Here's hoping that there's no Hitler-class ship. Gratuitous Space Battles made big waves in the strategy game scene back in 2009, and as recently announced in a blog post by Cliff Harris of Positron…
February 6, 2015 | 10:51 EST
When you have so much talent behind a project, you just know it is going to be good, and I was in no way disappointed when I began playing the demo for The Incredible Baron. With Lead Designer David…
February 6, 2015 | 09:00 EST
Are you tired of immaculately designed graphics engines presenting you with the newest levels of graphic fidelity? Would you rather use your *own* graphics engine, the most powerful engine of them…
February 3, 2015 | 09:00 EST
We recently reviewed the Indie Action-Puzzle Platformer Forward to the Sky and had a chance to email and talk with the head of Animu Games, Wei Chen, who led the development on the project. Wei's…
February 2, 2015 | 09:00 EST
In our continuing series of Indie Interviews, we were able to sit down with Bryce and Chris - the developers behind the Indie game Super Dino Hunter that we covered in To The Green. They were willing…
January 31, 2015 | 12:00 EST
To The Green is our weekly look at one game on Steam Greenlight trying to get onto Steam. With To The Green, we hope to highlight one worthy game each week that is attempting to get greenlit and let…
January 30, 2015 | 11:00 EST
I Am Bread is, in many ways, a spiritual successor to Surgeon Simulator, both games created by Bossa Studios. But where Surgeon Simulator created an engaging and interesting experience by combining…
January 11, 2015 | 11:00 EST
A while back, I received the privilege of reviewing Wrack, a cel-shaded first-person shooter developed by Final Boss Entertainment. My first impression from playing hours of Wrack, besides the…
January 8, 2015 | 09:00 EST
To The Green is a weekly look at one game on Steam Greenlight trying to get onto Steam. Many games get mired in the process trying to get there, caught up with abandoned projects, shovelware, and…
December 29, 2014 | 11:00 EST
TechRaptor is pleased to bring you another Indie Interview - this time with Nauris Amatnieks, the developer of There Was a Caveman. We looked at There Was a Caveman earlier on To The Green and it's…
December 27, 2014 | 01:00 EST
Scrolls is an interesting concept. It's a weird mix between a hex-based board game and a TCG (trading card game), and it definitely has carved out its own little niche. But is it any good? Scrolls…
December 27, 2014 | 09:00 EST
The year was 1996 - I was four. We had this old PC, and I always shared it with my two brothers. We each took twenty minutes before switching to the next person, with the aid of an egg timer. But…
December 26, 2014 | 09:00 EST
There's a reason why This War of Mine has gotten the hype and attention that it has gotten since its launch. In the world of video games, taking a view on some of the different elements of war isn't…
December 25, 2014 | 10:00 EST
Guild of Hunters is one of the games TechRaptor recently covered on the weekly Kickstarter article so we got in touch with the team at Ignite to see if they'd be interested in talking, with their…
December 23, 2014 | 09:00 EST
To The Green is a weekly look at one game on Steam Greenlight trying to get onto Steam. Many games get mired in the process trying to get there, caught up with abandoned projects, shovelware, and…
December 22, 2014 | 11:00 EST
Crusaders Quest is a real-time action RPG and matching game from TOAST for iOS and Android. Released on Dec. 11, 2014, the game is now available worldwide. Tens of thousands of players pre-…
December 21, 2014 | 09:00 EST
Rollers of the Realm could have been a tricky review to do. The game would seemingly have a niche category: a pinball game with RPG elements for the PC. While several people might have played the…
December 19, 2014 | 01:00 EST
One of the strangest trends in indie gaming over the past couple of years has been NES-styled platformers. Half banking on nostalgia and half banking on difficulty, most NES-inspired indies are…
December 18, 2014 | 01:00 EST
To The Green is a weekly look at one game on Steam Greenlight trying to get onto Steam. Many games get mired in the process trying to get there, caught up with abandoned projects, shovelware, and…
December 15, 2014 | 09:00 EST
Welcome back to This Week in Kickstarter where we take a look at some of the best Kickstarter projects out there. We apologize for missing last week, but we’ll hope you forgive us as we’re back now…
December 12, 2014 | 11:00 EST
Have you been craving for some insane hack 'n slash action full of silly moments and nonsense? Well then... you may have to wait a bit because its going to be hard to top the upcoming Zombie Vikings…
December 11, 2014 | 10:00 EST
To The Green is a weekly look at one game on Steam Greenlight trying to get onto Steam. Many games get mired in the process trying to get there, caught up with abandoned projects, shovelware, and…
December 8, 2014 | 11:00 EST
Playstation Experience continues to reveal new games coming out in 2015 for the Playstation 4, as Sony attempts to make the most of the anniversary and celebration event. Skytorn is another of the…
December 7, 2014 | 05:42 EST
The Steam Early-Access hit "The Forest" is coming to Playstation 4. This was announced at the Playstation Experience Keynote in Las Vegas this weekend. The game is being developed by Endnight Games…
December 7, 2014 | 04:55 EST
