Steve Gibbon writes in to tell me about Tales of the Drunken Paladin, a comedic jRPG with some very nice custom character portraits. (“Custom,” of course, being relative to the rest of the graphics, which appear mostly to be defaults from RPG Maker.) The game was originally released way back in 2009. Since that time, [...]

Robert Gąsiorowski of Desert Fox Software writes in to announce the release of Srututu: Forgotten Foe, an odd sort of board game / RPG mix. (It actually came out on November 28, 2012, but I only just heard about it, so New Release it is!) Here is how the developer describes it: Srututu-Forgotten Foe is [...]

Deepfall Dungeon is a free, 3D first person dungeon crawler that was apparently released back in November (but hey–it’s new to me). Created by LOD Games, Deepfall Dungeon doesn’t waste time pretending to have a plot: You have entered the dreaded Deepfall Dungeon and must find the exit! Along the way, you will fight monsters, [...]

KintoGames recently released Bit Dungeon, a Zelda-style top-down dungeon crawler, on iPad–and that’s as good an excuse to write about it as any. (The original game was actually released back in September, but hey–it’s new to me.) The premise: You and your wife were captured by demons… You wake up trapped in a cell, grab [...]

Andrew Trese, one of the sibling creators of Star Traders RPG, has written in to inform me that the aforementioned outer space RPG / economic sim (previously mentioned here) has been ported to iPhone and iPad so all you Apple loyalists can have a crack at it as well. As with its original Android release, [...]

Title: Mainichi Developer: Mattie Brice Platforms: Windows Price: free “I should try to be more positive today.” Mainichi is not an RPG, but it’s made in RPG Maker and it forms an interesting contrast to games that are RPGs–so we’re going to examine it. RPGs are games about character progression. Insofar as the player character [...]

Hello there indie RPG fans! My name is Jordan/jackal27 and I’ll be helping Craig out with indieRPGS.com while he’s handling his Kickstarter this month! Craig has been gone for a few days now and if you’re anything like me, you’re already slobbering for a new indie RPG to sink your teeth into. Well, have I [...]

File this one under “new to me”: His Dark Majesty is an aggressively lo-fi turn-based fantasy strategy game “that takes the core elements of Advance Wars and The Battle for Wesnoth.” Developed by a small team, HDM was released back in 2010 for–wait for it–the Atari 800. No, really. (There’s a Windows version too, thankfully.) [...]

The Battle for Wesnoth is a bit of a classic. It was first developed by David White and released for free back in 2003; because the game is open source, however, it has been further developed and extended by a small army of people over the intervening years. Wesnoth is so old that it gets [...]

Michael Akinde of MicaByte Systems writes in to announce Pirates and Traders, a pirate-themed trading game / RPG hybrid. Akinde states that P&T is modeled on the old PalmOS game Space Traders, but is set in the 17th century Caribbean and features attributes, skills, and menu-based combat. The premise: Sail the Caribbean in this turn-based [...]