Steve Gibbon writes in to tell me about Tales of the Drunken Paladin, a comedic jRPG with some very nice custom character portraits. (“Custom,” of course, being relative to the rest of the graphics, which appear mostly to be defaults from RPG Maker.) The game was originally released way back in 2009. Since that time, […]

Minecraft has always had sort of an RPG veneer, as have numerous other games with visuals inspired by its voxel aesthetic (see e.g. 3D Dot Heroes and Cube World). But we haven’t seen a proper voxel fantasy strategy title* yet–not until now. IndieRPGs.com reader Steven Adamo wrote to me last week to let me know […]

Back to Back is back! Welcome, you know, back. Glancing over the campaigns that have ended since our last edition, Chasm succeeded admirably while Lex Laser, Wranglers and Paradigm Shift each fell short. The current round-up contains both returning projects and some fresh blood: Ghost of a Tale — a beautiful 3D action RPG with […]

A bit of digging has revealed the existence of Nadia Was Here, a from-scratch (read: not made in RPG maker) jRPG with a unique battle system and an unusual, limited color palette in development by Joep Aben. The premise: This is not the first time this is happening. A mage driven by guilt. Will any […]

Jon Dibble writes in to inform me of a side-scrolling action RPG he’s working on called Reobirth: Magic’s Awakening. (That’s not a typo, by the way–it’s actually spelled Reobirth, and pronounced like “ray o’ birth”.) Here’s the premise: When Reo, a powerful and devastating form of elemental magic, is unleashed across the greatest expands of […]

Happy Monday, and welcome to another glorious week of exploring the exciting and ever-expanding world of indie RPGs! While I do some digging into some new and obscure projects, why don’t we catch up on some games we’ve previously covered, complete with videos? (Or, as I like to call it: Movie Night!) First up, we […]

Raphael Gervaise of NotByDesign has emailed me to inform me of The House of Correction, a nonlinear tile-based first-person dungeon crawl with a horror theme and some quite nice-looking hand-drawn 2D graphics. The premise: A group of disparate companions are about to find themselves subject to the machinations of the mysterious House of Correction. Faced […]

Word has it that there is a “roguelike RPG brawler” in progress by developers Butterscotch Shenanigans. Quadropus Rampage began life as a 7DRL entry; the developers apparently liked it enough that they chose to expand it into a full game. QR is a roguelike-like: it has levels, equipment, procedural generation and permadeath, but it’s also […]

Aldorlea Games informs me that in preparation for the imminent release of Millennium 5, they’ve gone back and updated installments 1-4. The games now contain new faces for all the Mystrock Lords as well as small gameplay additions, such as the explanation of what each promotion (and double-promotion, in the case of Millennium 4) does. […]