Category: Early Access

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Turn a small company into an empire in 'Rise of Industry', it shows a lot of promise

By Liam Dawe, 3 Jul 2017

Rise of Industry (formerly known as Project Automata) is a neat little find on itch today, a simulation game about building a small company into an industrial and financial empire!

CrossCode, the rather good retro-inspired 2D Action RPG has a big update with more story content

By Liam Dawe, 3 Jul 2017

CrossCode is going to be really quite brilliant once it's finished, that I'm pretty certain of. They just recently released a big update too.

Ravenfield updated with a new huge map featuring an aircraft carrier, more early thoughts

By Liam Dawe, 29 Jun 2017

Ravenfield is the single-player indie FPS that shows some real promise, so I took a look at the latest update.

Facepunch Studios 'Rust' has $4.3 million in refunds

By Liam Dawe, 29 Jun 2017

Facepunch Studios developer Garry Newman tweeted out yesterday about how Rust has done in terms of refunds, turns out it's quite a lot.

The six-degree-of-freedom shooter 'Overload' has another great content update

By Liam Dawe, 28 Jun 2017

Overload is fantastic, if you don't agree with me you're basically insane. Okay, a little extreme but you get the idea. It's been updated again so let's take a look.

Use your phone as a gamepad in The Crowded Party Game Collection, sadly broken right now

By Liam Dawe, 26 Jun 2017

The Crowded Party Game Collection, a game where you and up to 10 friends can take on 7 arcade-inspired mini games. The key thing here, is that you can use an iOS, Android or Windows phone device as a gamepad.

Distance, the futuristic survival racer has a big update, 50% off in the Steam sale

By Liam Dawe, 23 Jun 2017

Distance is a fantastic survival racer with some seriously slick visuals, it's addictive and it's had a fresh coat of paint.

The Culling survival game now works on Linux, sort of

By Liam Dawe, 22 Jun 2017

The Culling had been left broken on Linux for quite some time, but as promised the developers have tried to fix it. It now works, well, sort of anyway.

Wild Terra Online key giveaway, come grab one

By Liam Dawe, 20 Jun 2017

Wild Terra Online is an indie MMO from Juvty Worlds with a massive open-world. No buildings in the game are built by them, everything is player-built and we have a number of keys for you. UPDATE: All gone!

Planet Nomads expands again with gamepad support, customizable key bindings, FOV slider and more

By Liam Dawe, 16 Jun 2017

Planet Nomads, the utterly gorgeous sandbox survival game has a fresh update out that adds in plenty of extremely useful features.

Some thoughts on LandTraveller, the rather sweet top-down RPG

By Liam Dawe, 15 Jun 2017

LandTraveller released into Early Access recently and it looked promising, so I decided to take a look at this cute top-down RPG.

Jelly in the sky, a new take on the old 2d artillery games featuring physics may come to Linux

By Liam Dawe, 15 Jun 2017

Jelly in the sky is an amusing looking physics powered 2d artillery game and the developer is looking to bring it to Linux.

ARK: Survival Evolved release date revealed, plus new free map

By Liam Dawe, 13 Jun 2017

ARK: Survival Evolved is due to release in full on August the 8th, 2017 and they have also announced a new free map which is available right now.

Slime Rancher updated with another huge area to explore in the 'Glass Desert Update'

By Liam Dawe, 13 Jun 2017

Slime Rancher is absolutely one of the best indie games in Early Access and it continues to be with huge updates like this.

A look at ‘Solaroids: Prologue’, an evolution of the classic Asteroids

By Liam Dawe, 12 Jun 2017

Solaroids: Prologue has the same basic gameplay as the classic Asteroids with a focus on surviving as long as you can, while you face new threats as the game gets longer.

An early look at Geneshift the top-down shooter with vehicle action

By Liam Dawe, 12 Jun 2017

Some early thoughts on Geneshift, the new top-down shooter with vehicles that’s been in development for a long time. It's had eight long years to craft an interesting experience, but it still launched into Early Access to continue this.

Brawl of Ages, the fun free to play simple RTS has added a 2v2 mode

By Liam Dawe, 9 Jun 2017

Brawl of Ages is a fun simple take on an RTS that I quite enjoyed previously. It has just been updated with a new 2v2 mode promising to make it even more interesting.