2018

I had a fish tank when I was a kid. I'm terrified of fish. Now, why my parents thought this was a good idea is beyond me. Needless to say, this did not go well. I'm still scared of fish, but I also feel pretty bad about how that whole aquarium thing went down. To…

MMOs are an interesting breed of games. I feel like we all have a background with them, and to be honest, they are extremely difficult to get right. Boundless by Wonderstruck is a new MMO that came out this fall. It seems to be one of the few attempts that really hits a great balance.…

The cold sea breeze nipping at your fingers. The wooden groans of the deck and the sound of overlapping sea waves. An eerie atmosphere that forebodes carnage. Welcome aboard the Obra Dinn, a ship lost at sea for years and suddenly found on England docks, empty. Whether you fulfil the promise of deducing the fate…

Scary, puzzling, and dripping with paranoia and fear, rolls out IMMURE, a yet-to-be-released psychological horror 2.5D scroller game by Wither Studios . I tend to stay away from this particular spooky genre, but I couldn’t help but be hooked when looking through the game’s trailer and demo. The Story of IMMURE When looking up the…

RimWorld is a 2D sci-fi colony sim game in which you manage people stranded on a foreign planet. Inspired by Dwarf Fortress and Firefly and developed by Ludeon Studios, this game’s been running for about 5 years, but only recently hit the official 1.0 stage. And let me tell you, those 5 years have brought…

My Memory of Us, developed by Juggler Games , is an emotionally-driven story seen through the eyes of two children. Their friendship is the only thing keeping them alive. It’s an excellent example of a puzzle side scroller that achieves to tell a good story. It doesn’t hurt that it’s narrated by Patrick Stewart, of…

Have you ever wanted to see a mix of Smash Bros done with indie characters? Look no further as Indie Pogo by Lowe Bros. Studios bounces in the form of a retro-styled platform brawler game. With the ability to fight online or offline, in different modes and with 14 different characters. One unique thing among…

Sometimes nightmares can be stressful, and sometimes they can be fun. The indie title brought to us by art and video game collective ‘ melessthanthree ’ proves just that, in the form of action-adventure RPG Lucah: Born of a Dream. With its striking art design made of neon scribbles and dark narrative grit, this mixture…

Omni Link, by developer Roencia , is a visual novel/old school space shooter that draws inspiration from both manga and the nostalgic 2D space battles. Personally, as a sucker for both, the game felt like winning a prize that few people seem to be aware of. It consists of great music, art that fleshes out…

We got another Zombie Survival for you zombie fans out there. The indie gaming sphere has had a lot of iterations of zombie survival over the last several years, but not many of them have been very successful. Mist Survival is looking like it might change that. This PvE survival game by Rati Wattanakornprasit is…