You've patched in to the enemy's security system: get ready to make your plan. Frozen Synapse is the ultimate strategy game: you have full control over your strike team, directing their every movement. At the same time, your opponent is plotting to defeat you. Plan your moves, then hit the "Execute" button: both you and your enemy's turns are executed simultaneously. Bite-size, hardcore strategy: a touch of X-Com and Laser Squad, with a striking sci-fi aesthetic.
When asked to describe Frozen Synapse, I do it thusly: "Each turn feels like that moment in which you've thrown your keys to your friend and you're not sure if they're going to hit them in the face or not." I think that's fairly accurate in a turn-based strategy game where turns play out simultaneously. It's chaotic, tense, and, now, receiving an expansion. Frozen Synapse: Red adds co-op, new campaign missions, and new multiplayer modes to the already robust little strategy game. Read More »
If you've been listening to the Internet for the past week or so, the Mass Effect 3 ending controversy is more serious than any heart attack. It is, as some would tell it, a gag-inducing tale of puppies tied to train tracks, water supplies poisoned, and loved ones strapped to weather balloons and forced to battle one another in stratospheric advertising tie-ins with The Hunger Games that are more awesome than The Hunger Games. Frozen Synapse developer Mode 7, however, has taken a much lighter approach to all the doom and gloom. Read More »
My first reaction to the Little Big Bunch bundle deal was "Oh, another indie games bundle where I can pay whatever I want, and a chunk goes to charity? Didn't we just have one of those?" But then I thought about it for a moment and realized that if your problem is that you have too many people lining up to give you great deals on games, well, that's a pretty good problem to have. Read More »
Release Region: United Kingdom
Release Date: May 26, 2011
Publisher: Mode 7 Games
