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New release: After

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New release: Alcarys Complex

Jonathan Dixon writes in to let me know that Modest Arcade has released Alcarys Complex, the The Secret of Mana-style action jRPG that we last covered back in June. The premise: Welcome to Elcaea, the world of the wicked. In the place of heroes and villains are people – for the most part – doing […]

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Soul Compass announced

Remember the good old days of Game Boy jRPGs like Final Fantasy Legend III? One brave soul by the name of Jesse Shepherd has undertaken to make a jRPG as if for a Game Boy. His game: Soul Compass. Soul Compass will be a combat-driven, difficult, short, turn-based RPG. No grind, no random encounters, no […]

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New release: Phantasmaburbia

Greg “Banov” Lobanov has just released Phantasmaburbia, his jRPG opus about a suburban subdivision infested with ghosts and the small band of teenagers who must fight increasingly desperate odds to save it. The year is 201X (twenty-X-teen) and Owl Creek, a small modern neighborhood, has suddenly been overrun with ghosts. Four local kids, wielding weapons […]

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New release: Moonchild

Aldorlea Games writes in to announce that they have released Moonchild, the latest of their jRPGs. The premise: What kind of danger can a mother face to rescue her child? Play as Queen Calypso and her friends going after Calypso’s abducted child and trying to figure out what happened… and why. Can you solve the […]

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Rainbow Nightmare: Libra announced

Karl Crawford has written in to announce a new jRPG project called Rainbow Nightmare: Libra. In development by Crawford under the name Ghost in a Bottle Games, RNL features the following premise: Take on the role of Lady Libra as she goes above and beyond to help her friend find a cure for his disease. […]

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New release: A Closed World

I’m behind the times on this one, apparently: I actually found A Closed World while I was browsing the official selections at Indiecade. A jRPG by Todd Harper and MIT’s Gambit Game Lab, This console RPG-like game puts you in the shoes of a young resident of a village just outside a forest that everyone […]

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The Wizard’s Lair announced

David Williams writes in to announce The Wizard’s Lair, the latest in a seemingly endless stream of graphical roguelikes coming out of the community lately. The premise: The game is an RPG in the spirit of Roguelikes and the Mystery Dungeon series, in which the hero(you) is tasked to descend the Dungeon and defeat the […]

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Dungeonspace announced

I’ve stumbled across a new first-person dungeon delver under development by the name of Dungeonspace. “Another one?” Yup. This one stands out, however, for one big reason: “a LAN/Internet multiplayer mode.” The game also supports modding, with the ability to add in entirely new creature art and dungeon tilesets to the game. The game’s premise […]

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New release: Battlepaths

Christian Werner writes in with news of a new graphical roguelike, Battlepaths. (It’s new to PC, at any rate: Battlepaths was evidently released on XBLIG some 4 months ago.) Created by Key17 Games, Battlepaths takes place across three realms. Battlepaths has a loot system reminiscent of Diablo, the ability to swap items between your characters, […]

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