Back to Back is back! Welcome, you know, back. Glancing over the campaigns that have ended since our last edition, Chasm succeeded admirably while Lex Laser, Wranglers and Paradigm Shift each fell short. The current round-up contains both returning projects and some fresh blood: Ghost of a Tale — a beautiful 3D action RPG with [...]

A bit of digging has revealed the existence of Nadia Was Here, a from-scratch (read: not made in RPG maker) jRPG with a unique battle system and an unusual, limited color palette in development by Joep Aben. The premise: This is not the first time this is happening. A mage driven by guilt. Will any [...]

Jon Dibble writes in to inform me of a side-scrolling action RPG he’s working on called Reobirth: Magic’s Awakening. (That’s not a typo, by the way–it’s actually spelled Reobirth, and pronounced like “ray o’ birth”.) Here’s the premise: When Reo, a powerful and devastating form of elemental magic, is unleashed across the greatest expands of [...]

Happy Monday, and welcome to another glorious week of exploring the exciting and ever-expanding world of indie RPGs! While I do some digging into some new and obscure projects, why don’t we catch up on some games we’ve previously covered, complete with videos? (Or, as I like to call it: Movie Night!) First up, we [...]

Raphael Gervaise of NotByDesign has emailed me to inform me of The House of Correction, a nonlinear tile-based first-person dungeon crawl with a horror theme and some quite nice-looking hand-drawn 2D graphics. The premise: A group of disparate companions are about to find themselves subject to the machinations of the mysterious House of Correction. Faced [...]

Word has it that there is a “roguelike RPG brawler” in progress by developers Butterscotch Shenanigans. Quadropus Rampage began life as a 7DRL entry; the developers apparently liked it enough that they chose to expand it into a full game. QR is a roguelike-like: it has levels, equipment, procedural generation and permadeath, but it’s also [...]

Word reaches me that RosePortal Games has released a new jRPG called The Princess’ Heart, about “a young princess who must travel the world to win her beloved’s heart back.” Princess Aerin Goldheart suspects that her prince is sharing the bed with another woman. After once again becoming intoxicated and making a scene, the King [...]

Aldorlea Games informs me that in preparation for the imminent release of Millenium 5, they’ve gone back and updated installments 1-4. The games now contain new faces for all the Mystrock Lords as well as small gameplay additions, such as the explanation of what each promotion (and double-promotion, in the case of Millennium 4) does. [...]

The last time I wrote about Clint Bellanger, it was to talk about his open-source aRPG engine F.L.A.R.E. (which is now up to version 0.18 and looking pretty good). Today, however, we’re going to talk about another Bellanger project by the name of Heroine Dusk. Heroine Dusk is a first-person, turn-based, step-based RPG in the [...]

Vaughn Royko of Unlok writes in to inform me that Wayward (previously covered here) has reached beta version 1.2. Among other things, line of sight and a fishing system have been added to the game (the full list of changes is available here). An updated trailer follows: