Archive for the ‘indie RPG news’ Category

New release: OFF

A reader writes in to inform me of the existence of OFF, a surreal-looking French jRPG. Created by developers Mortis Ghost and Alias Conrad Coldwood way back in 2008, OFF has been localized into English by the Reconstructed Game Team. The localizers have this to say about it: Originally in French with only few English […]

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New release: Seedling

Connor Ullman writes in to tell me about Seedling, a nonlinear Zelda-style action adventure game he created and released recently. I’ve played a bit of it, and I can report that Seedling has a pretty interesting world with noticeable influences from Zelda: A Link to the Past and Shadow of the Colossus. There isn’t too […]

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Rogue’s Souls announced, playable alpha

Rogue’s Souls is a new roguelike in development by C. A. Sinclair. You may at first think that the game’s title is a typo, but it isn’t: Rogue’s Souls is literally a game about a rogue who goes around adding to his collection of souls. It’s a roguelike and it’s loosely inspired by Demon’s Souls […]

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Ortus announced

Now this is interesting–if you’ve spent much time on Newgrounds over the past five years, you’re probably familiar with the Australian Flash animator Josiah Brooks (better known as Jazza). Jazza already has a fair few games under his belt, but none of them have been RPGs. Not until now, anyway. I just learned that Jazza […]

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Saturday Morning RPG: Ep. 3 announced

Mighty Rabbit Studios have written in to announce (unsurprisingly) that episodes 1 and 2 of Saturday Morning RPG will be followed up with an episode 3. Episode 3, “To Bot or Not To Bot,” is apparently Transformers-themed: The evil Botchangers, the Badbots, are attacking Shadow Valley’s Jean Claude Van Dam and stealing all the power! […]

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Echoes of Aeons announced

Alchimia Studios writes in to announce the development of Echoes of Aeons, a 2.5D action RPG with some very attractive hand-painted art and animations. The premise: Eldric entered the shop unaware of the eyes watching him from just beyond the pumpkin field fence, just into the morning trees in the forest of Westwood. He was […]

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Lodestar: Stygian Skies announced

Well shucks, folks–here we have another interesting project by a developer who can clearly code incredibly complicated stuff, but who hasn’t figured out the most basic rule of game marketing: you have to actually email people about your game. Seriously, I just stumbled onto this one by pure luck in a random internet comments thread […]

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New release: Kingturn RPG Plus

Remember how I posted about Kingturn RPG not that long ago? Well, it just had a baby: Kingturn RPG Plus. Kingturn RPG Plus, just like its predecessor, is a turn-based tactical RPG with an overtly political storyline. This time, however, the story is completely different (which begs the question as to why this is given […]

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New release: Pocket Heroes

It was only a matter of time until Pocket Heroes made it to release (specifically, about two months since the last time we posted about it). Well folks, that time is now! According to the developers, this initial release is basically a starter pack, as they’re planning on continuing to add content over the coming […]

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MiniFlake demo released, taking pre-orders

Chris Legasse, he of the 1-bit roguelike MiniFlake, was good enough to notify us all that there is now a free playable demo of the game available on Desura. Also, there appears to be a proper trailer now: The demo is Windows-only; however, per the developer, the finished game will be released “on the Android, […]

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