Joshua Duckworth

5 days ago | gamerant.com | Joey Brown |Joshua Duckworth

Canvas Infernum is a tile-placement puzzle game inspired by the likes of Dorfromantik, tasking players with dropping matching environmental tiles to score points and gradually realize their personal vision of Hell. While indie games of this style tend to be relaxing, mechanically simple affairs, Canvas Infernum has introduced a few twists that add some welcome layers of depth to its strategy.

6 days ago | gamerant.com | Joey Brown |Joshua Duckworth

Canvas Infernum is a unique game on several fronts, sharing a space in the tile placement puzzler genre with cozy and contemplative titles like Dorfromantik while bearing a distinct aesthetic and some novel game mechanics. Like its cousins in the genre, Canvas Infernum tasks players with placing matching terrain tiles to assemble a landscape. In stark contrast to similar indie games, Canvas Infernum has players building their own personal rendition of Hell.

6 days ago | gamerant.com | Katelyn Jewett |Joshua Duckworth

Open world games give players the freedom to explore, but also the freedom to accidentally wander into the jaws of some terrifying creature that will devour them alive. Upcoming tactical RPG A Tale of Silent Depths, presented at Gamescom LATAM, embraces this philosophy fully with its undersea setting. A Tale of Silent Depths' open world is sinister and dark, with players forced to use their submarine's sonar to navigate - and not even that works everywhere.

1 week ago | gamerant.com | Joey Brown |Joshua Duckworth

Canvas Infernum is a tile placement puzzle game with heavy board game influences, along with a uniquely dark setting inspired by classic paintings such as Hieronymous Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights. Starkly contrasting with the cozy and wholesome vibes of similar indie games, Canvas Infernum's warmth comes from the lava flowing through each player's unique iteration of Hell.

1 week ago | gamerant.com | Katelyn Jewett |Joshua Duckworth

The upcoming RPG A Tale of Silent Depths presents players with a large underground open world for players to explore aboard their submarine. However, the game, which was presented at Gamescom LATAM 2025, is more than just an open-world role-playing game.