bo. In January 2nd Twitter post, McMillen revealed he and co-developer James Id had decided to push the game’s release back into the first half of 2018, due to the…
Any grizzled greenskins among you long enough in the tooth to recall Warcraft sans World might remember desperately defending the hamlet of Hearthglen against the undead scourge. Surrounded on all sides by a thick fog of war, a 30 minute timer heralded your salvation from…
Earthborn Interactive offers a new take on both their original concept and airborne combat with the twin-stick shooter build of Flutter Bombs. In a gameplay trailer posted to YouTube on January 2, the developers show off a new concept build of their game in action….
Rumu loves cleaning. Wine. Toast. Ada the cat’s paw prints. It doesn’t matter. Anything to keep the house sparkling for David and Cecily – the smartest, clumsiest humans in the world. David might leave his shirts lying around. Cecily might drop her teacup. Rumu doesn’t…
Originally a mobile game, Stand O’Food has been ported to several platforms now, including where I first played it on the PS3’s PlayStation Mini’s series if anyone remembers those. You can now download it from the Windows App store for free, or still on mobile…
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