Hot off its win of Best Indie of the Year at The Game Awards last night, Yacht Club Games has announced today at the Playstation Experience that Shovel Knight will be coming to the Playstation 3,…
December 7, 2014 | 12:01 EST
Lords of Xulima is a great homage to the classic isometric RPGs of old. In many ways, the clunky, nonintuitive, and downright challenging aspects of those games are featured in Lords of Xulima, and…
December 5, 2014 | 03:00 EST
Its December of 2014, and that means game company's are racing against the clock in attempts to meet 2014 release dates, as the time to push it off and stay in this calendar year is fading away…
December 4, 2014 | 08:42 EST
To The Green is our weekly look at one game current in Steam’s Greenlight process. There are many games mired here, and some of them have good ideas stuck in the gears that Valve has in place. Here…
December 1, 2014 | 11:00 EST
Dreamfall Chapters second book has been announced along with a name and a new trailer for it. Rebels, is the name of the second book and a few details have been released about it for those paying…
November 28, 2014 | 09:02 EST
Futuristic racers are seldom seen nowadays. At some point in history, they were all the rage, with F-Zero and Wipeout being some of the more popular and still very well-known. So how does a new…
November 27, 2014 | 01:00 EST
Very few games celebrate culture in the way that Never Alone does. There aren't many examples of games made to educate the player on the history and traditions of a rarely represented people. This…
November 27, 2014 | 11:00 EST
To The Green is our weekly look at one game current in Steam’s Greenlight process. There are many games mired here, and some of them have good ideas stuck in the gears that Valve has in place. Here…
November 24, 2014 | 11:00 EST
It was only last week on To The Green that we discussed Tales of Aravorn: Seasons of the Wolf, but it seems that they have wrapped up their final pieces of work on chapter 4 and released it in full.…
November 17, 2014 | 01:18 EST
To The Green is our weekly look at one game current in Steam’s Greenlight process. There are many games mired here, and some of them have good ideas stuck in the gears that Valve has in place. Here…
November 17, 2014 | 11:00 EST
Having been on a bit of an indie kick lately what with playing Gone Home, State of Decay, and LocoRoco on PSP, I decided that this time I would review Home. Having missed all the fuss when it was…
November 16, 2014 | 03:00 EST
Have you been looking for an action platformer coming in the next year? If so, Red Goddess may be for you! In Red Goddess, you play as Divine, a young goddess who’s been attacked somehow and is…
November 15, 2014 | 09:05 EST
To The Green is our weekly look at one game current in Steam’s Greenlight process. There are many games mired here, and some of them have good ideas stuck in the gears that Valve has in place. Here…
November 10, 2014 | 11:00 EST
This past week, after finding out about Indie GameDev Greenlight group on Facebook I decided to follow up on it to get more information on that and to discuss Greenlight with someone who was clearly…
November 9, 2014 | 09:00 EST
Awesome music makes for awesome games. It's an aspect of video game critique as a whole I feel doesn't get enough attention. How a video game sounds and how that sound is integrated into the…
November 4, 2014 | 09:00 EST
“Design must seduce, shape, and perhaps more importantly, evoke an emotional response.” - April Greiman Fabula Mortis is able to do this, but in the wrong ways. Unfortunately for…
November 2, 2014 | 11:00 EST
Greenlight as a process has numerous issues, among them being buried in Steam, a process that makes no sense to anyone and a lack of proper updating. However, that is not what we are here to discuss…
October 31, 2014 | 10:16 EDT
While it can be kind of hard to keep track of all of the different bundles offered on the Humble site, the main line of Humble Indie Bundles are always worth the attention. The newest brings with it…
October 28, 2014 | 10:57 EDT
It’s a special day in an Indie games life when it feels that its far enough along to produce a trailer and send it off to Steam Greenlight to try to push through. And that step is one that Indie Dev…
October 23, 2014 | 09:30 EDT
Frima Studios describe Chariot as a "couch cooperative platformer. Recently released for Xbox One, PS4, Wii U as well as PC, it is a fun little platformer to kill a few minutes with. The design is…
October 15, 2014 | 01:00 EDT
"Help me." comes through my headphones. It's a whisper somewhere near my left side. Spinning around, I only see my teammate, another player going by the name of Nightmare, covering me as we clear a…
October 14, 2014 | 09:00 EDT
When people toss around the term "indie game" these days it sometimes refers to really weird "games" that don't resemble the games that most people have come to love and enjoy playing. Fez, however,…
October 12, 2014 | 01:00 EDT
In the last couple of years, the gaming community has welcomed indie developers to make a name for themselves the gaming industry, none more so than PC Gamers. We are very excited for the indie-game…
September 29, 2014 | 01:00 EDT
NOTE: Before this article was written, a request to Indiecade was made for comment on the matter with no response received. UPDATE: See bottom of article for information from Indiecade. Indiecade is…
September 18, 2014 | 11:45 EDT