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Hammerwatch this trailer if you like Gauntlet, co-op, modding or smashing stuff
Hammerwatch. It’s a strong name for a remarkably strong-looking game – a dungeon crawler inspired by Gauntlet. As with that co-operative RPG classic, there’s a heavy emphasis on fast-paced action, as...
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Gabe Newell: Steam Greenlight is “a bad example of the election process”
Last week, Valve boss Gabe Newell visited the University of Texas’ LBJ School of Public Affairs and spoke about the “bottleneck” of Steam’s current approval process and possible solutions for getting...
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Kentucky Route Zero now available on Steam
The evocative adventure game Kentucky Route Zero has appeared on Steam, thanks to the support of dedicated Greenlight voters. For £17.09 you can pre-order the game’s full five acts, receiving the...
View ArticleSurgeon Simulator 2013 update video cracks open brain surgery
Brain surgery, much like rocket science, is supposed to be hard. And if we’re to believe Kerbal Space Program (and I can’t see why we wouldn’t), then rocket science is hard. Really hard. Kill everyone...
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Incredipede’s terrifying leg-monster shuffles menacingly onto Steam today
After winning over Greenlight with its many legs and its creepy, singular eye, Incredipede has finally arrived on Steam [UPDATE: Here it is]. Or it will in a bit, presumably when the Americas wake up...
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25 Greenlight games you should vote for right now
Police-state parodies, robotic sporting leagues, corporate espionage capers and top-down procedurally generated horror – Greenlight promises to catapult all kinds of exciting, experimental genres onto...
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The Kingsport Cases procedurally generates horror mysteries, demo on the way
The Kingsport Cases’ drab port town manor may not dazzle, but a fascinating story machine churns beneath its pixels. It starts like many mysteries—you’re a detective who arrives at a late-night...
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Frozen Endzone development update teases narrative elements, alternate modes
In an update to tactical turn-based sports game Frozen Endzone’s Greenlight page, Mode 7′s Paul Taylor reveals some of the features being added to the game. Currently, the team are working on new...
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Receiver now on Steam – realistic gun sim in a cyberpunk world
Guns, hey? Ridiculously simple to operate, I’ve always thought. Just hold down the left mouse button for a unstoppable spray of bullets, laser beams, plasma, or physics. So why Receiver feels the need...
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Three more games get Greenlit: Edge of Space, Papers, Please and Venetica
The crowd has spoken once more. The latest batch of games to be given the Greenlight seal of popularity/approval are the terrific-looking space-shark sandbox Edge of Space, checkpoint simulator (it’s...
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Cloudbuilt built this city on jetpacks and wall-running, as this trailer...
If I was the Prince of Persia – and some day I may be – I’d be a bit miffed watching this trailer of the upcoming 3D platformer/racer Cloudbuilt. All those years spent practicing wall-running have...
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Teslagrad: an electro-magnetic puzzle platformer, now on Steam Greenlight
Were teleporting blink powers, giant magnetised platforms and “Teslamancer” technology part of Nikola Tesla’s end game as he was inventing the infamous coils? We can only assume so, based on the lack...
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The Novelist is a ghost story from the perspective of the ghost
We’ve been here before. Or have we? A troubled writer and his family travel to an isolated coastal residence so he can get some work done. But the summer home has a secret, namely a spectral being...
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Does Greenlight get enough attention? Not according to some indie devs
Steam changed the way games are marketed with the introduction of Greenlight last year. Sometimes it feels as though every conversation ends with “And don’t forget to vote my game up on Greenlight,”...
View ArticleShelter footage reveals the harshness of nature, the badassery of badgers
Don’t let the lovely pastel colour shading and adorable badger yelps at the start of this early Shelter footage fool you. Nature is cruel, uncaring, and full of jerk birds who’ll happily steal baby...
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The Forest interview: survival, horror and the VR wilderness
The sparking ruins of an abandoned plane fuselage; the lush greenery of a heavy woodland; and briefly, the low growls of an awakening mutant tribe. It’s only a minute long, but the first teaser...
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Nelson Brodela leads the Broforce onto Greenlight
What is the Broforce? No, it’s not the name of a Call of Duty team—it’s actually a collection of the greatest bros of the ’90s working together under the watchful eye of “the ultimate bro”: Nelson...
