Don’t ask me how they managed this, but Aldorlea Games has just released a new RPG less than a week after the release of their last RPG. This latest one is called Millennium 3: Cry Wolf. Here is what it’s about: Marine and her friends are back! Time is running out for the showdown and […]

Developer Instant Kingdom wrote to me today to announce that they are now taking pre-orders for their up-and-coming indie RPG Driftmoon. Quoth the developer: Driftmoon is an adventure-oriented roleplaying game, with focus on storytelling, exploring and quests. In Driftmoon there are always plenty of things to find and people to meet, and instead of killing […]

Aldorlea Games writes in to announce the release of a new RPG Maker jRPG by the name of Jade’s Journey. I’d like to tell you something about it, but all they have up is the following plot description: Join Jade in her journey to master her powers and save her father! Jade is a regular […]

Title: Recettear: An Item Shop’s Tale Developer: EasyGameStation (localized by Carpe Fulgur) Platforms: Windows Price: $19.95 Recettear: An Item Shop’s Tale is a Japanese indie RPG originally developed and released by EasyGameStation in 2007, now localized and re-released in English by Carpe Fulgur. The gist is that you play a young girl forced to pay […]

Aldorlea Games has announced a contest to win a free copy of their upcoming jRPG Millenium 3. I thought of spicing up your waiting time for Millennium’s next chapter and give you all a chance to win a copy of the game in an Aldorlean version of Trick-or-treating. Ehehe!!! The Treat is obvious – a […]

Paul Eres posts on TIGS about a new, free, short JRPG set in what is reportedly a unique and interesting universe. You can download Space Funeral right here.

GameBanshee has an interview with Brian Mitsoda about Dead State. It has a lot of interesting stuff in it, but from a pure RPG design perspective, I found this perhaps the most interesting: Unlike a lot of other RPGs, you don’t gain XP from killing things – you get skill points from completing objectives, which […]

RPGWatch reports on a new round-up of XBox 360 indie RPGs posted on the Evil Avatar forums. Every last one of them is dirt-cheap–worth checking out if you’re looking to try out a new RPG on your XBox 360.

Canadian gaming blog Above 49 has a post on the unexpected expense of designing an indie game, and the importance of people supporting indie games: It’s also god damn hard to make a game, even as an indie, for less than a million dollars. Another person here, another few months there and a budget can […]

Title: Eschalon Book II Developer: Basilisk Games Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux Price: $24.95 Eschalon Book II is the second game in the Eschalon series by Basilisk Games. Eschalon is an isometric, nonlinear wRPG reminiscent of Fallout and Baldur’s Gate. It does almost everything well, but there are a few areas where the game fails to […]