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Breathless action combines with perfect pixel art in a game of real character and delight. There's a sort of voodoo pelican guy in Flinthook - I think it's voodoo, and I think it's a pelican. Anyway, ...

Back in 2012, Spelunky introduced me to a kind of game I never thought I'd enjoy. Roguelikes (or rogue-lite, in these cases) are based around individual runs through randomly generated levels with the ...

Flinthook was originally released in April of last year, and since then, developer Tribute Games has announced that the game will be coming to the Nintendo Switch eShop. The developer also mentioned ...

Tribute Games has announced that its “rogue-lite” title Flinthook will launch on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC on April 18. Flinthook has been one of the most highly anticipated indie titles since ...

Before now, Montreal-based indie studio Tribute Games has been pretty tight-lipped about its new project Flinthook. Beyond a mosaic-based teaser the team hosted on Twitch earlier this month where they ...

Limited Run Games to distribute physical editions. Zip around with your mighty hookshot! Aim freely and toss your giant anchor at golden rings to propel yourself around the levels at high speeds, ...

Flinthook is a 16-bit era graphically-stylized, metroidvania side-scroller from indie developer Tribute Games. While it seems there are a large influx of these games hitting consoles in the last few ...

Last month, it was revealed that Tribute Games would be bringing its latest action platformer, Flinthook, to the Switch eShop, while Limited Run Games also confirmed that it would be doing a batch of ...

A gaming journalism veteran of ten-plus years and four-time IGF judge, largely attracted to indie games, new IPs, and in general, what could very well be the gaming world's next surprise hit. Divorced ...

Rogue-Like is an oft misunderstood genre among developers. They all tend to have randomly generated maps and one life each try, but few have the turn-based top-down RPG tropes also featured in the ...