Freezing Knights
A light co-op turn-based RPG
Take control of two knights and try to reach the end of the perilous snowy mountain paths by avoiding enemy attacks and powering-up your characters.
Features
- Single-player and two-player modes
- 14 music tracks by @ohcurtains
- 30 enemy encounters
- 11 enemy types (+1 ???)
- Customizable character builds
- Multiple paths
- Optional hard mode
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Controls
Keyboard
Xbox controller
Soundtrack
Many many thanks to @ohcurtains for composing the amazing extensive soundtrack for it and providing great feedback!
The full soundtrack (+9 bonus tracks from other games by @ohcurtains) is available for download here: https://ohhcurtains.bandcamp.com/album/freezing-knights
About
Freezing Knights is my first real attempt at creating a game. It took about 7 months to develop and was mainly inspired by that one RPG series with two plumbers🐢.
It originally released as part of the Twelve Days of Pico-8 Christmas 2022 event.
The game was made in the Pico-8 fantasy console, and is therefore limited to a 128x128 resolution and 16 colors.
Credits
Game by @tinyevilwizard
Music and OhCurtains intro by @ohcurtains
Testing / Feedback: Arthuria, Partybird, @ohcurtains, SmellyFishstiks, paraK00PA
Source code
The full source code is available on GitHub under the CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.
Changelog
Version 1.2.0 - August 26, 2023
- Players now receive two additional potions after a game over
- Increased potion limit in normal mode
- Increased hp limit for both difficulties
- Removed losing health from action after killing the last enemy
- Added ability to return to previous safe zone in world map, which allows players to farm for gold
- Reduced damage dealt by final boss shadows
Version 1.1.0 - December 29, 2022
- Added skip tutorial option
- Decreased tutorial length
- Increased great sword damage
- Increased great sword price
- Updated color of unavailable items in rest menu
Version 1.0.3 - December 16, 2022
- Fixed Knight B losing the sword when entering a rest area
Version 1.0.2 - December 15, 2022
Status | Released |
Platforms | HTML5, Windows, macOS, Linux |
Rating | Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars (17 total ratings) |
Authors | tinyevilwizard, ohcurtains |
Genre | Role Playing |
Made with | PICO-8 |
Tags | 2D, Co-op, JRPG, Local Co-Op, Local multiplayer, Multiplayer, PICO-8, Pixel Art, Retro, Turn-based |
Average session | About an hour |
Languages | English |
Inputs | Keyboard, Xbox controller, Gamepad (any) |
Multiplayer | Local multiplayer |
Player count | 1 - 2 |
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Development log
- Freezing Knights Version 1.2.0Aug 27, 2023
- Freezing Knights Source CodeJan 03, 2023
- Freezing Knights Version 1.1.0Dec 29, 2022
- Freezing Knights SoundtrackDec 18, 2022
Comments
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THAT was a VERY polished and great to play game. The music is absolutely on point and really nice!
anyone else here played orderless, new skies?
Soundtrack is fire, tons of levels and features, looks amazing, and is intuitive and fun! Blown away by it
Big potential here with this game! Loving it!
Great game. Hope that one day Freezing Knights 2 will exist. Also I love the wizards and the chickens.
This is really fantastic, the artwork especially.
I don't know if there's a design logic behind it, but I frequently found myself wishing I could see enemy health. It's hard to strategize when you don't know how best to allocate your damage on a turn.