Category: 500-Word Indies

November 3, 2019

ANATOMY

Kitty Horrorshow comes from the alt-games circle, an odd movement where games are built in all sorts of strange ways, …

November 1, 2019

Ghost 1.0 is the second Metroidvania made by Spanish developer Franfistro (Francisco Téllez de Meneses), after sleeper hit UnEpic. Unlike …

December 5, 2017

So the ultra-hard dungeon crawling rogue-like genre is overdone. How do you breathe life into it? French developer Benjamin Soulé’s …

December 5, 2017

Remember that weird puzzle game that retold Cinderella with more torture and murder? Same dev made another game before it, …

December 5, 2017

This entry is part 2 of 2 in the series Cinderella Escape

Disclaimer: The author of this article started backing the developer on their Patreon shortly after purchasing this game. Hajime’s sequel …

December 5, 2017

This entry is part 1 of 2 in the series Cinderella Escape

It’s amazing what can pop up on Steam sometimes. For five bucks, you could get great titles like LYNE or …

October 28, 2017

With the rise of digital video, the revival of the FMV game is well under way, both large and small. …

August 12, 2017

Indie developers are constantly looking for two things; a game they can make in a timely manner, and a concept …

July 26, 2017

Parameters by NekoGames (AKA Yoshio Ishii) is a Flash-based JRPG built from nothing but boxes and numbers. You could start …

July 14, 2017

Despite appearances, Love is a game with a fair bit of history behind it. Created in Game Maker by Fred Wood, the …