🏃🏻‍♂️💨 Preview: Escape Doodland - "I'm the fart lighter, twisted fart lighter" 🏃🏻‍♂️💨 #GameDev #IndieGame

 Escape Doodland is a cartoonish auto-runner that sees your character pegging it away from a massive monster that is hungry, toothy…and right behind you! 

⚽️💩 Episode 16: Ace Striker - SERIE A - 1995 - TNN - SNES Football Games Were Shite 💩⚽️

🎮"Little doll looking footballers with questionable hands play bad football whilst being reffed by a bald dude"🎮

🧙🏻‍♀️Review:Bullet Witch "If only I could cast a spell to make this a better game"🧙🏻‍♀️

Game Title: Bullet Witch

Platform Reviewed: PC (Steam)

Developer: Cavia (original) / Marvelous, Inc (re-release)

Rating: Melted

Bullet Witch was a game released back in 2006 for the Xbox 360 to reviews that were middling at best and with good reason. Bland, buggy graphics set in tedious, linear levels that are filled with copy/paste enemies that you mow down via unsatisfying gunplay; it really wasn’t a good example of the 3rd person shooter genre. 

Upon release it was quickly forgotten by everyone except the most ardent fans of the game, fast-forward twelve years to this re-release, now playable in 60fps and 1080 resolution and we ask the question, 

“Has the game finally discovered a new lease of life, replete in re-mastered glory?”

*drum roll*

📦 Unboxing Video - AuCuTee - "An Awesome Looking White Noise Machine" 📦

📦 "Today I take a look at a piece of Tech that is completely different from anything else that I have ever reviewed. This is AuCuTee's White Noise Sleep Machine and it looks pretty awesome!" 📦

🚀 Review: Last Encounter "A Good Title Made Great With Friends" 🚀 #GameDev #IndieGame

Game Title: Last Encounter

Developer: Exordium Games

Platform Reviewed:  PC (Steam)

Rating: Ice Cool

Last Encounter is the newest game from the studio that gave us the charming pseudo-noir adventure series ‘Bear With Me’, moving away from the point and click genre, Last Encounter is a top-down twin-stick shooter with support for up to four players (good) and a rogue-lite approach to level design. 

📦 Commodore 64 - Spellbound & Prowler - Mastertronic - eBay Unboxing Video 📦 #C64 #RetroGaming

🎮"Here's a nice unboxing video of my latest eBay purchase. 

Spellbound and Prowler on the C64"🎮

⚽️ Episode 15. SNES Football Games Were Shite - Kick Off 3 - ANCO - 1994⚽️

🎮"With Brazilian screamers galore, this is an episode not to be missed! Kick Off 3 is so much fun and yet so bad it's good!"🎮

🍋🔫🍍 Review: Juicy Realms "A Fruity Shooter That Ripens Quickly" 🍒🔫🍉

Game Title: Juicy Realms

Developer: SpaceCan

Platform Reviewed: PC (Steam)

Rating: Melting

Juicy Realms is a (sort-of) top-down twin-stick shooter that can be played locally or in co-op modes. 

Set in a world where the food chain has completely altered, leaving sentient fruits and vegetables at the top of the chain and humans somewhere in the middle, it’s up to you (and possibly a friend) to load up and delve deeper in to the Plant Empire, putting a stop to their ‘seedy ways.

👊🏻🏀 Review: Shaq Fu: A Legend Reborn "The Big Daddy is BACK!" 🏀👊🏻 #ShaqFu

Shaq Fu: A Legend Reborn

I know nothing about basketball, but after Shaquille O’Neil was in his own hot game on the SNES and in that one movie where everyone thinks it was Sinbad, I figured he must be a major star. And that opening line is all we need to mention about the original game, as this second iteration seems to want nothing to do with the classic fighter, other than as material for some jokes. 

Many years and a sprinkle of crowdfunding later though, this dominant athlete is looking to craft a new legend, or at least wants to make something closer to an actual success in the video game world. 

Is it possible though, or are some things in history truly doomed to repeat?

⚔️ Moonlighter - PS4 - Ten Minute Taster ⚔️ #GameDev #IndieGame

🎮 "Looting Dungeons and running my own shop has long been an ambition of mine and now I can live that dream in Moonlighter on PS4. 

Loot the local dungeons and sell your wares in a cross between Legend Of Zelda and Stardew Valley" 🎮

⚽️ Episode 14. SNES Football Games Were Shite - Kevin Keegan's Player Manager - Imagineer - 1993 ⚽️ #SNES #Retrogaming

🎮"With Kev's hair and Kick Off gameplay combined what could possibly go wrong here? 

