Posts tagged “tinyBuild”

Bleak, harrowing and frustrating are the first words I think of when Ice-Pick Lodge's Pathologic springs to mind - followed quickly by entrancing, alien and compelling. Originally Kickstarted as a remake, the now-reimagined plague survival immersive sim Pathologic 2 is shaping up to be something special. Not convinced? If you don't mind some bugs, you can try it out today. Earlier in development, Ice-Pick released The Marble Nest,…

Tagged with demo, free games, Ice Pick Lodge, tinyBuild, Pathologic, Pathologic 2, Pathologic HD.

The heart of cosmic horror is knowing that humanity and all its ambitions are meaningless. Gorgeous pixel art action-RPG UnDungeon drives this home by beginning after the sudden and largely unimportant fall of our species. We don't even get to be the protagonists. Funded through Kickstarter last year, now to be published by TinyBuild, UnDungeon has players control one of seven alien 'Heralds', roaming what…

Tagged with Laughing Machines, tinyBuild, UnDungeon.

Stardew Valley is all well and good, but y'know what the farming life-sim genre really needs? Witch-burnings, inquisitions and a general sense of dread. At least, that's what I'm assuming was going through the heads of Punch Club developers Lazy Bear, as they set to work on their latest game, Graveyard Keeper. Set in a dark fantasy world, you get to stomp around in the…

Tagged with Lazy Bear Games, tinyBuild, Graveyard Keeper.

Hello Neighbor was one of my favorite games of 2017, mostly because it tortured its audience with bizarre visual lore and then wrecked beta players and reviewers alike with its surprise use of act structure to include three different games in one. I also got to chat with the devs about how you make such a terrifying A.I. to hunt players, and all the errors…

Tagged with asymmetrical multiplayer, Dynamic Pixels, E3 2018, Hello Neighbor!, Hologryph, tinyBuild, secret neighbor.

The battle royale bandwagon continues to trundle along the great gaming highway, picking up anyone who can muster 100 or more unruly homicide fans. This time, the makers of near-the-knuckle comic Cyanide & Happiness are clambering aboard. Rapture Rejects is a top-down isometric battle royale, announced at the PC Gaming Show during E3. And it's set in a world that's been left behind by all the…

Tagged with Battle Royale, Cyanide & Happiness, E3 2018, Galvanic Games, tinyBuild, Rapture Rejects.

I await Ice-Pick Lodge's alternate-earth plague survival adventure Pathologic 2 with equal parts excitement and dread. The original, for all its technical (and translation-related) flaws was a systems-rich game where you juggled allegiances as much as personal stats and resources. In their latest development blog post, Ice-Pick Lodge detail some of the interesting new systems that you'll have to worry about, on top of everything…

Tagged with Ice Pick Lodge, Pathologic Classic HD, tinyBuild, Pathologic 2.

It's been a good long while since Ice-Pick Lodge turned to Kickstarter to fund a remake of Pathologic, their award-winning survival adventure, but it seems that 2017 has been a busy year for the studio. It's now being developed under the title of Pathologic 2 and the developers have opened their doors to give us one last peek at the game before the year's end.

Tagged with Ice Pick Lodge, tinyBuild, Pathologic 2.

I consider myself lucky to have the normal, not-terrifying sort of neighbours. I've never had to entertain thoughts of what that almost-but-not-quite screaming noise was at night, or wonder what they needed an industrial pressure-washer for. And I'm sure the local rumors are exaggerated. They have to be, right? Fortunately for me, then, that I can vicariously enjoy those unsettling thoughts through videogames. Upcoming stealth-horror…

Tagged with Dynamic Pixels, Hello Neighbor!, tinyBuild.

2015's Party Hard was a decent little distraction, and the ultimate excuse to crank up Andrew W.K's Ready to Die to obnoxious levels. A light, stealthy-puzzle game where you play as a disgruntled serial killer trying to very permanently break up overly loud parties that have been interrupting your sleep. So it only stands to reason that the second game in the series is a…

Tagged with Kverta, Party Hard, Pinokl Games, tinyBuild, Party Hard Tycoon.

Ice Pick Lodge's remake of Pathologic, their wonderfully unpleasant 2005 horror, has picked up a publisher and a confusing new name. The crowdfunded full remake is now named Pathologic 2 [official site], though it definitely is not a sequel. New publishers Tinybuild say that the name is, somehow, "to avoid confusion". Right-o. Accompanying today's weird news is a gameplay vidblast showing sickness, autopsy, and purification…

Tagged with Ice Pick Lodge, Pathologic Classic HD, Pathologic Remake, tinyBuild, Pathologic, Pathologic 2.

Hello Neighbor [official site] casts you into the role of home invader, as you go breaking and entering into the house of the man who lives across the street. Only, the man is prepared: he'll lay traps around the house in wait, and will prowl the corridors looking for you while you hide in his cupboards. Think of him as the alien in Alien: Isolation,…

Tagged with Dynamic Pixels, Giveaway, Hello Neighbor!, tinyBuild.

The Final Station [official site] is a game about a train choo-chooing through a post-apocalyptic world, gathering survivors along the way. Split into two sections - on-train management and off-train exploration and baddy-biffing - it's a side-scrolling survival action game that our Graham found just about pleasant enough. Tomorrow sees the release of a DLC pack called The Only Traitor, which ditches the train in…

Tagged with Andrey Rumak, DLC, Do My Best, eg Sergeev, The Final Station - The Only Traitor, tinyBuild, The Final Station.

“Top-down puncher Hotline Miami had brutality and baseball bats, but you know what it didn’t have? Teleportation.” ↑ That is how I imagine most videogames are created. Just one man in a tie who is approached by developers like an oracle and who says: "do X but with Y." Mr Shifty [official site] is about smashing through crowds of people while using a blink-like teleporting…

Tagged with Shifty Games, tinyBuild, Hotline Miami, Mr Shifty.

If you fancy freeing a gorilla to murder some scientists so you can use their cloning machine to create a gang to do in a bartender, you might fancy a crack at Streets of Rogue [official site], which is free to try this weekend. Ignore the name: Streets of Rogue is not a beat 'em up, it is a curious emergent sandbox roguelikelike inspired loosely…

Tagged with demo, Matt Dabrowski, tinyBuild, Streets of Rogue.

Dust off your microphone, squeeze into your gold lamé hotpants, toss your best frock over the top, turn your cap backwards, strap on your nail-spiked gauntlets (careful now!), and put your hood up, as Stage Presence [official site] has been released. Again. To refresh your memory, Stage Presence is a game where, following a catastrophic equipment failure at a gig, we're given the microphone to…

Tagged with Sea Green Games, tinyBuild, Stage Presence.

Leaping across the backs of a convoy of trucks as they crash, flip, jack-knife, and explode sounds a right lark. That's Clustertruck [official site], a timetrialling first-person platformer which launched today. Correction: that's the early levels of Clustertruck. Then it'll introduce static obstacles, then swinging hammers, lasers, plummeting... it gets messy. Look, I need to finish this news post before I'm allowed to clock off…

Tagged with LandFall Games, tinyBuild, Clustertruck.