Sub-Species Dives Into the Depths: A 2.5D Ocean Shooter With Alien Secrets 🌊 @howling_hamster #IndieGame #GameDev

Indie game dev studio Howling Hamster Entertainment has unveiled Sub-Species, a 2.5D multidirectional action/adventure shooter that plunges players into the darkest corners of Earth’s oceans. Combining retro-inspired precision with modern cinematic atmosphere, the game challenges players to survive amidst alien swarms, lost technology, and terrifying underwater mysteries.

A New Kind of Deep-Sea Challenge

In Sub-Species, players pilot a heavily armed submarine capable of full 360° rotation, facing threats from every direction. Missions send explorers deeper into contaminated zones filled with hostile creatures, collapsed structures, and remnants of forgotten expeditions. Along the way, players must balance:

• ⚔️ Combat – Fluid controls allow players to unleash mines, flares, and dodge bursts against alien swarms.

• 🧩 Navigation Puzzles – Tight caverns, unstable reactors, and collapsing ruins test precision and problem-solving.

• ⚙️ Resource Management – Survival depends on adapting strategies under pressure, conserving tools, and outlasting waves of enemies.

Skopje ’83 Gameplay | "Survive the Mutated Streets of the Balkans!" 💥 @Dark1_games #IndieGame #GameDev

Rich Steps into the alternate‑history Balkans with Skopje ’83! This gameplay showcases the comic‑book styled FPS where you battle hordes of mutated abominations, scavenge loot, and upgrade your mobile base (the DOM bus) to survive.

Borderlands 4 Xbox Series X Review 8/10 *More shooty, less bang bang* 💥

I covered Borderlands 3 back in 2021, scoring it a 9/10 and celebrating the zany world of Pandora and its myriad denizens. Whilst there were hardly any immense leaps in terms of core gameplay between games, the series always delivered mindless blasting action, which ramped up gloriously when playing with friends. 

This newest instalment instead shifts the action to Kairos, a hidden planet run by ‘The Timekeeper’; a masked, golden, and seemingly immortal figure that plants chips in the minds of his subjects allowing him to control their will, or to drive them insane, if he deems necessary…which he does deem quite often, quite frankly.

I was hips deep in the initial unveiling and first couple of hours, everything that I enjoyed about the series had returned, and now it was tied to a story that - although basic - seemed slightly more serious and focused which was certainly refreshing. Starting the game off with an epic prison escape got my engine revving and my guns cocked and loaded.