Category Archives: INDIE

CAFFEINE

Caffeine is a first-person, Unreal Engine 4-powered horror adventure game about a boy wandering around a seemingly abandoned space station. It’s set in a world where coffee is mined from space, or something, and I remain sceptical of how that silliness will affect the game’s fear-based elements. Developer Dylan Browne describes Caffeine as a “quirky psychological horror adventure game with an atmosphere heavily inspired by games like Condemned, FEAR and Outlast”. He doesn’t explain which brand of coffee he’s been inspired by. Continue reading CAFFEINE

The Flame in the Flood

Survival games and Early Access go together like unfinished titles with an unsatisfying endgame and…Early Access, so it’s no surprise to see another one making a beeline for Steam’s pEarly gates. The Flame in the Flood is stylish, attractive, and features a dog sidekick, making it automatically more interesting than 99% of video games. The Molasses Flood’s game has been available (in unfinished form) to Kickstarter backers for a little while now, and soon it will be out for the rest of us via Steam Early Access. Continue reading The Flame in the Flood