I’ll admit I like a good anthro story, especially if it features cat girls. Neko Club is a romantic visual novel about a bunch of them needing some sort of hero. Apparently, they used to be slaves of sorts but recently attained independence. And, there…
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Most RPGs attempt to account for player agency. Allowing the player to make little decisions along the way as the story unfolds. Great RPGs even reward players with logical consequences for their choices. Sometimes, a player’s choices are even the driving force of the story….
Sometimes, a title tells you everything you need to know about a game. Chainsaw Ninja in Space is about exactly that: a ninja in space that wields a chainsaw. Not the quietest weapon for a ninja to use, but it gets the job done. Chainsaw…
I’ll admit I’m not particularly fond of farming sims. However, I do enjoy a good shopkeeping game like Recettear. Lullaby Gardens is a sort of hybrid between the two and I have to say I rather like where this one is heading. Even the farming…
There has been a resurgence as of late of open-world survival sandbox games. The formula usually puts the player in the role of an outsider, suddenly stranded or trapped in an inhospitable environment. They must adapt quickly to survive harsh weather and indigenous species. Now…
2D platformers are all the rage these days, and nowhere is that more apparent than on Kickstarter. WayForward’s latest genie simulator Shantae Half Genie Hero is one of many examples. Others such as Shovel Knight, Freedom Planet, and Bloodstained are still only the tip of…
It was a bold move for Driven Arts. After failing to secure the $100,000 they sought in their initial Kickstarter campaign, they immediately tried again. A second campaign for their WW2 shooter, Days of War released the same day as the first was canceled. Surprisingly,…
After months of intense early access recon, Hive Jump is ready for release. Developer, Graphite Lab has announced that their roguelike run-and-gun will launch on Steam on January 18th, 2017. Players will finally be able to take the fight directly to the Ordovician army and…
It’s been a long road to development for Radiant Entertainment’s Stonehearth. The townbuilding strategy game had a massively successful 2013 Kickstarter campaign. Nearly 23K backers pledged $751,920 to bring the Minecraftesque sandbox crafter to PC, Mac, and Linux. The first playable PC version of Stonehearth, alpha…
Pinocchio’s Murder is a visual novel, cyberpunk mystery following the volatile home-life of a family of cyborgs. It was funded on Kickstarter for $6,048 back in 2015. Development seemed to be heating up during 2016, perhaps a bit too much. According to the latest Kickstarter…
Lands Unknown is a cinematic, historical MMORPG set in the early 1800s. It features gorgeous next gen graphics and a massive, realistically scaled, persistent open world. The attention to detail in every aspect, from the 50 different ship models, realistic navigation, to deep trading system…
Eldritch horror often seeks to answer some dark questions. One consistent theme of such stories is learning how far people are willing to go to obtain not only knowledge, but power. Sundered, an upcoming title from the creators of Jotun, takes this concept and applies it to…
Xenobia was an all-robot utopian society of peaceful precision. All of that changed when the humans invaded. Now the planet is under attack and it’s up to an unassuming robot named Doug to save his world in Save State Game’s newest project, Liquid Metal. The…
Clowns were getting a bad rap for a while there. Showing up in the news and in horror games as an agent of terror. One plucky protagonist is about to reclaim clowns for the side of good. Ayo The Clown is a new Kickstarter project…
After five years and $71,061, Kickstarter backers were waiting for news, any news, from the team at Cipher Prime. Their last backer communication had been a post promising more transparency in 2016. After a year of total radio silence, they’ve finally posted another update. Auditorium…
“When you play the game of thrones, you win or you die. There is no middle ground.” Unless you happen to be playing Throne of Lies instead. Then things aren’t quite so straightforward. A social deduction game of betrayal and deceit, Throne of Lies is a solid idea…
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