I’m a big fan of FTL and basically have the game since release.  I’ve got all the ship except the Cristal one and over 100 hr played on it. So I was quite happy when then announced the release of FTL on the IPad awhile ago. With the recent release on the IPad they updated the game with new content (ship, alien, mod, ship layout).

The game started has a Kickstarter campaign on February 27th, 2012 andthe campaign was a massive success.

Ok! We get it, you like this game but What the game about ?

FTL is roguelike space games, where you control a spaceship that needs to save the Federation from the Rebellion. Has you flee from the rebel force to the federation headquarter to be deliver critical information about the rebel force, you encounter alien race, hostile ship, event, store. You can unlock ship by going through certain event or be beating the rebel Flag ship with certain type of ship. What most notable and very common in the roguelike game is that each time you lose your ship, either no more crew or the whole ship is destroyed, you need to restart the game.

With made me look forward for more game in the space genre here 3 games that caught my attention recently. Please note that because of my love for FTL I’ll probably start a weekly or bi-weekly post on how to unlock ship and various achievement. If you can’t wait you can always check there wiki, its awesome source of FTL information.

P.S: I hope they will make it available on android too.

Cosmonautica

Cosmonautica look quite promising, it’s can be describe has The Sim in space meet FTL of some sort. . The player’s ship is the size of a large townhouse and various rooms can be bolted onto its empty compartments. Living quarters, vending machines, cargo bays, weapons, engines and, wait for it, toilets… At present, there’s not much to do beyond trading basic commodities, but ground missions and enhanced combat are due before release. Take a look.

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The cosmo-nautica Blog

Planet express simulator (Rock paper Shotgun)

Cosmo-Nautica (indiedb)

Shallow Space

From the look of it Shallow space is a Space 3D RTS game inspired from homeworld. Players will need to mine for resources, advance capital ships and engage in battle to improve your officers skills. You can even design your own weapon configurations and ship modules, and believe me there are plenty of ships to play with!

Related: Dominate the Shallow Space (Indieretronews)

SPAZ 2

I loved the first game even though I haven’t finished it yet. It doesn’t have the same vibe FTL does but I really liked how you upgrade your spaceships and how you can customize them. The game has a bit of grinding to it that can sometime be cumbersome.

SPAZ 1

SPAZ 2 come back with all these mechanic, new ones and with enhanced 3d graphics.

Official Site : http://minmax-games.com/SpacePiratesAndZombies/

I recently wrote about the candy jam and king.com obnoxious use of a trademark on the word candy. I could help it when I found more goodies from the candy jam. I hope you like them!

Candy Scroll Justice Saga – Free first person RPG (indie retro news)

Doom and candy crush saga finally meet together to give a fps with some eye candy in it. You are trapped in the evil King dungeon (see what they did there) and you must crush the king sweet candy to escape.

Candy Puppet Saga

Mr Red, as the main protagonist in his quest to start his own business as a candyman, by invading the candy planet and killing everyone.

The two following are RPG, a genre we didn’t got much in the previous post.

Candy Hooker Saga

This one is in this list because of its name mostly, you play as Candy the Hooker, being a borderline bipolar candy crush addict, trying to attract customers and thinking about your life as you go.

This game is actually a funny twist. Somewhat NSFW, well not really. See it for yourself.

The Candymancer Saga

Candies make everyone happy! That’s why you, a candymancer apprentice, were sent to make every creature around the kingdom of Candyland happy. By feeding them candies! The Candymancer Saga is an RPG of epic proportions!

This one is actually a real RPG, where you fight monster with the power of candy, once the monster have eaten to much the leave you alone and you gain max hp.

Crush the Candy King Saga

And the final pick a puzzle game, closer to the original game we are trying to copy. Crush the candy king saga in kind of a reverse candy crush, the king throws candy at you and you need to crush them to prevent the king from make line of the three same candy.

Play Crush the candy king saga 

More game from the candy jam on Indie retro news and Indiegames.com

Candy Scroll Justice Saga

CandyJam Compilation!

CandyJam Compilation 2!

Today two side-scroller on PC that are pretty cool, review say that they are Metroid like but I don’t see it.

Spud’s Quest

Spud’s Quest mixes up the puzzle and platform sequences quite well: some require speaking to people, others are Sokoban-like (pushing boxes and other items), and several require finding and dropping the necessary item somewhere specific to advance. Some areas require gaining new abilities to progress, as well, a trope Metroid fans should be all too familiar with. Enemies aren’t annoyingly tough, and you have unlimited, short-ranged ammo to dispose of them.

Buy it here.

Valdis Story: Abyssal City

As an action platformer with a heavy dose of exploration, Valdis Story does this aspect of its job well. There are plenty of enemies to dismantle and treasure chests to unlock throughout the levels, so progression tends to move at a decent and engaging pace. The normal enemies don’t pose too much of a threat. You’ll have to pay attention while fighting groups, but single foes are dispatched easily enough. These fights are best used to learn the ins and outs of combat, how to use the dash mechanic, and discover the uses of your magic spells.

