Word reaches me that there’s been a new jRPG created with RPG Maker. Memories of A Vagabond: Broken Destiny is reportedly a rather dark take on the genre. Developers “The DarkElite Team” relate the following premise: Become a young mercenary and travel from soul to soul to avenge your fiance and her family. While finding […]

Jonathan Gustafsson of Ascension Games writes in to tell me about a new RPG they’re working on. Cornerstone: The Song of Tyrim is a 3D, open world Zelda-alike with cel-shaded graphics. The premise: You play as Tyrim a young viking boy , sailing from island to island in search of his fathers lost fleet, and a solution […]

Igor Noronha of Amazu Media writes in to announce the release of the first episode of Light Apprentice, a comic book styled visual narrative with occasional choices and jRPG-style battles. The premise: The story starts when Nate is awaken from his 300 years sleep, by blueling wizard Tlob. He discovers that all he cherished was […]

Two-man indie developer Robotality has announced Halfway, a sci-fi squad-based tactical RPG. The premise: it is a few hundred years in the future. You take control of a small group of people who are witnesses to a violent overtake of their spaceship by an unknown species. As you fight your way through the dark corridors […]

John Clowder, creator of the decidedly bizarre surrealist jRPG Middens (previously covered here), has come out with a new title by the name of Gingiva. As with Middens before it, Gingiva is a surrealist jRPG. The premise: An amboeboid landscape threatens to engulf civlization and all its plastic bottles. Disembodied mouths live in the walls […]

Remember Costume Quest? Co-developers Sleepy Giant and Free Lunch Design are now working on Comic ConQuest, a game with a superficially similar notion. That is to say, it’s an RPG where your characters’ costumes grant them real powers. There are a couple of key differences that stand to make Comic ConQuest quite different, however. First: […]

Ashley Flanagan of Urban Hermit Games writes in to announce the release of Travelogue, a sandbox RPG with asynchronous multiplayer elements. Travelogue employs an interesting marriage of single player-style interaction with a multiplayer-driven game environment: Players will encounter a myriad of opportunities to change the fate of the realm of the Midlands – not just for […]

From our last back to back, Project Phoenix , Steel and Steam Episode 1, AdventurOS and Sword ‘n’ Board hit their funding goals. Valgard’s Fate, unfortunately, was evidently not fated to succeed. Here is the newest crop of games seeking funding–and an unexpectedly numerous one, too:

The Trese Brothers have returned with another open-world RPG on the Android, this one pirate-themed. The aptly titled Age of Pirates is “a high-seas adventure RPG that mixes story RPG elements with a powerful trading simulation.” The game has you playing as merchant Nathaniel Sveet on a quest to save his son. The devs write: […]

The latest edition of Kyttaro Games’s Bundle in a Box is RPG-themed! The Indie RPG Bundle is a pay-what-you-want games bundle with a minimum contribution of $1.99. Whatever you contribute, you get of the bundle’s games, with a handful reserved for above-average contributions. Per the press release: The bundle’s 13 properly lovely, varied and fully indie […]