Stonemachia

Stonemachia is one of those small indie projects that, despite certain budgetary or technical limitations, doesn't hold back and dares to do anything. I was far more surprised in six hours of gameplay with this little action game with Souls-like elements than with most recent big-budget titles. Simply put, Stonemach…

What a great game I think most of us, at least once, have thought about creating a game of our own after dealing with the shortcomings of something we were playing. For all of us, though, that idea remained just a fantasy. This small indie team actually pursued that idea, and they ended up creating something that, i…

I finished the game in a little over 12 hours so let’s talk about it. Stonemachia is jokingly referred to online as the sequel to Chess as you are playing as chess pieces in this game. Your main form is the Pawn and you’ll gather other pieces such as the Bishop, Knight, and Rook that all behave differently and are u…

I'm a playtester — hence the high playtime. I fell in love with this indie project years ago, and watching it blossom into something truly special has been a privilege. It revitalizes the soulslike genre with remarkable originality: I played many of them, including obscure ones such as Dolmen... and there is nothing…

A tough game to review. On the one hand, it is undeniably rough around the edges; animations are stiff and hard to read, models clip into each other constantly, there are numerous glitches and hitbox issues... But this is also a tightly paced and fully-featured soulslike from a tiny team for a fraction of the usual…

Imagine living as a chess piece and slaying creatures to achieve Heaven? Weird idea, right? But it works so well.