Breaking out of jail is kiddie stuff for a video game. Escaping when the prison in question is an entire underground world, filled with dangerous monsters and with no obvious route back to the surface? That's a little trickier. It can also be a lot of fun, as evidenced by Avernum: Escape From The Pit, an old school fantasy RPG given some new twists by Spiderweb Software.
Swords are handy tools to have around. They make kings, they slay dragons, and they defend realms from marauding hordes. There's just one problem: swords don't jump up and start swinging themselves for a cause. That's where you come in with Spellsword, a hack-and-slash platforming game for iOS.
Like most of the internet - or at the very least, the nerdier half of the web - I've spent the last decade enamoured with Penny Arcade. Arguably the most celebrated webcomic of all time, the adventures of Gabe and Tycho have given me plenty of reasons to chuckle over the years. So when they started an episodic RPG series based on the franchise back in 2008, I was tickled pink. But the series has been slow going, and after two episodes, was scrapped entirely. But as it turns out, you can't keep a good franchise down.
Thanks primarily to the work of Hasbro and Michael Bay, the great pop culture brands of the 80s live on in name, if not always in spirit. Fortunately, the minds at Mighty Rabbit Studios had a more direct dose of nostalgia in mind when they used Kickstarter to fund Saturday Morning RPG, a fun, clever iOS spoof of every show that made kids ask for the toys back when Ronald Reagan was president.
There are all kinds of tabletop games nowadays, and all kinds of gamers who play them. You've got your deck-builders who pour over their Magic cards, constantly trying to build the perfect deck. You've got your D&D groups spending hours on backstory and building dungeons that might get completely passed over. Then you've got your folks who are into the painted miniature scene.
Hearkening back to the great RPGs of yesteryear, the upcoming Legend of Grimrock promises fans of classic dungeon crawling a healthy dose of that old, familiar magic.
Flying Kingdoms is an adventure style game from Vostu. Using your own character, you can go on your own adventures in far off worlds high in the sky. Choosing the right path may prove difficult but with Gamezebo's quick start guide, we're confident you'll be soaring through the clouds in no time!
It's not enough these days for a casual game to just do one thing well, so developers are increasingly trying to find ways to combine two genres and hoping that they end up with the gaming equivalent of a Reese's peanut butter cup. Vostu's latest attempt to find a winning recipe is Flying Kingdoms, which turns one part city-builder and two parts RPG into a tasty mix.