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 [...]

It’s been a while since we featured a new jRPG here on IndieRPGs.com–let’s fix that! A few minutes of digging around the internets reveals to me the existence of Vengeance Road, a new title from Warfare Studios. The premise: Gallagar used to be a fragile country, weak and without respect. That was until Queen Lilliana [...]

Joshua Hallaran of Critical Games (creator of Path of Thanatos) writes in to announce the release of a new RPG maker jRPG, 8-Bit Adventures: The Forgotten Journey. Hallaran says the game has over 7 hours of play time, with an additional New Game plus mode containing “Greater Difficulty, New Equipment, Rewritten Dialogue, Alternate Graphics for [...]

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 [...]

Aldorlea Games writes in to announce Opaline, a jRPG collaboration between Aldorlea and Warfare Studios. (It seems that Warfare Studios did most of the heavy lifting, and Aldorlea came into to refine and polish.) The game’s premise is…well, kinda vague. The marketing materials seem to suggest some kind of star-crossed-lovers frame, though, which could be [...]

After that last posting, I realized I’d need another one. Luckily, Awkward Pegasus Games was there to clumsily swoop in to the rescue! (Get it, because it’s an awkward pegasus? Never mind.) After Awkward Pegasus Games left, I noticed a new jRPG lying there. After. …no, no, After is the name of the game. Come [...]

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 [...]

John Clowder writes in to announce the release of Middens, “an exploration game using collage and original pixel art in tandem that takes the perspective of a drifter traversing a veritable x-zone.” If it were up to me, I’d call it a surrealist jRPG in the tradition of Space Funeral, OFF, or (perhaps the closest [...]

Dear reader, I know what you’re thinking: “Craig, Foo Fighters released that song, like, a billion years ago. Also, that’s a song, not an RPG.” How wrong you are! Everlong is also a jRPG, thanks to Doug Carpenter (and a small army of other folks). You are right about it being released a while ago, [...]

Word reaches me that there’s a new sci-fi, turn-based tactical RPG available from TildeOne Games called I Miss the Sunrise. I’d give you a plot breakdown, but the developers don’t seem to provide one, and frankly, I don’t have time to play through the entire game just to come up with one myself. A diligent reader [...]