A bit of digging around has revealed to me the existence of The Book of Legends, released by the ever-prolific Aldorlea Games sometime last summer. I could have sworn I’d posted about this one already, but some searching around this site reveals that I have not, so here I am making up for lost time. […]

Hello, gentle readers! We’re back from our Memorial Day break with a free game for you to check out. Michael Lau writes in to tell me about Lunar Wish: Orbs of Fate, a jRPG he recently completed using RPG Maker VX. The premise: Serathium, the fabled land of legends home to Angels, Beasts and Vampires, […]

Steve Gibbon writes in to tell me about Tales of the Drunken Paladin, a comedic jRPG with some very nice custom character portraits. (“Custom,” of course, being relative to the rest of the graphics, which appear mostly to be defaults from RPG Maker.) The game was originally released way back in 2009. Since that time, […]

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 […]

Title: Mainichi Developer: Mattie Brice Platforms: Windows Price: free “I should try to be more positive today.” Mainichi is not an RPG, but it’s made in RPG Maker and it forms an interesting contrast to games that are RPGs–so we’re going to examine it. RPGs are games about character progression. Insofar as the player character […]

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 […]