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Telepath RPG: Servants of God Update

Indie tactical RPG Telepath RPG: Servants of God has gotten a major update. The biggest change is that the game now uses AIR, meaning that it now runs in Windows, Mac and Linux. However, other new features (such as drug use addiction and withdrawal) have been added to the game as well. Here’s the blurb […]

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New release: E.Y.E.: Divine Cybermancy

Streum on Studio announced today that E.Y.E.: Divine Cybermancy, the studio’s first-person shooter/cyberpunk RPG built in the Source engine, has been released on Steam. The game looks pretty cool, despite a borderline-nonsensical plot summary: After an unending war with the metastreumonic Force, the powerful organization Secreta Secretorum you belong to is finally ready to undermine […]

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Avernum: Escape From the Pit Announced

Remember that remake of the original Avernum that Jeff Vogel talked about doing in my interview with him last month? Spiderweb Games has now sent out a press release today officially announcing the remake to everyone who hadn’t already read about it in the interview. It reads: Avernum: Escape From the Pit is an epic […]

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New release: Choice of Intrigues

I received an email a couple of weeks ago about a new “Choice Of” game release, Choice of Intrigues. It begins: Dear Craig, Have you ever wished to be the heroine of a romance novel? Think you could have run Anne Boleyn’s life better than she did? Want to walk a mile in Princess Kate’s […]

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Warlock – Tower of Fentrax Announced

Developer Roman Zeitl of Dynamic Games writes in to let us know about the development of a new RPG by the name of Warlock – Tower of Fentrax. ToF is modeled in large part on Ultima IV and V, with a big emphasis on wilderness survival: Tower of Fentrax will be a roleplaying game that […]

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Indie RPGs top Steam sales charts

GameBanshee caught this little gem from Gamepro, published this past Thursday: The PC version of the Cthulhu Saves the World and Breath of Death VII double pack from independent developer Zeboyd Games launched yesterday alongside Gaslamp Games’ charming roguelike Dungeons of Dredmor. All three are excellent games and well worth your time — cheap, too. […]

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Rampant Games posts new Indie News Roundup

It’s that time of the month! …no, not that time of the month, you horrible, horrible people. No, it’s time for another monthly Indie News Roundup, courtesy of Jay Barnson of Rampant Games! You can read the whole thing right here. The gist: Age of Decadence will be getting a demo release sometime in November […]

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Silversword demo released

Mario Gaida has released a free demo of Silversword, a first-person dungeon crawler in the mold of The Bard’s Tale. Gaida says the game uses a d20 system similar to the older versions of Adavanced Dungeons and Dragons. You can grab the free demo, “SliverswordLite,” on the Apple App Store here. In the meantime, here […]

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Legend of Grimrock Announced

Finnish indie developers Almost Human Ltd. have just announced a new first-person dungeon crawler for the PC, Mac and iOS by the name of Legend of Grimrock. They describe the game as a grid-based dungeon delver of the Wizardry variety: Legend of Grimrock is a fantasy game loaded with underground adventuring, tricky puzzles, combat and […]

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New release: Dungeons of Dredmor

Word has it that Gaslamp Games‘s comedic roguelike Dungeons of Dredmor has just hit Steam at a $5 price point. You can nab it here. NOTE: As of the time of this writing, Steam is discounting the game 10%, so it’s actually $4.49 a copy. DOUBLE NOTE: According to Gaslamps’s Twitter, DoD is presently the […]

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