🕹️🎮 Britt's Personal Top 20 Video Games 🕹️🎮 @BrittRecluseuk #RetroGaming #IndieGames

Introduction
I find any list of this type to be very fluid, listing the top twenty games of all time objectively would be impossible. 

What I’ve done here is to list the games that had the biggest impact on me across a broad spectrum of genres as possible and always come to mind during these types of conversations. 

I actually wrote out this list a couple of weeks ago and then returned to it later to see if it still felt ‘right’ and it did, so I stuck with it. 

Next month, who knows? It could be a different story. 

🎰🎲 How The Rise Of The Internet Affected Gambling 🎰🎲

It’s hard to find an industry that hasn’t been affected by the development of technology, especially the internet. As we spend more time in the online world, more experiences are making a home there. This is the case for gambling. While casinos and betting shops still exist, there is a whole new world of gambling online. Transformations have been made in how we gamble, what games we play and the whole betting culture. This can be seen in many different aspects of the game. 

🧟‍♂️🧟🧟‍♀️ DAYMARE: 1998 | Review | PS4 | Silent Hill + Resident Evil = DAYMARE? 🧟‍♂️🧟🧟‍♀️ @InvaderDevs #IndieGames #GameDev

DAYMARE: 1998 is a third-person Resident Evil 2 inspired survival horror with survival mechanics and hard to kill bullet sponge enemies from Invader Studios. 

Invader Studios is a studio originally set up by Resi fans with the intent of producing an unofficial remake of RE2

🕹️ Vigolix RetroPie Arcade Cabinet | DIY Build | Half Size / Kids Cabinet | My First Attempt 🕹️ #Arcade #RetroGames #RetroGaming

I decided it was about time I had a go at building my own arcade cabinet so at the start of lockdown armed with one sheet of wood and a Jigsaw I had a go. This is the result and while there's room for improvement I'm also happy with the outcome plus I enjoyed every moment of planning it and making it. Here's a link to the Instructables guide and the best video I found to help: Instructables Link: https://www.instructables.com/id/A-Super-Easy-Arcade-Machine-from-1-Sheet-of-Plywoo/ YouTube Video Link: https://youtu.be/tXZQoQT0CDU

🏎️💨 TrackMania | PC | Review | "Tracks For Maniacs" 🏎️💨 #TrackMania

Ubisoft Nadeo Delivers Gravity-Defying Racing in Their Remake of 2006’s Trackmania Nations.

This is a  remake of the Trackmania® Nations, combining easy-to-learn, hard-to-master gameplay with a fresh look. 

Players can compete against themselves and others through solo or multiplayer on regularly updated tracks.  

Additionally, with revamped track blocks and editors, players have the freedom to create their own tracks and take advantage of the new map testing servers to share their custom tracks for the community to test and rate. 

🎮😡🗯️ A Lifetime of Rage That Turns Blood to Steam and Controllers to Dust 🎮😡🗯️

We’ve all been there, missing that pixel-perfect leap, taking a fatal hit just as we were about to nail the boss, the timer running out as the chequered flag approached, watching the ball fall betwixt the flippers as you were about to crack your high score or an unfair sniper shot from a thousand years away. Every gamer has had their moments of a geyser of fiercely boiling rage causing blackouts or their clothes to burst into flames.

Well, nothing quite like that, obviously, but you get the gist.

🤝 How To Make Friends Safely On Roblox 🤝

Online games can be wonderful social facilitators. If you’ve ever played World of Warcraft or even a competitive game like Apex Legends and found a group of people with whom you share a true kinship, then you’ll know exactly how good that can feel.

Of course, different kinds of games can enable different connections. In League of Legends, for example, you might make friends to help you climb through the unforgiving ranked ladder, while in World of Warcraft you may form an unbreakable bond with guildmates with whom you’ve raided on a regular basis.

⚔️💣🗡️ Knight Squad | Switch | Review | "Knights Of Bomberman" ⚔️💣🗡️ #GameDev #IndieGames #Nindies

Knight Squad is an 8 players top-down Bomberman meets Gauntlet video game.

You’ll take on opposing knights in top-down arenas and engage them in sword fights while also picking up laser guns, miniguns and all sorts of other cool weapons. 

You’ll also get the opportunity to use collectable power-ups to run faster to shield up or even to unleash a kamikaze power up to blow up your opponents!

This game was released on PC in 2015 to very positive reviews and has now made its way over to the switch as of the 6th June 2020!

🛠️⚒️ Satisfactory | Review | PC | "No Mans Sky Meets Factorio" 🛠️⚒️ @Coffee_Stain #IndieGames #GameDev

Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a nice bit of exploration, combat and discovery thrown in for good measure.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/526870/Satisfactory

📸 Umurangi Generation: Point and Shoot DEMO | PC | Ten Minute Taster | "Take Aim and Photograph" 📸 @UmurangiGame #IndieGames #IndieGame

"Umurangi Generation is a first-person photography game in the shitty future. 

