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One of the wonderful things about the indie game development is the sheer diversity it brings with it; there's something for everyone. In the case of Farnham Fables, an episodic series from Ethrea Dreams, that something includes princes who take the bus, lizard people on farms, a retro aesthetic last seen in the late ‘80s, and reading. Lots and lots of reading.

Is Dexter up to his old tricks again? Well, no, wrong franchise, but there's another serial killer on the loose who only kills criminals, and you'll be tasked to catch him (or her) in Apeirogon's upcoming adventure Silhouette.

Usually saints are equated with holiness and miraculous blessings, but the opposite can be said for Saint Kotar, an upcoming psychological horror adventure due for release in 2017.

The world of Pan may involve lost boys, fairy dust, and pirate ships, but the world of Pan-Pan will involve broken spaceships, "environmental narrative storytelling" and "world-shifting riddles" when it launches this summer. It's twice the Pan!

If it seems like people are already starting to lose their humanity by spending more time plugged into technology than ever, imagine what it will be like in the future when we essentially abandon an increasingly dystopian real world in favour of a utopian virtual one. This is the bleak and troubling backdrop for the upcoming sci-fi thriller from Daedalic and writer Martin Ganteföhr called State of Mind.

Disney's decision to discontinue its own game development may have seemed like bad news at the time, but it's turning out okay for adventure fans, as former Black Rock Studio members are collaborating with the writer of popular puzzler The Room to create Blackwood Crossing, a story-driven adventure coming out later this year.

Though we've likely all experienced childhood night scares, not all monsters are scary and mean. In fact, some of them are kind and crucial to our welfare, like the dream monsters in Deceptive Games' upcoming four-part adventure, The Secret Monster Society.

Hacking simulation games allow players to engage in highly-stylized fictional acts of cybercrime and espionage, without the risk of the pesky prison sentences and exorbitant fines that accompany such activities in the real world. For those who appreciate prominent story elements to go along with their virtual hacking, Montreal-based developer Alice & Smith has announced NITE Team 4, an upcoming standalone spin-off from The Black Watchmen, their paranormal alternate reality adventure that completed its second season earlier this month.

Many sci-fi stories warn us of the dangers of advancing too far technologically, but what if society actually paid heed to such dangers – or at least, tried to? This is the intriguing backdrop to the upcoming Whispers of a Machine from indie developers Clifftop & Faravid.

Some developers just get it. When Chris and Nic Bischoff (aka THE BROTHERHOOD) copped our Best Adventure Aggie Award for their remarkable debut last year, we wondered how they could top themselves next. And now we know: they're giving us even more STASIS-style goodness for free. While we wait on the indie South African studio's new full-fledged project, we can look forward to a spin-off adventure called CAYNE in the interim, set in the same troubled sci-fi universe.

They just don't make knights like they used to. Long gone are the days of Sir Lancelot and Galahad, and in their place is a whole new kind of hero, like the star of his own upcoming adventure game... a little fellow named Tick.

Many of the greatest obstacles in life are those we create in our own minds. That makes probing the human pscyhe ideal for video games, providing a rich setting with unlimited possibilities. The latest developer to dig into this fertile psychological soil is UK studio Thermo-Dynamic Games with its upcoming episodic adventure, Echoes.

Hopefully by now we've all gotten past the "do games need to be FUN?" question. The answer, of course, is no they don't. If you're still not convinced, enter the latest exhibit into evidence, The Grandfather.

We all know by now that creating sentient machines can only lead to disaster. But what about sentient corn? As bizarre as that possibility sounds, we're going to find out later this year when indie Canadian developer Finish Line Games completes its home-grown production of Maize.

Ghost stories are great for giving ourselves a scare, but they're nothing to take seriously, right? Well, not so fast, says indie developer Dreadlocks, along with 2,243 people who helped contributed more than £56,000 to crowdfund Ghost Theory through Kickstarter.