In 2022, the Canadian indie team Red Nexus Games released their Pachinko-inspired Roguelike, Peglin, to Steam Early Access. Two years later, the little turn-based RPG has garnered high praise for its addicting and rewarding gameplay. During today’s Nintendo’s Indie World presentation, Red Nexus Games shadow-dropped Peglin onto the Nintendo Switch eShop!
Life isn’t always as it seems. Sometimes you can get what you want by the simplest of means. In life, not everything is black and white; in most acts of everyday life, there is a gray area. This gray area can lead people to guess rules, morality, and their very own life. Those who challenge or question the status quo are called non-conformist or miscreants. Once a group forms that follow the...[Read More]
At PAX East 2019, we met with Shiro Games to preview their upcoming cooperative zombie roguelite action game Darksburg. Since then, Darksburg has sat in our steam library hidden away until its release. Earlier this week, Northgard and Evoland studio Shiro Games announced Darksburg would be departing from Stream Early Access and reanimating as a full official Steam title later this September. The g...[Read More]
It wasn’t until the third run in Curious Expedition that I realized how much I disliked Charles Darwin. I’d managed to stay neck-and-neck with him through two expeditions as Ada Lovelace, but my third expedition had been an utter disaster. I’d gotten greedy and caused a volcanic curse to befall the region after stealing some artifacts from an ancient temple, and after that, it had been a race to j...[Read More]
Curious Expedition heads for new territories. The roguelike expedition simulator will be receiving a console release at the end of March and in early April across all three major console platforms. The announcement was made by the game’s publisher, Thunderful Publishing.
We’ve previously covered upcoming indie romance roguelike Ambition: A Minuet in Power. After a successful debut showing at PAX East this year, it’s clear that the team at Joy Manufacturing Co. is making solid progress on this unique title. I recently had a chance to sit down with the PAX demo of the game for an extended session, and feel confident that this game is going to turn some heads when it...[Read More]
It’s no secret that several of us here on Marooners’ Rock are very excited about MISTOVER, the upcoming turn-based RPG from KRAFTON Game Union. Now it looks as though the wait is nearing an end. Not only that, but gamers will have another option for which platform to experience this anticipated game.
Get ready, here come the bastards! Today. Humble Bundle announced an official release date for Void Bastards, the cel-shaded, roguelike, FPS from Blue Manchu and directed by Jonathan Chey.
Is announcing a game on a weekend a sign of humility, or total confidence that your announcement isn’t going to be lost in the shuffle of weekend events when no one is paying attention to the news? I don’t know, but I’m betting that Humble Bundle was going with the latter option when they released the news of Void Bastards on a quiet Saturday afternoon.
Ready to cancel an apocalypse? Developer Lazurite Games and publisher Deck13 sure hope so, as they’ve announced their new bullet-hell roguelike shooter To Hell with Hell today in Franfurt, Germany. Players will slip into the high-heels of Natasia, a stripper on her way to work when all hell breaks loose – literally.
Back in the days of my youth, I would spend a lot of days on sites like Miniclip, Nitrome, or OneMoreLevel. It was on those sites that I first encountered the pixel art style in gaming. Before that point, I had only come across them in arcades and other such establishments. And yet, I was hooked. I spent countless days fettering my summer afternoons in devotion to these pixel arcade games.
Take a cast of characters culled from some of the all-time classic, old-school difficulty action games. Throw them into a vertically scrolling bullet hell. Make them progress by doing the one thing that’s totally counterintuitive in normal SHMUPS: run backwards. That’s the formula for I Hate Running Backwards, and it works shockingly well.