Taking matters into your own hands happens one turn at a time in Vigilantes, an upcoming tactical RPG now on Kickstarter. With more than a passing resemblance to modern XCOM titles, Vigilantes frames its gritty film noir story with turn-based combat encounters and party building. Characters come with…
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Dylan Cunningham is a new voice in the gaming community, and the kind of guy who already makes people call him The Overvulture on the internet. He's always been the obsessive gamer type ever since the original Prince of Persia, and loves horror games or anything a little offbeat.
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You might not have heard of Furcadia before, despite it being the longest-running MMO ever. It was initially released in 1996, long before many people had a steady internet connection. I wasn’t even on dial-up yet at that point. Despite the game’s history, it’s never…
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Ocean of The Lost is a multiplayer naval combat game now on Kickstarter, set in the Caribbean. Currently offered in its early form, dubbed the “battle version”, it hopes to develop further into an MMO. Aside from team-based combat, the final version of Ocean of the Lost will…
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In an unusual move, forthcoming oldschool RPG Elysian Shadows has returned from silence with an announcement of a coming announcement. The full update will be in video form, and is slated for release next month. This comes after a nine-month silence without updates. A post from last December went…
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In the interest of honesty, I should preface by saying that RTS is probably my least-favourite genre in all of gaming. The sensation of spinning plates they cause sends me straight back to a dark place in my memory reserved for my years in food…
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We’ve probably all heard of steampunk and cyberpunk, but now the turn-based tactical RPG Z’Isle aims to make “cyclepunk” a part of our lexicon. Set in the zombie-infested stress of Montreal, it aims to bring a new spin on undead slaying in the form of party-based combat…
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The Rabbit and The Owl dubs itself “a negative space puzzle-platformer” and is the first project from creator Gary Chao. Setting out with the modest target of $5,000, it received its funding in the first five days of the campaign. The campaign page provides a…
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At The Gates is another case of a developer leaving a big company to work on his own project with the help of Kickstarter. Jon Shafer, previously known as the lead behind Civilization V, created the campaign back in February of 2013. Sitting in the…
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It’s never a good sign when the most recent update on a Kickstarter page is titled something along the lines of “Still Alive!” but dated nearly a year ago. Such is the case for the space exploration game Limit Theory, an ambitious multi-genre hybrid that…
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Theme Park Studio, a title that invokes memories of previous amusement-park management simulators, has made the move from Kickstarter to Steam Early Access. In typing those words, I’m not entirely sure what I think of them. Given the currently mixed reviews, at 65% approval on…
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Marvel Horse, aka Celestial Equine, is a fantasy horse breeding sim that was funded on Kicksarter back in 2014. Shrouded in mysteries as thick as the flowing manes of the fantastical beasts therein, it has been a very quiet project up until very recently. A…
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Torment: Tides of Numenera has a lot to live up to. Not only is it the sequel to one of the most beloved, cult-classic RPGs ever made, but it comes from a company that has already proven itself once with its previous project Wasteland 2….
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24 Killers is described as a “life sim with whodunnit elements” by the creator Todd Luke on its Kickstarter page. It’s a game set in a colourful world made distinct by Luke’s unique claymation art style, which looks fantastic in pictures but even better in…
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Living on the internet as many of us do, it’s hard not to become aware of a particular subculture known as the furry fandom. What exactly defines someone as one rather than just generally thinking anthropomorphic animals are pretty neat is a formula that eludes…
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With its funding 116% met, Psychonauts 2 has officially finished its campaign and is moving into development. With a successful campaign on the new crowdfunding/investment gaming platform Fig, it stands to demonstrate the potential success of the website and all eyes will be upon the finished…
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Orion Trail is more than just a modern remake of Oregon Trail in a new setting, but even with that in mind it sends me straight back to those magical early 90’s days sitting in an outdated-even-at-the-time school computer lab, pretending we were learning something….
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