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.
The Awesome Trailer for indie game Rock of Ages
We love the ride back in time to some of our favorite old console platforms and 8-bit graphics. Here’s hoping the game matches the clever brilliance of the trailer.
Hamster: Attack! – an Android indie game review
Developer Summary: Dynamic destruction and cute hamsters — what more could you ask for? Help Hammy free his friends using his makeshift slingshot in this action-packed puzzle game! You’ll play Hammy, the furry freedom fighter, as he frightens cats, knocks things over, blows them up, and generally causes mayhem as he works to free his [...]
Review: Bastion – a hand-crafted ambitious RPG gets a perfect score
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.
Tobe’s Vertical Adventure – An Indie Game Review
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 Curfew
Imagine being armed with all the skills you need to explore a city and its secrets from the very start of the game. The Curfew puts you in the position of an unnamed protagonist who has to protect valuable information that may potentially bring down the tyrannical Shepherd Party government.
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Believing is great and all, but so is doubting. You won’t be able to know the truth without both. The truth is pretty normal, anyways. Not really interesting at all, and it’s debatable if it’s worth knowing. Somehow, honesty is still usually a good idea.
The Epic Adventure of Milton – an iOS Indie Game Review
Tip, hop and toss your way to the girl of your dreams. Do bipeds with long tails really have the most fun? Find out in this indie game for iOS devices.
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…
Indie game EDGE Coming to Steam on August 11th!
In just two weeks time, gamers on Steam and the Mac App Store will be able to experience EDGE in super high definition! The award winning – and much talked about – game from French indie developers Mobigame, is a perfect fit for PC and Mac gamers.
