Last year was just chock full of announcements for new first-person dungeon crawlers, but it’s been a couple of months since the last one. Let’s consult our friend, the Magic 8 Ball. Tell me, oh 8 Ball! Is the glut finally over? Yeah, that’s what I thought. Here to turn the spigot back on is Moonshades, […]

Here’s an interesting one. Pier Solar is a 16-bit indie jRPG with a major Lunar: The Silver Star / Lunar 2: Eternal Blue vibe, created and released for the Sega Genesis on an actual, custom cartridge back in 2010. The developers incorrectly state that it was the only game to do so in the new […]

This is exciting news (if quite late). In a terse post some months back on the News section of Sugar Free Games, Dmitry Zheltobriukhov announced that a sequel to the excellent post-apocalyptic wRPG Caravaneer is in the works. This sequel has evidently been in production since June 18th of this year. The original Caravaneer has been […]

So, remember last year when Basilisk Games posted about how they’ve been working on Eschalon Book III, but they weren’t technically announcing it? (Yeah, it doesn’t make sense to me either.) Well, now they’re announcing it! Officially. Or something. Basilisk Games is very happy to finally announce that we are, in fact, working on Eschalon: […]

Jason Geyer writes in to announce Shadow Minion Village, a jRPG / sim crossover. He describes it like so: A mutated crossbreed of a Sim, JRPG, and sandbox game. Control your shadow minions, build a village, craft weapons and items, and send them to their doom vs. horrible beasts of the wildlands. Players create and […]

Seattletek informs me that they have been working on a new RPG called Beasts and Blades. Having looked at a bunch of gameplay videos, it strikes me as something of a Western take on the modern Square jRPG formula. The premise: The game opens in a scene where a royal investigation team (five main characters) […]

Delver has been in the pipeline for quite some time, but it hadn’t had a website, so I was hesitant to feature it. However, it now has one. In fact, not only does it have a website, it has also now been released as an open alpha. (What can I say–I’m late to the party […]

Remember the good old days of Game Boy jRPGs like Final Fantasy Legend III? One brave soul by the name of Jesse Shepherd has undertaken to make a jRPG as if for a Game Boy. His game: Soul Compass. Soul Compass will be a combat-driven, difficult, short, turn-based RPG. No grind, no random encounters, no […]

Karl Crawford has written in to announce a new jRPG project called Rainbow Nightmare: Libra. In development by Crawford under the name Ghost in a Bottle Games, RNL features the following premise: Take on the role of Lady Libra as she goes above and beyond to help her friend find a cure for his disease. […]

David Williams writes in to announce The Wizard’s Lair, the latest in a seemingly endless stream of graphical roguelikes coming out of the community lately. The premise: The game is an RPG in the spirit of Roguelikes and the Mystery Dungeon series, in which the hero(you) is tasked to descend the Dungeon and defeat the […]