Jackal

Earth is dying following the destruction of the Moon. As natural disasters sweep the planet, the newly formed United Environmental Federation accelerate plans to terraform Mars. You play as Lesleigh Hayes, a Biological Research Assistant, on her first deep space voyage. Once aboard the Sonne, Lesleigh’s thoughts turn to her children left behind. As catastrophic […]

While I've certainly played some morbid and melancholy adventure games over the years, none of them have been quite as deeply depressing as . A feeling of pure hopelessness surrounds this poor girl's story, and as she delves deeper into a surreal journey with her misguided stuffed animal, players discover the increasing severity of her […]

In the mailbox, you discover an unusual envelope from the Carson Stiles Gateway Theater. Odd, considering that the theater had been shut down years ago when the entire staff was gruesomely murdered, supposedly by the owner himself, who then took his own life. Inside the envelope is a letter telling you about the grand premiere […]

The episodic adventure based on the popular Homestuck web comic is a story about a girl named Joey Claire. When Joey discovers a mysterious teleportation machine in her attic, she’s mistakenly sucked through a portal to Alternia, an alien world populated by teenage trolls. Join Joey on a wild adventure with her new troll friends […]

It may not be in a huge public area surrounded by hordes of mainstream videogame fans, but Daedalic’s stand in the gamescom business area is always stuffed, with multiple demo rooms showing games to groups of reporters around the clock for days. So it was again this year, letting me wrap up my visit with […]

With the planet destroyed, only a few thousand ‘descendants of humanity’ were hand-picked to survive, cryogenically suspended in underground bunkers known as Arks. Centuries passed. The world recovered and all the Arks reopened, except one — Ark-01. Taking place across two timelines, in the past you’ll play as Mia, a janitor tasked with keeping the […]

Donnie and Randolph are forced to put their differences aside and work together to achieve their mission, while Mia awakens to find the Ark and everything within it changed forever, and faces off against the last danger she could have ever expected. Who lives, who dies, and the fate of the new world rests solely […]

Tracing back genealogies is all the rage these days, but what if you could actually grow your own? That is the unusual premise behind , a new indie adventure released today on PC and Android devices. But then, we wouldn't expect anything less than unusual from a series that proudly wears its strangeness on its […]