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Bored Kid Releases ArMystic Demo Ahead of Steam Next Fest
The work-in-progress build of the mixed-media RPG Maker game is free on itch.io for Windows and Mac.
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NB Spiders' estrogen quest went from jam to Rijksakademie
A sharp, quippy quest on what we do for love
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kidkanevil wrote the soundtrack to an imaginary RPG
Bubble maps a psychedelic dimension-hopper that exists only in Gerard Roberts' head—and in fourteen tracks of it.
Nemuru Mayu
A photographer designed the PS1 dungeon crawler Nemuru Mayu
Yukinori Tokoro's Japan-only labyrinths were called dreams, and a clips account just pulled them back into the feed.
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Stephen Ddungu animates and scores a one-man prequel
The Sword of Symphony developer’s episodic project 00000 00 0x0000000 unfolds in [The Garden], a border between Ddungu’s games.
Queen's Domain
Freshly Baked Games serves its King's Field revival crunchy
The dev jokes that teeth would wear down chewing on this game—Dark Souls's first-person ancestor finally gets an heir, and the demo is out.
Signet City
Gareth Martin reveals Signet City, a first-person fungalpunk RPG
The Citizen Sleeper creator casts you as a parasite in a monochrome 1980s British industrial city, with dice checks swayed by your host's emotions.
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Weird fiction continues to invade videogames with A House of Many Doors
It was going fine until the Gangleman came. He arrived in the total darkness that my crew and I had been plunged into after the Heartlight had gone out. As Captain, I had made the decision to not sacrifice my own heart nor that of any of my crew to restore the light, and so we made haste towards the
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Surreal horror game OMORI won’t be a recluse forever
OMORI isn’t dead but it has been delayed again. The team behind the upcoming “surreal psychological horror RPGmaker game” has released a new trailer and explained why the game isn’t out yet. To make a long story short: the team admits it “underestimated the amount of time to create a video game.” Th
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Brendon Chung’s latest game makes a mockery of RPGs
I missed the latest game by Brendon Chung (creator of Thirty Flights of Loving, Quadrilateral Cowboy) when he released it last month, but it’s certainly worth highlighting. Called Acre 6, it’s a deconstruction of the classic RPG, full of jest, made for the Procedural Generation Jam. It starts you ou
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New teaser for 2017’s strangest RPG features Sikth vocalist
That gruff throat noise is unmistakable. If you’re familiar with Sikth, the British progressive metal band, you should recognize the distinctive low tones of vocalist Mikee Goodman‘s voice in the new teaser trailer for No Truce With the Furies. Goodman is an unexpected choice to contribute a voiceov
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Check out the animations on this upcoming ASCII adventure
Thanks to the events of 2016, a lot of us are starting to get used to the concept of living in a society filled with evil. Stone Story is way ahead of you. The game is set in “a dark and vile world,” populated with haunted trees, reanimated skeletons, giant snails, and antagonistic bats. The protago