Posted in August 20, 2012 ¬ 10:21 amh.Craig Stern
Word reaches me that there’s a new sci-fi, turn-based tactical RPG available from TildeOne Games called I Miss the Sunrise. I’d give you a plot breakdown, but the developers don’t seem to provide one, and frankly, I don’t have time to play through the entire game just to come up with one myself. A diligent reader […]
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Posted in August 15, 2012 ¬ 10:46 amh.Craig Stern
Did you like Space Funeral? Well, you’re in luck! From developer magicdweedoo comes Kevin Rudd Farming Generations, an oddball, free-to-download jRPG with quirky visuals and a surreal setting. You play a member of the Rudd family, owners of the most profitable farm in a small town overrun by a “crime gang.” From my brief time playing […]
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Posted in August 14, 2012 ¬ 10:18 amh.Craig Stern
Greg Lobanov writes in to announce a release date for his ghostly jRPG Phantasmaburbia, previously covered here and the subject of an interview here. Banov has selected October 31st to put the game out (which makes sense, given its subject matter). Banov says Phantasmaburbia is mostly done, but that he needs to spend time polishing it […]
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Posted in August 13, 2012 ¬ 9:35 amh.Craig Stern
Here’s another interesting one: Mercury by James and Frank Lantz is a roguelike that imposes a strict turn limit on the player; the only way to get more turns is to descend a floor. It is, in other words, a sort of abstracted form of the time pressure imposed by the need for food, but […]
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Posted in August 10, 2012 ¬ 10:44 amh.Craig Stern
Stygian Software writes in to announce that Underrail, the hotly anticipated sci-fi isometic wRPG (previously covered here), is due to get a public alpha demo release later this month. Developer Dejan Radisic estimates that the demo will come out sometime between August 20th and August 31st. The complete game remains due for release in the […]
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Posted in August 9, 2012 ¬ 9:58 amh.Craig Stern
Are you hungry for a new single player RPG with CCG-style combat? Hungry like the wolf? You’re in luck! Patrik Spacek writes in to announce Northmark: Hour of the Wolf, apparently two years into development by Rake In Grass (whom you may recall as the developers behind the fantasy strategy game Styrateg). Rake In Grass […]
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Posted in August 8, 2012 ¬ 9:56 amh.Craig Stern
I’m not sure how I missed this one: Unemployment Quest is a jRPG by Charles DeYoe with a decidedly…shall we say, “contemporary”…theme, released in mid-June. The game’s premise is all but spelled out in the title. DeYoe writes: Unemployment Quest is a game about the experience of unemployed youth. … The story is minimalistic as […]
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Posted in August 7, 2012 ¬ 9:31 amh.Craig Stern
Johnathan Davis of Shorebound Studios writes in to tell me about Shadow Remnants, a 3D turn-based tactical RPG. The premise: In Shadow Remnants, you play as Drake, whose family was slaughtered by invading Entarians two years ago. Now a foot soldier in the royal infantry, he fights for vengeance. The closer he gets to the […]
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Posted in August 6, 2012 ¬ 9:42 amh.Craig Stern
Since I’ve been loosening up on the sort of games I’ve been willing to post about lately, I figured it was time to stop agonizing about whether Defender’s Quest was really an RPG and just post about the thing. Defender’s Quest is a hybrid RPG / tower defense game by Lars Doucet. Protector, the first […]
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Posted in August 2, 2012 ¬ 10:00 amh.Craig Stern
Word has reached my ear that Valdis Story: Abyssal City, a side-scrolling action RPG, is in development courtesy of EndlessFluff Games. Here’s the premise: Over 40 years ago the Dark Goddess Myrgato attacked and killed her creator, the All Mother Valdis. Since this event Myrgato has been at war with her twin sister the Goddess […]
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