Jan Taaks of Overhype Studios writes in to announce the development of Battle Brothers, which he describes as a turn-based strategy game with RPG and management elements. A better way to describe this game, however, would probably be to just call it “fantasy X-COM.” The premise: In the game you take on the role of […]

Three-man Bulgarian studio iosoftware Ltd. has reached out to me with news of an upcoming fantasy strategy title by the name of Palm Kingdoms 3 (the game does not have its own web page at the moment–just the Facebook page). I’m not sure that there is actually a narrative premise at work here, but the […]

A bit of browsing on Kickstarter has revealed to me the existence of Darkest Dungeon, a top-down dungeon crawler with some really intriguing mechanics relating to the psychological state of your party. Now in development by Red Hook Studio, Darkest Dungeon “was conceived as an antidote to the loot-piñata RPG experience which focuses solely on […]

Developer Chandler S. writes in to announce a new tactical RPG / strategy roguelike hybrid he’s working on called Knights-Errant. …let’s play that back again, because if you’re like me, that genre description may not have computed. Knights-Errant is a tactical RPG with a series of procedurally generated overworld maps–maps which are themselves littered with […]

After a brief correspondence with developer Austin Jorgenson (a.k.a. Dingaling Games), I’m ready to write a bit more about Lisa the Painful RPG, the surreal jRPG I discovered while researching our last Back to Back. The premise: Lisa is set in a post apocalyptic wasteland where women are nowhere to be found. It’s a world […]

Bob Saunders writes in to tell me about Approaching Infinity, a new sci-fi roguelike he’s developing. Now, before you roll your eyes and say, “Geez, we already have, like, four indie science fiction roguelikes,” this one’s a little different. Approaching Infinity is more traditional than FTL, featuring turn-based play and fog of war; and it […]

Word reaches me of a new open-world wRPG on the horizon; one by the name The Memory of Eldurîm. Brian Cozzens of developer Liminal Games says that The Memory of Eldurîm is inspired by The Elder Scrolls series, Dark Souls, and Gothic. The premise: Everyone in this world has lost something, and they don’t even […]

Word has reached me that there is a new side-scrolling cyberpunk action RPG in development. The name? Dex. (And no, it’s not a game about the White Pages.) Dex is being developed by Dreadlocks Ltd. from the Czech Republic. The premise: The main protagonist – a young woman leading an ordinary corporate life – is […]

Word has it that Indonesian indie developer Enthrean is developing a dungeon crawler with a jRPG style battle system. That game is called Eremidia: Dungeon! The premise: You play as the chosen Scout of Eremidia mainland, taking your chosen Heroes and the cursed King himself to dwell the deep, dark dungeons filled by Minions and […]

Word reaches me that Singaporean developers Softnetix Entertainment are hard at work on an episodic 3D action RPG. The first episode is called Dimiria: The Agrarian Falls. I’m not sure what the subtitle is meant to refer to, if I’m being honest; it makes me think of a small waterfall by a farm. The plot […]