Happy Friday! As is customary, IndieRPGs celebrates the coming of the weekend with some movies. Because who doesn’t want to kick back and watch new movies of RPGs we’re dying to play? (Some people, presumably–but we don’t associate with folks like that.) Today, we’ve got new footage showing off combat mechanics in Secrets of Grindea […]

Choice of Games writes in to announce yet another RPG / Choose-Your-Own-Adventure hybrid by the name of Way Walkers. The premise sounds rather promising: In a metaphysics driven society where freewill is law, your choices are your own as you attend the most prestigious of magical schools.  Learn to master psychic Ability, fight monsters, argue with […]

So! Remember this? The Underrail playable alpha demo is now out; the developer estimates that it should provide a few hours of play time. Grab the demo right here and give it a try!

Karl Zylinski has announced a new RPG by the name of Snöken: Inverno, intended as the first of three “Snöken” releases. The setting for this game is contemporary, and so is the premise: The game is set in the near future where the greenhouse effect has spiralled out of control. You play as an activist […]

So, it turns out there’s some guy named Craig Stern running his mouth over on Sinister Design about how to define the phrase “indie game.” You guys don’t care about indie games, right? Of course not! That’s why you’re here, on www.BigBudgetAAARPGs.com. Here’s a snippet of the piece: We define words for practical reasons: to […]

Kasan Wright of Profit Motive Team writes in to announce (what else?) Profit Motive, an RPG styled on the rough-and-tumble world of big business. The premise is simple: Profit Motive is a modern day, corporate themed RPG. Players assume the role of Myron Meckler, a one-time executive of a major corporation who has been betrayed […]

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 […]

Silence those cell phones and hunker down, folks–it’s time for another movie night! (Or at least, it will be, once it gets to be…you know…night.) Today, we have a brand-new video from Kot-in-Action of their first-person action roguelike Tomes of Mephistopheles (previously covered here), as well as a video update showing the latest build of […]

As mentioned in last week’s coverage of Defender’s Quest, there is a Gold Edition due for release soon with improved graphics, an improved interface, and a special New Game+ that adds sidequests and special abilities to items. Lars Doucet of Level Up Labs was nice enough to give me access to a pre-release version of […]

Did you like Space Funeral? Well, you’re in luck! From developer magicdweedoo comes Kevin Rudd Farming Generations, an oddball, free-to-download jRPG with quirky visuals and a surreal setting. You play a member of the Rudd family, owners of the most profitable farm in a small town overrun by a “crime gang.” From my brief time playing […]