🧭🗡️ Vigor | Review | XBOX | "An Online Shooter With A Difference" 🧭🗡️ @vigorthegame @bohemiainteract #GameDev #IndieGames

A mash-up of genres that kept me completely hooked for the first few hours, Vigor is a free-to-play title that stands out from the crowd but eventually devolves into standard fayre.

Set in a post-apocalyptic Norway, Vigor casts you as a lone survivor desperately trying to make a living in a series of encounters, empty except for the other players who want their bullets to connect with your head at startling speeds.

🤜💥🤛 Streets Of Rage 4 | PS4 | Review | "So, Lizardcube…Landstalker next?" 🤜💥🤛 @lizardcube #SOR4 #IndieGames #GameDev

Sega’s iconic brawler series Streets Of Rage, which has been dormant for over a quarter of a century has finally hit the digital shelves and everything you’ve read is true, this is one of, if not THE best example of this much-loved genre.

🔦👻 Don’t Die, Minerva! | Preview | XBOX | "A Ton Of Saucy Loot!" 🔦👻 #GameDev #IndieGames

I’ve played a lot of early access games in my time at Games Freezer and I’m used to seeing games that are yet to be fleshed out, heck even ones that are more skeletal than anything!

When I installed Don’t Die, Minerva! I was surprised by how robust it felt and quickly found myself getting stuck into the gameplay.

💥 What Is Quake Champions, And Why Should You Check It Out? 💥

Way back in the mists of 1996, legendary first-person shooter developer id Software released Quake. The development process for this shooter was fascinating, and the game still enjoys a large audience today thanks to its fast-paced action and retro aesthetic.

Of course, the single-player campaign is excellent, full of smart level design choices and well-crafted monster encounters, but that’s not where people’s hearts are.

Quake’s massively influential multiplayer arena mode still draws players on a regular basis because it offers a pure shooter experience many modern games can’t match.

🦀 Deadliest Catch The Game | PC | Review | "Time To Catch Crabs!" 🦀 #IndieGames #GameDev #DeadliestCatch

Based on the TV show of the same name Deadliest catch sees you enter the dangerous world of king crab fishing in the deadly Bering Sea!

You will take command of your own fishing vessel, use realistic equipment, combat hazardous Alaskan waters and become the world's best crab catcher!

🔴😈 WarriOrb | Review | PC | "Keep Rolling Rolling Rolling!" 🔴😈 @NotYetDevs #GameDev #IndieGames

In WarriOrb you play as a mighty demon trapped in a ball for a  body. 

You’ll now be tasked with trying to free yourself from this orb-like existence by passing many trials that are set before you.

Your platforming skills will be tested to the limit in this fun indie platformer from Not Yet Devs

🏚️🏡🏠 Change: A Homeless Survival Experience | Review | PC | "Take Each Night As It Comes" 🏠🏡🏚️ #GameDev #IndieGames @DelveInteractiv

CHANGE is an emotional homeless survival experience set in a randomly generated city with rogue-like elements.

Explore, survive, earn perks, find items and kindness to develop your character and escape to a new life.

🌞🕶️ The Touryst | Nintendo Switch | Review | "The Perfect Time For A Virtual Sunny Holiday" 🌞🕶️ @ShinenGames #GameDev #IndieGames

I’ve had my eye on The Touryst since last year when my friend (and State of Play co-conspirator) Rupert suggested it as he had enjoyed playing it so much.

A few weeks later and I was watching a Digital Foundry episode on the game – naturally focussing on the more technical aspects – and I was completely sold. 

Last week, I didn’t just play the game. I inhaled it.

🦉 Animal 🦒 Crossing New Horizons: A Family In Lockdown On A Tropical Island 🏝️ #AnimalCrossing #ACNH

Animal Crossing New Horizons was released on the 20th March 2020 and swooped onto the Nintendo Switch just as the COVID 19 pandemic was really taking hold of the world.

The world needed a comfort food game and Nintendo delivered.

🏚️🧔🏚️ Change : A Homeless Survival Experience | Review | PC | "Down But Not Quite Out!" 🏚️🧔🏚️ #IndieGames #GameDev

CHANGE: A Homeless Survival Experience is an emotional homeless survival experience set in a randomly generated city with rogue-like elements.

