It’s been a while since we featured a new jRPG here on IndieRPGs.com–let’s fix that! A few minutes of digging around the internets reveals to me the existence of Vengeance Road, a new title from Warfare Studios. The premise: Gallagar used to be a fragile country, weak and without respect. That was until Queen Lilliana […]

Joshua Hallaran of Critical Games (creator of Path of Thanatos) writes in to announce the release of a new RPG maker jRPG, 8-Bit Adventures: The Forgotten Journey. Hallaran says the game has over 7 hours of play time, with an additional New Game plus mode containing “Greater Difficulty, New Equipment, Rewritten Dialogue, Alternate Graphics for […]

Mighty Rabbit Studios is on a roll, folks, with Episode 4 of Saturday Morning RPG seeing release barely a month after the last one. “But Craig,” you say, “it’s been more than a month sinc–” Shhhh. I was on hiatus, remember? Here, look at these screenshots; you are feeling very sleepy… The premise: Commander Hood has […]

Hello there indie RPG fans! My name is Jordan/jackal27 and I’ll be helping Craig out with indieRPGS.com while he’s handling his Kickstarter this month! Craig has been gone for a few days now and if you’re anything like me, you’re already slobbering for a new indie RPG to sink your teeth into. Well, have I […]

Aldorlea Games writes in to announce Opaline, a jRPG collaboration between Aldorlea and Warfare Studios. (It seems that Warfare Studios did most of the heavy lifting, and Aldorlea came into to refine and polish.) The game’s premise is…well, kinda vague. The marketing materials seem to suggest some kind of star-crossed-lovers frame, though, which could be […]

Jonathan Dixon writes in to let me know that Modest Arcade has released Alcarys Complex, the The Secret of Mana-style action jRPG that we last covered back in June. The premise: Welcome to Elcaea, the world of the wicked. In the place of heroes and villains are people – for the most part – doing […]

Greg “Banov” Lobanov has just released Phantasmaburbia, his jRPG opus about a suburban subdivision infested with ghosts and the small band of teenagers who must fight increasingly desperate odds to save it. The year is 201X (twenty-X-teen) and Owl Creek, a small modern neighborhood, has suddenly been overrun with ghosts. Four local kids, wielding weapons […]

Aldorlea Games writes in to announce that they have released Moonchild, the latest of their jRPGs. The premise: What kind of danger can a mother face to rescue her child? Play as Queen Calypso and her friends going after Calypso’s abducted child and trying to figure out what happened… and why. Can you solve the […]

I’m behind the times on this one, apparently: I actually found A Closed World while I was browsing the official selections at Indiecade. A jRPG by Todd Harper and MIT’s Gambit Game Lab, This console RPG-like game puts you in the shoes of a young resident of a village just outside a forest that everyone […]