Griftlands is a fantastic game that merges card game mechanics with a turn-based role-playing game. This newest title from Klei has a distinct animated art style to compliment its intriguing hybrid…
June 10, 2019 | 02:58 EDT
At the PC Gaming Show, Ludomotion announced a sequel to their indie roguelike Unexplored. Unexplored 2: The Wayfarer's Legacy is a hardcore procedurally-generated roguelike in which the decisions…
June 10, 2019 | 02:48 EDT
From Coffee Stain studios a trailer was shown at the PC Gaming Show at E3 2019 for Midnight Ghost Hunt. In the trailer we see a character wearing a hazmat suit tracking down and taking out ghosts.…
June 10, 2019 | 02:33 EDT
During the PC Gaming Show 2019 conference this Monday, we saw a new trailer for Chucklefish's and Ominux Games' Starmancer. As we predicted in our article last week, Starmancer was one of the titles…
June 10, 2019 | 02:22 EDT
Stress Level Zero came to UploadVR's E3 2019 showcase with some new footage of their VR physics sandbox Boneworks. The new trailer showed off some advanced physics interactions as well as some of the…
June 10, 2019 | 01:41 EDT
Introduced during Microsoft's E3 panel, Annapurna Interactive's game 12 Minutes is a top-down game about choices and Groundhog Day-esque time loops. Players will have to make their choices carefully…
June 9, 2019 | 05:59 EDT
Fans of Yooka-Laylee, rejoice. Playtonic Games and publisher Team17 have announced another game for the little lizard and his buddy. It's called Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair, and it'll launch…
June 7, 2019 | 10:45 EDT
Last March we had the announcement of Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2, which came long after Paradox Interactive bought the rights to White Wolf Publishing from CCP Games back in 2015, and all…
June 6, 2019 | 04:45 EDT
If you could put every indie game in a bag and pick one at random, you’ll probably grab a Metroidvania with pixelated graphics. For an indie Metroidvania to stand out, it needs to be memorable and…
May 24, 2019 | 01:00 EDT
Vicious Circle was unofficially announced for the first time on the Rooster Teeth Podcast "Ep. 526 - Are Feet Private?," but today Rooster Teeth Games released the first screenshots and an official…
May 24, 2019 | 08:44 EDT
Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey was first revealed by Patrice Désilets, the creator of Assassin's Creed, in 2015. In 2017 we reported that the game would no longer have an episodic format. The…
May 23, 2019 | 02:42 EDT
Space dogfighting title Redout: Space Assault has been delayed indefinitely. It was originally due for release earlier this year, but developer 34BigThings says it needs more time to give fans the…
May 23, 2019 | 09:20 EDT
Graffiti Games and Triplevision Games have announced that Mable & The Wood will release on Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, and Steam this summer. Players will explore a dying fantasy world in which…
May 16, 2019 | 10:29 EDT
Sony had more new games to show off at State of Play. This time it was Away: The Survival Series, a new game being developed by Breaking Walls. The trailer opens up showing a lush forest and…
May 9, 2019 | 07:57 EDT
Indie publisher Deck13 Spotlight and developer SuperSexySoftware have announced a new psychological thriller first-person mystery adventure, The Shattering, slated for release by Q4 2019. The game…
May 8, 2019 | 01:15 EDT
It's always good to have an old fashioned adventure here and there. While it may not be a genre that has seen many recent major releases, it still gets a good amount of entries from studios both…
April 29, 2019 | 02:00 EDT
Imagine playing a 3D platformer made by Rare veterans that channels parts of Banjo-Kazooie and Jet Force Gemini. Additionally imagine that you play as a super-cute monkey who can wield an Uzi, and do…
April 25, 2019 | 09:00 EDT
You can look at indie releases in the past few years and see that old-school first-person shooters are among the most popular. Games such as Dusk and Amid Evil are making the old new again by paying…
April 17, 2019 | 01:00 EDT
Super Meat Boy Forever, the endless runner sequel to the classic 2010 platformer, is facing a slight delay. Team Meat have stated that players should be able to play the game "not too far after."…
April 4, 2019 | 09:53 EDT
Shovel Knight creators Yacht Club Games have announced their second publishing venture. It's an 8-bit retro-styled platformer called Cyber Shadow and it's in development for PC, PS4, Xbox One, and…
March 28, 2019 | 09:00 EDT
In addition to several other titles, such as Dauntless and The Cycle, Epic Games announced two more Epic Store exclusives. Outer Worlds and Ancestors the Humankind Odyssey were announced by Epic to…
March 20, 2019 | 02:30 EDT
"Left for dead, Mr. Wolf finds himself alone, vastly outnumbered, and hell-bent on enacting his revenge." In a top-down beat-em-up action game from Paper Cult Games, Mr. Wolf utilizes the environment…
March 20, 2019 | 01:18 EDT
A Song in the Void is a first-person platformer where players terraform a planet using magical music called the Songstream. Travel across five major hub islands and complete multiple levels while…
March 16, 2019 | 05:55 EDT
In decades past, platforming games ruled the scene. Everyone wanted to make their own Super Mario Bros. or Mega Man, and it feels like every other indie game on the scene has platforming elements. At…
March 16, 2019 | 12:00 EDT
