Like a lot of other, larger publishers we could name, tinyBuild has been on a studio-buying tear lately, gobbling up indie dev studios like Dynamic Pixels (Hello Neighbor), Hologryph (Party Hard 2) and HakJak Studios (Guts & Glory). This week they revealed they’ve acquired THREE more: We’re Five Games (Totally Reliable Delivery Service), Hungry Couch […]
In 2015 Lexaloffle Games released the Pico-8, a brand new game console…that doesn’t exist and never did. The Pico-8 is actually a game engine that self-imposes the limits of retro consoles, challenging developers to find the best methods of working around those limitations. There are those that prefer it! If you’ve never heard of the […]
Korean indiegame studio PLAY Mephistowaltz has released their action puzzle platform adventure DOOR: Inner Child to Steam Early Access. You are Nia, a small figure who resides in the Soul World. Your world is falling apart due to the broken hearts of the souls around you. To heal them, you must listen to their stories […]
We’ve told you before about NESMaker, the game creation software that lets you put together NES games in a fraction of the time it took the dev teams of old, using menus and modules to snap together a platformer, a Metroidvania or an adventure in the vein of Zelda. Every year, the creators host a […]
Indie games publisher, Keybol Games and developer, Drix Studios released Grand Guilds today. The story-driven, turn-based cards RPG is available for $19.99 on the Nintendo eShop and Steam, and $9.99 on Utomik. The launch follows the success of their Kickstarter campaign, which pledged over $30k. Grand Guilds features unique card combat mechanics in which players […]
Reventure is now available on iOS and Android. The game is a side-scrolling adventure platformer from the independent game development studio, Pixelatto. The 2D nonlinear pixel-art platform puzzler, Reventure, features 100 endings and challenges the player to find all them. Players take on a labyrinth with many secrets, unlockable things, and secondary paths. The indie […]
For three years now, indie game developer Julian Creutz has been toiling on his big project…a procedurally generated top-down action RPG called MYSTIQA. The game is nearly done, except for one final step….the Kickstarter to get it polished. If you know Zelda, if you know Dragon Quest, if you know all the great RPG adventures […]
It’s a dirty galaxy out there, but the Space Pioneers are here to clean it up. In Vivid Games’ new twin-stick run-and-gun shooter (with RPG elements), Space Pioneer, you explore the galaxy, discover unknown planets, and have showdowns with hostile alien life forms. Choose from three available classes, each with advantages and disadvantages: The Light, […]
There are many examples of found-footage movies…but have you ever heard of a found-footage video game? Even the XBox “Blair Witch” game isn’t taking that approach, but one indie developer in Spain is trying it. Drop Of Pixel is currently creating a first-person survival horror game, Underworld Dreams, and gameplay will be shown off soon […]
Indie puzzle game Felix The Reaper is out now for Playstation 4, Nintendo Switch, XBox One, PC and Mac. In the case of XBox, it’s part of XBox Game Pass and it’ll be part of Game Pass Ultimate at launch. Felix The Reaper has a job….to kill people. But his real passion is dancing. Luckily […]
Sky 9 Games’ A Knight’s Quest is officially out there. The open-world adventure game is described by the studio as a love letter to the Zelda series, and it shows. Meet Rusty: basically a Link wannabe. He has the sword, he has the shield, but he lacks the skill. Instead of saving the world of […]
Raw Fury, the Swedish publisher whose games we have covered here many times, has moved. They’ve relocated from their old cramped HQ in Gamla Stan, Stockholm to a larger dwelling in Södermalm, Stockholm, closer to the Swedish games development scene. But the important thing is that they’ve renamed the building “The House Of Fury.” “We’ve […]