Aven Colony is a city-building game set in space, as you land on an alien planet and have to start a settlement from scratch. It’ll be out on PC…sometime in the future.
Sci-Fi Romance Adventure Alone With You Just Feels Lonely
My optimism about Alone With You, released yesterday, glided on high-soaring generic expectations set by recent retro-styled adventures like Read Only Memories
and VA-11 HALL-A
: excellent interactive fiction with minimal gameplay. With knockouts like those, under-appreciated genres draw in wider audiences, as I was drawn to “sci-fi romance adventure” Alone With You. Unfortunately, throughout the 3.5 hours I played, Alone With You was more of a railroad than a kite.
Just Another Day Killing The Gods Of Ancient Greece
We first played an early build of Okhlos all the way back in January 2014
. It’s now out, and I’ve been playing the finished article.
After Nine Years Of Work, Fez Gets Its Last Update
Perspective-shifting platformer Fez came out all the way back in 2012
. It was first announced in 2007. Last week, a patch was released for it that brings nearly a decade’s worth of development on the title to a close.
Inversus Is The Most Fun I’ve Had Shooting Other Players In Ages
Inversus is a simple black and white strategy shooter that pits players against each other in an ever-changing battle for territory and survival. As minimalist competitive shooters go, it’s pretty much perfect.
The “Eye Sigil” Conspiracy Is Indie Games’ Most Arcane Mystery
“Dunno if I’m out of the loop, but what the hell is this?” Crypt of the NecroDancer player RireMakar asked on Reddit last May. In the main folder of the game’s SteamApp root directory, the data-miner unearthed a cryptic sigil, an iris embedded in the palm of a hand, which he posted online. A few hours later, Josh R. (aka MachMatic), bored, decided to look at the image’s code with a hex editor. In it were indications of another buried image, which he extracted: a few curving lines broken up by circles, with the edges clipped off, signaling that the image was not alone. It was a puzzle piece.