Hypnospace Outlaw is a trip, figuratively and literally. It's a trip down memory lane, paying homage to the Internet of a bygone era. It's also a hypnotic, sometimes confusing, but ultimately…
March 12, 2019 | 01:00 EDT
It's hard for games to translate political intrigue into their mechanics. Fiction and film do so with visual flair and wordy dialogue that allows the action to play out as intended. Due to their very…
March 5, 2019 | 12:00 EST
Today, Frozenbyte and Modus Games announced that Trine 4: The Nightmare Prince would be released to PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, Steam, Discord and other PC platforms this fall, bringing…
March 4, 2019 | 04:13 EST
Warhammer: Vermintide 2 has received patch 1.5 today, finally adding some much-missed features to the game. Firstly the patch adds new weekly events to spice up the gameplay for veteran players.…
February 18, 2019 | 12:47 EST
You'll soon be able to relive a bygone era of the internet, with a twist, in Hypnospace Outlaw an alternative history 90's internet simulator. Hypnospace Outlaw is being developed by Jay Tholen, the…
February 18, 2019 | 09:36 EST
A free demo for tactical space-exploration rogue-lite Crying Suns received a substantial update a few days ago, streamlining core mechanics - at the same time, developers Alt Shift have announced…
October 27, 2019 | 02:47 EDT
DUSK has captivated the PC audience with its old-school FPS mechanics that pay homage to shooter royalty like Quake. A new post on the game's Steam community page thanks the community for its support…
January 2, 2019 | 11:43 EST
With Super Meat Boy Forever gearing up for its PC debut on The Epic Games Store in 2019, Team Meat is offering up its first title for free. Super Meat Boy is an indie platformer that features dozens…
December 28, 2018 | 01:29 EST
Supergiant Games is one of those developers that manage to build an outstanding reputation within the community despite a very limited lineup of releases. That is bound to happen when every single…
December 15, 2018 | 02:00 EST
First-person shooters are, at the best of times, divisive. There are many for whom first-person shooters begin and end with the relatively realistic military stylings of Call of Duty and Battlefield…
December 15, 2018 | 01:00 EST
A new "short" game from the infamous No Mans Sky Developer Hello Games was announced at this years Game Awards titled The Last Campfire. From the recently acquired creative team behind the hugely…
December 6, 2018 | 11:26 EST
Panache games, a new company created by ex-Assassin's Creed developers, showed off a new title that they will be releasing in 2019. It is called Ancestors: The Human Kind Odyssey and will chart out…
December 6, 2018 | 10:46 EST
At the 2018 Game Awards Developer Supergiant (Bastion, Transistor) announced their new upcoming game Hades. Hades is a rogue-like dungeon crawler with an Ancient Greek aesthetic and an isometric…
December 6, 2018 | 10:42 EST
Today, New Blood Interactive has announced that their Retro FPS, DUSK, will be released out of Steam's Early Access on December 10. It also launched with an update that adds a 3rd endless arena, a…
October 31, 2018 | 07:48 EDT
Damsel is a challenging 2D platformer with a focus on flow state. Once everything clicks, the game is a treat to move through. To use the Steam page's description, "Damsel is a ballet, and you’re the…
October 23, 2018 | 01:00 EDT
When I previewed Damsel earlier this year, I praised the game for its ability to balance the essential platforming pillars: smooth movement, challenging level design, and fluid combat. However, the…
October 23, 2018 | 01:00 EDT
Super Meat Boy Forever is the sequel to Super Meat Boy, and it started out being developed as a mobile game. Really, the idea for the game began immediately after the release for the first, when the…
September 11, 2018 | 12:00 EDT
While at PAX West, I had the opportunity to check out developer The Arcade Crew's Young Souls. It's a sidescrolling RPG beat em up strongly focused on its narrative about two twins, Jenn and Tristan…
September 7, 2018 | 12:30 EDT
Multiplayer experiences were a hallmark for Play NYC this year. The camaraderie shared between friends is especially intoxicating when in competition with each other. While there was no shortage of…
August 19, 2018 | 01:00 EDT
Double Fine made a showing at the E3 2018 PC Gaming Show with Ooblets, a rather colorful and happy game reminiscent of Pikmin. We got to see a colorful trailer filled with upbeat music and the…
June 11, 2018 | 08:42 EDT
A new indie game takes the stage in the form of Sable, an open-world exploration game by developer Shedworks. The game stars Sable, who will explore a vast desert and discover for herself the secrets…
June 11, 2018 | 08:08 EDT
Sekai Project announced at Anime Central 2018 that they would be publishing Nekoneko Soft's VR-focused visual novel Sumire. The 15th-anniversary project for the well-loved studio, Sumire will be…
May 22, 2018 | 09:14 EDT
Great 2D platformers blend smooth, fluid gameplay with challenging level design. When development teams find the right balance of the two, we get the best controlling games on the market like Super…
May 18, 2018 | 01:00 EDT
Enchanted is easily the first word that comes to mind when I think about delving into the exquisite world of Light Fall. Frustration, however, follows suit for the sake of its ruthless gameplay. A…
April 26, 2018 | 10:00 EDT