Set in Tauranga Aotearoa off the back of an impending crisis you are a courier for the Tauranga Express. 

Throughout the game, you will unlock a variety of lenses and equipment."

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1223500/Umurangi_Generation/

💣💥🗡️ Pathway | Review | PC | "Indy Crossed With Choose Your Own Adventure!" 💣💥🗡️ @robotality #IndieGames #GameDev

Published by Chucklefish and developed by Robotality, who brought us a sci-fi turn-based strategy RPG called Halfway back in 2014.

Robatality’s new game, Pathway is a strategy adventure game set in the 1930s and leans heavily on influences from  Indiana Jones and XCOM style turn-based battles.

⚔️ Ys: Memories of Celceta | Review | PS4 | "Adol, for god’s sake, get a Dictaphone" ⚔️

A PS4 port of a 2012 PS Vita game, if you are familiar with the Ys series, you are in safe, if familiar hands. If, however, the Ys games are something you have never played before, this acts as a great starting point.

🛠️⚒️ Aground | PC | Review | "The best 2-D crafting game I have ever played" 🛠️⚒️ @fancyfishgames #IndieGames #GameDev

An astonishingly well-balanced crafting game that is elevated through the use of a subtle but key narrative push, Aground is a game that I am already certain will make it into my ‘Games of the year’ list and I urge everyone to play it, there’s a free demo so I don’t want to hear any excuses!

🚀🛰️🛸 Shipbreaker | How To Pay Off $1 Billion Of Debt! | PC | Early Access | Ten Minute Taster 🚀🛰️🛸 @ShipbreakerGame #IndieGames #GameDev

Hardspace Shipbreaker is my new obsession! Embark on a journey to pay back the 1 Billion debt that you owe LYNX Corp and cut up a load of space ships in the process. You are basically a one-man scrap metal merchant and I love this game!

🚀 Rigid Force Redux | Switch | Review | "Can i Get A Redux?!! HELL YEAH!" 🚀 #IndieGames #GameDev @com8com1

I first reviewed the original version of this game when it was released on PC in 2018 as Rigid Force Alpha. 

Below I have combined that review with updated thoughts on the Redux versions released on consoles.

🛢️🗼⛽️ Turmoil | Review | Switch | "Dig For Oil My Friends!" 🛢️🗼⛽️ #Turmoil #IndieGames #GameDev @Gamious

Turmoil is developed by the Dutch gaming Company Gamious who are based in Haarlem and have been making games since 2011.

Another notable game by them is i0 an abstract platformer where you grow bigger or smaller in order to solve puzzles.

🚀🐟 Darius Cozmic Collection Console | Review | PS4 | "Welcome To Bullet Hell!" 🚀 🐟 #TAITO

TAITO Darius Cozmic Collection Console - PS4 £34.99

The Darius series pioneered horizontal Shoot 'Em Up Games and was developed by the legendary TAITO Corporation. The first Darius game wowed arcade going fans when it was released in 1986 with its dedicated dual-display cabinet, imaginative enemy designs and revolutionary sound design.

Darius Cozmic Collection Console - Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4 includes 6 titles (9 versions) from the Darius home console series:

·         Darius II (Mega Drive, JP version)

·         SAGAIA (Genesis, US version)

·         SAGAIA (Master System, EU version)

·         Darius Twin (Super Famicom, JP version)

·         Darius Twin (Super NES, US version)

·         Darius Force (Super Famicom, JP version)

·         Super Nova (Super NES, US version)

·         Darius Alpha (PC Engine, JP version)

·         Darius Plus (PC Engine, JP version)

🐑🐑🐑 Shaun The Sheep - Home Sheep Home - Farmageddon "Sheep Stackers Delight!" 🐑🐑🐑 #IndieGame

Home Sheep Home: Farmageddon Party Edition re-launches on the Greenlight label for Nintendo Switch and I have been playing this lovely little puzzler on my switch.

🐰🐇 Edna & Harvey: The Breakout - The Anniversary Edition | Review | PS4 | "Padded Cells & Stuffed Bunnies" 🐰🐇 @daedalic #IndieGames #GameDev

Edna & Harvey: The Breakout was Originally released in 2013 and now The award-winning cult classic point n click adventure game is back with a new paint job!

You’ll set out to assist young Edna and her talking stuffed bunny Harvey on an attempt to escape from her padded cell. 

You’ll be in for a thrilling ride as you get to experience a bizarre journey all across the insane asylum and then far beyond its brick walls.

💥 Fly Punch Boom | Review | Switch | "Mix Saturday Morning Cartoons With a Slice Of Madness" 💥 @JollypunchGames #IndieGames #GameDev

Fly Bunch Boom! - Take 100g of Saturday morning 80’s cartoons, a slice of madness, two shots of over the top cartoon violence and your someways toward describing the crazy button timing beat em up that is Fly Punch Boom!