👁️⛵️ Before Your Eyes | PC | Ten Minute Taster | "You Will Have To See It To Believe It!" 👁️⛵️ @Goodbye__World_ #IndieGames #GameDev

Before Your Eyes | PC | Embark on an emotional first-person narrative adventure where you control the story—and affect its outcomes—with your real-life blinks. With this innovative technique you will fully immerse yourself in a world of memories, both joyous and heartbreaking, as your whole life flashes before your eyes.

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🍺 Dude Where Is My Beer? | PC | Ten Minute Taster | "The Search For A Cold Pilsner" 🍺 @where_beer #GameDev #IndieGames

 

Dude Where is My Beer is an old school point and click adventure game about finding a pilsner in the confusing world of unnecessary craft beers and snobby hipsters.

🐮 Story Of Seasons: Pioneers of Olive Town | Review | Nintendo Switch | 7/10 | "Take Over a Knackered Farm and Hoe it Back to Glory" 🐮 @XSEEDGames #StoryofSeasonsPioneersofOliveTown

The newest entry in the game series that began as Harvest Moon back in 1996, Story of Seasons: Pioneers of Olive Town sees your character take over a knackered farm and hoe it back to glory.

🧛 DARQ : Complete Edition | Nintendo Switch | Ten Minute Taster | "Darker Than Darq" 🧛 @UnfoldGames #IndieGames #GameDev

"DARQ tells the story of Lloyd, a boy who finds himself in the middle of a lucid nightmare. Unable to wake up, Lloyd has to face his fears and decipher the meaning of the dream."

🕹️ Five Exciting Developments In The Gaming Industry 🕹️

It’s incredible to see just how far the world of gaming has come over the past decade, well even in the past five years. With such a focus being on technology and advancing it at such a fast-paced rate, it can be hard to keep up with all the changes that are happening. It’s something that’s happening across many industries and it’s only going to get more mind-boggling as money is pumped into developing it.

So what exciting developments have happened in the gaming industry in recent years? 

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💙 PixelHeart Announce That They Have Just Acquired The Complete Catalogue of VISCO CORPORATION Games! 💙 #Retrogaming

After years of collaboration with this wonderful Japanese studio, PixelHeart is delighted to announce that they have just acquired the complete catalogue of VISCO CORPORATION games.

Thanks to their experience accumulated through the decades, they have some incredible licenses that PixelHeart can't wait for you to discover.

You can now pre-order 5 NEO GEO AES games in the US or Japanese editions on the PixelHeart website

These games are limited editions, numbered and accompanied by a certificate of authenticity PixelHeart.

📷📺🐿️ NUTS | Review | Nintendo Switch | 9/10 | "Squirrel Detective Simulator 2K21" 🐿️ 📷📺 @joonturbo #GameDev #IndieGames #BestIndieGames

When you can’t stop thinking about a video game then you know it has the special ingredient that is going to keep you coming back to it.

The special ingredient here is NUTS.

🧵 Where's Samantha? | PC | Ten Minute Taster | "My Woolen Wife Is Missing!" 🧵@wheresamantha #IndieGames #GameDev

 

Where’s Samantha? introduces the “it” couple of 2021: George and Samantha – soulmates who are literally cut from the same cloth. 

Separated against their will, the duo must now navigate their way through a treacherous woollen world to find each other again. 

🧙‍♂️⚔️ Hellbreachers | Xbox Series X | 5.5/10 | "Are You Ready To Go To Hell?" 🧙‍♂️⚔️ #GameDev #IndieGames

A 2D action-platformer in which you can choose your class of character and even switch between styles mid-game, Hellbreachers looks good and has some nice ideas but suffers in level design, control and repetition.

🚂 Revita | Ten minute Taster | PC | No Commentary 🚂 @RevitaGame #IndieGames #GameDev

Revita is a fast-paced twin-stick rogue-lite platformer and you play as an unnamed child ascending an ominous clocktower in pursuit of their lost memories. 

Harvest and sacrifice souls to grow your power in order to challenge procedural encounter rooms and intimidating bosses.

⚔️ Golden Force | Review | Nintendo Switch | 6/10 | "Golden Force is Very Much of the Wonder Boy ilk" ⚔️ @NoGravity_Games #IndieGames #GameDev

In redrafting this review I've noticed I keep calling the game Golden Axe. 

It is not Golden Axe, which is one of my favourite beat 'em ups, with a cracking soundtrack and extremely unfair later levels (ah, the 80s). 

It is reminiscent of another classic series though, and that is Wonder Boy.

🚀 1993 Shenandoah | Nintendo Switch | Review | 7.5/10 | "A Great Game To Pick Up For Those Fans of Old Amiga Shooters" 🚀 @1993SpaceMachin #IndieGames #GameDev #RetroGaming

It was only a few days after I’d reviewed (and subscribed to) Amiga Addict that I came across 1993 Shenandoah.

