Category: 500-Word Indies

December 21, 2019

Paratopic

The PS1 look has started becoming popular for indie horror games, and playing through Paratopic gives you a good idea …

November 7, 2019

Ghostly Matter is a retro-styled 2D Metroidvania dropped on Steam without any fanfare, whose claim to fame is that it …

November 3, 2019

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 …