Posted in May 8, 2012 ¬ 5:43 amh.Craig Stern
The Age of Decadence, a wRPG long in-the-making by Iron Tower Studio, has an updated demo as of a few days ago. I won’t list all of the changes they made, but you can rest assured that there are a lot of them. Age of Decadence has had a combat demo out for quite some [...]
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Posted in February 11, 2012 ¬ 8:23 pmh.Craig Stern
Anne Mönkkönen of Instant Kingdom writes in to report the release of a 5-10 hour demo for top-down action RPG Driftmoon. You can download the demo here, and read more about the game here.
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Posted in January 5, 2012 ¬ 1:16 pmh.Craig Stern
Carpe Fulgur, localizers of the delightful Recettear, have announced the release of a demo for Fortune Summoners. Fortune Summoners is reputed to be a side-scrolling RPG in the vein of Zelda 2 or Wanderers from Ys, but with multiple playable characters. You can read more about the gameplay here. Fortune Summoners is due for release [...]
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Posted in October 21, 2011 ¬ 8:58 amh.Craig Stern
Philip Neubauer of Gravel Train writes in to inform me of the release of a free, short demo of his prehistoric strategy RPG, aptly named Stone Age Square Battle. True to form, it takes place in what is ostensibly the Stone Age, and battles are turn-based affairs in which characters battle one another from adjacent [...]
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Posted in July 14, 2011 ¬ 6:35 pmh.Craig Stern
Mario Gaida has released a free demo of Silversword, a first-person dungeon crawler in the mold of The Bard’s Tale. Gaida says the game uses a d20 system similar to the older versions of Adavanced Dungeons and Dragons. You can grab the free demo, “SliverswordLite,” on the Apple App Store here. In the meantime, here [...]
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Posted in June 24, 2011 ¬ 10:59 amh.Craig Stern
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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Posted in June 16, 2011 ¬ 5:22 amh.Craig Stern
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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Posted in June 12, 2011 ¬ 9:49 amh.Craig Stern
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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Posted in March 11, 2011 ¬ 2:06 pmh.Craig Stern
Developer Arvind Yadav of Pyrodactyl Games writes in with news that the A.Typical RPG now has a public demo. In the meantime, the full game’s release has been pushed back to March 31st in order to give the developers some extra time to bug test. Here’s how the devs sum up A.Typical RPG: The A.Typical [...]
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Posted in May 10, 2010 ¬ 7:08 amh.Craig Stern
First, full disclosure: this is my game. That having been said, this is legit news that’s been posted elsewhere. To avoid the appearance of impropriety, I’ll just quote RPGWatch: Craig Stern from Sinister Design dropped us a line to say they have released a demo for their indie game, Telepath RPG: Servants of God. I [...]
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