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Review: BEEP

Big Fat Alien’s three-person team releases its impressive 2D platformer “BEEP”. Looks like Wall-E, tastes like awesome.


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Review: Back To The Future

A review of Back to the Future: The Game, lovingly crafted by indie game developer Telltale Games who you may remember from Sam and Max, Boneville or Puzzle Agent titles. BTTF features a new adventure for Marty and Doc who is voiced by Christopher Lloyd himself!


Review: Astroslugs

Indie game Astroslugs from developer Bit Barons is a sticky, gooey puzzler that drips and oozes charm. Available now for Windows PC and Mac. Read the full review…


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Review: Power of Defense

Review of Power of Defense from indie developer 4SDK – does this tower defense-styled game for Mac, Win and Steam merit the deployment of you strategic genius?


Review: Frogs vs Storks

Cateia Games, the makers of Kaptain Brawe present a puzzling struggle for swamp supremacy with puzzle game Frogs vs Storks. Stay on your webbed toes, or croak.


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Kaptain Brawe: A Brawe New World

An indie game review of Kaptain Brawe: A Brawe New World from Cateia Games – wherein we discover whether this Steampunk-influenced Point & Click in Space stands out from the pack…


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King's Legacy, Shaman Odyssey: Tropic Adventure

This started out as a review of King’s Legacy a time/resource management title from Cateia Games, but after having an opportunity to play Shaman Odyssey I had to include it. Why, you ask? Well because when it comes to gameplay, they are virtually identical.


IndieCade 2010 Coverage - Review: Fractal

A review of Fractal from developer Cipher Prime as Indie Game Reviewer covers the IndieCade 2010 independent games festival in Culver City, California.

“Slick, explosive and wickedly addictive. Fractal brings together the best parts of Hexic and Lumines, and then blows them both to itty-bitty pieces.”


Arcadian Renaissance by Hand Eye Society at Toronto's Nuit Blanche

As gigantic moving projections became the facades of buildings, and massive towers of speakers carried the soundtrack for the dancing images that graced hundreds of over-sized LED displays, there is no question that technology and art can (and often do) go hand-in-hand.  

IndieGameReviewer covers the Hand Eye Society’s Arcadian Renaissance indie game exhibit at Toronto’s all night city-wide Nuit Blanche art event. No quarters required!


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Jisei - The First Case: Someone’s Been J-Popped. Can You Discover the Killer? Gambatte!

Life is hard enough for a teenage boy without being plagued by visions of how people have died. In Jisei, you play as just such a youth, unfortunate enough to have stumbled upon a dead body in the restroom of the coffee shop you’re sitting in.

Jisei from indie developer Sakevisual is an interactive manga murder mystery game for Windows, Mac and Linux, read the indie game reviewer write up now.


Eschalon: Book 2

Eschalon: Book 2 from Basilisk brings players into the war-torn world of Thaermore and presents them with a daunting task, a sprawling world and rich gameplay. Read the IGR review.