Kotaku’s Luke Plunkett lifts off with excitement for Jumplight Odyssey, a roguelite colony sim inspired by genre staples and classic 70s sci-fi anime from League of Geeks coming to Steam for PC in 2023. “…Jumplight Odyssey, which might be of interest to anyone who enjoys management games, spaceships and/or old Read more…
Ruby Innes at Kotaku Australia shared the news of Pathea Games‘ second “My Time” title with My Time at Sandrock enjoying a successful Early Access launch that nearly doubled its concurrent user count over its previous all-time high with My Time at Portia. The sequel hit early access just last Read more…
Kotaku’s Sisi Jiang went on a nostalgic action-RPG adventure playing as a grape named Concord in Garden Story from developer Rose City Games. The young grape, Concord, protects and rebuilds a whimsical community from bosses and rot monsters in a cute pixel experience. When I first watched the trailer for Read more…
Kotaku’s editor-in-chief, Stephen Totilo, has praised Paper Beast, the poetic journey through a blossoming virtual world by renowned game designer Eric Chahi at indie studio Pixel Reef, as his new favorite PSVR game. Stephen mentioned being harder to sell on VR titles in the past, but Paper Beast has once again Read more…
Kotaku’s Ethan Gach shared word of a new adventure beckoning to Nintendo Switch owners: Riverbond. This four-player shoot-and-slash dungeon crawler from Cococucumber embarks on a Nintendo Switch quest later this year with a brand-new world also coming to PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC. Gach remarked on how well Riverbond fits the Switch : The beautiful Read more…
Kotaku Australia showers praise on the iPhone and iPad version of The Gardens Between, the adventure puzzle game from The Voxel Agents in which players manipulate time to guide two best friends through a surreal world of mysterious garden islands. Kotaku’s Alex Walker spoke to Simon Joslin, co-founder of The Voxel Agents about how the Read more…
Kotaku’s Mike Fahey perked up the ears of PlayStation 4 adventurers by sharing the release date for Caravan Stories, the free-to-play, anime-inspired MMORPG played by more than 2 million adventurers in Japan. Developed by Aiming Inc., Caravan Stories journeys to PS4 in North America on July 23, with an open beta launching July Read more…
Kotaku recently interviewed the creator of Paper Beast, a playful exploration game from Éric Chahi, the legendary designer behind Another World and From Dust, coming to PlayStation VR this year. Éric had this to say about creating Paper Beast: From the beginning, we decided to create a VR game”, Chahi says. “We have this desire to explore Read more…
Kotaku recently shared the 15 indie games at PAX East 2019 that caught their eye, including WORLD OF HORROR, N1RV Ann-A and WRATH: Aeon of Ruin. Ethan Gach touched on WRATH‘s supremely fluid feeling and usage of the Quake engine: It’s built in the original Quake engine, and as a Read more…
Kotaku rejoices that ToeJam & Earl: Back in the Groove! “reconjures the magic” in its review of the latest entry in the beloved, funkadelic action roguelike series from HumaNature Studios. Author Ethan Gach found the re-imagining of the Sega Genesis classic to successfully live up to the original game’s legacy. …playing a Read more…