Eric Tereshinski, the lead developer on upcoming indie game Ant Simulator, has announced the cancellation of the project after the team spent the “overwhelming majority” of their crowdfunding money on “liquor, restaurants, bars and even strippers”. ETeeski, the company founded by Eric and responsible for the development of Ant Simulator…

I remember first reading about Mighty No. 9 back when the project launched in September 2013. The very idea that a bunch of Mega Man veterans would team up to make a title in the same vein as the Blue Bomber made me feel all tingly inside, and I cannot…

In the first few years of the PlayStation 2's lifespan, two musical rythym games named Frequency and Amplitude were released by Rock Band developers Harmonix. Although both games received widespread critical acclaim, the series fell into obscurity until last year, when Harmonix decided to reboot the series through KickStarter. The…

Although music rhythm games have slipped out of the public eye in recent years, one of the most popular games from the PlayStation 2 has officially been rebooted, thanks to the original creators of the franchise and a healthy dose of Kickstarter funding. This new version of Amplitude is now…

If you have been keeping abreast of anything to do with indie games over the past month or so, you'll know about the ongoing Indiegogo campaign that is being helmed by Lab Zero for their new action RPG, Indivisible. We covered the announcement of the Indiegogo back when the campaign…

The Wild West is a setting that gets dipped into every now and then by developers. You have your Guns, your Call of Juarez: Gunslingers and your Red Dead Redemptions. Now, Gambitious is showing the world an occult Wild West, filled with gunslingers, demons and cannibals in their new turn…

With it being initially targeted at an October release date, the developers over at Red Hook Games have revealed that the full version of Darkest Dungeon will release on PC on the 19th of January next year. Detailed in an update over on their Kickstarter page, the team were already…

There aren’t enough fungal protagonists in games. Besides Toad, who’s only had one solo adventure to his name, fungi don’t get much love as potential main characters in games. Untame’s Mushroom 11 hopes to redress the balance, casting you as a replicating green fungal growth, who must go on a…

The platformer/RPG hybrid is fast becoming another staple franchise on the indie checklist, with Lab Zero's Indivisble leading the charge for this new melding of genres. Red Cloak Games' Wanderer is ready to join that fledgling list, by offering up an episodic tale where a band of survivors try to…

If it wasn't enough that today we found out that the upcoming 'Summer Camp' has now taken on the Friday the 13th mantel, developers 'Gun Media' have wasted no time in riding the hype train and have unleashed an announcement trailer that's given us plenty of reason to be excited. The idea…

Have you heard about a game that has been in the works for a while now called Summer Camp? It takes the tropes from the classic Friday the 13th movies and turns them into a pretty interesting game. Think of an Evolve style title where you have seven players versus…

After their successful Kickstarter campaign in January of this year, Weappy Studio has released the first gameplay trailer of their police themed strategy game, This Is The Police. In This Is The Police, you play Jack Boyd, a haggard police chief trying to keep the peace in the city of…

In partnership with 505 Games, Lab Zero have launched the crowdfunding campaign for Indivisible, their new action RPG inspired by classics from each genre like Valkyrie Profile and Super Metroid. In Indivisible, you play Ajna, a young woman who after a devastating attack on her rural village, receives the power…

The boss rush genre has become a starting point for many indies now, allowing studios to focus on tightly designed moments of awe, rather than creating a long adventure which can sag and dip throughout. Does Thunder Lotus’ Nordic quest to appease the Gods result in a tale that bards…

Take up your axe and be ready to slay giants as Jotun releases on Steam today. In Jotun, you take up the mantle of Thora, a Norse warrior who must prove her worth to the gods after dying an ignominious death, by vanquishing the 5 jotuns and earning her place…

For any fans of the cult 90s comic Battle Chasers or the work of Vigil Games, this Kickstarter may be one to keep an eye on. Joe Madureria, creator of the Battle Chasers comic has helped form new indie studio, Airship Syndicate out of ex-Vigil Games members and they want…

In a bit of unfortunate news for backers and fans of Hyper Light Drifter, the game has been delayed until spring 2016. Heart Machine's fusion of action RPGs from the 16 bit era and dreamlike glitchscapes has previously been delayed, being scheduled for a launch as far back as summer…

Teased today by German studio King Art Games, an adaptation of Markus Heitz' book series The Dwarves, is in production for PC and possibly Xbox One and PS4. This tactical RPG will task you as Tungdil, who gather up to 12 companions to fight across the world and quest for…

Undead Darlings is a dungeon crawling, visual novel that is being developed by Mr. Tired Media. Undead Darlings ~no cure for love ~ sets out to emulate some of the best parts from Japanese game genres. With mechanics from Japanese RPGs to the look of a visual novel and style of…

We Happy Few from the developers of Contrast, paranoia and survival are their next adventure, in dystopian English city in 1964 has met its goal of $250,000 on Kickstarter with 5,800 backers.  Now the team behind the game are looking forward onto the stretch goals which include a sandbox mode, more uncle…

After teasing us last week with his Sword and Whip site, Koji Igarashi (famed producer of the Castlevania series) has finally revealed the project he is working on, titled Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night. The game is set to be a 2.5D 'Igavania', focusing on exploration with RPG and crafting…