Life is funny sometimes. I posted about the upcoming Zelda-alike Anodyne on Friday; on Saturday, I randomly met Anodyne developer Sean Hogan at Indie City Games, where he showed off Anodyne for everyone; and the day after that, Hogan released a public demo. Speaking of which: Anodyne now has a demo! It comes in two […]

There’s another Zelda-alike on the horizon, folks: Anodyne, in development by Sean Hogan and Jonathan Kittaka. Here’s the gist: Anodyne is a 2D adventure with Zelda-style dungeons, and aesthetics influenced by Yume Nikki. You explore multiple dungeons and passive locales, located in the surreal, and occasionally even disturbing, dream world of a human named Young. […]

Dear reader, I know what you’re thinking: “Craig, Foo Fighters released that song, like, a billion years ago. Also, that’s a song, not an RPG.” How wrong you are! Everlong is also a jRPG, thanks to Doug Carpenter (and a small army of other folks). You are right about it being released a while ago, […]

If you’ve been enjoying the wealth of first-person dungeon crawlers bursting out of the indie scene this past year, then you’re going to appreciate this: Arakion is a new RPG “reminiscent of old school Might and Magic” in development by Chris Taylor. Here is the premise: You’re put in control of three heroes  trying to survive […]

Geoff Dunbar of Merry Prankster Games writes in to announce the release of 10 Fantasy Fights, a short (but free) fantasy tactics game featuring combat of the real-time-with-pause variety and a rules system reminiscent of D&D’s. The premise is a bit flimsy, and by the author’s own admission, is there primarily to justify him stress-testing […]

Hey folks! Sorry for the ridiculous delay in posting–the site host was down all day due to some friendly DDOSing from our friends over at Anonymous. Speaking of friends: when you take a look at Dragon Fantasy, don’t you just feel like you’re looking at your old pal Final Fantasy 4? What’s that–you say don’t […]

Well, here’s something you don’t see every day: Worlds Beyond is an old school jRPG currently in development by Bridge Unit Orzo, created in an engine the developers built themselves from the ground-up. The premise: The universe has collapsed into an endless blue void, solid and featureless. Somewhere, there is a small pocket of existence […]

Interesting news, folks! Epic Banana Software has announced DataJack, a third-person isometric cyberpunk infiltration-focused action RPG. Did you catch all of that? Don’t worry; here’s the developer description to clarify: DataJack is an upcoming 2D cyberpunk stealth action / RPG game which has been under development for four years. Set in the year 2030, following […]

The latest in the Choice of Games line, Way Walkers: University (last discussed here), has now been released. In a land were science and magic are the same, you are one of the few born with Extrasensory Abilities–and you dream of attending the most prestigious metaphysical university on the Continent. There, you can discover not […]

Hello, everyone! With Labor Day behind us, it’s back to laboring at the old Indie RPG News mill. To get us back into the swing of things, here is a little nugget I’ve been sitting on: Harmonia Online, described as “an MMO with the strategic interplay of a turn-based strategy game.” The plot is a […]