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 […]

Jason Hill writes in to announce the release of The Fleet, the latest text-based RPG / Choose-Your-Own-Adventure hybrid using the Choice of Games engine. Created by Jonathan Valuckas, The Fleet offers the following premise: Take back your home world from alien invaders! Forge an Intergalactic Alliance (with untrustworthy allies) to reclaim your planet; blast your […]

Steven Peeler writes in to announce that Drox Operative has just been released. For those of you unfamiliar, Drox Operative is a sci-fi, outer space take on the Diablo-alike subgenre. It features procedurally generated galaxies, procedurally generated quests, and ever-evolving factional alliances to navigate in real-time. Here’s the plot premise: Eons ago the Drox ruled […]

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 […]

The Battle for Wesnoth is a bit of a classic. It was first developed by David White and released for free back in 2003; because the game is open source, however, it has been further developed and extended by a small army of people over the intervening years. Wesnoth is so old that it gets […]

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 […]

Christian Werner writes in with news of a new graphical roguelike, Battlepaths. (It’s new to PC, at any rate: Battlepaths was evidently released on XBLIG some 4 months ago.) Created by Key17 Games, Battlepaths takes place across three realms. Battlepaths has a loot system reminiscent of Diablo, the ability to swap items between your characters, […]