Last Life is a stylistic point and click adventure that raised $103,058 on Kickstarter in 2014. Developed by Sam Farmer, this would have been the first game published by Double Fine. The company was already familiar with creating and running a Kickstarter campaign. But after…
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Josh Griffiths is a writer and amateur historian. He has a passion for 3D platformers, narrative-driven games, and books. Josh is also Cliqist’s video producer. He’s currently working on his first novel, and will be doing so on and off for the next decade.
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A Case of Distrust is a narrative-driven, murder mystery game heavily inspired by the works of noir mystery writers Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett. Its unique twist on the noir mystery genre, pulpy writing, and transfixing presentation makes this one of the best detective stories…
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The Wild Eight made its way to Kickstarter on April 5, 2016 with developer 8 Points. Today, the game has been stuck on Steam Early Access for over a year with a different developer. Meanwhile its original creator has a new name and a new…
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City-builder games have long enjoyed success as one of the more popular niches in gaming. You could even argue it’s not a niche at all with classics such as SimCity and modern favorites like Cities: Skylines dominating YouTube. Now Citystate is here, with its retro…
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My Time at Portia is really hot right now, so you know what that means! A million videos and articles about the game to capitalize on its success! Uh, I mean, time to examine why people are so in love with this open world farming…
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In July 2017, we looked into happened to Last Life. Developed by Sam Farmer and his company Rocket Science Amusements, it raised over one hundred thousand dollars on Kickstarter in May 2014. Since then, there have been 12 updates on Kickstarter and a whole lot…
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Emily is Away is probably a game you’ve already heard about. It made the indie game journalist scene when it came out in 2015 and was deemed a mini-masterpiece. It was developed by Kyle Seeley, and according to his website this was actually his eight…
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Last week, I did a video about Life is Strange: Before the Storm, saying how stupid I was to dismiss it before it even came out, and talking about why, despite it being a flawed game from developers who didn’t seem to know what they…
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Trilby: The Art of Theft is a fascinating game for any number of reasons. It comes to us via Ben Croshaw, better known as Yahtzee, the creator of Zero Punctuation. It wasn’t the first game he made, nor the most popular or even the best….
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When Life is Strange: Before the Storm debuted at E3 2017, I wrote two articles tearing it to shreds. The first, We Don’t Need a Life is Strange Prequel, questioned the need for such a game. We already know all we needed about the relationship…
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Tanks of Freedom is a turn-based action RPG similar to Advance Wars, which is a sub-genre that’s been blowing up lately with Tiny Metal late last year, and Wargroove and Into the Breach coming later this year. Developer P1X hopes Tanks of Freedom joins that…
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Hello everyone, and welcome to Games of History! Or rather, you may want to welcome Games of History here to Cliqist. For over a year, I’ve been producing Games of History on my own – you may have read some of the companion articles we’ve…
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In the Name of Freedom has a good idea behind it, and I’m pretty sure its developers mean well. That’s about the best you can say about it. Hammer Games Studios seeks to explore war, the impact is has on not only those fighting it,…
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I never used to be much of a fan of puzzle games. Part of that’s because I’m stupid, but I always thought the majority of them are boring. You play one, you’ve played them all. But these days, there’s more variety in the puzzle gaming…
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Remember how we all laughed together and said how terrible 2016 was? Well, it turns out 2017 was even worse overall. Luckily there was a bevy of great games to keep our worries at bay. Indie gaming in particular had a great year, with such…
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Originally a mobile game, Stand O’Food has been ported to several platforms now, including where I first played it on the PS3’s PlayStation Mini’s series if anyone remembers those. You can now download it from the Windows App store for free, or still on mobile…