Tag: Kickstarter Picks

This week's Kickstarter quintet gets two tentacles up for quirkiness.  We've become enamored with an octopus city simulator; a zombie survival game with an abundance of "cool it" dialogue choices; and a crime-solving, fedora-wearing feline.  To round things out, our final two games exist entirely in the imagination, but on completely different ends of the horror-to-cute spectrum.

The pre-release months of a new console cycle are a great time to look back on gaming's rich history, and this week's Kickstarter Picks are fully on board.  Whether you want to play through the progression of platformers, revive a classic psychological horror adventure, or support the update of a Nintendo 64 masterpiece, we've got you covered.

This week's set of Kickstarter Picks has a definite musical theme running through it, including music to enjoy, learn, and use to control budding civilizations.  We all know dwarves love singing, so that just leaves one odd-man-out puzzle-platformer—which is so mysterious and hush-hush about its theme, we'll just assume it's entirely about music as well.  Five for five!  Time to celebrate with some great gaming projects.

There's a lot of death in this week's Kickstarter picks, and a lot of love.  With two roguelikes and a stealth horror game on dock, there are plenty of ways to face your own mortality over and over again.  When you need a break from sweating pixelated bullets, we have a community content-based fan book to remind you of the beautiful things in life, like Metroidvanias—we have one of those, too.

We love seeing projects successfully meet their Kickstarter goals, even if it means we didn't get a chance to write about them.  This week, League of Legends-inspired Project Ward was on our radar, but met its funding goal only 12 hours after launch.  (It's still worth supporting if you need to reveal the fog of war in your home.)  Luckily, there's no shortage of worthwhile and in-need projects to talk about: this week includes a Power Rangers-style sim, a top-notch documentary, and a CRPG that could be the second coming of Ultima Online.

After last week's double Sierra happy hour, I think we need a break on adventure games.  Luckily, there are a lot of underrepresented genres to swoon over this week, including roguelike, stealth action, and the can't-go-wrong-with Metroidvania.  Also, I lied: there is an adventure game.