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PAX PAX West 2018 PC Steam Written By: Jonathan A. 

(PAX West 2018) Black Future ’88

September 1, 2018September 1, 2018 Ailingforale 0 Comments Action, Black Future '88, Co-Op, Good Shepherd Entertainment, Indie, PC, roguelike, SUPERSCARYSNAKES, Twin-Stick Shooter

 Black Future ’88 is a Twin-Stick shooter that is about as crazy and frenetic as it looks. Set in the

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Reviews Steam Written By: Jonathan A. 

(Review) Life is Feudal: Forest Village

June 15, 2017October 22, 2017 Ailingforale 0 Comments Bitbox Ltd., City-Builder, Forest Village, Indie, Life is Feudel: Forest Village, Medieval, Mindillusion, roguelike, Sim, Simulation, Strategy

So here we have a “… blatant rip off of Banished. I can’t believe this is legal.” game that is currently

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Impressions Steam Written By: Jonathan A. 

(Impressions) Streets of Rogue

May 11, 2017October 22, 2017 Ailingforale 0 Comments Action, COOP, Indie, PC, roguelike, RPG, Stealth, STEAM, Streets of Rogue, tinyBuild Games

Well, if you wanted to have a game where you can almost do anything, Streets of Rogue is trying to

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Released Reviews Written By: Jonathan A. 

(Review) Lost Castle

September 14, 2016 Ailingforale 0 Comments Action, Adventure, Hunter Studio, Indie, PC, roguelike, RPG, STEAM

If you thought I was done with Roguelikes, you were wrong. Lost Castle is yet another in the genre that

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PAX West 2016 Written By: Jonathan A. 

PAX West 2016: Streets of Rogue

September 3, 2016June 30, 2017 Ailingforale 0 Comments Action, Brawler, Co-Op, Indie, Pax, PC, roguelike, RPG, Shooter, Stealth, Streets of Rogue

I had seen Streets of Rogue in a press release and had no idea what I was getting into. After

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Released Reviews Written By: Jonathan A. 

(Review) Heart&Slash

September 1, 2016October 4, 2017 Ailingforale 0 Comments Action, Adventure, AHEARTFULOFGAMES, Badland Games, Heart&Slash, Indie, PC, roguelike, STEAM

Ah the Roguelike genre. I have a love/love-ish relationship with them. In concept, they are very cool. If you’ve got

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Alphas/Betas/Demos/Early Access Impressions Written By: Anthony B. 

Impressions: Delver

August 1, 2014 Ailingforale 0 Comments Action, Adventure, First Person, Indie, PC, roguelike, RPG, STEAM, Steam Early

I was looking around on the steam summer sale and a certain game caught my eye. The game was Delver,

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Released Reviews Written By: Jonathan A. 

Review: Risk of Rain

July 5, 2014 Ailingforale 4 Comments 2D, Action, Hopoo Games, Indie, Platformer, Risk of Rain, roguelike, Side-Scroller

So there you are, flying through space (in hyper-sleep?) when some dude with a giant sword stabs your ship (yeh,

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"News" Kickstarter Highlight Thoughts Written By: Jonathan A. 

Kickstarter Highlight: Popup Dungeon

May 16, 2014May 19, 2014 Ailingforale 0 Comments Dungeon Crawler, Kickstarter, Popup Dungeon, Randogen, roguelike, Triple.B.Titles

They made it to $100k! Popup Dungeon is going to Wii U! While I did mention this game on the

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Alphas/Betas/Demos/Early Access Impressions Written By: Jonathan A. 

Impressions: Hero Generations

April 25, 2014 Ailingforale 0 Comments Hearth Shaped Games, Hero Generations, Indie, Kickstarter, roguelike, Scott Brodie

Do you ever have those times where you want to play a game, but you’re not sure what it is

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Q&A Written By: Jonathan A. 

Dungeon of the Endless Q&A With Romain de Waubert

January 7, 2014March 11, 2014 Ailingforale 0 Comments Amplitude, Dungeon of the Endless, Endless Legend, Endless Space, Indie, PC, roguelike, Romain de Waubert, STEAM

To start off, if you haven’t played Dungeon of the Endless yet, you can buy it from Steam.  It’s inexpensive

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Updates and Stuff

-(5/31/22) Yes I’m doing some reviews lately. I’ll get back to dev’n when I’m done with my current reviews.
-While patching my first game Mazungeon, I broke it so it’s off the Play store. You can see on the site what it was like when it worked. You can also play a previous version here.

-Thank you to all developers and PR people who make this wild ride possible. It is a pleasure!

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