Both the Game Developer’s Conference and Penny Arcade Expo have become venues for indie developers to show off their latest projects. We scoured the show floors and came across a dozen games that captured our attention. Outer Wil…
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FROM THE END OF THE WORLD TO THE CENTRE OF THE UNIVERSE, HERE ARE THE MOST EXCITING INDEPENDENTLY DEVELOPED VIDEOGAMES ON THE HORIZON VOLUME Mike Bithell is watching his words. “I’ve been playing a lot of Telltale’s games, so I’m…
Final Fantasy is the only big gaming franchise missing from the arcades, isn’t it? Everything else has got some kind of branded cabinet repping the brand amid some of the most lucrative walk-through zones in gaming, so the only q…
If a psychopathic genius kidnapped the love of your life and turned you into a high-tech cyborg, what would you do? That is the central premise behind Aero’s Quest, a 2D platformer that brings the best out of the puzzle genre. D…
Thimbleweed Park: No swings and roundabouts as point-and-click twins take the genre back to its peak
When we heard that none other than Ron Gilbert was seeking funding for an all-new point-and-click adventure in the classic ’80s pixel style, we tried to not too get too excited. We’ve been burned by Kickstarter before. And yes, w…
While many of the big publishers are hesitant to pull focus away from their triple-A holiday releases during the busy season at the end of the year, the same can’t be said for the independent game scene, where we saw lots of new …
Leikir Studios’ Isbarah does a lot of things, all of them hectic and deadly. In most bullet hell games, the player is given an unlimited range of movement, able to make precision dodges using a spacecraft or some other device. I…
Esports. Electronic sports. The cyber revolution. Here we are, at its doorstep. The team at Spearhead Games is polishing a title much closer to real sports in nature than say, something you would find in the traditional MOBA genr…
There just aren’t enough hooded assassins these days. We’ve been saying it for months in the office. However, this new Steam Greenlight delight from Corpse Craft developer Tim Conkling is a little more unusual and plunges us into…
For the child in all of us who dreamt of emulating George and his marvellous grandparent-growing solution, now there’s a strategic pharmaceutical sim allowing you to cure the world of its ailments and make a quick buck at the sam…
Bad news first: this project, from developers misplaced after the sad closure of Irrational Games, did not make its Kickstarter goal. But don’t despair, for there’s too much promise here for that to be the last that we see of The…
If you grew up in the ‘80s and (maybe) in the ‘90s, you might remember the coin-operated arcade machines that seemed to fill almost every shop. As the years went by, the arcade games migrated from the corner café into dedicated s…
I love that Twin Peaks manages to keep finding new generations of fans, to the extent that this ever-growing morass of people has somehow summoned it back to TV 25 years after it first aired. Twin Peaks was the progenitor of mode…
After the joys of PT, we’re instantly wary of the words Silent and Hill staggering up in conversation just in case someone immediately makes us walk down that corridor alone with headphones on again. Not that a certain magazine e…
It’s the year 2097 and rampant coffee addiction has sent the world into the far reaches of the galaxy to mine for synthetic caffeine. And we thought the lines at the local Costa were excessive. This atmospheric horror adventure f…
Is this some kindof Oculus Rift VR machine?” asks Scottish heroine Heather Quinn as she wakes up in a retro Quake-style landscape surrounded by bulging marines and deadly floating brains in jars. The answer is far more meta than…
You can download Sixty Second Shooter Prime to an Xbox One for a few quid and by the look of it you’d be forgiven for imagining that it didn’t cost much more than that to develop. It’s graphically pretty basic, after all, and cam…
According to its Kickstarter page, DieselStörmers is “a high-octane carnage for 1-4 players featuring customisable motorguns, gas-guzzling knight armour, generated levels and randomized loot!” and so shouldn’t be confused with ei…
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Successfully Kickstarter funded as of 21 March with $115,569 raised when there was only a goal of $90,000, this voice-controlled, squad-based bout of isometric tactical warfare is already looking mightily impressive for two key r…
If you tolerate this, your children will be next DYSLEXIC MINER, FLATULENT mage or overweight ninja? Difficult decisions like this come at the start of every venture into Rogue Legacy’s ever-changing castle, the choice of who wil…