View ArticleStrata: create colourful crossweaves in this musical puzzler
The trailer for Strata makes a strong argument for why you shouldn’t watch a puzzle game being played without understanding its most basic concepts. Why does that ribbon go there? Why did that work?...
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Amazon Indie Marketplace to challenge Steam by offering “every functional...
We saw yesterday that Amazon opened a new department for indie games with a huge launch sale and a ton of bundles by indie developers. Just hosting digital content and throwing crazy sales is enough...
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Master Reboot: a gorgeous indie horror adventure set inside the Cloud (no,...
And now for a completely different kind of Cloud to the one that’s hovering all around us, keeping us from playing certain games or consoles when our internet drops out. Indie adventure/puzzle/horror...
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Survival horror on display as Steam Greenlight approves six new titles
Mystery, survival, and action titles feature in the latest batch of games to find approval through Steam’s Greenlight program. Thanks to community support and Valve’s judgment, the following games...
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Stone Wardens announced, new tower defense RPG hits Kickstarter
Indie developer Burst Online Entertainment has launched a Kickstarter project for Stone Wardens, its upcoming tower defense/RPG hybrid. Stone Wardens mixes tower defense mechanics with cooperative...
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Indie shooter Strike Vector gets Steam Greenlight gameplay trailer
Indie shooter Strike Vector has released a new Steam Greenlight trailer, giving us a substantial look at gameplay footage from the in-progress, multiplayer air-combat title. Building on what we have...
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Steam Greenlight lets through eight more games, including World War 1 FPS
Steam bouncer Greenlight has found room on its guestlist for another eight games. Titles include Verdun, a World War 1 set multiplayer shooter; Day One, a survival game starring an alcoholic widower;...
View ArticleMaia colonises Steam Greenlight – new trailer shows atmospheric isolation,...
It’s safe to assume that Maia creator Simon Roth has a love of old sci-fi. It’s written all over this latest trailer for his colony building god-game: dark synths, creeping psychological dread,...
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Aaru’s Awakening invites you into hand-animated platforming paradise
If you’re jonesing for some top-quality platforming action (and who isn’t, really), you should keep an eye on Aaru’s Awakening, an indie game from Iceland-based Lumenox Games. You play as Aaru, the...
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New Black Annex gameplay footage is going to break into your secure facility,...
Black Annex, a lovely indie game working its way through Steam Greenlight right now, is a game of corporate espionage, power brokerage and murder. The dark gameplay and frenetic action seem totally at...
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Viscera Cleanup Detail, a blue-collar vision of alien infestation
It’s a dirty job, and there’s no one left to do it. Except you. Indie South African developer RuneStorm’s Viscera Cleanup Detail upends a classic story of alien infestation by giving you an apparently...
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FRACT OSC gets Indie Fund support as it nears release
Upcoming puzzler FRACT OSC will receive backing from the Indie Fund as developer Phosfiend Systems works to complete the project, according to a recent announcement. FRACT OSC, a first-person...
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Deadly Premonition brings its surreal charms to Steam Greenlight
In an appropriately weird twist, surreal, cult Xbox 360 survival horror game Deadly Premonition has – out of nowhere – spawned a PC version. It’s currently sitting in the Greenlight queue, hoping to...
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Cradle footage contains a sad robot lady, a flying bus, and a lot of cubes
Cradle has one of those trailers in which the individual scenes make sense, but when put together you’re left wondering, “er, what?” You build a robot lady, the robot lady is sad, a flying bus...
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Latest batch of Greenlit games includes Deadly Premonition, other, less...
Valve have given a new load of games their seal of approval – or rather you have, doing Valve’s job for them so they have more time to make hats and trading cards and Half-Life 5. The headline here is...
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Open letter criticizes the Steam Greenlight process, Valve responds
Going by his Twitter handle, poe, the developer of puzzle game Six Sided Sanctuary notes that only 66 games have been greenlit in the last year. With the huge range of quality indie games out there,...
