Frozen Rune Guest Review by Celt Brenny

The following review for Frozen Rune, is a guest review by Celt Brenny. At Complete Xbox, we always welcome your views, and we love to share and promote them within the wider gaming community.

From the moment you load this up, you know it’s going to get tricky. The early levels teach you the basics, before throwing you straight into a platforming gauntlet. The game offers 30 levels, each packed with traps and obstacles. The core mechanic is incredibly unforgiving: one mistake, one hit, and it’s game over. Back to the start again, and again, and again until you reach the finish. The goal is simple: traverse the level, collect the Frozen Rune (which acts as a key), and make it to the end—if you’re lucky.

Levels become progressively more difficult, introducing more complex traps, platforming challenges, precision jumps, whilst piling on more frustration due to it’s great way of learning from your mistakes because you jumped to your death or just dashed at the wrong time. Personally I like a challenge and found myself up till late trying to get past level 18 before admitting defeat but can’t wait to get back in for more.

If you like precision platformers and to be tested then look no further, this game delivers. The “one mistake restart” rule means success feels earned and there’s no shortcuts here just timing and a lot of patience.

The design of the game is straight to the point. A to jump, X to Dash and a whole lot of luck and that’s it. The game is very clear about what it asks of the player. It doesn’t try to overcomplicate with lots of extra mechanics or punish you in games like Jump King where you fall to your demise.

Fans of Celeste, Super Meat Boy, or other precision-platformers that demand patience attention to timing, then Frozen Rune is solid value. Its low price and clean simplistic design make it a good pick for a short but intense challenge.