We last wrote about The Hero Trap over a year ago. If you’ve forgotten, it was described by developer Smashworx as “a frenetic rogue like like where dungeon dwellers are hellbent on your destruction.” Sounds riveting, doesn’t it? Well, you’re going to have to find…
Visual novels are popular on Kickstarter, but the most interesting ones are those that don’t focus too much on romance. In the case of Bunka no Kenkyū – Revival of Queen Leyak, there’s a heavy supernatural bent to the story. Being able to get together…
I barely knew about crowdfunding when Double Fine launched their Kickstarter for an adventure game in early 2012. Despite being a fan of Tim Schafer, I ended up missing out on it. After seeing the latest update for Broken Age, I find myself wishing that I took…
It was back in October 2014 that the Kickstarter campaign for Beyond Human was launched by developers Dominique Hendricks and David Morales Hernández. It showed much promise, before ultimately falling well short of its modest €20,000 ($22,600) target. However, Beyond Human will be coming back…
I’ll be one of the first to admit that I love Myst-style games, even if most of the puzzles have me needing to look up a walkthrough. And I know that I’m far from the only one, as Obduction made a lot of money during…
Very rarely does the average gamer get to see development first-hand. Thanks to crowdfunding, more and more developers are pulling back the curtain. Double Fine’s documentary on the making of Broken Age is the most extensive behind the scenes look at “how the sausage is…
After months of waiting I finally got time to try out the new System Shock demo. Sci-Fi action titles are right up my alley. Since I’d missed all the hype surrounding the original back in its heyday I figured now was as good time as…
I’m usually fine with the relaunch of a failed crowdfunded campaign, but rarely do I see one so changed that it’s barely recognizable anymore. This is the case in Rabbit Illness: Shadow, previously known as Rabbit Syndrome. There are still some similarities, but they are…
The Word Realms Kickstarter has ironically failed to articulate itself, causing confusion and upset among its backers. The breakdown of communication spawns from the confusing description of the game which led many backers to believe they were backing an MMO project. But the game they received was…
Card games all generally play the same way: You build a deck and battle an opponent until they run out of health. Sometimes, one comes along with unique gameplay that changes things up. In the case of Allians, this is in the cards themselves. The gameplay is…
War! HUH! What is it good for? Anti-war media, for a start. Such as Long Gone Days, by Camila Gormaz and Pablo Videla. It attempts to look at the “modern day military” using an underground nation (literally in this case) of mercenaries. It’s safe to…
Have you heard about that exploration game? You know, the communist one about skies and such? Many people feel a bit let down by that game, despite the promise behind it. For those who feel a little burned by the hype, fear not. There is…
At this very moment in Syria, a family’s home is being bombed. A sniper is gunning down a child, or maybe a journalist is getting beheaded. Innocent people are dying everywhere, and many more are losing their homes. They have nowhere to go, so they…
Starting off with an epic opening sequence that makes it seem like a Saturday morning cartoon from the 90s, the demo for SpaceCats In Space by Robotic Potato is a delight from start to finish. The setting is the typical cats versus dogs story with a…
It’s been eight months since the last time Antonis Pelekanos provided an update for The 90’s Arcade Racer. So, we’ve dug around to find out what happened to this throwback arcade racer. What we found is somewhat conjectural, but no less disappointing. The 90’s Arcade…
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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