Review: Rock of Ages
In Rock of Ages, Sisyphus escapes Hades, but now must race through time. Roll through the great periods of art history, squishing tyrants and warlords that get in your way.
Review: Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet
With delightful, smooth macabre graphics and terrific music and sound, Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet is a solid outing from a couple of guys with much experience in the entertainment world, but little in the gaming spectrum.
Blocks That Matter - an Indie Game Review
Blocks that Matter from Swing Swing Submarine, combines self-referential post-modern storyline, great platforming gameplay, and some wickedly challenging puzzles.
Review: From Dust
Despite serious and much ballyhooed controversy as it launched on Steam stemming from DRM issues, From Dust from Ubisoft is a good looking, intriguing entry into the god-game genre that is worthy of attention.
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: 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: Bennu (Once A Bird)
Bennu is something that is a bit hard to nail down. One part physics puzzler, one part action platformer, or, in this case, swinging platformer. Read on…
Review: Dragon Age 2 Rises to Power
An independent review of the sequel to Bioware’s hugely successful Dragon Age franchise. Can DA2 rise to the challenge?
Review: Torchlight for XBOX 360
Runic Games, the makers of Diablo, have done it again. Literally. In a stroke of genius, the hit title Torchlight has come to us on Xbox Live Arcade. Read on…
Defy Gravity for PC and XBOX Live – An Indie Game Review
Defy Gravity: A PC/Xbox 360 Indie Game Review – will you feel the G’s or miss the G-spot?
Review: Super Meat Boy
Indie Game Reviewer does what it does best and covers 2010’s most talked about, highly anticipated indie – Super Meat Boy from indie superstar Edmund McMillen and programmer Tommy Refenes. Does it live up to the hype?
Review: Shank
Exploitation films have made a comeback recently and so have old-school 2D Platform games. The good people at Klei Entertainment asked, why not blend the two? Why not, indeed. Shank is certainly a strange breed, but it got the best features of both parents. Be forewarned though, the best parts of exploitation film is NOT under any circumstances meant for children.
Delve Deeper - Retro turn-based fun
Delve Deeper harkens back to a time when simple graphics and good gameplay were enough to keep us occupied. It reminds us of why side-scrolling puzzle games like Lemmings and Lost Vikings were so much fun.
Ancient Trader - It's the simple things in life
Ancient Trader, a game of sailing the seas, trading goods at port, and ships combat vs other traders and monsters from the depths. So what makes this one special? It’s all about simplicity and execution.