I take adventure games very seriously. So much so that even with little to show for it in the pitch I almost always back the Kickstarter. Especially when the promised plot looks interesting enough to capture my interest. And this is no different with Deliver…
I like to describe A House of Many Doors as a game about procedural poetry and parasitic espionage. Or, if you want a more descriptive and less-quirky summary, I guess you’d have to settle with a 2D, narrative-heavy exploration RPG featuring branching storylines inspired by the likes…
Have you been following the Pinstripe Kickstarter campaign? The game looks amazing, the Kickstarter campaign is very well put together, and the original $28,000 funding goal was crushed in about 24 hours. If you’re a backer then you’ve likely noticed something though; the onslaught of…
Thrive Games first took to Kickstarter in January seeking funding Dragon of Legends. It was a 2D RPG full of Norse mythology and presumably dragons. Dan Miller wrote that it was “one of the better examples of a Kickstarter project,” and was pretty optimistic the…
Entirely too often, Kickstarter campaigns are funded only to have their creators vanish into thin air. While this might make some backers claim “scam”, most of the time, it’s just unprepared developers being hit with the reality of game development. Making a game is crazy…
Monkey Island meets Monty Python. That’s the tag line for Lancelot’s Hangover, an irreverent comedy set during the Middle Ages as you play the half-naked titular character in search of the Holy Grail and some booze to put into it. If that’s not enough to…
Its a sad fact that sometimes a Kickstarter campaign just falls apart. Maybe the developer doesn’t budget well enough and runs out of money and calls it quits or maybe they just take your money and runs off. But Mars Frontier is different in that the…
The term Casanova comes refers to a smooth talking charmer, usually a male. It comes from Giacomo Casanova, a smooth talking charmer and adventure in the 18th century who notoriously gambled most of his life, was no stranger to a woman’s bed, and partook in…
As trivial as it may sound, games have a long way to go when it comes to truly achieving narrative freedom. But for all the unexplored nooks and crannies of “meaningful” gameplay there are those few shining (mostly indie) attempts at taking it all one step further….
Pinstripe is billed as a a game about heaven and hell. It’s a 2D narrative exploration game with horror elements and a puppy. You play Teddy, an ex-minster who has to journey to hell to save his daughter. She was kidnapped by a strange entity claiming to…
Age of Empires 2 was a great game, wasn’t it? I remember playing it for hours as a kid. It was perhaps my first gaming obsession. I remember recreating American Civil War battles using the level editor and the Chinese soldiers armed with hand cannons….
Okay, I’ll admit that I’m far from a fan of top-down shooters, mostly because I don’t have the twitch reflexes like I used to when I tried playing them in the arcades. That said, every now and then I find myself compelled to try out…
Onagro Studios have been teasing a second Kickstarter campaign for Möira for a while now, and with that now imminent (no confirmed date is available beyond a promise of ‘soon’) I’m sure we could all do with a brief reminder of what went wrong the first…
24 Killers is described as a “life sim with whodunnit elements” by the creator Todd Luke on its Kickstarter page. It’s a game set in a colourful world made distinct by Luke’s unique claymation art style, which looks fantastic in pictures but even better in…
Wouldn’t it be fun to embody the very evil essence of a cheesy villain, just for one day? You know, the classic type that knows of nothing but sinister plots and mischievous schemes involving only the most intricate plans of destruction imaginable. What if I told…
Groovy Milk is not something you want pouring out of the carton late at night. It is however what some Russian game developers decided to call their new studio. Their first game, Creepy Road, is heading to Kickstarter later this month after a successful Steam…
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