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Dungeons of Dredmor release date announced

Gaslamp Games has just announced that Dungeons of Dredmor, an indie roguelike with a heavy emphasis on humor, will be released for both Mac OSX and Windows via Steam on July 13. The price? A piffling $4.99. Hit the jump for the full announcement.

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New release: Legends of Yore

Legends of Yore is a simple point-and-click roguelike created in Java and playable in-browser, with links to download the game for iPhone and Android. Although LoY is a roguelike, it features a basic, functional GUI and auto-mapping. Additionally, like roughly half of all indie RPGs (and 90% of indie roguelikes) currently in development, LoY uses […]

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Winter Voices demo released

Word has it that Beyond the pillars, a Parisian indie outfit, have released a public demo of their turn-based strategy RPG Winter Voices. Quintin Smith of Rock Paper Shotgun describes the game like so: Winter Voices is an episodic RPG about a girl trying to overcome the death of her father. It’s set in a […]

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Rampant Games posts new Indie News Roundup

I make it a point not to post news items about every minor update that enters my Inbox, instead focusing on reviews, interviews and new releases. But every once in a while, some brave soul (typically, one named “Jay Barnson”) takes the time to amalgamate all of those tiny little updates into a giant wad […]

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Phantasmaburbia demo released

Banov has released a public demo of Phantasmaburbia, a new RPG he’s working on using the Dubloon engine. The premise of the game: Ghosts and evil spirits begin to appear all over town, corresponding with the impending reincarnation of a transdimensional demon. A group of teens, armed with weapons found in their homes and assisted […]

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New release: Inaria

Viridian Games has announced the release of Inaria, a very old school, turn-based, tile-based RPG “but with modern interface conveniences that make it easier to play, giving the best of both worlds.” You can pick up the game for a mere $4.99. Check out the trailer below to see if it’s your style.  

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Driftmoon soundtrack released

Instant Kingdom writes in to let us know that its forthcoming top-down action RPG, Driftmoon, now has a soundtrack available for purchase. For $5, you can own the musical stylings of composer Gareth Meek. You can preview the entire soundtrack here for free and decide whether it’s worth the price tag.

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Project Zomboid tech demo released

It turns out that Dead State isn’t the only Fallout-style zombie RPG in development right now. Developer The Indie Stone recently released a tech demo of Project Zomboid, a real-time isometric survival RPG taking place in an infected city. According to the developer, Project Zomboid will feature a massive city environment with open-ended, sandbox gameplay; […]

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Interview with Nathan Jerpe on RPGWatch

RPGWatch has posted an interview with Nathan Jerpe, creator of the freeware quasi-roguelike Legerdemain. For those of you not familiar with the game, Jerpe spends most of the interview describing it. For instance, he has this to say about it: There are some detractors out there who dismiss Legerdemain because it lacks certain roguelike features […]

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Rampant Games posts new Indie News Roundup

Jay Barnson over at Rampant Games has taken the time to put together a big post with tons of the latest news in indie RPGs. There’s some good stuff in there, including updates on: Age of Decadence, Age of Fear: The Undead King, Darkness Springs (a multiplayer game apparently titled after an evil brand of […]

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