🧙‍♂️⚔️ 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.

🐟 Clockwork Aquario | Trailer 🐟 #IndieGames #GameDev

Strictly Limited Games and ININ Games are delighted to present the first teaser trailer of Clockwork Aquario after the game has been dormant for almost 30 years.

🏒 Premium Edition Games | Britt Interviews JP 🏒 #IndieGames

Recently, Britt was lucky enough to catch up with the co-owner of Premium Edition, JP. A company that specialises in the physical release of indie titles on the Nintendo Switch (something that we at Games Freezer FULLY support) - we HAD to know more. 

🏰⚔️👹 Ghosts ‘n Goblins Resurrection | Review | Nintendo Switch | 9/10 |"The Boxers are Back" 🏰⚔️👹

There’s no beating around the bush here, Ghosts ‘n Goblins has a really rich history for both Capcom and myself. 

The Mega Drive version is one of the most played titles in my entire game collection and I have a lasting memory of being in Leeds for a Play Expo and staying up until 4am in my hotel room on the Friday determined, DETERMINED to finish the game (which I did, #justsayin’).

⚔️🔄 Loop Hero | PC | Ten Minute Taster | "Pixel Shields & Spider Cocoons" ⚔️🔄 @_FQteam #IndieGames #GameDev

In Loop Hero, The Lich has thrown the world into a timeless loop and plunged its inhabitants into never-ending chaos. 

Wield an expanding deck of mystical cards to place enemies, buildings, and terrain along each unique expedition loop for the brave hero.

🔥 Garena Free Fire – New Weapons, Character, & More Provided In New Update 🔥

One of the most played battle royale games right now is Garena Free Fire. It's a popular game primarily because of the short battle royale matches that it offers. Instead of the usual 100 players, only 50 players will go to a remote island and battle it out and become the last man/woman standing. The game is also not very demanding when it comes to the technical specifications, so it can smoothly run, even on low spec devices.

As one of the popularly played battle royale games, the developers continue to provide improvements and updates to keep the game interesting. The developers recently came out with a massive update that added new characters and weapons and adjusted several game modes and guns. If you want to know more about these recent updates, you will continue to read on, as we will be discussing these things in the article.

 

🏍️Hell Road VR - Shooting Range on Wheels

Hard rock, a muscle bike, a powerful revolver and a road through a desert full of living dead - what could be cooler?

Only if you personally find yourself riding an iron horse.

We present to your attention Hell Road VR - a road adventure with zombies and cool guns in VR!

🔫👽 Alien Life Simulator | PC | Gameplay | No Commentary | "It's Life Jim, But Not As We Know It!" 👽🔫 @TheJustinSix #GameDev #IndieGames

 

In Alien Life Simulator you will need to manage your emotions while you explore alien worlds in this 3rd person rogue-lite with life sim and survival elements!

📖 Amiga Addict – A NEW Print Amiga Magazine 📖 #RetroGaming #CommodoreAmiga

The Amiga is a system that holds a very dear place in my ticker. I grew up with the A500+ / A1200  and the leap from my Amstrad CPC to the Amiga was akin to spending years watching the films of Albert Pyun and then watching literally any film by any other director…it was a breath-taking, gravity-defying jump in quality and immersion.