Happy New Year from RPGMGames! Let’s take a moment to reflect on 2018 and look back at all of the incredible projects and developers that were featured last year.
January’s Featured Game: HELLO CHARLOTTE
GENRE: Surreal, Horror, Dark Comedy
WARNINGS: Gore, Body Horror, Graphic Content
SUMMARY: Meet Charlotte - a puppet you will control. Meet her alien friends, maggot cat and a certain Observer. Dive deep into horrors of junk food, TV world, religion and romance novels for middle-age women. Keep your puppet safe at all times. Or don’t.
Have fun dying!
Check it out here: EP1 | EP2 | EP3 | DELIRIUM
February’s Featured Game: LONE STAR
GENRE: Western, Action, Adventure
SUMMARY: Lone Star takes place in the far-flung, sunbaked desert country of Diamondback, where sheriffs struggle to maintain civil order and protect the public from the deserts’ many vicious outlaws. The demand for someone to enforce the law led to independently operated training programs for citizens who want to help keep the peace. Elmer is a student of one such program held in the little mining locale of Bulk Rock City, who ventures into the chaotic wasteland alone in an effort to do his part as a sheriff-in-training.
Check out the developer’s blog here!
March’s Featured Game: CERESS AND OREA
GENRE: Puzzle, Adventure
SUMMARY: Ceress is sentenced to death, because she’s in love with the ‘wrong’ person. But stubborn as she is, she calls out to an old deity, demanding a chance to change this unrighteousness.
Can Ceress overcome death to be reunited with the woman she loves, Orea?
Play the game here!
April’s Featured Game: FOLKLORIA
GENRE: Adventure, RPG
SUMMARY: Folkloria is a lighthearthed turn-based RPG set on a floating island inhabited by mythological creatures. You play as Weaver, a young and unassuming griffin determined to rescue his family from the clutches of Dr. Zeralidius, a shady businessperson from the world below the clouds who plans to modernize the peaceful island.
Check out the developer’s blog here!
May’s Featured Game: MARE
GENRE: Horror, Adventure, Fantasy, RPG
WARNINGS: Listed here
SUMMARY: The game follows Naomi, who awakens to find that they cannot remember their name, memories, and where they are. All they know is they can hear a lone voice calling to them, “Naomi, come find me.”
Play the demo here!
June’s Featured Game: QUEEN MARY’S SCRIPT RETOLD
GENRE: Adventure
SUMMARY: Queen Mary’s Script is a tale of a young girl who finds a happy escape in her own dreams. She lives in a shell closed off from the world and only in her own room can she express her feelings. That is, until she happens upon the doll Clause and all at once, the magic she yearned for in her life is thrust upon her. However, she soon finds that magic isn’t always what it looks like in books and dolls are just as selfish as humans.
Play the demo here!
July’s Featured Game: BLACK CRYSTALS
GENRE: Fantasy, RPG
WARNINGS: Alcohol Reference, Drug Reference, Use of Alcohol, Use of Drugs, Use of Tobacco, Mild Blood, Fantasy Violence, Sexual Themes
SUMMARY: Starsio, a street performer, finds himself in the stickiest of situations. Starsio was kidnapped off the streets of his home town and brought to the brothel Paprika where he is forced to become a performer. One rainy night, Starsio gathers his courage and wits and plans an escape. He convinces Arthur, an apprehensive and fidgety new found friend, to accompany him. Starsio sets his escape plan in motion with one last song…
Check out the developer’s blog here!
August’s Featured Game: SHROOM SOUP
GENRE: Adventure, RPG, Psychological Horror
WARNINGS: Listed here (may contain spoilers)
SUMMARY: You play as Arnika, a gloomy teenage girl. Perpetually tired, you live off excessive sleep, lime juice, and instant soup. You look into the vortex forming in your cup of said soup, this time mushroom flavour. Next thing you know, you are in an entirely different world where everything, from buildings to people, is being devoured by fungi.
It seems like you have no choice but to walk on… Your journey involves exploration, puzzle-solving and battles.
Play the demo here!
September’s Featured Game: GHOST HOSPITAL
GENRE: Adventure, RPG
WARNINGS: Anxiety, Body horror, Implied child harm
SUMMARY: Ghost Hospital is a game about anxiety, depression, despair, mental rock bottoms, and, of course, ghosts. You play as Robin, a twelve-year-old girl who has an anxiety disorder and is very much alive in this hospital meant for beings that are not alive. Frankly, her anxiety was already bad enough before she landed in a hospital full of dead people, the still-shambling shells of ancient ghosts who try to take her down for a sweet taste of life, and the hospital directors hellbent on keeping her contained, and more importantly, away from the reason she’s REALLY there.
Thankfully, you have your new friends Jay and Sarcastic Ghost- Jay is a ghost about your age, and still a very new arrival to the hospital, and Sarcastic Ghost…well, he’s an amorphous blob of a ghost, who talks a lot despite not having a mouth.
Play the demo here!
October’s Featured Game: OVERCAST
GENRE: Horror, Supernatural, Action, RPG
WARNINGS: Graphic Violence, Body Horror, Drugs and Alcohol, Obscured Nudity, Mild Gore, Suicide Reference, Religous References
SUMMARY: Overcast is an Action RPG with two separate protagonists. Violet; the modest yet strict Spirit of the Sun, and Nico; the relaxed yet distant Spirit of Rain.
In a world where humans and spirits live alongside each other, Nico is a lonely spirit that resides on Aarat, an obscure city on an island in the middle of the sea shrouded by dark clouds. For some mysterious reason it rains at all times.
After a catastrophe forced Nico into hiding; Violet emerges from her home in the heavens; Paradiso, to take the island by storm and bring an end to the rain.
Check out the developer’s blog here!
November’s Featured Game: SHOOTY AND THE CATFISH
GENRE: Adventure, RPG
WARNINGS: Course Language, Gore
SUMMARY: Shooty and the Zaat are a dynamic duo solving monstrous mysteries!
Play the demo here!
December’s Featured Game: SOMA SPIRITS
GENRE: RPG
SUMMARY: Soma Spirits is a choice-driven Role-Playing Game in which players will face heavy dilemmas with a colorful cast of characters. Unlike many games of choice, the decisions you will make in the world of Soma are not so black and white, and characters will undergo different changes depending on how you wish to proceed.
The world of Soma is a land divided into two similar, but distinct versions of one another. At certain locations, you will be able to travel back and forth between the World of Joy and the World of Sorrow and find different inhabitants, monsters, and clues on how to proceed. How you decide to help the people you meet along your journey will determine which of the game’s five outcomes Heart and Soul will find themselves in.
Play the game here! Check out the extended version here! We look forward to many more exciting interviews and new projects in the year to come!