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After a little time off over the holidays, welcome back to your weekly update on what looks interesting in the world of Kickstarter gaming campaigns. This is a quietish period for campaigns but new ones do pop up every week, and the last few weeks have brought at least one change – Kickstarter campaign pages now look a lot cleaner.
First of all, let’s clear up those previously covered that have come to some resolution over the holiday period. Starting with bad news, a number of games have finished short of target; including Project: Liberty (with the last update being about a delayed trailer), Blanco (no updates), Legend of Decay (again, no updates), Left for Dad (last update from weeks ago), Twin Flames (last update says that they’re going to keep going with the project though), Never Not Shooting (the last update being on an enemy type), Knock-Out (their only update being about using social networks to get word out), Monkeys On Your Back (with the last update thanking people for support), Arcade Tycoon (with an update after close showing a version they got out despite the campaign’s failure), Nin (the last update showing off VR mode gameplay), One Up This (the team are now working to make the game available on a print on demand site), and with no change in the status of Berghein‘s campaign page, it’s probably safe to say that game won’t be coming out too soon either.
As always though, we do have some good news and the previously covered campaigns that met targets or finished with well met targets during the holiday period are DämmerLicht, Undermine, Plague Road, Renegade Line, SECTOR 6, and Bitdude. All are wonderful looking games and we can’t wait to see them out and on sale.
First up, we have the next game from the team that brought us Jotun.
Sundered is described as a “horrifying fight for survival and sanity” in its title, and is a replayable metroidvania game that deals with eldritch power. You play as a character named Eshe, in a world of caverns and relics of terrifying and terrible power. Use their power as your own and defeat demonic bosses, but be careful – eldritch power comes with a cost and the more you embrace it, the smaller your own humanity becomes. Will you resist, or embrace its call?
Sundered has a CA$ 25,000 goal, and has reached its 100% mark during my writing of the article. It still has 31 more days to run though, so who knows how far it can go?
Next up is an action/RPG with roguelike elements to it.
UnDungeon has pixelarty graphics and is set in a world formed from seven former worlds, merged into one by the ‘Shift’. Seven immortal ‘Heralds’ travel this world in ruins together and between them will decide the world’s fate. The game will be released for PC/Mac/Linux, with console releases planned if the game reaches certain stretch goals – which means it’ll need to do well if you want to play this game on the Playstation 4 or Xbox One! (Or the Switch…? Possibly?)
UnDungeon has 27 days to go, and has made €34,748 of its €50,000 goal so far.
Thirdly, another action RPG, but with a beautiful looking art style.
First of all, this campaign is filled with funny, quirky little comics to explain what the game is and what the story is all about. I love that, it’s such a fresh way to get this information across. There are some roguelike elements to this one too, with random encounters, loot to pick up, randomly generated dungeons and enemies and fast-paced combat. And as I said, the art style is lovely. I really hope this one does well.
Pixel Princess Blitz has a €77,700 goal, with 23 days to go. It has made €35,528 so far.
And we’re finishing with a physical game based off of a digital one.
Elite: Dangerous Role Playing Game seeks to bring the world of the video game, wide and sandboxy with an emphasis on forging your own path, into a role playing setting. And it could probably work – there is a lot to do in the video game and this campaign is aiming to get a core manual and four supplement books published for your role playing fun. Who knows, maybe if it gets funded we’ll get a copy for the office here at the station.
Elite: Dangerous Role Playing Game has a £45,000 target with 29 days to go. It has made £19,821 so far.
With the trailer out and a release date of March 21st set, information is now being revealed slowly about the next entry into the Mass Effect series of games.
A few days ago, it was confirmed on Twitter by a member of the team working on the game that the PC version of Andromeda will have controller support which is hopefully going to be seamlessly able to switch to keyboard and mouse and back again to controller. But of course, the biggest question most PC gamers have is – what specs will my machine need to play the game?
During a time spent answering fan questions, again on Twitter, BioWare general manager Aaryn Flynn addressed this question by saying that answers could be expected in February, when the specs were currently planned to release out to the public:
@wasmadeinthe80s Probably closer to launch. Sometime in February I think
This could be of course because right now Bioware isn’t 100% sure of the specs, given this is around about the time the game will be entering final testing so this is probably the time they’re really nailing down exactly what type of hardware is needed to get the game performing well.
There were also a few teasers about multiplayer details hopefully coming soon, so it seems that Bioware have the information releases all set up in a schedule ready for the game’s release in a few months time.
At the moment Bioware are slowly drip feeding the Internet information about the upcoming Mass Effect game, Mass Effect: Andromeda. We recently had a trailer come out, and that was huge. Now something’s been revealed which isn’t quite as huge, but welcome none the less – Andromeda will have native controller support for its PC version.
The news was revealed via a tweet sent out by Andromeda’s lead designer, Ian S. Frazier yesterday:
In case it wasn’t clear: yes, we now support controllers on PC. 🙂 But personally? I’m looking forward to showing off m&kb controls! #space
Neither Mass Effect 2 or 3 had controller support for PC, so this is a step up from those games and welcome to people who prefer to use a controller for their gaming. Further, you will apparently also be able to switch between controller and mouse and keyboard control seamlessly. That means if you prefer using controller for one thing and mouse and keyboard for something else, Andromeda should be able to allow you to do that with little problem. Hopefully.
There’s plenty more news to come about the game before it finally releases on March 21 in North America and on March 23 in Europe, so stay tuned.
