Teddy Lee of Cellar Door Games writes in to tell me about Rogue Legacy, a side-scrolling “geneological” action roguelike-like with permadeath and an interesting character generation system. The premise: You are entering a castle for reasons unknown (to the player).  When you die, your children avenge you. This goes on for a couple hundred years. […]

Looking back on the campaigns that ended since we ran our last Back to Back, Tinykeep made its goal, as did Stonehearth and Ghost of a Tale. Sadly, Reobirth: Magic’s Awakening did not, nor did Remnants of Twilight. Going down to an especially disastrous defeat was TBT: The Black Tower, with less than 1% of […]

Rhys Furlow of Eclectic Gaming writes in to announce Sharpened Steel, a single player open world RPG currently in development. I was given a plot summary with what I can only assume are massive spoilers, so here’s a redacted version: You wake up in a store with no memory whatsoever, so you head out to […]

It’s come to my attention that there is a new side-scrolling aRPG by Spanish developer Francisco Téllez de Meneses out on Steam. UnEpic is inspired by Konami classic The Maze of Galious (which you may also know as the inspiration behind the legendarily difficult indie title La Mulana). You play as “Daniel, a normal guy […]

Here’s another one for the “I thought I posted about this already, but apparently not” files. Knights of Pen and Paper is a mobile title by Brazilian developers Behold Studios that was released back in October 2012. Knights of Pen and Paper is designed to make you feel like you’re playing a pen-and-paper RPG. (In […]

Terry Cavanagh has brought to my attention the existence of a new RPG Maker chain game: specifically, the appropriately titled RMW Chain Game. (I say “new,” of course, because we saw one of these released last year.) Created under the auspices of ChainGame.net, RMW Chain Game is basically exquisite corpse conducted via RPG Maker: The […]

A bit of browsing around the Android app store reveals the existence of Mighty Dungeons, a “fan-made dungeon crawler crossover between old-school boardgames like Heroquest, Warhammer Quests and good oldies like Diablo I and DungeonMaster.” Created by Laylio Games, Mighty Dungeons has been out since at least February, but hey–it’s new to me! I haven’t […]

Nick Branstator of indie development studio 10 x 10 Room writes in to tell me about Conclave, a “browser-based RPG designed to evoke the spirit of tabletop roleplaying games.” The devs describe Conclave like so: Playable solo or co-op, synchronously or asynchronously, and delivered in pure HTML5 so as to be maximally compatible with all […]

Steven Peeler writes in to announce Drox Operative: Invasion of the Ancients, an expansion he’s working on for Drox Operative (previously covered here) that will add a variety of new races to the game. The premise: Before the Drox ruled the galaxy, before they were even sentient, there were older races now known as the […]

While we’re on the subject of games that I should’ve posted about last year, Dancing Dragon (previously Deadly Sin Studios) came out with a really nice-looking jRPG called Skyborn last spring. (If “Deadly Sin Studios” sounds familiar, it might be because the developer is the same fellow behind the Deadly Sin series, one Phillip Hamilton–you […]