Indie game news, reviews, previews & developer interviews
The original creator of beloved karate game Karateka for the Apple II revisits his own title with a beautifully animated HD remake after having taken a break to build the Prince of Persia franchise. In this review we consider whether the new look revises the old glory for a next gen console generation.
10,000,000 is a “match three” puzzler set at a fast pace and backed up with several RPG qualities such as equipment upgrades and experience gain. Available both as a mobile game and through Steam, 10,000,000 strives to be both a quick escape and an engaging time-sink.
Travel across America as you run from a ravenous throng of zombies. Make trades in cities to survive. Safe Haven is far to the west. Will you survive the trip?
A game that explores the Syrian civil war – Endgame: Syria – has been rejected by Apple due to App Store guidelines forbidding games that “solely target a specific race, culture, a real government or corporation, or any other real entity”. Apple say that Endgame: Syria, which explores a real news event and aims to show users the range of factions and peoples involved in the situation, fell into this category and so was rejected. It is available for Android.
We are going to keep this one short and sweet: There are simply hundreds of thousands of indie games available on the iOS and Android platforms so it is impossible to attempt to be comprehensive, let alone definitive. Instead, we are going to point out five that we spent a lot of time with and thought were as solid as could be. Here are IGR’s top five favorite mobile indie games of 2012
IndieGameReviewer.com presents its epic year-end game round up for 2012, top ten indie game list and lots of honorable mentions along with the most anticipated games for 2013. Dive in!
MegaCity HD, from indie developer Cole Jeffries, aka Cole{Powered is a surprisingly deep tile-based puzzler available for iOS and Android with some notable differences between platforms. Read the full review and learn why it’s a standout…
waking Mars from indie game developers Tiger Style had a very successful year, moving quickly from its initial iOS release to an improved PC port and then Steam via Greenlight. Discover why this game continues to earn new fans…
Stand Alone iOS App for Penny Arcade™ The Game: Gamers vs Evil available through the iTunes App Store. Brand new digital version of fan-favorite game offers online play for up to 4 Players.
Leading publisher of interactive adventures Telltale Games announces that the 2012 Multiple Game of the Year-winning series The Walking Dead is offering the first episode, ‘A New Day’ as a free download for a limited time on the App Store
Quell Reflect from Fallen Tree Games is the successor to the simply named “Quell” – a contemporary re-visioning of a puzzler created a decade-and-a-half ago, wherein you navigate a circular object (originally a smiley face, now a droplet of water) to collect all the “gems” on a given level. Read the full review…
International Racing Squirrels from Playniac and Channel 4 spearheaded by Rob Davis is rodent-racer that is hiding something very special under the hood. Watch IGR’s interview with Davis at IndieCade 2012 where it was a finalist…
New York based indie developer Brian Hammond, working under the name Fictorial attempts to blast a pathway through the Words With Friends audience and invigorate the faded word-game genre…
Blue Libra II is the follow up to the space-combat title from indie developer Orator Games available for PC, iOS, Linux and Mac. Read the full review…
A review of Galaxy on Fire 2 Full HD – the first PC port of the popular space sim from indie developer Fishlabs Entertainment GmbH. Now in Full HD and beyond! Read the full review…