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,…
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It is a truth universally acknowledged that scavenging the floating wrecks of dilapidated space freighters is going to result in at least one conflict with space pirates. That’s just the rules. I didn’t make the rules. H.G Wells made the rules, then Asimov and Delany…
While indie gaming has definitely found more mainstream appeal over the years, most gamers only ever scratch the surface of what it offers. While it’s easy to catch the latest Steam sensation or YouTube darling, a fair number of foreign games never make a blip…
Renowned Explorers: International Society is such a great game that we decided to write about it twice. It’s a roguelike that turns the genre on it’s head a little bit. Rather than using permadeath and random generation as a tool to beat the player into…
Limitless death and carnage await in ChaosForge’s modern sci-fi roguelike/RPG, Jupiter Hell. This new turn-based, 3D procedurally generated game, aims to take the 90’s sci-fi roguelike genre and turn it up to eleven. At least that’s what the Kickstarter campaign promises, with a hardcore metal soundtrack…
Did you ever wish you could be a Viking? But, you know… without the whole “glorious death” thing weighing it down? Iron Tides, which recently launched on Kickstarter, has you covered. There’s a demo if you’d like to try the game before pledging. We’ve covered…
After returning from a sudden and extended hiatus on Kickstarter, Malevolence: The Sword of Ahkranox is may have a major update to its Early Access version as soon as this weekend. While the recent revival of updates to the Kickstarter campaign have all been ‘backer…
As Chronicles of Elyria enters its home stretch and Cliqist braces itself for the game’s potential late surge in funding, now is a good time to take a look at what stretch goals developer Soulbound Studios have to offer. Soulbound Studios has made it clear…
MMORPG Chronicles of Elyria’s Kickstarter campaign is about to enter its home stretch and with that surfaces the potential of a late surge in funding. It’s currently sitting at $1,114,822 of its original $900,000 goal, inching it closer and closer to its second stretch goal…
As Soulbound Studios states in their Equipment and Inventory Design Journal, MMORPG Chronicles of Elyria is “unquestionably a survival game” rooted in realism. There’s plenty of evidence that attests to this from the potential of permadeath, to the implementation of aging, to the minimalistic inventory…
In my previous articles on Soulbound Studios’ MMORPG Chronicles of Elyria, I discussed everything from in-game death to identity theft to body dynamics. With the substantial amount of info available on the Chronicles of Elyria website, I’ll be changing gears this time around to touch…
It’s been quite a while since we last covered Death Road to Canada, a silly little “road-trip simulator”, where you journey north of the American border fighting off hordes of zombies to reach your friendly northern neighbor—which also happens to be where I reside! It’s…
Here we are, with yet another pixely, randomly-generated platformer popping up on Kickstarter. Sorry for sounding a bit tired, but you have to admit there have been a little bit too many of those as of late. However, I wouldn’t be covering this if it didn’t contain any…
I think everyone who derives any real enjoyment out of playing video games has sat down and thought about making their own game. It’s just a phase I think you go through, maybe more than once or twice. But unlike the majority of us who…
Every week we take a brief look at all of the Kickstarter video game campaigns that launched in the previous week. This isn’t to say that all of these projects are worth your hard earned cash, but with any luck having all of them in…
[dropcap size=big]T[/dropcap]he Kickstarter campaign for Compulsion Games’ psychedelic We Happy Few is almost over, with less than 24 hours remaining before the curtains close on it. The campaign has already met its goal of $250,000CAD; but in the event you’re not entirely up to speed about…
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