It was the morning of December 19th, and my alarm was set for 11:55 – five minutes prior to Hell Is Empty’s global release. Enthusiastic, and looking for an emotional episode, I was unfortunately met with disappointment and linear feelings. Like the first season, it…
A few weeks ago we covered Atom RPG’s Kickstarter campaign in our award winning* series Kicked. Heavily inspired by old school Fallout, the campaign was well-run, and the game looked promising. Now in Early Access, developer Atom Team sent us a code for the game…
In a year loaded with fantastic games, Cavalier Studios’ hidden-gem The Sexy Brutale is one of the best. Developer: Cavalier Studios, Tequila Works Publisher: Tequila Works Formats: PC, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, PlayStation 4 [Reviewed] Released: April 12, 2017 Price: $19.99 Copy Purchased Casino Blues…
Upon starting the demo to RPG2 Heaven’s Nightkeep, you’ll be treated a short story sequence introducing you to its world. A vainglorious monarch becomes obsessed with immortality, descends into madness, and causes an unspeakable evil to descend on the kingdom. Several hundred years in the…
Here is a list of several delicious meals you can share with your very best friends, and one you should probably avoid. Can you guess which is the one to avoid? Leave your answer in the comments. If you guess correctly, you win a free…
There aren’t a lot of options out there when it comes to holiday video games. Almost all of them are Christmas games, and the handful of Hanukkah ones are outright terrible – often quickly thrown together or full of racist stereotypes. Good luck finding any…
At its core, Battle Chef Brigade is simple: beat up some monsters and use match-three magic to turn them into delicious meals. This simplicity is a great foundation, but it’s not what makes the game one of the best I’ve played this year. Everything that…
In our last episode of Free Indie Games, I talked about Fallen London, and how rich that game was with opportunities. Now, the game isn’t nearly as deep as its developers would have you believe, but there is still a lot you can do in…
Typically the visual novel genre conjures images of dating sims and anime, but some developers are working to change that. Italian Developer, Curtel Games has managed to marry the world building of tabletop gamebooks with the choice-driven mechanics of visual novels to create something wonderfully…
It doesn’t feel right to review Jettomero: Hero of the Universe like a product, because it doesn’t feel like a product to begin with. Jettomero is the waveform of a cacophonous tone poem. A bittersweet stumble across the dots in a speech bubble. If Doki…
“Dad, Look! They’re here!” My team of mechs beamed down from orbit. The local populace were understandably overjoyed. When your hometown is under assault by a legion of bugs as big as buildings, there’s few sights prettier than a trio of heavily armed war machines….
When Cliqist covered Shape of the World back in the halcyon days of 2015 – back when dinosaurs roamed the earth and prehistoric humanity had to contend with just seven Fast and the Furious movies – we praised its “gorgeous vistas”, “beautiful abstraction”, and invited…
Inkle Studios’ 80 Days is one of the few games I would all perfect. What is a perfect game? It’s easy to say there is no such thing. But I think a game can be considered perfect it flawlessly executes on its vision as a…
We at Cliqist have long kept our eyes on White Paper Games’ The Occupation. Set in an alternate history 1980’s England, you play a journalist who’s taken it upon himself to find the truth behind a terrorist attack that’s led to the Union Act. The…
During the 2017 Game Awards Firewatch developer Campo Santo announced their next game, In the Valley of Gods, due out in 2019. A short trailer revealed that the game is set in Egypt, and you play a camera woman exploring ancient pyramids A follow-up statement…
Hazelnut Bastille lured me in with a cutesy name and a nostalgic, pastoral pixel-art covered website. It then proceeded to kick me repeatedly in the squishy parts, non-squishy parts, and parts that were pretty solid before all the kicking. I probably should have read developer…
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