Retro Games Forever and other great Facebook groups worthy of a visit!

Over the years many Facebook groups have come and gone and some are still going even today much to the delight of the retro gaming community. But it takes more than just a whiff of nostalgia to keep the members coming and staying; it takes lots of gaming updates and posts, people getting along and an Administration worthy of your respect. And so through all this time of being an actual member

Whales Voyage 2 - The sequel to a great Amiga game gets an English translation [UPDATE]

And here we go again with yet more Amiga news, especially if you like a mix of adventuring, crawling and space travel all blended up into a lovely sci-fi mix. As thanks to the original translators and of course DamienD we now have a fully translated English release of the German game Whale's Voyage 2 available for download as an updated HDF file for Amiga users! This is the sequel to the

Argus - Dungeon Crawling style C64 Adventure teased in new preview footage

Even more C64 news now, as once again Trevor Story has teased another game in development for the C64 and this time it's an Adventure game called ' Argus '. Now there's not much to go on, but the game looks to be a Dungeon Crawler of some kind as you traverse through woodland areas, picking up items, especially weapons and using them against menacing foes. I'm unsure as to when it's going to

Out Live - A Dungeon Crawling Turbografx-16 English translation

Yet again here we are mentioning another Dungeon Crawler style game, but this time we wont be featuring a band of adventurers looking for loot in some far off cavern, but a Sci-Fi crawler fully English translated on the Turbografx-16 by Nebulous Translations. Now you've probably never heard of this one, but this is 'Out Live' by Sunsoft; a first person mech/robot controlling experience through

Skullstone - Dungeon Master inspired Dungeon Crawler coming 2017

One things for certain, you can never get sick of too many dungeon crawlers, especially as each one gives you a choice of characters, plenty of loot to find and dark cramped dungeons to explore filled with evil creatures in need of a tasty human meal. And so welcome to ' Skullstone ' developed by Polish developers Black Torch Studios for a release date of 2017; a new first person dungeon

The Deep Paths: Labyrinth Of Andokost - Love dungeon crawlers? This game might be for you!

Our good friend Khelben Blackstaff, developer of that brilliant dungeon crawler ' Dungeon Kingom ', has informed us through Facebook of the upcoming release for The Deep Paths Labyrinth of Andokost developed by Steve Jarman, which is going to be available on Steam in just two days time - 26th October. If you loved those grid based classics such as Dungeon Master and Lands of Lore and want

Hired Guns - An Amiga Sci-fi experience like no other on the PC

As its my Birthday today, I thought it best to celebrate by mentioning one of the best games on the Amiga, 'Hired Guns', which has been packaged together with FS-UAE for playability on the PC by GamesNostalgia. First released in 1993 for both Amiga and DOS, this game was the highlight of my gaming youth developed by DMA Design and published by Psygnosis. It put you in charge of 4 mercenaries

Heroes of the Monkey Tavern - A real time dungeon crawling experience coming to Steam 22nd Sept!

Good evening dungeoneers, a new dungeon crawler is coming to Steam 22nd of September and this one is called ' Heroes of the Monkey Tavern ', developed by Cédric Maussion. Classed as the younger brother of Legend of Grimrock for people who are new to this kind of game with an ease of use with gamepad support. Heroes of the Monkey Tavern puts you in control of four adventurers exploring dark

The Deep Paths Labyrinth Of Andokost - Dungeon crawling experience coming 14th Oct!

Warriors and Wizards get your weapons ready and health potions made, as a new Dungeon Crawler known as ' The Deep Paths Labyrinth of Andokost' is coming to Steam 14th October! If you loved those turn based classics such as Dungeon Master and Lands of Lore, of which this game is inspired by, then The Deep Paths developed by Steve Jarman is a game you might want to add to your wish list. Explore

Wizardish - Pico-8 Dungeon Crawler gets a major v2.0 update

Only just last month Eduardolicious with music by 0xabad1dea, released the updated old school retro dungeon crawler ' Wizardish ' for the Pico-8, with a browser based version also available. It was developed as a Wizardry game in his own style using 80's graphics that gave you the feeling of walking through tight tunnels while battling strange beasts, and collecting loot all with up to four

Akalabeth World of Doom +4 - Lord British blessed C64 RPG port gets a Genesis Project update!

Remember when Indie Retro News gave a big mention to Andrea Schincaglia and team's C64 port of the Apple II RPG classic ' Akalabeth World of Doom '? Well guess what! It's appeared again but this time as Akalabeth - World of Doom +4 by Genesis Project! That's right ladies and gentlemen, the C64 port which was blessed by Richard Garriott aka Lord British himself as the predecessor to the Ultima

The Quest : Islands of Ice and Fire - Retro inspired dungeon crawler gets an expansion

Great news for fans of the old style of dungeon crawler and the more recent retro inspired game of Redshift's ' The Quest ', as they have announced and released the expansion to the game, as ' The Quest : Islands of Ice and Fire ', which is now available to buy on Steam for PC and Mac.  Featuring more expansive new areas, more dungeons and towns, new monsters, new quests and new weapons such