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In Sound Mind Review - Puzzling Horror

Indie DB

Check out our DBolical review of this modder-made survival horror indie!

Horror 52
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The Cosmic Horror of Stargaze

Played with Fire

Designing and weaving The Cosmic Horror into Stargaze. Specul-8’s design was so unique due to spicing up our philosophical fairytale with a fair share of horror influences. The main idea was to have a dark and alien planet that encased a beast inside, which is only briefly glimpsed at until solving all the puzzles.

Horror 52
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Wrapping up 2023 • Celebrating the life and works of solo developers

PreMortem.Games

Solo dev Graham Reid: “Being part of a like-minded community is really important” Young Dutch indie developer Lente is something of a free spirit. Every man and his dog has made an indie game but no one has painted a game yet. A point of interest in the indie game sea.” Having a solid, realistic plan is everything.”

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GameDev.tv Community’s Top 10 Games in 2023

DameDev.tv

Resident Evil 4 (Remake) The Resident Evil 4 Remake reimagines the classic horror game with modern technology, enhancing its graphics, gameplay, and storytelling. The game's focus on exploration, puzzle-solving, and character interactions has garnered widespread acclaim. Sea of Stars 6. Lies of P 5.

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Genres are Marketing Terms, and Your Advice is Bad.

The Bottom Feeder

He is a highly successful indie game creator who makes really good action games (Salt and Sanctuary is the best-known one.) Yet, I'm going to have a full career writing indie games. There's no swab test to tell if a game is "Survival Horror" or not. Don't Find the One True Meaning Of Indie! There is ALWAYS an exception.

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The Heart of Gaming Is the Power Fantasy

The Bottom Feeder

If you like weird, retro indie games or RPGs, it’s worth a look.) One is overcoming: Defeating puzzles, challenges, other people. Horror games give you the power to survive, no matter how horrible your surroundings are. If you want to be surprised by a really neat indie RPG in a year or so, it’s not too expensive.

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Ron Gilbert shows how narrative games have come a long way

Game Daily

Once again, the event – organized annually by indie label Fellow Traveller – brought together panels and talks, as well as presentations and sales of games that focus on storytelling. It was a comedic graphical adventure set in a house-of-horrors. Narrative games festival LudoNarraCon 2023 concluded yesterday.