Ragnarok: Gods and Giants
About how it goes every time I face a new monster. Playing Ragnarok is a process of repeatedly convincing yourself that your character is getting stronger and you’re getting better and then suddenly getting torn apart–quite literally–by the next level of foe. That’s not quite a complaint, but it’s […]
Melkhior’s Mansion – In Dev Ultimate Play the Game Atic Atac inspiration looks so awesome!
Remember when we gave you the heads up that Ultimate Play the Game’s famous classic Atic Atac, was not only being remade for the PC but it was also being remade for the ZX Spectrum Next? Well there’s great news for this rather dank and drizzly evening! As after checking […]
Game 36: Battlestar (1979)
Quite some time ago I played through a text adventure called Aldebaran III, which has a pretty good claim on being the first adventure game to be explicitly based on an existing property. Today I’m writing about another of those, although exactly what property it’s adapting is up for debate because… […]
Myst (or, The Drawbacks to Success)
Robyn Miller, one half of the pair of brothers who created the adventure game known as Myst with their small studio Cyan, tells a story about its development that’s irresistible to a writer like me. When the game was nearly finished, he says, its publisher Brøderbund insisted that it be […]
JORRY – Point and click Adventure horror game available on Steam
Gamers who prefer a more horror oriented Adventure will be pleased with this news, as we’ve recently found out the Adventure horror game of ‘ JORRY ‘, has been released on Steam for the PC by Korozif. This game according to the creator, is a game filled with horror that […]
Missed Classic: Trinity – Fly Me to the Moon
Written by Joe Pranevich Trinity continues to impress and depress me. Last time out, we witnessed the unexpected destruction of New Mexico thanks to a more powerful than expected nuclear test at the Trinity site. My guess was that we had finally found the “plot” of this game: to find […]
Realms of Arkania: Blade of Destiny: Summary and Rating
Realms of Arkania: Blade of Destiny Germany Released in Germany as Das Schwarze Auge: Die Schicksalsklinge attic Entertainment Software (developer); Fantasy Productions (German publisher); Sir-Tech (U.S. Publisher) Released 1992 for DOS, 1993 for Amiga Date Started: 13 November 2019 Date Ended: 7 February 2020 Total Hours: 38 Difficulty: Moderate-Hard […]
Old Tower – A great game by RetroSouls finally arrives on the C64
If you’ve been following RetroSouls through the last couple of years, you would’ve known they have released games such as GLUF, Old Tower, Twinlight, Alter Ego, and even Tourmaline for the ZX Spectrum. Well today as thanks to a heads up via their Twitter page and from our good friend […]
Legacy – PDA Dungeon Crawler will be released on the Amiga by Inked Pixel Software!
It was only last week that we announced on Indie Retro News that a demo was made available of a Dungeon Crawler called ‘Legacy’; a game that appeared on the PDA by Redshift in the mid 2000’s featuring a huge world, dungeons, towns, NPC’s and pretty much everything you could want […]