Chris Legasse, he of the 1-bit roguelike MiniFlake, was good enough to notify us all that there is now a free playable demo of the game available on Desura. Also, there appears to be a proper trailer now: The demo is Windows-only; however, per the developer, the finished game will be released “on the Android, […]

Choice of Games has come out with yet another “Choice Of” game, this time superhero-themed: Heroes Rise: The Prodigy. In “Heroes Rise,” Powered heroes have become the ultimate celebrities, and you dream of joining the A-List–but to get there, you’ll first have to take down evil Powered gangs, compete with deadly rivals, choose a worthy […]

Sinister Design, developer behind the strategy RPG/wRPG hybrid Telepath RPG: Servants of God, has announced a new game: Telepath Tactics, a multiplayer turn-based tactics game you can play with up to 5 friends or AI enemies. This game was actually announced months ago, but I hesitated to post about it here because I try to […]

Following up on Friday’s post about RPG Playground comes the Free/Libre Action Roleplaying Engine. F.L.A.R.E. is a free, isometric open source engine for action RPGs created by Clint Bellanger and a small army of volunteer contributors. Looking at F.L.A.R.E. in action, it basically looks like a less-polished Diablo 2, albeit one you can use for […]

One-man game studio Koonsolo (a.k.a Koen Witters) has announced RPG Playground, a browser-based RPG and RPG editor rolled into one, based off of Koonsolo’s RPG editor (which has been “temporarily discontinued,” per the developer). Witters describes his plans for the game as follows: With RPG Playground you can create your own online RPG Worlds. It’s […]

Hey there, folks! I was recently given access to a preview build of Drox Operative, the upcoming outer space action RPG from Soldak Entertainment. Rather than try to describe it in a written preview, I figured I’d do something a little different: record myself playing it for the first time and offer commentary as I […]

Every once in a while, I get an obsessive compulsion to create a more-or-less comprehensive list of something. Most recently, it was clones; specifically, games (typically iOS apps) that have been publicly accused of cloning existing indie games. Look at just how many of these we’ve seen over the past few years:

Title: Call of Cthulhu: The Wasted Land Developer: Red Wasp Entertainment Platforms: Windows, iPhone, iPad Price: $4.99 Call of Cthulhu: The Wasted Land is a turn-based tactical RPG by Red Wasp Entertainment based upon Chaosium’s pen-and-paper role-playing game Call of Cthulhu RPG. Call of Cthulhu: The Wasted Land was initially released on mobile devices and […]

I met the developers from new indie dev studio Cosmosaur a few months ago at a student show. At that time, they showed me a game they were working on, a side-scrolling action RPG named Moon Intern. Well, that game is now a thing! Based on what I remember from talking to them, you play […]

There’s a new indie strategy RPG in the southern sky, folks. By “the southern sky,” I of course mean “the Android app store”; and by “new,” I mean “new to me.” (It was released in March.) Courtesy of questionably named indie developer Mangobile comes Kingturn RPG, a turn-based strategy RPG with a distinctly political plot: […]