Genre: adventure / action-adventure •Platform: Pc •
Developer: Pirhana Bytes • Publisher: Deep Silver • http://risen.deepsilver.com/
Status:

Content noted:

final comments:

purchase links
Amazon UK Risen
Gameseek UK Risen

Genre: adventure / action-adventure •Platform: Pc •

Status:

The Color is the only resource in the game: it acts as the health, inventory, skills and perks system, armory

All in-game actions are realised through drawing
You literally need to draw your way with your own blood
Each Color can cause both harm and good. A player gets various advantages from getting any of The Colors, but when he draws with it he feeds the enemy forces of the world
Fight with golems, bloodthirsty predators and other spawns of The Void

Content noted:

• The Void review (enthusiatic) ( Monday, October 19, 2009 )

Why I am interested:

Seems rather unique

Genre: games • strategy •Platform: Pc •

Status:

marine warfare

Content noted:

• Following online: A jutland review ( Monday, January 05, 2009 )

Genre: games • arcade / puzzle •Platform: Pc •
Developer: Proper Games • Publisher: Capcom • http://www.proper-games.com/
Status: I want it! •

Content noted:

• RPS mentions Flock, and makes me want it ( Friday, January 09, 2009 )

Genre: games • role playing •Platform: Pc •
Developer: Katauri Interactive •
Status: Released in 2008-09 • I want it! •

Content noted:

• King’s Bounty review ( Saturday, October 11, 2008 )
• King’s Bounty preview ( Sunday, September 28, 2008 )
• King’s Bounty Demo ( Tuesday, September 23, 2008 )
• Kings Bounty preview ( Tuesday, July 22, 2008 )

Why I am interested:

Early previews on Rock Paper and other sites seem to indicate a game just like I might like them

Genre: games • role playing •Platform: Pc •
Publisher: Microsoft •
Status: I want it! •

Content noted:

Genre: games • role playing •Platform: Pc •
Developer: Ascaron •
Status: I want it! •

Content noted:

• Sacred 2 preview ( Wednesday, June 25, 2008 )

Why I am interested:

I enjoyed Sacred, and they seem to be taking Sacred 2 in a direction that looks good

Genre: games • role playing •Platform: Pc •
Developer: Rampant • Publisher: Rampant • http://www.rampantgames.com/frayedknights/
Status: I played this one • Actually I am still playing it •

An Indie Computer RPG of Comedy and High Fantasy.

Content noted:

• Indie update: Frayed Kights ( Wednesday, April 30, 2008 )

Why I am interested:

Independant. Tongue in Cheek. That should alread be enough

Genre: games • strategy •Platform: Pc •

Status:

Indie game aimed at short and fun tactical gameplay.
Has pirates, zombies, curses, natives, and lots of plunder

Content noted:

• Plunder is now Age of Booty and it’s available on Impulse - but not for me :( ( Monday, November 03, 2008 )
• Plunder review ( Saturday, March 15, 2008 )

Genre: games • computers • strategy •Platform: Pc •
Developer: Battlegoat Studios • Publisher: Paradox Interactive •
Status:

Content noted:

Why I am interested:

It'll probably go totally over my head, in that it will require more commitment than I am willing to throw at a game - but I liked what they were doing on the first game and this should be better

Genre: games • computers • role playing •Platform: Pc •
Developer: Iron Tower Studios • http://www.irontowerstudio.com/
Status:

The Age of Decadence is an isometric, turn-based, single-player 3D role-playing game set in a low magic, post-apocalyptic fantasy world, inspired by the fall of the Roman Empire. The game features a detailed skill-based character system, non-linear gameplay, multiple skill-based ways to handle quests, choices & consequences, and extensive dialogue trees.

Highlights:

7 distinctive gameplay styles: from knight, serving a Noble House to grifter, preying on greed and gullibility.

23 skills, ranging from Dagger and Critical Strike to Disguise and Persuasion to Crafting and Lore.

