Posts tagged Indie
The Blind Prophet Kickstarter Launches Soon
Currently being developed as a solo project by French artist and writer Baptiste Miny, The Blind Prophet is an atmospheric point-and-click adventure game. It features a hand-drawn world with traditional point-and-click exploration and puzzles. The Blind Prophet claims to “challenge you and provoke you to think about the importance of our existence, good, evil, and...
Grim Nights Review
Grim Nights is a single-player, colony management sim with zombies. It is developed and published on Steam by Edym Pixels, and is available for just $2.99. It’s similar to games like Fallout Shelter and This War of Mine. In the game, players are tasked with commanding a colony of villagers to build, farm, train, mine, defend against zombies, and...
Gunkid 99 Preview
Heavily inspired by action-platformer Super Crate Box, Gunkid 99 throws you in a tightly-enclosed arena with a ton of enemies and many weapons at your disposal. You’ll tend to take a defensive stance against your opponents as projectiles swarm the screen. The main gameplay mechanic is a constantly shifting weapon rotation, where your task is...
Happy Room Review
Every once in a while a person needs to blow off some steam after a long day’s work. Happy Room is the perfect stress reliever for these types of situations with its violent, sandbox-style gameplay. Developed by Mana Potion Studios, the game provides an infinite queue of ragdoll test dummies to dismember, torture, and experiment...
Aggelos Is Coming to Consoles
A new, retro-style action-RPG that was previously published on Steam in June this year, is now coming to PS4, Xbox One, and Switch. Aggelos is a Metroidvania adventure “that looks like it was plucked straight out of the 16-bit era, but plays like a modern-day marvel”. No one would have any doubts that the game was...
Golf Peaks Review
Golf Peaks could easily be mistaken for a skill-based miniature golfing game. At a glance, it appears the player must carefully guide a golf ball around a floating island course without falling off. However, Golf Peaks is actually a tile-based puzzle game that requires a sharp mind rather than golfing skill. A unique card-based movement...
Gerty Preview
Gerty is a twin-stick shooter being developed by Spawn Point OSK. It is a four-player, top-down, co-op shooter that puts players in an alien underground mine. The game is still in early access, with a full release set for late 2019. Gerty offers four-player local co-op, a wide range of difficulty settings, a large collection...
Log Jammers Preview
Log Jammers is an upcoming indie game by developer Mega Cat Studios. It is currently in beta, with a release date of February 2019. Mega Cat calls Log Jammers “an energetic competitive arcade sports game featuring axe-throwing, blade-catching action”. It’s a throwback to arcade games in the style of Pong and more notably, Windjammers. Mega Cat seems...
Beat Hazard 2 Review
There are many beat-based games available today, from the classic but still fully supported osu! to the extremely new and popular virtual reality game Beat Saber. Both previously said games fail at one thing: automatically creating a level or difficulty solely based on the song itself. Beat Hazard 2 does just that without any human input. Beat Hazard...