Tired of RPG Maker games? Well, here’s something you don’t see every day, Chauncey: a first-person dungeon delver. That would be Darklight Dungeon, by ZoellerSoft LLC. The screenies and description immediately call to mind old games like Wizardry and Stonekeep.

Darklight Dungeon’s official description is a little lackluster, but the Rampant Games blog has its own description that I will helpfully plagiarize for you here:

It’s an indie first-person dungeon crawler of a definitely old-school western RPG persuasion. It features turn-based, menu-oriented combat; anti-magic zones; square step-based dungeon grids (but with smooth 3D transitions and particle systems); puzzles; trapped chests; exploration; and even *gulp* character aging.

I tried my damnedest to boot up the game and take a screenshot, but Darklight Dungeon doesn’t seem to like my PC very much.

Rather than upload a screenie of an error message here, I’m going to plagiarize Indie Game News by stealing their lovely-looking screenshot. (I could plagiarize the Rampant Games blog again, but I’m saving that for when I post the link to the interview they did with developer Jesse Zoeller. Which I am doing right now.)

You! Have you been hungering for a new RPG Maker game; sitting at home, stroking your goatee, as it were, thinking about your need for 2D anime-style graphics and level grinding?

Well then boy-howdy are you ever in luck! Eridani Games has just released The Witch and the Warrior, a game which (I assume) bears no relation to the seedy romance novel by that name. Which is a shame, actually, because that might have been more interesting than what the game is actually about:

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They say a picture is worth a thousand words. Thus, rather than tell you that strategy-RPG / western-RPG wunderkind Telepath RPG: Servants of God has just been made available for pre-order, I will use a picture:

Word has it that this is going to be a good’n, but in the spirit of visuals over verbiage, I leave you with a trailer:

Will Swannack writes in with word that he has released a new graphical roguelike by the name of Through. As in, “Will is now Through developing the game,” or “Let’s go adventuring Through this big dungeon,” or “I played Through too much and then I Through up.” Well. Maybe not that last one.

Anyway, here is a gameplay video:

Gameplay video – Indie DB

You can nab the game Through this link, once you’re Through reading this news blurb.

…Through.

Developers SRRN made a curious choice in creating Ash: they built a brand-new jRPG engine natively for the iPhone, then licensed generic RPG Maker sprites from Enterbrain to decorate the thing.

According to this positive review up on RPGFan, however, the original writing really makes the game. It’s $4.99 up on the app store. Here is a trailer:

 

Don’t ask me how they managed this, but Aldorlea Games has just released a new RPG less than a week after the release of their last RPG. This latest one is called Millennium 3: Cry Wolf. Here is what it’s about:

Marine and her friends are back!
Time is running out for the showdown and the Lords of Mystrock are nastier than ever – but Marine has other priorities!
She has to explore the Eastern part of the world with the hope to find new warriors! But little does she know that she is going to be sidetracked in order to help some of her friends!
What will happen next? Will Jeanne be back? Is Bokden still as elusive as ever? Play and find out!

Millennium 3 is the latest installment of the award-winning Millennium series, featuring 40 quests, 32 secret rooms, up to 11 animals kings and a whooping 20-30 hours of gameplay!

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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 all of your enemies, you can sometimes talk your way through.

More exciting (in my view) is the fact that Driftmoon comes with full access to the game editor tools. Which means that in theory, you could be looking at some pretty cool mods after the game’s release.

Pre-orders are €11.99 through Paypal, which I think comes to something just short of $17.00 USD. Here is the gameplay trailer:

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 girl living in a regular village until one day… it all changes.

Seriously, that’s it. Oh, and there are a couple of screenshots of a girl standing outside of a couple of different buildings. So the game features buildings for sure. And grass. If you like girls standing in the grassy areas outside of buildings, this game may be for you.

EDIT: I am informed that Aldorlea Games did not actually make this game: this game is by Warfare Studios.

• Title: Recettear: An Item Shop’s Tale
• Developer: EasyGameStation (localized by Carpe Fulgur)
• Platforms: Windows
• Price: $19.95

Recettear: An Item Shop’s Tale is a Japanese indie RPG originally developed and released by EasyGameStation in 2007, now localized and re-released in English by Carpe Fulgur. The gist is that you play a young girl forced to pay off her late father’s mortgage on the house by converting it into one of those ubiquitous jRPG item shops. Recettear is creative, endlessly entertaining, and above all, truly and painfully addictive.

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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 free copy of MM3!

The Trick… well you’ll need to correctly answer a few questions. Every week I’ll post a batch of questions. For each correct answer you’ll score a point (if a question requires more than one answer it’ll be one point for each).
At the end of the contest the member with highest score will win a copy of the game.
In case of ex-aequo, the winner will be randomly drawn among those with the highest number of points.
The points you accumulate will also be added to your clan so even if you don’t win the game you may considerably boost your clan’s chances of winning the Trophy for Highest Points.

Check the thread for more details.