HMS Marulken is a cooperative simulation game where players operate an alternate history Swedish submarine. If the name rings a bell, you might be familiar with the first unsuccessful campaign for HMS Marulken from last October. While the first attempt to fund the game was…
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Megan is an avid gamer, writer, and aspiring novelist. In between working towards a degree in psychology and looking for upcoming games to get hyped about, she enjoys watching silly cooking competitions and rereading books she’s probably read at least four times already. Megan’s favorite games change often, but some longtime favorites include Earthbound, Final Fantasy VII, and the Legend of Zelda series. She gets too attached to characters, reads a lot of theories, and is easily startled by jump scares. Megan is most interested in games with a good story and atmosphere, and she leans towards sci-fi and fantasy genres.
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It’s hard to believe a game with as much potential as Mighty No. 9 can garnish so much scorn. A common problem for indie games is inexperience, due to new developers. Mighty No. 9, with its boasts of the leadership of Keiji Inafune and the…
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It’s been a busy year for Infinium Strike. The futuristic tower defense game was brought to Kickstarter back in July, 2015, and now its journey is coming to a close. With the developer’s latest Kickstarter update, the release date has been announced. Or rather, the…
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Blackwake– the multi-player cooperative pirate game that lets you really feel like part of a crew rather than a commander of AI- has opened up alpha testing. The navel battle shooter launched its campaign back in August last year. With the developers estimating to release…
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ManagerSim, most likely a remake of the 1982 game Football Manager, was successfully funded on Kickstarter a little over a year ago. Since then, updates have been infrequent. After June of last year, the updates stopped all together until this month. In a new update,…
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If you were interested in diversity in games around 2012, you probably heard of The Arkh Project. For those of you unfamiliar with it, it was going to a 3d action-rpg game with a very noble goal- to be as inclusive of racial diversity as possible…
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If you’re on this site you have doubtlessly read about countless quality games that have received funding through Kickstarter and similar mediums. But for every great game that has come out of Kickstarter there’s a few not-so-great ones. There are disappointments and games that never…
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The idea behind Project Phoenix is pretty sound. Take experienced developers from the west and Japan and make a jrpg with some squad based strategy thrown in. What could go wrong? Apparently, a lot. The million dollar project has had a troubled history to say the…
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Ever wanted the thrill of working for a shadowy government organization? Need to Know is an upcoming game where you take action spying on the average citizen, analyzing their life, and seeing if they’re a threat. The game’s preview boasts of chapter-based storytelling, and meaningful moral…
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On My Own has a new update, announcing the release date for the game. After a year in development, backers won’t have to wait too much longer to play the wilderness survival adventure. The new launch trailer was also included in the release announcement update…
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If I had to describe Dujanah in a single word, it would be “different.” Everything from the game’s style to its method of storytelling looks like it will be artistic and unique. The game centers on a woman named Dujanah, seeking revenge in a fictional…
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Endica VII The Dream King is an up-to-four player side-scrolling rpg that takes cues from retro games like Megaman, Castlevania, Metroid and more. After over two and a half years and two fundraising campaigns on both Indiegogo and Kickstarter, it was released on January 13….
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Churbles, the adorably tough rpg is still being developed despite the developers being silent for the last few months. A new update was published January 11, on both the Churbles Kickstarter page, and official Tumblr blog. While it has been months since the last update,…
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Back in high school, I hated chemistry class. I didn’t go to the best school, and the teacher didn’t really like me, so even though I thought chemistry itself was cool, it was hard for me to learn the subject. I’m sure a lot of…
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After not hearing from Rick Myers, the creator of Hero and Monster Girl Quest 3d, since July, an update was finally posted in December. The purpose of this update was simply to tell backers that the project was going to be stalled due to events in…
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Along with the announcement of the release date, team JCYJ treats us to a beautiful release trailer of The Aquatic Adventure of the Last Human in their latest Kickstarter update. It looks like the titular last human won’t have much time to be lonely in their adventure….