If you are a fan of flight simulators and aerial dogfights, then chances are you’ve heard of Oleg Maddox and Ilya Shevchenko. Two names, not so much spoken by the community, but spat out by all but their fans. However, it wasn’t always this way….
Contrary to popular belief, the totally awesome retro-inspired High Strangeness is not the first video game to ever seek funding on Kickstarter; it was the first successful video game Kickstarter campaign, launching May 20th, 2009 and raising $1,559 of their $1,500 goal. So what was…
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…
In case you haven’t heard by now, adventure games are my thing. My “bread and butter” if you will. Which is why I’ll check out any game in this genre no matter how weird, dark, or mature it is. In the case of StarFlint the…
Successful Kickstarter campaigns start and end with a bang, with the exceptions few and far between. I’ve covered a fair number of campaigns during my time at Cliqist, and I’ve never seen any home stretch funding surge like I saw with SPRG Arcadian Atlas. My…
Everything that has happened will happen again. Or so the saying goes. One type of story that has captured my interest has been the recurring event, or loop, tale. The ones where you’re doomed to repeat everything over and over again. Which is one reason…
Following the launch of Chronicles of Elyria’s Kickstarter campaign, Cliqist is set to cover some of the innovative features showcased in the hugely hyped MMORPG. There are tons of things to ooh, ah, and ogle at in developer Soulbound Studios’ highly ambitious project, and we’ll…
Safe Zone is a zombie survival game that was successfully funded in July 2011. It raised north of $6,000, and promised to be Oregon Trail game but with zombies. The original release date was Fall 2011, but now five years on, there’s no end in…
In a recent email to users, Paypal announced a change to the eligibility requirements of their Purchase Protection program. Beginning June 25th, payments made to crowdfunding platforms will no longer be eligible for protection. Considering Paypal’s history of issues with the crowdfunding community, this is…
An intriguing little mash-up of genres has appeared on Kickstarter called Omni Link. The game plans to combine real-time tactical combat with the traditional visual novel experience to deliver something truly unique. I ended up throwing my dollars in mainly because I am interested in…
Unfortunately, I missed out on the fevered hype that surrounded the Kickstarter launch of Malevolence: Sword of Ahkranox, which promised to deliver what earlier roguelike titles like Dungeon Hack and Sword of Fargoal did, but then up the ante by making it infinite. First-person grid-based…
You’ll remember that back in February I was pretty darn excited about Failure, a cyberpunk genre mash-up. An RTS game that felt like the love child of Accel World and Tron that just seemed awesome. When it failed I was pretty sad, I was really…
It is hard to tell just exactly why a game gets added or rejected by a digital distribution platform like GOG.com, but it’s always good to see when one does get put up. In the case of Cyberpunk RPG Dex they’ve had a really hard…
I will freely admit that I’m not a fan of simulator games. I’m not sure why but they just don’t capture my interest as much as other genres. With that said, I won’t pass on a game purely on that alone. With UBOOT I do…
War of Rights, currently being developed in Denmark by Campfire Games, is set to release its technical Alpha sometime in the next couple of weeks—mid-May, to be more precise. Having raised £77,733 in its Kickstarter campaign, it’s a unique multiplayer game that covers the “perilous…
Lobodestroyo has completely eluded our attention here on Cliqist, getting only a brief mention in a Yooka-Laylee article a year ago. Fitting, since like that game, Lobodestroyo sells itself on being just like Banjo-Kazooie. Unlike Yooka-Laylee though, Lobodestroyo is influenced by other games, like Mega…
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