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Lesser-known episodic American McGee project Grimm is now on Greenlight
American McGee and his studio Spicy Horse are apparently big fans of, well, their own fans. Their fans’ ability to make projects a thing, to be specific. Spicy Horse is perhaps one of the most...
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One Finger Death Punch: become the bane of stick men in this two-button...
One Finger Death Punch owes two debts: one to the kung-fu films it stylistically apes, and one to the ’90s – a time when 95% of the internet was stick figures performing brutal kill moves on each...
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Mount Your Friends skins down, climbs into the Steam Greenlight pile
Come from the darkest corners of the internet, the hilarious indie game Mount Your Friends has landed in the middle of Steam Greenlight with a loud, fleshy slap. The full game will feature...
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Maia, Viscera Cleanup Detail and more make it through the Steam Greenlight gate
I can’t help but feel that these Greenlight announcement posts are a bit underwhelming. Valve need to spice up the drama, reality show style. Indie hopefuls desperately treading water in the choppy...
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GOG launches new indie game portal, invites submissions
With the launch of a new Indie Games Portal, GOG has emerged as a competitor for indie gamers money, going head-to-head with Steam’s Greenlight service. GOG’s new portal answers a lot of complaints...
View ArticleRogue Shooter, an FPS with a Shotgun Trident
Rogue Shooter tells you exactly what it’s supposed to be. An upcoming roguelike indie FPS set on a space station with 200 floors and an infestation of aliens, murderous robots, and giant flesh-eating...
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Battle Worlds: Kronos release planned for mid-November, open-beta a few weeks...
Thanks to my photographic memory (read: access to the internet), I can point you to the last time we scouted turn-based strategy Battle Worlds: Kronos. That was in March, when the Kickstarter project...
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Hot Tin Roof, a new noir-inspired 3D platformer, seeks Kickstarter funding
A glorious looking new indie platformer, Hot Tin Roof: The Cat that Wore a Fedora, has just announced a Kickstarter campaign to fund the final stages of production. Set in a stylish film-noir world,...
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Steam Greenlight approves largest batch yet, one hundred new titles greenlit
Somebody has given the Steam Greenlight valve a kick, turning the previous slow trickle of accepted indies into a full-on flood. Instead of the usual ten-at-a-time approval process, today Valve have...
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Greenlight Anniversary Sale offers deals on 50 greenlit games
Steam is a distribution platform that thinks “because it’s a Tuesday” is a good reason to cheapen up some games. As such, it’s only to be expected that bigger milestones are an excuse for even bigger...
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Deadly Premonition: Director’s Cut gets Steam release on October 31
Deadly Premonition: Director’s Cut, or the update to what I like to call “Twin Peaks: The Video Game,” is bringing its coffee fortunes, raincoat killers, and other survival horror nonsense to your PC...
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Particulars developer: more Steam Greenlight games means more competition,...
Last week, we saw the news that the normally glacial pace of Steam Greenlight had just hit a thaw: 100 games were greenlit at once. Greenlight approvals were usually limited to a mere ten at a time,...
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New indie puzzler Sokobond could be your next chemistry teacher
What’s the difference between water and cyanide, anyway? Chemistry explains how the bits and pieces that make up the universe hold themselves together and Sokobond, a new indie puzzle game from...
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Eldritch combines roguelike and immersive sim in a first-person Lovecraftian...
As we all know, the best way to run a popular PC gaming website is to go space game, roguelike, space game, roguelike in an endlessly alternating pattern. That would make it time for some roguelike...
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Roguelike RPG Legend of Dungeon launches on Steam today
Indie action RPG Legend of Dungeon launched on Steam today, capping a move by the game through the Greenlight program towards its eventual release. Beyond the game’s colorful art style, LoD’s...
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SuperHot dodges its way to Steam Greenlight for an expanded version
Hot soup! Time-bending FPS ballet Superhot was a brilliant example of the importance of the 7dFPS competition. It took a tired genre cliché – Bullet Time – and reinvigorated it with an elegant and...
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Greenlight approves 25 new games, including Next Car Game and SuperHot
Bloody hell, SuperHot! You only added yourself to Steam Greenlight a few days ago, and already you’ve been approved. My guess is it cheated: stopping time in the moments between people voting. As a...
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