Review: Fate of the Pharaoh
A review of Fate of the Pharaoh from indie developer Cateia Games. In their latest outing, the company focuses the gameplay, cuts out the fat and turns out a stronger iteration of their cute-styled civ sim template.
Review: Bastion
Bastion is a game that centers around its narrative, and its solid combat system. Right from the start its charm will grope around on you until it finds a firm grip and drags you into its lair for the rest of the ride. Read on to find out why this new RPG from Supergiant games gets a perfect score not only from Indie Game Reviewer, but every other critic who’s played it.
Review: Tobe's Vertical Adventure
Tobe is an Xbox Live Indie Games native ported to PC, apparently born from the goal of making a game that could have come straight out of the early 1990s. Tobe’s graphics are 16-bit, and would have been right at home in an old Genesis or SNES game. Even the sound and music is what one might call Megaman-esque. Plug a controller into your computer and you could easily mistake Tobe for a console ROM.
Review: The Cat and the Coup
In playing documentary game Cat and the Coup, one gets the same sense of cross-cultural influences as comparative to whirlwind tour of a foreign art gallery. Within the encapsulation of a 2D side-scroller, traditional Persian artwork combine with black and white rotoscoping, somber caricatures of figures and peoples, and pictures from the historical press. An unusual mix of Erik Satie and Nine Inch Nails saturate the aural space with viscosity. Despite the imagery’s perspectival flatness, the actual experience of the visual scope is labyrinthine. Read the full review…
Review: Camy Adventures
Intergalactic Creations, the developers of Camy Adventures – Episode 1, took that most classic game genre–the platform jumper–and created a quirky little game with strikingly crisp, high-resolution graphics. It’s a testament to the fact that you can make a game with all the modern trappings that stays true to its classic gaming roots.
Preview: Kerbal Space Program
Kerbal Space Program, by Squad Games, is a free space simulation game that consists of creating rockets and sending your astronauts called Kerbals into space. It’s still in development, and at this current moment in time doesn’t have much in the way of objectives or goals. Read the review and see how its coming along…
Review: Steel Storm
A retro top-down shooter? Sounds great. Does Steel Storm: Burning Retribution storm the beaches, or fly around in circles?
Review: Really Big Sky
Really Big Sky – the next iteration of 2010’s “Big Sky” – is a bullet hell sci-fi shooter from indie game developer Boss Baddie – read the full review>>>
Review: Mini Robot Wars
MRW is a tower defense game from Picsoft Studios, which pits a group of friendly robots against a group of hostile robots. Read the review and find out how MRW differs from PvZ.
Pax Britannica
Created for the Gamma IV competition,Pax Brittanica is an engrossing indie title that asks if players can defend a battleship and sink another using only one button.
Review: Swords and Soldiers
Swords and Soldiers is a well-crafted, well-liked side-scroller finally ported to iOS, but the questions remains – what took them so long when this is such an obvious match?
Review: Icarus
Icarus is a short but sweet indie game recently released by programmer Justin Scott. And don’t forget that part of the profit goes to charity. Heck, the other part supports a creative, hard-working indie developer!
Review: Jamestown
Retro-styled indie shooter from Final Form games puts you 16th century colonial Mars and lets you blow away all manner of 16-bit alien in a package so full of awesome it almost hurts.
Review: Solar 2
Solar 2, the sequel to the inspired open-universe sandbox is bigger, better and more beautiful than the original. Read the review…
Review: The Asskickers
The Asskickers, by Ago Games, is a new beat-’em-up with a retro feel that released this week. This is Ago Games’ first release into the gaming world, with this game they hoped to bring back the feel of the classic beat-’em-up with a new thematic direction. Along with that classic arcade-style game play comes some comedy and an interesting story line. Read the full review to learn where the game succeeds and where it fails…