I’ve stumbled across a new first-person dungeon delver under development by the name of Dungeonspace. “Another one?” Yup. This one stands out, however, for one big reason: “a LAN/Internet multiplayer mode.” The game also supports modding, with the ability to add in entirely new creature art and dungeon tilesets to the game. The game’s premise […]

Ari Rae-Silver writes in to announce Antharion, an isometric turn-based party-based wRPG in development by Orphic Software. The premise: Ever since the murder of the beloved King Mallory (uniter of the Kingdom) at the hands of his own debauched son (and now King) Zeverith, the Kingdom of Antharion has been ravaged by political turmoil. Zeverith’s […]

James Sablatura writes in to announce AAIMIE, an unusual sci-fi first-person dungeon delver where you play as an AI robot. AAIMIE, short for ‘Autonomous Artificially Intelligent Mechanized Industrial Engineer’, is a first person point of view dungeon crawler. You play as AAIMIE, a repair bot in a power facility on a distant planet. One day after […]

Florin Udrea writes in to let me know about I Shall Remain, an action RPG set (where else?) in the zombie apocalypse. In development by Jake Way and Scorpius Games, I Shall Remain is a bird’s eye view RPG that allows you to control the journey of a Marine who has awoken in a city […]

Developers K.F. Harlock and Shizuma have been working on a jRPG-style dungeon delver called Dungeonmen: Men of Dungeons. Harlock describes the game as follows: “Dungeonmen: Men of Dungeons” is an RPG that mixes classic dungeon-crawling mechanics with the design sensibilities of 16-bit JRPGs. In it, you can build a team of up to 40 heroes, […]

A Twitter follower recently brought a small treasure trove of freeware RPGs to my attention. The first one I’m going to talk about is called Shattered World: Beneath a Stone Sky. Mechanically, it seems to be a pretty straightforward Disgaea clone. Plot-wise, it’s…you’re already downloading it, aren’t you? Fair enough. Shattered World was initially released […]

Whitney White writes in to announce Demon’s Revenge, a jRPG currently in development by herself, Tyrell White, Ricky Gunawan, Michael Correa, and a programmer who prefers to go by the moniker “derula.” The premise: Demon’s Revenge is about a young woman name Sen. She has gone through hell her whole life, having accidentally killed her […]

Ruari O’Sullivan, one of the two developers who worked on the well-received graphical roguelike Cardinal Quest, writes in to announce a sequel. Cardinal Quest 2, like the original, is (and I quote) a streamlined roguelike; a top-down 2D game with permadeath about fighting your way through varied procedurally-generated environments and eventually challenging the minotaur tyrant […]

There’s another Zelda-alike on the horizon, folks: Anodyne, in development by Sean Hogan and Jonathan Kittaka. Here’s the gist: Anodyne is a 2D adventure with Zelda-style dungeons, and aesthetics influenced by Yume Nikki. You explore multiple dungeons and passive locales, located in the surreal, and occasionally even disturbing, dream world of a human named Young. […]

If you’ve been enjoying the wealth of first-person dungeon crawlers bursting out of the indie scene this past year, then you’re going to appreciate this: Arakion is a new RPG “reminiscent of old school Might and Magic” in development by Chris Taylor. Here is the premise: You’re put in control of three heroes  trying to survive […]