Death Row Brawl Game Boy

WARNING

Death Row is a game for adults and contains themes not suitable for minors. You should be 18 years or older to play.

INTRODUCTION

Death Row is a short, dense, horror role play game set on death row. The player has been sentenced to the electric chair for a crime they probably did commit. Your challenge is to help them escape.

This game is an adaptation of the original Death Row and is based on fighting and intimidation. Only by carefully climbing the ranks can you escape!

The first half of the game takes place over three days, with the player electrocuted on the third day. You have three actions each day to stop that from happening.

DIFFICULTY

This game is like groundhog day on death row. Expect to die several times along the way and have to complete several run-throughs to complete the game. The game is short enough to allow this.

This game has three levels of difficulty, Easy, Medium and Hard. Once you have completed the game, you can replay it with a different fight sequence using the Generate option.

There are 360 levels available (120 per difficulty) generated using a seed. You can write down this seed to replay the exact same game later.

The game will take 10 minutes to an hour to complete depending on difficulty if you are very focused but longer if you take your time and enjoy the atmosphere.

CONTROLS

Standard RPG rules apply. Direction buttons move you around and use button A to interact. Death Row evolves slowly as the days pass, so it pays to revisit things you have already interacted with.

NARRATIVE

A lot of time has gone into the story, characters and narrative. I recommend reading the narrative at least the first time around. However, in the main hall, narratives can be toggled on/off with SELECT. Narratives containing clues are always on.

COMPATIBILITY

The game is for the Game Boy Original and should be playable on any Game Boy or emulator that can play .gb files.

NEW! A .pocket file is now available for the Analogue Pocket

On some handhelds you can copy the zip itself. This will ensure the .gb file doesn't get corrupt.

CREDITS

Game: Paul M

Artwork: Pixelpen

Music: Doug T

Tools: GB Studio by Chris Maltby

Font: Blocktopia by Aaron D. Chand

Testers: Feliz, Mike