Chain of Retribution is a free jRPG created in RPG Maker. More interestingly, however, it’s also a “chain game.” This means that it was created via the game design equivalent of Exquisite Corpse. To wit: one designer worked on it, then passed it to another, who then worked on it and passed it on, and […]

I recently reviewed Age of Fear: The Undead King. Although I decided that it’s a fantasy strategy game (as opposed to an RPG), there’s a sequel due to come out around the end of the year that may muddy those waters a bit. With the review behind me and only a few details about the […]

There’s a new interview with Steven Peeler up at the Random Tower of Games blog, in which they discuss Soldak Entertainment’s upcoming action RPG Drox Operative. 4. Compared to your last game, Din’s Curse, what kind of new features players could find? The biggest new feature is basically all of the diplomacy with the races […]

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 […]

Second only to procedural generation, cooperative gameplay seems to be the biggest trend in indie RPG development right now (Dungeon Dashers, Boot Hill Heroes and Secrets of Grindea being three examples that come immediately to mind). Adding to the pile is Pocket Heroes, a multiplayer cooperative dungeon crawler in development by F5 Games exclusively for […]

Winter Wolves (whom you may know as the developers behind Planet Stronghold) have just released a new game called Loren the Amazon Princess. The premise: Travel by Princess Loren’s side as she searches for her lost mother, the Queen of the Amazons. Guide her choices and act as her valiant defender, meeting many colorful characters […]

It’s that special time again, folks! Jay Barnson has graced us with another indie news round-up, this one mentioning a veritable avalanche of games. Those games mentioned are: Age of Decadence Avernum: Escape from the Pit Aveyond 4  (no page exists for this game just yet) The Banner Saga Boot Hill Heroes Call of Cthulhu: […]

Games writer and RPG enthusiast Eric Schwarz has come out with another opinion piece on Gamasutra, this time concerning the use of ability cooldowns in RPGs. In practice, my biggest complaint against cooldown-oriented design is that it tends to take a way a lot of the tactical depth in a situation.  As a brute-force stopgap […]

It’s been a long time since I last had time to do proper game reviews, and my backlog hasn’t grown any shorter during the interim. So I’m doing a double-header: Styrateg and Age of Fear: The Undead King. This isn’t just to save time; these two games have a lot of similar qualities, and I […]

Red Wasp Design has announced that Call of Cthulhu: The Wasted Land (previously out for iPhone and iPad) is now out for PC. (And two days ahead of schedule, no less!) The devs have generously provided us a trailer so we can see the turn-based WW1-era horror tactics unfold: CoC:TWL is a very reasonable $4.99 […]