For the latest Indie-view, I caught up with Matt Sainsbury of DigitallyDownloaded.net to talk about A Week On The Water, the ambitious next entry in the My Time With Dee Dee visual novel series. If you’re going to go to the effort of commissioning artwork for website mascot, why not …
Even without any personal nostalgia to draw from, there’s always something enchanting about rural Japanese settings in games. From Persona 4 to Root Letter, Boku no Natsuyasumi to The Kids We Were, it’s not an uncommon backdrop, but one that always comes with its own unique magic. It’s that same …
Escape room puzzle game and arcade-style shoot ‘em up don’t exactly seem like they’d fit together. But that’s exactly what makes such genre mashups so fascinating: when you find (or create) common ground between such disparate influences, the results can be an unorthodox delight, even if there’s a bit of …
I caught up with Noodletub Games’ Cat about Kickstarter success and how EarthBound and y2k inspired feel-good yuri visual novel Good Luck Baby! “An adventure/mystery yuri visual novel about falling in love, saving the world, and finding your place within it.” That’s certainly a compelling enough premise, but add to …
The folks behind Love Bakudan are back with another game, and while it looks a very different in tone from that steamy adventure, it heart is in the same place. Good Luck Baby! is “an adventure/mystery yuri visual novel about falling in love, saving the world, and finding your place …
In a lot of ways, Arcade Spirits: The New Challengers is a very different beast to its predecessor. The first was a funny, heartfelt, optionally romantic visual novel about the daily lives of a game centre operator and their eccentric regulars; The New Challengers is all about arcade esports: competition, …
A Demon Lord so powerful and dangerous that Gods and Demons put aside their differences (and endless warring) to stop the threat gets sealed away, only to wake up a few years later to a world that’s… changed. Gods and Demons don’t exist anymore, magic is scarce, and humans live …
As the debut effort from a relatively small indie studio, The Letter is more than a little impressive: a lengthy visual novel that unfolds through the perspectives of seven different characters, their stories all interwoven through a branching structure that gets increasingly more complex the deeper you go. Even if …
Nova-box, the studio behind interactive graphic novels like Seer’s Isle and Across the Grooves has a new project on the way: End of Lines, a story about a family’s search for a home after a climate-induced apocalypse. Due out on Switch and PC later this year, End of Lines depicts …
I appreciate where Memories of East Coast is coming from. I’ll always admire the DIY spirit it takes to just get stuck in as a solo developer, and I welcome, on principle, any effort to earnestly explore questions of guilt and grief. But actually delivering is another challenge entirely, and …
