by Carlos Moscoso | Jul 27, 2020 | Features, Indie Spotlight
Disco Elysium is the first endeavor from studio ZA/UM. It’s an RPG set in a world known as Elysium decades after a war ravaged it. The world of Elysium is the brainchild of Estonian novelist, musician, and ZA/UM studio founder Robert Kurvitz, and it first appeared in...
by Carlos Moscoso | Jun 15, 2020 | Features, Indie Spotlight
Cloudpunk is the latest game by Berlin-based developer Ion Lands. It’s a game that’s essentially Blade Runner meets The Transporter, and this is by no means a bad thing. The player assumes control of Rania, a woman starting her first shift at the eponymous parcel...
by Josh Straub | May 25, 2020 | Features, Indie Spotlight
In my continued quest to stave off boredom in this time of quarantine, I have stumbled across yet another highly accessible and incredibly polished indie gem. Developed by 6 Eyes Studio, Fell Seal: Arbiter’s Mark is a spiritual successor to Final Fantasy Tactics that...
by Carlos Moscoso | May 20, 2020 | Features, Indie Spotlight
Gibbous: A Cthulu Adventure is a self-styled “comedy cosmic horror adventure” point-and-click game by Romanian studio Stuck In Attic. Funded entirely on Kickstarter and surpassing its initial budget of 39,000 Romanian Leu (approximately $8,794), the game features...
by Josh Straub | May 6, 2020 | Features, Indie Spotlight
Quarantining during COVID-19 is especially tough when it means I have limited access to my local used games store, so more and more I’ve found myself plumbing the depths of Steam looking for inexpensive accessible games that are worth playing, and I do believe I found...
by Michael Matlock | Jul 31, 2019 | Features, Indie Spotlight
Three bearded fishermen decide to leave their life behind, and search for adventure on the open sea. Loosely based on Scandinavian folklore, Burly Men At Sea is an adventure game by indie studio Brain&Brain. Despite the name Burly Men is not an action game about...
