Developer Cygnus Cross has announced an Early Access release window of (Northern) summer 2026 for ARPG and town/farm sim Emberville. For the gameplay, think Diablo-lite meets Stardew Valley. The game goes beyond traditional “farm and fight” games with a simple (yet deep) combat system, an inherited skill levelling system, and challenging boss fights. Today’s new gameplay trailer showcases what players…
I’ll be honest: I’m still obsessed with Sticky Business. I’ve been obsessed with it since I reviewed it for PC, and I now play it on Nintendo Switch as well. Since then, developer Spellgarden Games has released the cozy, witchy farming sim Ritual of Raven. Now, it has announced a…
Don’t Stop, Girlypop! is a fast-paced arena movement shooter developed by Aussie…
Jeff Vogel is a legend. It’s not because he’s produced a game…
It’s difficult to write within the fantasy genre in 2022. On the one hand, it’s painfully easy to write something so self-serious and overwrought that it comes across as a desperate and doomed effort to channel Tolkien. Writing fantasy that people will take seriously is monumentally difficult because fantasy by…
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I’m a big fan of itch.io for the freedom and open platform that it allows for developers to be creative, experimental, and directly canvas the audience for feedback for games that are not yet ready for primetime on Steam and its ilk. In addition, itch.io allows you to be transgressive,…
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Remember Rampage? If we asked you to think of a video game with a gargantuan creature rampaging through a city and annihilating everything in its path, you’re probably going to come up with some game from that series. For most of us, it was this loud and obnoxious PS2 entry,…
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Purple Ray Studio is an indie startup studio from Poland that created Boti Boy for an Unreal game jam back in 2021. Apparently the team was happy with what they’d come up with, because now there’s a full-scale game in the works, simply titled Boti, and if that can capture…
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Some of the greatest feats of media can draw back their origins to some of the most primitive corners of the Internet. Just think about how great Kingdom of Loathing or Nethack has been over the years. And that’s why we’re paying attention to ASTILBRA Revision, a side-scrolling action RPG…
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In recent years, a reprisal of retro art styles has taken the limelight of indie horror games. While some aren’t too keen on it, we do like our retro aesthetics at DDNet, so the upcoming release of SIGNALIS by rose-engine has certainly caught our attention! Between the art, the classic…
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Atone: Heart of the Elder Tree is Norse mythology-inspired rhythm combat RPG by a developer in New Zealand, a publisher in Poland, and a composer from Australia. Talk about worldly! The story-driven game has been available on Apple Arcade since September 2019, but it’s now set to also be released…
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I’m a big fan of itch.io for the freedom and open platform that it allows for developers to be creative, experimental, and directly canvas the audience for feedback for games that are not yet ready for primetime on Steam and its ilk. In addition, itch.io allows you to be transgressive,…
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Penko Park is simultaneously one of the most original games you’ll ever play, and also something so shamelessly derivative that it’s hard not to wish it could have been more ambitious. Thankfully, the creative bits are the ones that matter to the overall quality of the game. Related reading: We…
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There isn’t any way to properly articulate just how heart-wrenchingly emotive the original To the Moon was when it had first released back in 2011. We’re not sure how a beach-themed side-story is meant to work, given most beach episodes are not exactly the most emotionally hard-hitting, but that’s what…
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