Explore, survive, earn perks, find items and kindness to develop your character and escape to a new life.

🤠🔥 Boot Hill Bounties | Review | Nintendo Switch | "A Retro-Styled Western That’s Chock Full o’Beans" 🤠🔥 @ExpGamerStudios #GameDev #IndieGames

Presented in a visual and gameplay style most reminiscent of cult SNES classic Earthbound, Boot Hill Bounties is a game that sucked me in far deeper than I would have expected and I loved every moment of it.

🧛‍♂️ Vampire The Masquerade: Coteries of New York | Switch | Review | "Fangs For The Memories" 🧛‍♂️ #GameDev #IndieGames

An interactive visual novel set in White Wolf Publishing’s ‘World of Darkness’ made most familiar to gamers by Vampire The Masquerade: Bloodlines, a cult title released back in 2004 by Troika Games, Vampire the Masquerade: Coteries of New York (VTM:COTN) is a visual novel with light adventure elements in the form of choices that the player can make.

Whilst this means the game is quite casual in nature, the brevity of the writing and length of the game (3 hours or so) means that it feels accessible and doesn’t get too bogged down in dense text.

On the other hand, those who are used to such heavy-duty visual novels may feel short-changed here. 

🔥 🧙‍♂️ Alwa's Awakening | Ten Minute Taster | PS4 | "Beware The Fireball" 🔥 🧙‍♂️ @EldenPixels #GameDev #IndieGames

In Alwa's Awakening, YOU will use your magic staff and progress through a large interconnected world where you'll solve puzzles, fight enemies and defeat bosses in order to help free the land of Alwa. 

Explore and uncover the secrets by using your platforming skills in this challenging and charming 8-bit adventure game.

🏫🎒 Dead or School | PS4 | REVIEW | "Dead or…workingfromhomeduetothecoronavirus" 🏫🎒 #GameDev #IndieGames

A highly enjoyable, over the top Metroidvania with a heavy focus on action and loot. Whilst Dead or School is affected by some technical issues, the fact that this was made by a three-man development team and is so fun and addictive to play is definitely cause for celebration.

🔦 👻 Those Who Remain | PC | PREVIEW | "Stay In The Light!" 🔦 👻 #GameDev #IndieGames

Those Who Remain is an up-close, psychological horror, set in the sleepy town of Dormont.

Confront uncomfortable horrors, keep your sanity in check and survive the night.

🎮 Why I Love The PlayStation 2... 🎮 #Playstation2

Imagine there was a video game console that sold 157 million units...

Well actually there is a console that sold over 157 million units and its name is the Playstation 2.

🧠👽 Hyper Parasite | Review | PS4 | "Get Those Brains To Make Those Gains!" 🧠👽 @_Troglobytes_ #IndieGames #GameDev

In HyperParasite you are Invading a grime encrusted dystopia straight out the eighties, you're the monster the authorities warned about. 

Dragging your bloody tentacles on the greasy asphalt, you snatch body after body. 

You are the HyperParasite; an evil alien with a bone to pick with humanity…just because it’s fun.

👿 🔥 Devil's Hunt | PC | Ten Minute Taster | "It's Devil's Night 👿 🔥 #IndieGames #GameDev

The war between Demons and Angels takes you to hell and back in Devil’s Hunt.

Play as Desmond in this third-person action-adventure game, as he discovers his demonic powers with the fate of the world hanging in the balance of the greatest conflict known to humankind.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/887720/Devils_Hunt

🌊 In Other Waters | Review | Nintendo Switch | "Explore This Underwater Odyssey With Me" 🌊 @InOtherWaters #GameDev #IndieGames

When you think of “In Other Waters” on the Nintendo Switch you should imagine a text adventure-style video game overlayed with a simple but elegant UI that is steeped in atmospheric light puzzle-solving mechanics along with an intriguing storyline and an emerging control system.

🦖🦕 Gearstorm | PC | Ten Minute Taster | "Dinosaur Running At It's Finest" 🦖🦕 #GameDev #IndieGames

In Gearstorm you are an elite Exomarine dropped on an alien planet.

Don't just survive – make war! Build or dig a base, mine for resources, team up with other Exomarines, make AI clones to work for you, and use advanced military weapons and vehicles to dominate other players, hostile species, and other inhabitants or just run away from dinosaurs just like I did!