Buy it here.

If you like all those collectable strategy game that seems to have appeared on mobile recently you are in luck, Atomic Brawl Deliver.

What the heck is Atomic Brawl ? It’s a free-to-play collectable strategy game (kind like MTG) where you use wit and skill to kick your friends ass and humiliate strangers online. Ok I’ve went a little to far here… But trust me, it’s a really cool game. It’s set on a hex-based board where you and your opponent take turns to deploy and move brawlers. You can use special items and squash enemies while ultimately try to destroy your opponent’s core.

The more you play, the more you earn point and unlock neat stuffs like cards, new core and beautiful girls. (all true except the girls…) With your new cards you can create custom deck and try to find synergy between cards and you core.

Still unconvinced ? check out the trailer :

Heroes of steel counter review

We recently made a review of Heroes of Steel, a good indie RPG game on Android, touch arcade made a review on it and seem that they didn’t liked it at all. You can check it here : Touch Arcade : Heroes Of Steel Review.

Self-incremental idle game seem to be the thing lately or it just that I recently discovered them. (Gold and Gem & Merry clickmas are actually that type of game)
I patiently waiting for your cash to go up with sometime a bit of intervention is your thing we got another one for you, Megami Quest.
Players start out with just one member in the party, but new members can be randomly recruited via summon if you have enough gold to hire them.
Experience points are awarded automatically and can be incremented at a faster rate through the exploration of enemy-controlled locations. Every time you’re done searching an area, at least one new location will be revealed for the party to explore.

Play it here : Megami Quest
Related : Megami Quest (shimage)

Other related Self-incremental idle game : Merry clickmas and Gold and Gem

All the King’s Men

All the King’s Men is a short game made by Kyle Pulver (Offspring Fling) during a local game jam in Phoenix. It’s only available on windows but give it a try it’s pretty fun.

Related News: All the King’s Men

Desktop Dungeons

I’ve talked awhile ago about desktop dungeon. You can now catch all the action on steam. Go the the main web site to redeem your steam key if you pre-ordered or just go buy it on steam 🙂

Related News: Release: Desktop Dungeons (QCF Design)

A new humble Indie Bundle (Humble Indie Bundle X) was out a week ago and you got only one day to get it 🙂 (being late to post news and review is my thing)

Great game in there, specially if you go the extra mile and pay more than average, I personally got Hoard and Reus, I do really like the concept Reus where you are a god that have the control of mighty that help you build a planet and grow a civilization. 
Hoard is pretty cool too, you’re a dragon that raid villages and cities to have the biggest hoard of all dragons. There is different mode, capture the princess, vs other dragons, coop.

Basic game :

To the moon

To the Moon is an indie Adventure RPG, about two doctors traversing through the memories of a dying man to fulfill his last wish.

Joe Danger 2: The movie

Picking up where the chart topping, award winning “Joe Danger” finished, take the world’s most determined stuntman to Hollywood, on the set of the greatest action film ever made. “Joe Danger 2 The Movie” is the game that allows you to out run an avalanche as a skiing secret agent, take on laser spewing robots whilst flying a jetpack, or even become a water-skiing, sky-diving, quad-biking, dinosaur dodging jungle adventurer.

Papa & Yo

Papo & Yo is the story of a young boy, Quico, and his best friend, Monster. Monster is a huge beast with razor-sharp teeth, but that doesn’t scare Quico away from playing with him. That said, Monster does have a very dangerous problem: an addiction to poisonous frogs. The minute he sees one hop by, he’ll scarf it down and fly into a violent, frog-induced rage where no one, including Quico, is safe. And yet, Quico loves his Monster and wants to save him.

Runner 2

Runner2 is divided into five themed worlds, each with fourteen regular levels and five bonus stages for a grand total of ninety-five. The goal of each level is to guide the chosen character to the end of the level without striking an obstacle or falling off the screen. The character runs automatically, and in order to arrive safely at the finish, the player must perform various simple actions such as jumping, sliding and kicking, as well as more complex moves including hanging from rails, deflecting projectiles with a shield, and slide-kicking.

Extra (if you pay more than the average bidder):

Hoard

In classic medieval fables, knights would travel the kingdom in search of dragons to slay and treasure to take. What a mean thing to do!

Let reverse the role here and take the controls of the antagonist and burn down those village because we can.

Reus

In Reus you take control of nature through the hands of mighty giants. You possess all imaginable powers over nature! There is only one thing on the planet that you do not control: mankind, with all their virtues and and all their vices. You can shape their world, but not their will. It’s your responsibility to maintain a balance in which man is not overpowered by nature, and nature does not fall to man’s greed

Other notable extra games :

Strike suit zero

Toki Tori

Surgeon Simulator 2013

Mystery Channel (freeware)

Get ready to be Mind Fucked, This game atmosphere and the weird stuff will get you, however don’t expect to play to be just a nice game to kill time, it all about the atmosphere.

