Indie Royale Goes To The Moon

Andy Chalk

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Indie Royale Goes To The Moon

The Indie Royale Fall Bundle is enough to bring a tear to a strong man's eye.

The days are getting colder, the nights are getting longer, the leaves are turning fabulous reds and oranges and falling to the ground. It must be time for a new Indie Royale! That's right, kids, the Indie Royale Fall Bundle is here, and it's another pay-what-you-want winner.

Leading the pack this time around is To The Moon, a famously tear-jerking tale about an old man's dying wish to travel to the moon. Gamespot gave To The Moon its "Best Story" Award for 2011, and it was also the year's highest user-rated PC game on Metacritic [http://www.metacritic.com/feature/best-video-games-of-2011?tag=supplementary-nav%3Barticle%3B1&page=2]. In spite of its pedigree, I haven't gone anywhere near it, because I'm afraid of emotions.

Moving on, then, we have Blackwell Deception, a well-received adventure from the good folks at Wadjet Eye, and Avseq, an "audio-visual sequencer puzzle game" that made its debut on Steam in August. Reprisal and Oil Rush make up the balance of the bundle and while I don't actually know anything about them, they both look quite cool. They each come with full soundtracks too, so that's a nice plus.

Speaking of music, anyone who forks over at least $8.00 will also receive the album 88:88 by Makeup and Vanity Set. I've never heard of them either, but the samples up on Bandcamp are actually pretty groovy. This track [http://makeupandvanityset.bandcamp.com/track/homecoming-featuring-jasmin-kaset], entitled "Homecoming," is particularly good.

The Indie Royale Fall Bundle will be available for a little less than five days and is currently sporting a minimum price of just a bit over five bucks, and as usual, paying more than the minimum will push the price down even further. It's a good deal for some really good games, so give it a look at indieroyale.com [http://www.indieroyale.com].


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Katherine Kerensky

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I'd buy the bundle just for To The Moon, if I didn't already have it.
It's just one of those games that is really worth getting and playing.
Andy Chalk said:
I haven't gone anywhere near it, because I'm afraid of emotions.
Don't make me gift it to you on Steam. That way, you'll have to choose between playing a great game you're scared of, or feeling guilty. For some reason.
 

Elate

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Yep, bought this soon as I got home, been wanting to play this game but the art style put me off quite a bit. (No idea what it's about other than apparently being emotional.) so I didn't want to dish out for a game I may not like. Glad it went on bundle. Same goes for Oil Rush since I adore any RTS.

Blackwell Deception seems to have a nice art and music style. Reprisal looks kinda interesting since it even mentions Populus.
 

Solo-Wing

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Looks sweet. However I do not get any money till after the bundle is over :( so I doubt I will be getting to feel emotions....
 

Brandchan

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I've bought To the Moon three times already. Looks like I'll be buying it a fourth time.
 

Formica Archonis

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Blackwell Deception is a good game if you like point-and-click adventure games. I've played it twice, great fun. And didn't send me for the walkthrough every 20 minutes.

It would help if you've played the rest of the series, but I don't suppose it's completely necessary. The backstory is clear enough and IIRC the only real callback is one character later in the game whose history isn't really needed anyway. (There'd be less WTFery playing this without the prequels than if you played Blackwell Convergence without Blackwell Unbound, for instance.)

And I loved Thomas Regin's music for the game.
 

NvrPhazed

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Badguy said:
Andy Chalk said:
... another pay-what-you-want winner.

minimum price of just a bit over five bucks
It's hardly pay what you want if there's a minimum price. Being able to pay whatever I want would include everything below 5$ as well.
They used to be pay what you want, but a lot of people were being assholes by donating only 1 cent.
 

snave

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I had a crack at the demo version of To The Moon and liked it. What prohibited a full purchase to me was that technically, it ran like a dog and leaked memory like a sieve.