Multiplayer for The Banner Saga, the tactical-RPG-cum-viking-tale previously covered here, has just entered open beta. Now referring to this as The Banner Saga: Factions, Stoic Studio describes it simply: “a competitive multiplayer game where you fight against other players online to be the last one standing.” Now, I don’t normally post about pure multiplayer outings on […]

So, remember last year when Basilisk Games posted about how they’ve been working on Eschalon Book III, but they weren’t technically announcing it? (Yeah, it doesn’t make sense to me either.) Well, now they’re announcing it! Officially. Or something. Basilisk Games is very happy to finally announce that we are, in fact, working on Eschalon: […]

File this one under “new to me”: His Dark Majesty is an aggressively lo-fi turn-based fantasy strategy game “that takes the core elements of Advance Wars and The Battle for Wesnoth.” Developed by a small team, HDM was released back in 2010 for–wait for it–the Atari 800. No, really. (There’s a Windows version too, thankfully.) […]

The Battle for Wesnoth is a bit of a classic. It was first developed by David White and released for free back in 2003; because the game is open source, however, it has been further developed and extended by a small army of people over the intervening years. Wesnoth is so old that it gets […]

Pete Biles of Mighty Rabbit Studios writes in to inform me that Episode 3 of Saturday Morning RPG (“To Bot or Not to Bot”) is getting released today. The premise is simple: The evil Botchangers, the Badbots, are attacking Shadow Valley’s Jean Claude Van Dam and stealing all the power! Marty must stop them to […]

Jason Geyer writes in to announce Shadow Minion Village, a jRPG / sim crossover. He describes it like so: A mutated crossbreed of a Sim, JRPG, and sandbox game. Control your shadow minions, build a village, craft weapons and items, and send them to their doom vs. horrible beasts of the wildlands. Players create and […]

Michael Akinde of MicaByte Systems writes in to announce Pirates and Traders, a pirate-themed trading game / RPG hybrid. Akinde states that P&T is modeled on the old PalmOS game Space Traders, but is set in the 17th century Caribbean and features attributes, skills, and menu-based combat. The premise: Sail the Caribbean in this turn-based […]

Seattletek informs me that they have been working on a new RPG called Beasts and Blades. Having looked at a bunch of gameplay videos, it strikes me as something of a Western take on the modern Square jRPG formula. The premise: The game opens in a scene where a royal investigation team (five main characters) […]

Steven Peeler has emailed me to announce the release of a public demo for Soldak Entertainment’s upcoming space-based action RPG Drox Operative. (You can see me playing a beta version here, and failing terribly it.) The demo is available for both Windows and Mac. It’s 120 MB, which is surprisingly small considering how much stuff […]

Delver has been in the pipeline for quite some time, but it hadn’t had a website, so I was hesitant to feature it. However, it now has one. In fact, not only does it have a website, it has also now been released as an open alpha. (What can I say–I’m late to the party […]