A game originally designed for the Amiga that was abandoned but has now been completed and released on Switch?

SIGN. ME. UP.

📚📖 Tex Murphy and the Poisoned Pawn – a Novel by Aaron Connors 📚📖 @aaronconners #BookReview

Having been a fan of the Tex Murphy games since the early nineties, it was only in late 2018 that I realised that there were a series of books based on the video games. The novels are written by author Aaron Connors – who is also screenplay/story writer on the games - and, after reading and thoroughly enjoying The Pandora Directive, I was lucky enough to get some time with Aaron for a GF interview back in 2019:

https://www.gamesfreezer.co.uk/2019/04/interview-with-aaron-conners-author-of.html

Since then, I’ve been keenly awaiting the arrival of Tex Murphy and the Poisoned Pawn for more futuristic private detective action and I’m pleased to say that it is absolutely worth the wait and another awesome chapter in the ongoing Tex Murphy story.

🎼 ActRaiser | Original Soundtrack & Symphonic Suite | (Vinyl) | Review | "A Pristine Pressing, Ready To Get Some Serious Spins On a Lot of Turntables." | 🎼 @wayorecords #VideoGameSoundtracks

Wayo Records - https://www.wayorecords.com/

A gorgeous, coloured double-vinyl edition of Yuzo Koshiro’s 1990 score comprising of the original soundtrack and an orchestral suite, this sumptuous release from Wayo Records is a pristine pressing, ready to get some serious spins on a lot of turntables.

🤖 Herzog Zwei | Nintendo Switch | Gameplay | No Commentary | Tutorial 🤖 @SEGA_Europe

 

Herzog Zwei joins the SEGA AGES collection with new expansive tutorial mode, online multiplayer action, and save states.

🕹️ GAME LINK:🕹️ https://www.nintendo.co.uk/Games/Nintendo-Switch-download-software/SEGA-AGES-Herzog-Zwei-1847281.html

🚂👻 What Comes After | Nintendo Switch Gameplay | No Commentary | "Tales From A Train Ride Home" 🚂👻 @FlynnsArcades #IndieGames #GameDev

From the creator of Coffee Talk, in collaboration with Rolling Glory Jam the creator of Rage in Peace.

What Comes After is an experience, a heart-warming story, and a love letter to all of you who think you're a burden for other people.

https://www.nintendo.co.uk/Games/Nintendo-Switch-download-software/What-Comes-After-1929180.html#Overview

👒 Tales From the Borderlands | Review | Xbox Series X | 8/10 | "A Feisty-Heisty Tale" 👒

I was quite looking forward to covering Tales From the Borderlands as it was only a few weeks ago that I got hips deep into Borderlands 3 (https://www.gamesfreezer.co.uk/2021/01/borderlands-3-review-x-box-series-x-my.html) and also picked up the soundtrack on vinyl (Sanctuary 3 is an absolute blinder) so the thought of more Borderlands action was very much right up my Strasse.

🤖 System Shock | Remake | Demo | PC | Gameplay | No Commentary 🤖 #IndieGames #GameDev @SystemShockGame

 

After two decades, Nightdive Studios is rebooting and re-imagining the original

System Shock. With the help of members of the original team, including the original Voice Actor of SHODAN, Terri Brosius, Citadel Station has never been more immersive or terrifying! You're a renowned hacker, the most notorious cyberspace thief in the corporate world. Caught during a risky break-in, you become indentured to a greedy TriOptimum executive. After six months in a healing coma, you awaken to the twisted aftermath of a terrible disaster.

Where are the surgeons? Why is the station in such disrepair?

Slowly, the chilling realization that something is very wrong creeps over you. Once a prime corporate research facility, Citadel Station now teems with mindless cyborgs, robots and terribly mutated beings, all programmed to serve SHODAN, a ruthless A.I. There's scarcely time to think before it unleashes the first terror...

☢️ ATOM RPG | PC | Ten Minute Taster | "The Real Fallout 3?" ☢️ @atomrpg #IndiGames #GameDev

 

ATOM RPG is a post-apocalyptic game, inspired by classic CRPGs: Fallout, System Shock, Deus Ex, Baldur's Gate and many others. In 1986 both the Soviet Union and the Western Bloc were destroyed in mutual nuclear bombings. You are one of the survivors of the nuclear Holocaust. Your mission - to explore the wild and wondrous world of the Soviet Wasteland. To earn your place under the sun. And to investigate a shadowy conspiracy, aimed at destroying all that is left of life on Earth.

🔦🤖 The Uncertain: Light At The End | Ten minute Taster | PC | "Post Apocalyptic Paracetamol Shopping" 🔦🤖 @UncertainGame #GameDev #IndieGames

The Uncertain: Light At The End is a story-driven adventure game set in a post-apocalyptic world. Humanity disappeared from the face of the Earth and has been replaced by robots.

Together with Emily, one of the survivors, you will have to witness how people try to live in a world ruled by robots.