Download it here

Related News: Freeware pick Mystery channel

Null Divide +

Your ship his running out of fuel and luckily for you, you found a abandoned space station. Has you scavenge the supplies you need you realize that the space station is far from empty. Fortunately, the station also contains a number of upgrades which allow you to defeat said enemies and explore ever further.

With it’s retro look and cool soundtrack Null divide is quick fun game to play that can be finish rather quickly.

Official site: mtmbsstudos

Related news: Null divide + (indiegames)

Today feature two games featuring female heroes. I always liked girls who can kick ass as long it’s not mine.

Match Girl

You are a little girl making her way through dark passageways. It’s so dark, in fact, that you can’t see unless you light a match. But YOU ONLY GET ONE per level!

Match girl is a game made by DDRKirby and xellaya’s in the Ludum Dare. I’m really impress with the result that game could be a great game on device where you could unlock level with in app purchase or something.

The game can be beat in a few minute it’s took me 7 minutes to beat it with 3 death and 4 retry. I took me less time to beat it than to write about it 😉

Play it here : Match Girl

Related news : Browser Pick: Match Girl

Heroine’s Quest: The Herald Of Ragnarok

Heroine’s Quest: The Herald of Ragnarok is an adventure / RPG hybrid. Like in many adventure games, you have a world to save, and must use your wit, guile and inventory to puzzle your way through. Like in many roleplaying games, you can customize your character with various classes and skills, and must train yourself in combat to stand a chance against the fierce monsters in your way.

After  a long winter a Heroine is called upon, to stand against the forces of frost and put an end to the lasting winter. Her might, sorcery, and cunning may be humanity’s last resort. Are you up to the task, or will you die trying?

The game a a nice Sierra Quest for glory look where you battle your way through troll, giant and dragon. Check out the video and download the game for free.

Official site: Heroine’s Quest: The Herald of Ragnarok

Related news : Freeware Pick: Heroine’s Quest (Crystal Shard)

After playing to much Hack slash n loot I’ve decided looking for some game with a medieval feel. Here what I’ve found for you

GRAIL

You only get one button in GRAIL make good use of it. Timing your move and your attack is everything in this game, you go through a dungeon filled with trap, pit and skeleton.

Playing GRAIL can be really frustrating, you sometime don’t jump at the right time, your not near enough an enemy and miss it, the enemy don’t. I got tired after awhile but go for it and give it a try. You must give Paul credit though, for crafting a game like that in only 48 hr.

Paul Lawitzki’s GRAIL is a Ludum Dare 28 entry check out the game on is site: Play GRAIL

Related: GRAIL

Heroes of Steel – A grim adventure for a Tactical RPG

Heroes of Steel is a old style turn-based tactics RPG in which you lead a group of four unique characters. You chose your characters and lead them to epic glory through the game well crafted story.

I’ve just installed the game. At first you get to choose your heroes you can change there classes in some cases but you need to pay to unlock the other classes. You end up in a dungeon and you need to escape out, the wizard already know a secret tunnel but you got to fight your way through the guard.

Moving can feel pain at the beginning specially when you are not in combat but once you understand how to send your character at the right place with a double tap then hold your golden. Combat are turn base you get to either start before or after the enemies. You play all your character together and  the enemies attack all at the same time which makes doing a surprise attack (or not getting surprise) super important.

The game is free but you need to pay if you want further episode after the demo, you have in app purchase to buy new classes.

Check out the teaser video it seems to be a very cool game.

This game is available on mobile device but not out yet on pc (may 2014).

Related : Heroes of Steel – A grim adventure for a Tactical RPG

Have fun both game are free.

Last post on Star War & Star Trek inspired me to write another post on some space games that were sitting in my to review list. They may be not has “Grandiose” has KOTOR or inventive has Star Trek: Trexels but they definitely deserve a look.

Mighty Tactical Shooter: Plan your move

Gradius and tactical space battle meet together in the nicely done indies games Mighty Tactical Shooter. From the game info quote : “Make your way through multiple levels across four distinct themed chapters. Face challenges that wouldn’t be possible in any other type of shooter. Adopt new skills and tactics as the ship repairs, enemies diversify and the plot unfolds. A 2D side scrolling arcade shoot ‘em up, but turn based.” Like they say at the end : It’s about tactics, not reflex. Your move.

It may not have speed of Gradius but fi you want a different take on tactics and story instead of a standard “shoot’em up” will want to definitely give it a try.

Related news : Mighty Tactical Shooter (indie retro news)

Mighty Tactical Shooter: Gradius and turn-based tactics hybrid (indiegames)

Halfway: A Sci-fi Jagged Alliance

An alien force has invaded your spaceship and your crew need to throught the hallway of it to get rid of these nasty alien. That turn-based tactical strategy draw a lot of turn base fight from a old game I’ve played called Jagged Alliance on PC. Each character has its own tactical abilities, so they will all have to attack, defend, move, use items, and reload to stay alive during battles.

Halfway will be heading to tablets later this year after its initial desktop release.

Related news : Halfway (pocketgamer)