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Released on PC a couple of years ago to critical acclaim, Disco Elysium has now hit the PS5 (the focus of this review) and PS4 in a Final Cut version. This has added new voice lines, more dialogue choices and more items to collect but that won’t mean too much […]

Disco Elysium: The Final Cut – PS5/PS4 Review

April 9, 2021 in PS4 / PS5 / Reviews tagged alcohol / bugs / detective / dialogue / disco elysium / immersive / point and click / rpg by Gareth

Although it’s not a deck builder, my experience with Slay the Spire and the recently reviewed Neoverse has helped me no end with Star Renegades which is new to the PS4. The combat has a lot in common with that style of game and it’s another Rogue-lite. It brings plenty […]

Star Renegades – PS4 Review

March 23, 2021 in PS4 / Reviews tagged 2d / long / roguelite / rpg / slay the spire / star renegades / tactical / timeline / turn-based by Gareth

Arguably the highest profile release at the start of this new generation is Demon’s Souls. How it’s come to this I don’t know, a remake of game that at one point wasn’t even going to be released in the West has come to spearhead the exclusive line up at a […]

Demon’s Souls – PS5 Review

November 27, 2020 in PS5 / Reviews tagged action / dark souls / demon's souls / difficult / online / pure bladestone / remake / remaster / rpg by Gareth

Visual novels just don’t stop coming. It’s not a genre I’m especially enamoured with but it’s been fascinating to see the genre transform over time. After plenty of development time and a successful kickstarter, Undead Darlings: No Cure for Love has finally come to fruition. Mr. Tired Media are mixing […]

Undead Darlings: No Cure for Love – PS4 Review

November 4, 2020 in PS4 / Reviews tagged dungeon crawler / Girls / mr tired media / narrively driven / post-apocalypse / rpg / undead darlings no cure for love / visual novel / zombies by Mike

Foregone is an action game with RPG elements, as well as Metroidvania leanings and is obviously influenced by the excellent Dead Cells. If you’re going to be influenced by something it might as well be one of the best but with it comes a tough comparison. So how does it […]

Foregone – PS4 Review

October 24, 2020 in PS4 / Reviews tagged 2d / action / combat / dead cells / foregone / metroidvania / platforming / rpg by Gareth

The Torchlight series has made a reasonable name for itself by offering its own budget take on the Diablo experience, growing while its inspiration does too. We reviewed Torchlight II back in September of last year and while we appreciated its solid gameplay mechanics, it was just a bit too staid, offering nothing […]

Torchlight III – PS4 Review

October 19, 2020 in PS4 / Reviews tagged arpg / diablo / hack and slash / loot / rpg / torchlight 3 by Richie

As the clumsily structured name might tell you, Kingdoms of Amalur: Re-Reckoning is a remaster of the original Kingdoms of Amalur, an open-world RPG that came out for last gen consoles back in 2012. However, despite sporting a real pedigree in terms of the people behind it, the game underperformed commercially and […]

Kingdoms of Amalur: Re-Reckoning – PS4 Review

September 7, 2020 in PS4 / Reviews tagged adventure / hack and slash / kingdoms of amalur / rpg / skyrim by Richie

The original Wasteland was a precursor to Fallout, the old, good ones. Wasteland 3 has far more in common with those tactical, turn based RPGs than what Fallout has become under Bethesda and it’s all the better for it. Obviously it’s set in a post-apocalypse and it requires a massive […]

Wasteland 3 – PS4 Review

September 7, 2020 in PS4 / Reviews tagged fallout / post-apocalypse / rpg / strategy / tactical / wasteland / xcom by Gareth

Banner of the Maid is a strategy RPG in the vein of Final Fantasy Tactics or Shining Force. It’s been developed in China rather than Japan but that makes little difference as it follows the template closely. The last Chinese developed RPG I reviewed was Sword and Fairy 6 and […]

Banner of the Maid – PS4 Review

August 27, 2020 in PS4 / Reviews tagged 2d / banner of the maid / bonaparte / chinese / french / rpg / strategy / sword and fairy / visual novel by Gareth

Zen Studios, probably most famous for their pinball games, have moved out of their comfort zone with Operencia: The Stolen Sun. It was released on Epic Games Store and Xbox One last year but has now made it to PS4. They’ve dabbled in other genres in the past but how […]

Operencia: The Stolen Sun – PS4 Review

March 27, 2020 in PS4 tagged dungeon crawler / first person / operencia: the stolen sun / puzzle / rpg / turn-based / zen by Gareth

Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire came out on PC a year and a half ago to great reviews. A sequel to the 2015 real-time-with-pause RPG, it continues the story of your created character, The Watcher. Now it’s arrived on the PS4 with all the DLC included in the package. That […]

Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire – PS4 Review

February 1, 2020 in PS4 tagged baldur's gate / deadfire / loading / pillars of eternity / real time / rpg / tactical by Gareth

Torchlight II is a port of a 2012 Diablo clone which was itself the sequel to the 2009 original. Although the series has always debuted on the PC, Torchlight did eventually make it across to the previous gen of consoles and I played through it on the Xbox 360. The sequel has now […]

Torchlight II – PS4 Review

September 7, 2019 in PS4 tagged diablo / hack and slash / rpg / torchlight 2 / torchlight II by Richie

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