Indie Zone

I want to give you guys a quick run down with what's been happening in the Irish Game Development scene within the last while.

Review code (PC) provided by publisher The Darkside Detective Point and click adventures laden with pop culture references and reflexive humour are neither new nor original....

It breaks my heart that visual novels (and dating sims, which fall under the visual novel umbrella) aren't more popular in English-speaking countries. Despite...

Guns of Icarus Online is a heavily team based multiplayer, which deviates greatly from a typical FPS game. Choose between three classes: Captain, Engineer,...

The first thing you’ll see when starting up Affordable Space Adventures is a collection of postcards, informational pamphlets, and general touristy bits and bobs. All...

The developers of the highly anticipated platformer Cuphead have shared their story in an interview with Gamesradar.com. https://youtu.be/e5iGwE0XJ1s Having originally been unveiled at E3 2014, people...

The year is 2006: Punk rock is cool, instant messaging is still a relatively new thing, and MySpace and Facebook are laying down the...

Manticore: Galaxy on Fire is the space dogfighter you have been waiting for on your favourite portable home console. Whilst it doesn't quite match up to the legendary games of its genre, it's still a solid and very fun experience with very little to moan about

Unmechanical Extended is a physics-based puzzle game with a strangely soothing (and equal parts enjoyable) music. It sports an interesting mix of biological and mechanical imagery throughout its artwork and, despite their being very little plot to the game I found myself immersed in the continually changing puzzle types.

The strange environments and stranger inhabitants combined with a wonderfully creepy soundtrack added up to very disquieting experience. NORTH wasn’t enjoyable, but that seems like the point; it would be unfair to judge it in those terms.