Review by Harvard L. The recipe for a successful management sim is taking a scenario which everyone is familiar with, and which everyone has at one point thought “I bet I could’ve done better than the clown who was hired to do this.” STATIONflow is exactly this for the subtle…
Read MoreVideo by Harvard L. Rogue Legacy is one of the most influential and well-known indie games out there. A 2D platformer/roguelike, the game is famous for being everything that people love – and hate – about roguelikes wrapped up in pacey action and a humourous art style. This week for…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Nostalgia is a tricky beast to deal with. Take a beloved game (or genre) and try and modernise it too far and it stops being a nostalgic experience at all, and as a retro-inspired thing falls flat. On the other hand, if things are kept too…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. We’re all struggling a bit (or a lot) with COVID-19 right now. Even putting aside the nightmare number of deaths worldwide, many of us have lost our jobs, and those of us who have been lucky to hang on to them have found work to be…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Visual Novels are dime-a-dozen, particularly if you look up itch.io. Heck, we make our own. It can be difficult to catch all the new ones that are inbound as a result, but A Summer’s End – Hong Kong 1986 is looking great… and it releases this…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Some indie developers take advantage of the small overheads, budgets, and team sizes that they operate with to deliver games that are creative and different. Liberated from the need to shift the kind of numbers that cause blockbuster publishers to homogenise everything they do, indies can…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Boot Hill Bounties is disappointing. Here is a fresh new JRPG – my favourite genre – being released onto Switch at a time that COVID-19 is forcing us all to self isolate, and therefore I have plenty of time to get stuck into it. What makes…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. The Inner Friend hasn’t been a commercial hit just yet. It was released on Steam back in September 2018 and to date only has 27 Steam user reviews. Nonetheless, it has met with some acclaim from the media and game show events, so perhaps this upcoming…
Read MoreReview by Harvard L. We’ve all heard the old adage: “In space, no one can hear you scream”. And while that’s technically true, and while it might be effective in sending viewers to see Ridley Scott’s Alien, it’s not the most accurate way of considering extraterrestial life. You see, “no…
Read MoreVideo by Harvard L. Finding new and interesting indie games to play for a weekly segment such as the Let’s Play series we do on DDNet can be more difficult than it seems. There are so many games released each week that it’s hard to keep up, and when many…
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