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It’s been a long whilst since a South Park game really missed the mark. It’s been ages since I gave the TV series a glance but the last two RPGs have produced something more fitting of the show’s humour. There is a care and attention with those that South Park: […]

South Park: Snow Day – PS5 Review

March 30, 2024 in PS5 / Reviews tagged blizzard / Fantasy / kids at play / matt stone / melee combat / online co-op / question / roguelite / snow day / south park / trey parker by Mike

I hope you’re keeping count because Alone in the Dark is the second time the seminal survival horror has hit the reset button. 2008’s first attempt didn’t seem to leave any long-lasting impression. In the shadow of more high-profile remakes, 2024’s edition appears to walk back to the series’ roots. […]

Alone in the Dark – PS5 Review

March 25, 2024 in PS5 / Reviews tagged adventure / alone in the dark / david harbour / jodie comer / Louisiana / lovecraft / pieces interactive / puzzle solving / spooky mansion / survival horror / third-person combat by Mike

For once we’re relieved that our review code for Balatro by solo dev LocalThunk was PS5 only. We started playing this time last week and have put in multiple sessions into the early hours since. Our PS5 reckons we’ve played twenty-one hours already. That’s with a break from Friday to […]

Balatro – PS5 Review

March 22, 2024 in PS5 / Reviews tagged balatro / goty candidate / poker / roguelike deckbuilder / sleep is for the weak by Ian

Abriss, or to give it’s full title ABRISS – build to destroy, is a physics-based puzzle game from Berlin-based studio Randwerk and it’s really quite something. As it’s annoyingly uncapitalised subtitle suggests, this game is about building and destruction but it’s done in a way that’s wholly original and just technically so […]

Abriss – PS5 Review

March 21, 2024 in PS5 / Reviews tagged abriss / destruction / physics / puzzle game / randwerk by Richie

Digital Eclipse are showing themselves to be masterful at collating and preserving the games and stories from our industry. The second in the Gold Master Series, Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story focuses on the hairy visionary and mostly focuses on his prolific output during the 1980s. As a lad that […]

Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story – PS5 Review

March 20, 2024 in PS5 / Reviews tagged attack / c64 / camels / defender / documentary / game development / ivan zorzin / llama / llamasoft the jeff minter story / llamatron / mutant / revenge / sheep / tempest / tube shooters / vic-20 / yak / ZX80 / ZX81 by Mike

Taxi Life: A City Driving Simulator from Krakow-based developer Simteract and publisher Nacon is pretty much exactly what you might expect from the title. You’re a taxi driver in a city, in this case an approximation of downtown Barcelona. In a revelation that won’t shock you, you have to pick […]

Taxi Life: A City Driving Simulator – PS5 Review

March 19, 2024 in PS5 / Reviews tagged midtown mundanity / nacon / sedate taxi / simteract / taxi life by Ian

The Outlast Trials is a co-op focused survival horror game from Montreal studio Red Barrels who, despite some pedigree working in the industry previously, have a softography that, so far, only includes this game and the two previous Outlast titles. Set in a Cold War-era experimental facility, The Outlast Trials, exists in the same […]

The Outlast Trials – PS5 Review

March 15, 2024 in PS5 / Reviews tagged co-op / horror / outlast / saw / survival / the outlast trials by Richie

Highwater by Demagog Studio is a prequel to both 2021’s Golf Club: Wasteland and The Cub from earlier this year. This writer reviewed The Cub and found it intriguing but ultimately a little frustrating. So, it was with an initial sense of ‘here we go again’ when we first started […]

Highwater – PS5 Review

March 14, 2024 in PS5 / Reviews tagged alphaville / demagog / golf club wasteland / great ecological disaster / the cub by Ian

King Arthur: A Knight’s Tale is an RPG with turn-based combat and with it’s mostly top-down viewpoint is very in keeping with the rest of the software catalogue of Hungarian developers NeocoreGames given that they made all those Van Helsing games and Warhammer 40,000: Inquisitor. They’re known for combining a solid story […]

King Arthur: A Knight’s Tale – PS5 Review

March 11, 2024 in PS5 / Reviews tagged adventure / king arthur: a knight's tale / rpg / the knights who say nic / turn-based by Richie

It’s been really nice seeing the explosion of retro re-releases hitting the market. I spent a lot of time as a kid playing older games and, now with the benefit of hindsight, it’s been interesting to revisit them. I’m not convinced many of the CPC games I used to play […]

Top Racer Collection – PS5 Review

March 9, 2024 in PS5 / Reviews tagged custom cups / gremlin interactive / online multiplayer / qubyte interactive / racing / SNES / space / time trial / top gear / top racer collection / world tour by Mike

I guess zombies place in media and popular culture is never going to disappear. I’ll be honest, I don’t think there’s much left to do with them that hasn’t already been thought of. Welcome to Paradize is the latest from EKO Software. It’s a survival game based around society’s failure […]

Welcome to Paradize – PS5 Review

March 6, 2024 in PS5 / Reviews tagged base building / eko software / management / melee combat / online co-op / satire / slavery / squad management / survival / welcome to paradize / zombies by Mike

Inkulinati from Warsaw-based dev Yaza Games and publisher Daedalic is probably best described as a medieval take on a puzzle strategy game. Or as Yaza would say, “where a rabbit’s bum can be deadlier than a dog’s sword.” While not strictly true in the case of gameplay, it’s an amusing […]

Inkulinati – PS5 Review

March 5, 2024 in PS4 / PS5 / Reviews tagged flatulence / inkulinati / Medieval / strategy / turn based battles by Ian