Archive for the ‘indie RPG news’ Category

Driftmoon available for pre-order

Developer Instant Kingdom wrote to me today to announce that they are now taking pre-orders for their up-and-coming indie RPG Driftmoon. Quoth the developer: Driftmoon is an adventure-oriented roleplaying game, with focus on storytelling, exploring and quests. In Driftmoon there are always plenty of things to find and people to meet, and instead of killing […]

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New release: Jade’s Journey

Aldorlea Games writes in to announce the release of a new RPG Maker jRPG by the name of Jade’s Journey. I’d like to tell you something about it, but all they have up is the following plot description: Join Jade in her journey to master her powers and save her father! Jade is a regular […]

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Aldorlea Games Halloween Contest

Aldorlea Games has announced a contest to win a free copy of their upcoming jRPG Millenium 3. I thought of spicing up your waiting time for Millennium’s next chapter and give you all a chance to win a copy of the game in an Aldorlean version of Trick-or-treating. Ehehe!!! The Treat is obvious – a […]

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New release: Space Funeral

Paul Eres posts on TIGS about a new, free, short JRPG set in what is reportedly a unique and interesting universe. You can download Space Funeral right here.

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XBox 360 indies

RPGWatch reports on a new round-up of XBox 360 indie RPGs posted on the Evil Avatar forums. Every last one of them is dirt-cheap–worth checking out if you’re looking to try out a new RPG on your XBox 360.

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Dead State announced

RPG Watch reports that Double Bear Productions has officially announced a new RPG entitled Dead State. Double Bear summarizes the game thusly: Dead State is a compelling, high-tension RPG set at the beginning of the zombie apocalypse – a deadly illness is rampaging through the world, turning those infected into the walking dead. As society […]

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RPGDX Alternate History Challenge Complete!

RPGDX has just wrapped up its annual short-form RPG challenge. All participants had from August 9th to August 18th to create an RPG having to do with the challenge theme, Alternate History. Here is a list of the games that were finished within the time constraints of the challenge: —If Only, a short but funny […]

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New release: Road Gangs

RPGWatch reports that Road Gangs, a real-time RPG set in the post-apocalyptic United States, has just been released. Blackwater Games describes the game here: Road Gangs is a vehicle based RPG set in a post-apocalyptic United States. Your gang must find a number of nuclear scientists hidden in cities all over the country and use […]

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Recettear release date announced

Carpe Fulgur have announced an official release date for Recettear: An Item Shop’s Tale, a Japanese indie RPG (and, as I understand, an indie jRPG as well) in which you play an item shop owner. The game involves actually managing the item shop, and doing the odd dungeon-delving here and there to obtain more stock. […]

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New release: Deadly Sin 2: Shining Faith

Deadly Sin Studios has announced the release of their new game Deadly Sin 2: Shining Faith. Although it carries the same name as the original Deadly Sin, the developer says that this is a sequel only in spirit–the story is unconnected to the first game. One might safely assume, however, that the game involves both […]

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