Post-apocalyptic puzzle/adventure game, Puzzle Depot may have missed its planned October 2016 release date, but the devs are determined to make the extra wait worth it for backers. In addition to bug fixing and building out story levels, Laughing Manatee Games posted an update to their…
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Joanna Mueller is a lifelong gamer who used to insist on having the Super Mario Bros manual read to her as a bedtime story. Now she's reading Fortnite books to her own kiddo while finally making use of her degree to write about games as Cliqist's EIC.
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There is something magical about games that cross genres. Taking the best parts of each and mixing them together to create something new. Developer Visualnoveler takes this concept a bit further with their newest game, Ascendant Hearts. The project just launched on Kickstarter seeking a…
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Aegis: Innocence is a 2D platformer action RPG developed by Stasis Soft. The project recently launched on Kickstarter seeking $60,000 in funding. It focuses on challenging gameplay, rich combat, and exploration. It also happens to be kind of adorable. Thousands of years ago a new…
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Quick, what do you get if you mix Super Smash Bros. and Kung Fu Panda? It’s hard to say for certain, but it might just be something like Tarhead Studio’s RUiN. Freshly launched on Kickstarter, this top-down arena brawler is seeking $11,421 in funding. Inspired by…
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With their final stretch goal DLC in the bag, Failbetter Games has fully conquered the pitiless depths of the Sunless Sea. What remains for the Fallen London Universe then, but to take to the Sunless Skies? Players will travel beyond the dark underground ocean and into the…
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Thunder Lotus Games is no stranger to crowdfunding success. Their hand-drawn Norse Mythology game, Jotun raised CA$ 64,265 on Kickstarter back in 2014. Needless to say, when it came time to move forward with their newest project, Sundered, they knew they wanted to return to crowdfunding….
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It was only a matter of time before indie devs decided to get in on that sweet toys-to-life game action. Paris based Ynnis Interactive has just launched a Kickstarter campaign for Dungeon Mini. The project is a real-time action board game for tablets seeking $88,431….
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One year after successfully raising $2,933,252 for Wasteland 2, inXile Entertainment returned to Kickstarter to fund their new project, Torment: Tides Of Numenera. Set in Monte Cook’s tabletop RPG setting of Numenera, Torment promised to be a rich story-driven, isometric RPG. Backers flocked to the…
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After releasing They Bleed Pixels, Spooky Squid Games decided to fund their next project on Kickstarter. Russian Subway Dogs was a fast-paced arcade game seeking CA$ 50,000. The idea was inspired by the real-life stray dogs who frequent the Moscow Metro. Despite being quirky and adorable in all the right ways, the campaign…
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Headquartered in Singapore, Boomzap Entertainment has developed and published over 40 various casual game titles on multiple platforms. After finding success with Hidden Object Puzzle games, Boomzap decided to try their hand at a turn-based strategy game with Legends of Callasia. Originally dubbed Legends of…
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Less than a year out from a successful Kickstarter campaign, Lightspeed Frontier is nearly ready to make its Steam Early Access debut. The project managed to surpass its extremely conservative $2,500 funding goal, but just barely. In our initial coverage we’d wondered how such a…
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Momentum can make or break a crowdfunding campaign. That’s why most successful developers say that running and promoting their campaigns was pretty much a full time job. So what happens if, through no fault of the developer, a campaign is abruptly suspended? After a rough week, Shadow…
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After successfully funding their tabletop occult high school RPG back in 2014, Liberi Gothica Games has continued to expand the Breakfast Cult universe. With expansion packs still in the works the team has returned to Kickstarter to bring backers a new way to play. Seeking…
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Through crowdfunding, backers are able to share in the joys and sorrows of game development. Unfortunately, some developers have taken advantage of their “close-knit” funding communities, using project updates as more of a personal blog while development languishes in the background. Such has increasingly become…
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Arnie Jorgensen and John Watson took a risk leaving Bioware to found their own studio, Stoic. As indie developers, success and failure hinged on being able to fund their next project. Imagine their surprise when their studio’s debut title, The Banner Saga managed to raise over 700%…
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With a focus on story-telling over leet skills and grinding, visual novels are getting deeper and darker than ever before. Instead of sticking exclusively to romance, many have begun to blend genres in new and exciting ways. Studio Theophilus is hoping a mixture of fantasy elements…