A new tactical RPG has been released by Sinister Design*, by the name of Telepath RPG: Servants of God. Quoth the game’s page: Telepath RPG: Servants of God is a hybrid western RPG / strategy RPG set in a unique Middle Eastern steampunk fantasy setting. The game features: Tactical turn-based combat where positioning and planning […]

Carpe Fulgur have released a new localized game (their third, I think?) by the name of Fortune Summoners: Secret of the Elemental Stone. This one is a side-scrolling action RPG sort of in the vein of Ys III: Wanderers from Ys. Andrew Dice from CF has this to say about it: Fortune Summoners is a 2D […]

Jesse Zoeller, creator of the original first-person dungeon delver Darklight Dungeon, has released a sequel by the name of Darklight Dungeon Eternity. Looking at the feature list, I get the feeling that the new adjective is meant to describe how long it takes to beat the game: Explore a vast dungeon totaling 50 floors. Defeat […]

Oddball, creator of one of the two ubiquitous roguelike graphics sets from the TIGSource Assemblee competition, has finally come out with a roguelike of his very own by the name of Hack, Slash, Loot. He describes it thusly: Hack, Slash, Loot(HSL) is a single-player turn-based dungeon crawler for Windows, MacOS, and Linux. Take control of […]

Mysterious Castle is an isometric, graphical tactics roguelike by Jeremy Jurksztowicz. There has been a developer’s log for this game for months, but last I checked, the game was exclusive to iOS, and I lost track of it. Well, no more of that! The game is now available in the app store, as well as […]

I found out about Tales of Maj’Eyal by virtue of DIY Gamer featuring it as roguelike of the year, eking out a win over the much better-known Dungeons of Dredmor. Tales of Maj’Eyal is a bit like Dredmor in that it eschews ASCII graphics in favor of representational ones, and it tacks on a nice, […]

Sensou writes in to inform me that he has created an homage to the original Septerra Core in RPG Maker. It’s a free fan game, essentially, which you can nab here. There is a video showing some gameplay footage, which should probably give you some idea if you’ll be interested or not.

Title: Frayed Knights: The Skull of S’makh-Daon Developer: Rampant Games (Jay Barnson) Platforms: Windows (a Mac port is promised in the future) Price: $22.95  Frayed Knights: The Skull of S’makh-Daon is a first-person dungeon delver by Rampant Games with an unusual focus on comedy and characterization. It lacks polish in a few areas, but FK:TSoSD […]

Joshua Hallaran of Critical Games writes in to announce the release of Path of Thanatos, a traditional jRPG made in RPG Maker XP. The game’s backstory revolves around a man named Kale who can communicate with animals and other creatures. He is eventually cast out of human society, joins with a group of monsters, vanishes, […]

Jay Barnson (recently interviewed here) has released the first episode of Frayed Knights, a comedic party-based first-person dungeon delver in the spirit of the old Wizardry games. In his press release, Jay writes: On top of the serious, ‘hard-core’ engine, The Skull of S’makh-Daon layers a world and story with a decidedly more tongue-in-cheek approach […]