What have they done to you, Santa? Why are you so thin, and so smol? Why have you been forcefully awoken from your slumber and made to travel through time and space to bring in another hellish twelve months? Why can’t pop culture dredge up…
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The new year holds a slew of possibilities, not least of which for indie gaming. From first person brawlers to top-down shooters, action adventures to platforms and so much more, the year’s release schedule is packed with titles primed to take gaming in several exciting…
Cliqist Style Guide All rules, of course, are made to be broken. But don’t break them until you’ve mastered them. Topics to cover Anything relating to indie gaming. New game announcements New Kickstarter campaigns Crowdfunding Hall Of Fame Indie game history Crowdfunding scams Developer interviews…
Team Meat provided Nintendo Switch owners and fans of Super Meat Boy with a surprise over the holiday weekend. In a Twitter thread post made December 23, Team Meat revealed a teaser image for a Nintendo Switch port of Super Meat Boy. Set to launch…
I am willing to go on record right now and bet that, empirically speaking, Tommy Wiseau has enriched more lives than James Franco. In a just world, we would be seeing a parody biopic of Franco’s mediocre acting career, with Mr. Wiseau in the lead…
It was the morning of December 19th, and my alarm was set for 11:55 – five minutes prior to Hell Is Empty’s global release. Enthusiastic, and looking for an emotional episode, I was unfortunately met with disappointment and linear feelings. Like the first season, it…
A few weeks ago we covered Atom RPG’s Kickstarter campaign in our award winning* series Kicked. Heavily inspired by old school Fallout, the campaign was well-run, and the game looked promising. Now in Early Access, developer Atom Team sent us a code for the game…
In a year loaded with fantastic games, Cavalier Studios’ hidden-gem The Sexy Brutale is one of the best. Developer: Cavalier Studios, Tequila Works Publisher: Tequila Works Formats: PC, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, PlayStation 4 [Reviewed] Released: April 12, 2017 Price: $19.99 Copy Purchased Casino Blues…
At its core, Battle Chef Brigade is simple: beat up some monsters and use match-three magic to turn them into delicious meals. This simplicity is a great foundation, but it’s not what makes the game one of the best I’ve played this year. Everything that…
It doesn’t feel right to review Jettomero: Hero of the Universe like a product, because it doesn’t feel like a product to begin with. Jettomero is the waveform of a cacophonous tone poem. A bittersweet stumble across the dots in a speech bubble. If Doki…
“Dad, Look! They’re here!” My team of mechs beamed down from orbit. The local populace were understandably overjoyed. When your hometown is under assault by a legion of bugs as big as buildings, there’s few sights prettier than a trio of heavily armed war machines….
We at Cliqist have long kept our eyes on White Paper Games’ The Occupation. Set in an alternate history 1980’s England, you play a journalist who’s taken it upon himself to find the truth behind a terrorist attack that’s led to the Union Act. The…
During the 2017 Game Awards Firewatch developer Campo Santo announced their next game, In the Valley of Gods, due out in 2019. A short trailer revealed that the game is set in Egypt, and you play a camera woman exploring ancient pyramids A follow-up statement…
The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel. So goes the opening line to William Gibson’s Neuromancer – the novel that defined a genre and basically fucked the nineties for anyone not that into shades, piercings, and trenchcoats….
Seven: The Days Long Gone, is at first glance, an unassuming game. It has a silly name, but it otherwise looks like a solid CRPG. Behind its simple facade are its developers – IMGN.PRO, responsible for the excellent horror game Kholat, and Fool’s Theory –…
Playing Brakes Are For Losers is an excruciating experience. It’s a game that puts in minimal effort to callback to arcade racers of old, yet still fails as if it were trying to be too ambitious. Developer: Oudidon Publisher: Playdius, Plug In Digital Formats: PC…
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