For video game crowdfunding, you can do a lot better than Indiegogo. In fact, Indiegogo might be the worst option available. Between a laissez-faire approach to quality control, scams, spam, bad publicity, and allegedly misleading and unhelpful leadership, Indiegogo might be the worst crowdfunding site….
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Fallen London is a free browser game created by Failbetter Games, the same company behind Sunless Sea and Sunless Skies. Anything is Possible The big appeal of the game is that you can do anything you want. You can do the standard “video game” thing…
It was Summer 2016, and I had just finished Gone Home, a story-rich walking simulator set in the mid 90’s. You play as Kaitlin Greenbriar, a young woman who has just come home from her trip abroad in Europe. After going into the title with…
Battle Chef Brigade is a great game, but our 3 out of 5 review score seems to imply that it’s only mediocre. The combat is competent at the best of times, the plot is predictable, and the characters are all two-dimensional stereotypes. However, the rest…
Dungeon crawlers hack away the RPG formula to its harshest edges. There are no eclectic quest-givers confidently slouching in the corner of the tavern. No lively chats with party members before setting out into the wilderness. No, all that is left is skulking isolation and…
If there’s two things I hate in the gaming industry today that everyone else loves, it’s Bethesda and nostalgia. Bethesda has a long record of suing indie developers over spurious copyright claims while pretending to be the victim. Meanwhile they’ve been ruining Fallout and The…
Battle Chef Brigade is a game about odd combinations. Much like the gameplay, it’s all about mixing disparate elements to create a singular dish. It takes elements from games and even TV shows like Final Fantasy, Bejeweled, any visual novel, and even Iron Chef, and…
After a successful Kickstarter campaign, Hyperkinetic Studios has released their high-fantasy management sim, Epic Tavern on Steam Early Access. From it’s early days the game looked to be a fun mixture of storytelling and resource management. Players take on the role of a tavern owner…
Despite their unique appearance, games that utilize physical 3D models digitized through photogrammetry haven’t fared well on Kickstarter. While they absolutely look amazing, they are quite expensive, both in terms of time and technology to create. Fortunately, that didn’t deter the team at btf from…
Pyre is a storybook with singed edges; stained by spilt ink and filled with blank pages. A pastel-hued cartographer’s fever dream. The feedback from a smoky lute ballad run through a distortion pedal. Most astoundingly, Pyre is a sports game that makes loss just as…
Working in conjunction with Games of History (i.e. myself), we previously brought you a story about Shadows of War: The Spanish Civil War. The game focused on the 1936-1939 Spanish Civil War. This conflict pitted the government loyalist Republicans against the Nazi Germany backed fascist…
Sometimes I wonder what life is like for people with actual, physically demanding jobs. Ha, just kidding. Even contemplating actual physical labor is enough to mandate an immediate nap. As such I was more than a bit skeptical at idea that I would find any…
I played the demo to Seek Etyliv in a tiny window floating at the centre of my screen. All play takes place in 3×3 grid. The game features precisely six colours. Player input is limited to arrow key controlled movement, one square at a time,…
Look, on one side you have your fantasy genre with wizards and dragons. On the opposite end you have sci fi space adventures full of bizarre aliens. Rarely do we get sorcery space adventures. At least until Pocket Mana’s new Kickstarter project, My Uncle Merlin:…
Kickstarter just isn’t what it used to be. Not only are fewer people donating less money, but fewer game developers are launching quality campaigns. When it first became popular, the idea of crowdfunding seemed like it was going to revolutionize the game industry. For a…
Developer MoaCube describe Bonfire as a game that ‘respects your time but hates your guts’. It’s certainly an attention grabber, but I feel MoaCube might be underselling it here. While teeth-gritting trial and error is the Roguelike’s razor-tipped calling card, nothing in Bonfire’s difficulty feels…
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