Roniu’s Tale will launch its Kickstarter on August 10. Plus, the demo will be featured in Evercade’s Mega Cat Collection 2 on August 27. The goal is to bring the game to NES and Nintendo Switch. Roniu’s Tale offers a unique twist on traditional retro action-puzzlers with gorgeous 2D visuals, reinvented game mechanics, endearing characters, … Read more
Omno, a beautifully animated indie adventure made by Jonas Manke, is out today on PC, consoles, and Xbox Game Pass. It is common in the video game business to have development teams with many developers working on each title. Even indie studios often have a small crew, but games created by a single individual are … Read more
Indie developer Random Potion has announced the launch of a crowdfunding campaign for their next title, Ignis Universia: Awakening of the Erudite Empress. They’ve also released a demo for potential backers to try. Random Potion has set a modest goal of £40,000 (approximately $55,500) on Kickstarter. They have released a demo of the game for … Read more
Vulgord’s Tower, a new tabletop simulation game, was successfully financed on Kickstarter and will launch on Steam later this summer. Vulgord’s Tower is a turn-based strategy game created by father and son team Brian and Gage Magar. When Gage was eleven years old, the pair began work on Vulgord’s Tower and spent nearly four years … Read more
An intriguing pixel-art 2D top-down horror adventure is live on Kickstarter. Indie game developer Maniac Boy Studio is hoping to release Skeler Boy even on the NES! Indie game developer Maniac Boy Studio has announced that their Kickstarter campaign to support the development of Skeler Boy on Steam, Android, Game Boy, and Nintendo Entertainment System. … Read more
Fans of deck-building roguelikes have a new option as Tainted Grail: Conquest has launched on PC via Steam and GOG. Tainted Grail: Conquest, a deck-building roguelike RPG from developer Awaken Realms, is now available on PC via Steam and GOG.com for $19.99 with a special 10% launch discount. Following an early access phase, the official … Read more
An indie developer from Spain is releasing a Kickstarter campaign on May 11 to help fund their new 3D platform adventure game Kandra: The Moonwalker. Flyleaf Studios are the one’s behind this Kickstarter campaign. They are looking for funds for their new project, Kandra: The Moonwalker, a 3D platform adventure that they hope to bring to life and create the best … Read more
After garnering the support of over a thousand backers, the German indie game studio Crimson Company raised $28.7k for their eponymous video game. That’s more than 559% of its original goal that the studio set last week on Kickstarter. Dario and Fabian are the teams behind Crimson Company. These two indie developers are professional video game designers … Read more
We’re big fans of indie developers here at Game Freaks 365. So when we heard about Vulgord’s Tower from a father and son duo – Brian and Gage Magar – we wanted to share their story. The pair began work on Vulgord’s Tower when Gage was just eleven years old and together spent nearly four … Read more
Frostpunk: The Board Game is going to become a reality. The game approaches its Kickstarter campaign deadline on October 29 with over 1,000 percent of its funding achieved. We’ve been following Frostpunk: The Board Game since it was announced in June. The game quickly blew past its Kickstarter goal within 54 minutes of launching the … Read more
Fans must really want to get their hands on Frostpunk: The Board Game. The tabletop adaptation of the survival city-builder was fully funded on Kickstarter within an hour. “It took exactly 54 minutes to reach the initial 200,000 Euro goal once the Kickstarter launched earlier today,” developer 11 Bit Studios announced. “In the upcoming days, … Read more
Onion Soup Interactive has kicked off a Kickstarter campaign for Nippon Marathon 2. The indie developer is trying to raise over $40,000. Nippon Marathon was released on PC, PS4, Switch, and Xbox One as a physics-based, four-player party game. The first game was a marathon across Japan, but the sequel is a race across the globe. The … Read more
Sugar Heist is a card game with an interesting backstory. According to the game’s creator, the idea first came after one of their best friends became pregnant. The initial premise of the game was dark and creepy. On the game’s Kickstarter page, it recalls that comedian Alex Clark – one of the co-creators of Sugar … Read more
The physical version of The Wonderful 101 Remastered is out today on Nintendo Switch. The Kickstarter-funded project officially launched digitally back in May, the physical release was pushed back into June. But now it’s here after fans managed to raise over $2 million via the Kickstarter campaign. The cult classic superhero action-adventure game was originally … Read more
Australian indie developer Catchweight is hoping to recruit backers as they enter the final stretch before the launch of their new game. The survival-horror Conscript is set during World War I in the trenches of Verdun. After three years of solo development, the studio is launching a Kickstarter campaign where they hope to raise just … Read more
Four years after debuting on the Sega Genesis – yes, Sega’s 16-bit console from the late ’80s and early ’90s – Coffee Crisis is out now on PS4 and Switch. If you’re unfamiliar with it, Coffee Crisis is a side-scrolling beat ’em up centered around a team of baristas, Nick and Ashley. The latte-drinking duo are … Read more
The Kickstarter-backed role-playing game Hellpoint has been delayed. The new release window extends through the end of June. As we’ve mentioned before, Hellpoint is “an intense, dark sci-fi RPG set on a derelict space station.” It takes inspiration from games like Dark Souls and Dead Space and movies like Event Horizon and Hellraiser. According to indie developer Cradle Games, they are planning to … Read more
The story-driven, turn-based RPG Grand Guilds is out now on PC via Steam and Nintendo Switch. The release of Grand Guilds follows a successful Kickstarter campaign. The game comes from the Philippines-based solo developer Drix Studios and indie publisher Keybol Games. It retails for $19.99 on Steam and the Nintendo eShop. The developers describe Grand … Read more