We'd love it if you watched to find out!"🎮

🏚️ Review: Without Escape - "A Brief Jaunt into The Unknown" 🏚️ @BrittRecluseuk @kingdomofcarts #GameDev #IndieGame

Game Title: Without Escape
Developer: Bumpy Trail Games
Platform Reviewed: PC (Steam)
Rating: Melting

Without Escape has been released previously in a different guise on the Xbox Live service and has been in development through various stages since 2001, when it was a very different beast indeed. 

The game comes with a brief history of its development cycle (Bumpy Trail Games is a one-man team) and it’s clear to see that the game is a labour of love. 

From its inception as a very basic point and click game with graphics drawn in Paint through to the newest and final incarnation as a game with lushly rendered graphics and extra sections with multiple endings that we see today.

❄️Review: ICEY - Nintendo Switch "Almost ‘ICE’-cool" ❄️ #GameDev #IndieGame @BrittRecluseuk @kingdomofcarts

Game Title: ICEY

Developer: Fantablade Network

Platform Reviewed: Switch

Rating: Melting

ICEY is a video game that has been around on the PC for a couple of years and has gained quite a fervent fan following, it’s blend of classic hack-and-slash gameplay paired with a meta-story approach and concepts have appealed to a wide audience, but if the story doesn’t grab you….what are you left with?

💾 Matilda Talks 80's Choplifter, Big Box PC Games and Mrs Ball's Chutney - Video Games Memories 💾 @Bhaal_Spawn #Retrogaming #BigBoxGames

Here are some more awesome video games memories from one of our fave Twitter peeps.

Today is the turn of Matilda aka @Bhaal_Spawn aka ☀️ 🌸 idspispopd  🥀 aka Tilly

Tilly loves PC gaming and especially those beautiful MS-DOS games that I am prone to retweeting screenshots of when I fall down a Twitter screenshot rabbit hole...

Let's get to know the MS-DOS gaming, Big Box loving Matilda with a few questions, you know the drill, so here goes...

🔫 Ten Minute Taster - Milanoir - PS4 - "70's Gang Land Pixel Milan!" 🔫 #IndieGame #GameDev

🎮"Milanoir: What about some cool as hell twin stick video game gang land shooting action in 70's Milan on your trusty PS4?"🎮

⚽️ Episode 13. SNES Football Games Were Shite - International Superstar Soccer Deluxe - Konami - 1995 ⚽️ #Retrogaming

🎮 "As the saying goes, "Tails Never Fails", watch me go about proving this scientific fact whilst playing the awesome ISS Deluxe.

This game is surely NOT SHITE!" 🎮

🥊 Review: Punch Club "Comes out swinging but struggles in the last rounds" 🥊 #IndieGame #GameDev

Game Title: Punch Club

Developer: Lazy Bear Games

Platform Reviewed: Nintendo Switch

Rating: Melting

As I played Punch Club, the game that came to mind was World Championship Boxing Manager, a personal classic that I loved back on the Amiga 500.

Whilst the games differ in many ways, the essentials of building skills up to rise through the rankings remain the same and it’s a genre that is quite thin on the ground, more so with an injection of humour.  

After a strong start and an interesting setup, Punch Club stumbles more and more the longer it is played and eventually the heavy grinding and micro-managing wore me down.

🔫 Review: Garage - Nintendo Switch "Just Needs a Slight Tuning Up" 🔫 #IndieGame #GameDev

Game Title – Garage

Platform Reviewed – Nintendo Switch

Developer – tinyBuild Games

Garage is a top-down shooter with horror elements that is set entirely underground.

With Hotline Miami and the Sega Saturn / PlayStation game Loaded as touchstones, Garage gets a lot right but has some issues running throughout that reduce the ‘one more go’ factor that can make or break these types of games.

🦊🌳 Review: Fox 'n' Forests "A Hidden Gem from an Alternate Universe" 🌳🦊 #GameDev #IndieGame

Game Title: Fox n Forests

Developer: Bonus Level Entertainment

Platform Reviewed: PC (Steam) - £15.49

Rating: Ice Cool

Fox n Forests is a throwback the video games platformers of the mid-90s with a very Super Nintendo vibe running through it. 

From the colourful graphics through to the visual styles and touches, this is very much a game that could have been released in 1994 to critical acclaim and, like the best of those games, it still stands up today.

🎮 Ten Minute Taster: Omensight - PS4 - "Watch me buddy up with a possessed Rat and a Giant Bear" 🎮

🎮"Watch me buddy up with a possessed Rat and a Giant Bear with an English accent in this beautiful action adventure murder mystery on PS4"🎮