Author: Danny Neleman
Danny is a retrogame collector with a fascination for weird Japanese Sega Saturn imports. He founded Retrolike.net to get the sub genre of retro-inspired indie games and remakes the spotlight it deserves.
Steam Next Fest has barely ended, and the next Steam event has already begun! It’s that time most PC gamers both love and dread simultaneously—the sale that tempts us to fill up our backlog with enough gameplay hours to last us until we reach seniority. Check out our retro-inspired recommendations
Indie-dev and publisher, RedDeer.Games in association with Bacord Games announced that Maki: Paw of Fury is heading to Steam and Nintendo Switch later this year. Maki: Paw of Fury, is an retro-inspired Beat’em up, with incredibly large and cute anthropomorphic sprites. The main character, a charming fox named Maki, is drawn into a world full of threats and dangers. His beloved is kidnapped by a mysterious villain, and he must set out to rescue her, defeating all sorts of enemies and bosses along the way. Maki has mastered the noble art of Tsume no Ken, making him an extraordinary anthropomorphic fighting machine capable…
This Brave Soldier review is played and tested on Nintendo Switch. The game is developed by JM Neto Game Dev and published by EastAsiaSoft and available for $3.99/€3,99 in the Nintendo eShop. The game is also available on Xbox (Series S/X/One), PC and Playstation (4/5). Run-and-gun games have always been a hit-or-miss for me as a subgenre. During the 8-bit era, these games often fell into two categories: either arcade ports that were extremely rudimentary, relying heavily on the player’s memory and being extremely hard to master, or masterpieces crafted by companies like Capcom, Konami, and Sunsoft that still hold…
Hamster announced that Namco’s arcade and TurboGrafx-16 classic, Splatterhouse, is coming to Nintendo Switch and Playstation 4, Today (June 22nd)! “Splatter house” is an action game released by NAMCO (Bandai Namco Entertainment Inc.) in 1988. Take control of the hero, Rick, and use the power of the spirit in your mask to make your way through the cursed mansion to rescue your girlfriend Jennifer. Fight off merciless monsters to get out of the haunted mansion alive! Apart from the TurboGrafx and Wii’s Virtual Console, Splatter House hasn’t seen many console (re-)releases, so it is a nice fit for Hamster’s Arcade…
What if you combine the building and resource management of Minecraft, the graphical fidelity of a 1991 PC DOS platformer, and the survival strategy gameplay of a game like Grounded? And let’s not forget to add a touch of “Lost in Space” for the setting and story. If you shake that coctail hard enough, you’ll get Farworld Pioneers. A 2D survival sandbox game developed by Igloosoft and published by Tiny Build. The game has just been released on Xbox and is also available on Xbox Game Pass. Additionally, it’s available on Steam, and a version for PS4/5 is currently in…
Panic, the company behind the innovative crank-driven retro video game handheld, the Playdate, has announced the new June 2023 games for its curated online game store called Catalog. There is a whole slew of games added, but here are our top picks: P-Racer The first game is a bit odd. P-Racer is a pseudo 3D cart racing game highly inspired by Mario Kart. Developer Matteo went all the way in trying to convert the Mario Kart-like racing experience to a platform as viscerally 1-bit as the Playdate. Additionally, he added some really impressive game modes. It is kind of amazing.…
Press release Back to the Dawn will be featured with a playable demo at the upcoming Steam Next Fest starting today. The demo will be available until the 10th of July. Developed by Metal Head Games, distributed by Spiral Up Games and with an expected launch date in the second half of 2023, Back to the Dawn is an intense prison survival and escape RPG that puts players in the shoes of a framed and wrongly incarcerated journalist caught in a dark conspiracy. Inspired by classic prison-themed shows like Prison Break and Chow Yun-Fatt’s Prison on Fire, Back to the Dawn offers players an intense and…
On the heels of our news about Sea of Stars joining Game Pass on day one, publisher Gravity Game Arise has announced that their upcoming project, Alterium Shift, will enter “Early Access” on July 6th. The two-person development team is pretty clear why the opted to open up there game for early access sales: “Alterium Shift is entering Early Access for several compelling reasons. At the forefront, we aim to provide our eager community with a robust gameplay experience that extends beyond a simple demo. We’re also enthusiastic about receiving and implementing player feedback, helping us to refine and polish…
If you frequent this website often enough, you might have noticed that we are pretty excited about the upcoming Sabotage game “Sea of Stars.” We have ranked the game in our list of “upcoming indie games you should be excited about,” for instance. Right from the start, during the crowdfunding campaigns, the handling of the Xbox version was a little bit sketchy. It was initially a stretch goal, and although the threshold was met, the Xbox version suddenly disappeared completely. It wasn’t mentioned on the site or in the marketing campaign surrounding the reveal of the launch date. Not too…
What defines a true indie gem? In some cases, you can see a game packaging solid and engaging gameplay in a unique and wonderfully told narrative, like Celeste. Sometimes a game creates or popularizes a completely new genre. Recently, Vampire Survivor did just that. And in the case of Shovel Knight, it introduces a gameplay mechanic and utilizes it in such a manner that it innovates the platforming genre and inspires indie developers for years to come. With Tiny Thor, Asylum Square has created a game that gets in the mix of these modern classics without revolutionizing anything. Just on…