Think Classic Final Fantasy, meets Sim City, meets Harry Potter. A school simulator with a classic JRPG twist. Valthirian Arc: Red Covenant certainly has an interesting sell, and it’s sure to attract fans of the JRPG genre. This latest game in the Valthirian Arc series…
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Gary Alexander Stott is a handsome young writer from Scotland absolutely brimming with talent, who feels his best feature is his modesty. When it comes to overthinking narrative and storytelling in games, his otherwise useless degree in English with Creative Writing comes in very handy indeed.
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BetaDwarf has just launched its second Kickstarter campaign, this time for the ‘roguelike deckbuilding action game’ known as FORCED: Eternal Arenas. Having previously used Kickstarter to successfully fund the first FORCED game (which we loved), the developer is requesting the community’s help to add the finishing…
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Put your hands up and smile, This is the Police has arrived on Steam Greenlight, bringing in a new gameplay trailer alongside it. Featuring the legendary voice of Jon St. John (Duke Nukem, if you’ve somehow managed to erase your memory of the 90s), This…
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Fans of coffee and cats, rejoice! Hustle Cat has pounced onto Kickstarter, targeting a $25,000 goal. The young adult visual novel project follows Avery Grey, the newest employee at Cat’s Paw, as she searches for romance and uncovers the mystery at the heart of the…
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Early backers of Red Katana‘s turn-based strategy RPG Fallen: A2P Protocol are in for some good news. As a surprise thank you for their initial support (which helped the project raise $75,584 towards its development), the developer is gifting these players an additional copy of…
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Well that didn’t take long. Home Free, the open world dog simulator that recently launched on Kickstarter (to immediate popularity) has reached its $50,000 goal, and still has 24 days to secure additional funding. Haven’t backed the project yet? If you’re interested, now is the…
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Just in time for Halloween, The 31st has arrived on Kickstarter. Never heard of it? Good, then keep reading. You’re in for a treat (and a trick). As you probably inferred from the title, The 31st is a Halloween-themed game, a first-person shooter than brings…
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Who doesn’t love an action-RPG with roguelike elements? Vortex: Tears of the Abyss has launched its very own Kickstarter campaign, and is aiming to raise $25,000 by the 7th of November. Why should you back the game? Well, it’s pretty, for a start. It’s a…
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It’s not uncommon to spot linguistic difficulties on Kickstarter, but Disoriented is special in that its Kickstarter page makes me feel exactly that. Have a read of this: ‘DISORIENTED it’s Freeroam & Roleplaying game is based on Ultimate Survival ! You can do almost everything…
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Night of Fears wants your mind, your soul, and your money. $2,000, to be exact, which is the funding goal of this modest 4-man project. Does it deserve your money? That’s for you to decide, but I’m happy to offer my counsel. Which is ‘nah’….
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There has been an awakening. Have you felt it? Probably not, as Medieval Awakening, the first project from developer Adam Lenneman, has only just arrived on Kickstarter, where it hopes to raise $10,000 before Halloween. The premise is fairly ambitious for a first-time developer, but…
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KillerFog’s second Kickstarter campaign isn’t going very well. With only 6 days to go, the project has raised just €81 of its €45,000 goal. Not exactly ideal. Still, it’s going better than the developer’s first attempt to fund the game, which reeled in a meagre…
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In the mood for adventure? Then get ready to say your prayers and mark your territory: Animal Gods is on its way October 12th. PC, Mac, and Linux versions will be available at launch, with the Wii U port coming later down the line. If…
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The Bizarre Creations of Keith the Magnificent is out now on Steam. 79 backers put £4,032 into the point and click game that follows ‘Keith the lonely wizard, his graverobbing adventures and his zombie cyborg friends’. Backers are kindly asked to message the developer in…
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DotDream’s Never Ending Night is out now on Steam. The student developers sought to make a videogame that captured the feelings of loneliness and camaraderie one would expect from a team inspired by heartbreak. I’m not quite sure whether I find that incredibly inspiring or…
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Love Series Regenerate seems to have produced some serious drama – and not the kind it was presumably intending to. Pitched as a visual novel from AKI SEKAI Studio, the project’s Kickstarter page is currently inaccessible, displaying only the following message: ‘Love Series REGENERATE – Visual…