QuestLord Review
8-bit Elegance QuestLord, from Eric Kinkead, is an accessible – but not necessarily lite – retro role-playing adventure. The game opens with the sweet RPG classics. Your character is a…
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Meg Stivison
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has been a videogamer since discovering text-based adventure games as a little girl. She blogs on games and life at Simpsonsparadox.com.
9th Dawn Review
Indie Gem ValorWare’s new game 9th Dawn offers so much to love for fans of old RPGs. The world is huge and open. 9th Dawn provides a vast, contiguous world…
Pavilion: Touch Edition Review
Lost in Abandoned Ruins In Pavilion: Touch Edition, from Visiontrick, players can’t control their hero directly — he won’t go where you tap or turn right at your command. Instead,…
Becoming a Game Reviewer
Games blogging is a great way into games journalism. Starting a games blog can be as simple as setting up an account on Blogger or WordPress. Don’t tell anyone but…
Sproggiwood Review
Sproggiwood is a casual roguelike, where your character, the Cloghead, has to complete missions for his adorably moody boss, Sproggi. For me, a lot of the appeal of a roguelike…
Enchanted Cave 2 Review
Enchanted Cave 2 opens in a typical RPG town, full of townspeople sharing the requisite warnings about the boundless dangers and wonderful treasures found in the nearby cursed cave, but…
Bik—A Space Adventure Review
Four Boy Scouts are on a lovely camping trip, enjoying an adult-free evening reading comic books and eating perfectly toasted campfire marshmallows, when one of the boys is abducted by…
South By Southwest Gaming Expo
South by Southwest is almost a month of interactive, film and music shows, held annually in Austin, Texas. The festival is known for emerging music, launches of innovative tech startups,…
SXSW Gaming Award Winners
Game of the Year Award The Last of Us from Naughty Dog Excellence in Gameplay Award Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons from 505 Studios Excellence in Art Award Bioshock…
Everlove Review
Silicon Sisters’ new character driven adventure Everlove blends escapism, romance and very accessible gameplay. Everlove opens with the protagonist, Rose, lying down in a therapist’s office to begin past-life regression…
Meg Stivison: Writing for Games
I began my game development career when I was about ten, by writing text-based adventures in BASIC and talking my little sister into playtesting them. This is where I learned…
Lord Vogel
After playing and thoroughly enjoying Avernum: Escape From The Pit, I was excited to talk with designer and writer Jeff Vogel about his work. Vogel, the founder of Spiderweb Software,…
Avernum: Escape from the Pit Review
Spiderweb Software’s Avernum: Escape from the Pit is an old-fashioned open world RPG adventure for iOs and Android. Avernum is an underground realm, to which you and your party have…
Spirited Soul Review
Everything one can say about Snailteeth’s new tower defence/RPG Spirited Soul is colored by the game’s poor localization. The translated game text is usually a bit awkward, lacking punctuation and…
Not Just Another Zombie Apocalypse
After playing and loving the blend of solid strategy and post-apocalyptic narrative in Rebuild 2, I was thrilled to hear about Sarah Northway’s plans for Rebuild 3. Major differences, Sarah…
Dungelot Review
Dungeonsweeper! Players of Dungelot, Red Winter Software’s casual, roguelike dungeon crawler, follow basic dungeoneering adventure goals as they explore: Kill monsters! Get loot! Don’t die! Each level is a grid…
Dark Arcana The Carnival Review
Of carnies and creepy clowns. In Artifex Mundi’s Dark Arcana, a supernatural adventure game for Droid, players begin by investigating a missing woman at a creepy carnival. As the empty…
Zenonia 5 Review
Love and Loathing in Las Zenonia. Zenonia 5, Gamevil’s latest installment in the Zenonia series, is a fantasy action RPG for Droid. Players enter an engaging fantasy world, with charming…
Rebuild Strategy Guide
Sarah Northway’s Rebuild asks players to rebuild society after the zombie apocalypse by reclaiming land and building, gaining survivors, gathering resources, and — oh yeah — surviving zombie attacks. The…
Knights of Pen and Paper: Reboot Android Review
All patched up and ready to go! After a recent patch, new sections of Behold Studio’s Knights of Pen & Paper became accessible. First, the RPG shop, which previously crashed…