Action Point-based combat system, featuring a flexible set of standard attacks, special attacks such as whirlwind and impale, and aimed attacks at different body parts.

8 weapon types: daggers, swords, axes, hammers, spears, bows, crossbows, throwing weapons, each with individual traits.

Non-combat quests resolutions and a well-developed diplomatic path ( “The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.” )

Over 100 quests, taking you to 22 locations: towns, outposts, archeological digs, sealed places of Power, underground facilities, and temples.

Each situation has multiple ways of handling it, based on your skills, reputation, and connections. Each way has consequences that will affect someone or something.

Extensive dialogues trees, written with role-playing in mind. You can use many skills in dialogues, take actions like stealing or sneak-attacking, and play your character with personality as you see fit.

An interesting world with rich history and unclear future that your actions can shape into seven very different game endings.

Detailed crafting and alchemy systems: melt items and create new ones, balance your sword, play with Greek fire, increase your poison’s potency, use corrosive acid on locks, and experiment with black powder.

Hundreds of items, ranging from weapons & armor to scrolls, tools, flasks, and pre-war relics.

3D world created with Torque Game Engine, featuring detailed locations and almost 200 unique animations.

General web opinion:

People seem to describe it as “Fallout but in the roman empire”

Content noted:

• The age of decadence interview ( Wednesday, October 24, 2007 )
• Age of Decadence interview ( Tuesday, September 04, 2007 )
• Age of decadence preview(s) ( Monday, February 05, 2007 )

Why I am interested:

The game quotes Glen Cook on the starting page! Is that not enough?
I am tiring of the FPS-style action RPGs, they start to all feel the same after a while. I am considering replaying the Baldur’s Gate series and Neverwinter Nights 1. And enjoying depths of peril and a few other indie RPGs - so this is right up my alley at the moment:
Its a return to an older style of gaming, using text more, non linear - but with modern cleverness and edginess in it.

A lot of the things they say in reviews, interviews and the forum make sense to me. They make some opinionated choice and I might not always agree with them, but I am willing to follow the developers where these lead, and give it a try, because, well, they have obviously strong ideas about it. And strong ideas are worth paying attention to, as they can lead to great games.

Genre: games • computers • role playing •Platform: Pc •

Status: Released • I played this one • I own it!

Content noted:

• Fable 2 Preview ( Sunday, May 25, 2008 )

Genre: games • computers • strategy •Platform: Pc •

Status: Released • I played this one • I own it!

Content noted:

Genre: games • computers • role playing •Platform: Pc •

Status:

Content noted:

Genre: games • role playing •Platform: Pc •
Developer: Iron Tower Studios • Publisher: Iron Tower Studios • http://www.irontowerstudio.com/
Status: I want it! •

Non-combat quest resolutions and a well-developed diplomatic path ( “The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.” )

Over 100 quests, taking you to 22 locations: towns, outposts, archeological digs, sealed places of Power, underground facilities, and temples.

Each situation has multiple ways of handling it, based on your skills, reputation, and connections. Each way has consequences that will affect someone or something.

Extensive dialogue trees, written with role-playing in mind. You can use many skills in dialogues, take actions like stealing or sneak-attacking, and play your character with personality as you see fit.

An interesting world with rich history and unclear future that your actions can shape into seven very different game endings.

Detailed crafting and alchemy systems: melt items and create new ones, balance your sword, play with Greek fire, increase your poison’s potency, use corrosive acid on locks, and experiment with black powder.

General web opinion:

Game is under the radar

Content noted:

• Another Age of Decadence Interview ( Monday, April 07, 2008 )
• Article on Non Combat Gameplay ( Friday, March 07, 2008 )
• Age of Decadence interview ( Monday, February 04, 2008 )

Why I am interested:

The developers have an interesting and independent vision - they want to create a game which is open and realistic, which can be played through in widely different styles, from fighter to rogue to merchant to diplomat, and fighting and killing is always optional. They share and discuss that vision quite openly in the forums, and what I read there makes me very keen to try the game.