twin stick

Super Mega Space Blaster Special Turbo is a retro-inspired shoot ’em up by Manchester-based dev partnership Bare Knuckle Games. There’s been something of a glut of shoot ’em ups released on PSN recently with a lot of sub-genres and graphical styles in evidence but this game manages to bring something […]

Super Mega Space Blaster Special Turbo – PS4 Review

18 Apr, 2020 in PS4 tagged arcade / retro / shoot em up / twin stick / upgrading by Richie

One of the criticisms you can make about Doom is that it sometimes feels like it was designed by a 13 year old boy living at home with his parents in between listening to Megadeth albums. Well, Big Drunk Satanic Massacre, which deliberately has the acronym BDSM, is a tongue […]

Big Drunk Satanic Massacre – PS4 Review

16 Oct, 2019 in PS4 tagged bdsm / big drunk satanic massacre / doom / shoot em up / twin stick by Richie

Inferno 2 is a twin-stick shooter from Radiangames, a one man developer from Illinois, which has been around on mobile formats for five years now and is the first game in the series to land on consoles. Now that might be a cause for concern for you, because who wants […]

Inferno 2 – PS4 Review

29 Sep, 2019 in PS4 tagged arcade / inferno 2 / shoot em up / shooter / top down / twin stick by Richie

Airheart: Tales of Broken Wings from Blindflug Studios has proven to be a difficult game to review. We were flying blind if you like. On the one hand, it’s a tranquil place to fly around and catch fish (yes, we know) and on the other it’s a twin-stick shooter with […]

Airheart: Tales of Broken Wings – PS4 Review

14 Aug, 2018 in PS4 / Reviews tagged airheart / blindflug / twin stick by Ian

This update of the 2016 PC title Riddled Corpses is a cross-buy title for PS4 and Vita that would give you cirrhosis of the liver if there was a drinking game based on current trends in the indie games market. Twin-stick shooter? Drink! Rogue-lite? Drink! Pixel graphics! Drink! Zombies! DRINNNKKKKK! But despite […]

Riddled Corpses EX – PS4/Vita Review

4 Jun, 2018 in PS4 / Vita tagged arcade / retro / rogue-lite / twin stick / zombies by Richie

Not only am I not a games developer but I’m pretty sure that if I devoted myself one hundred percent to learning how to make them, I wouldn’t be able to make something capable of being sold on PSN if you gave me an entire year off to learn the […]

Boiling Bolt – PS4 Review

8 Dec, 2017 in PS4 tagged arcade / boiling bolt / resogun / shoot em up / twin stick by Richie

JYDGE is the latest in the unofficial trilogy of distopian twin-stick shooters from 10TonsLtd and comes hot on the heels of their previous one, Time Recoil. Borrowing heavily from both that game and Neon Chrome (which we really learned to love after we reviewed it), JYDGE follows is a mixture […]

JYDGE – PS4 Review

5 Oct, 2017 in PS4 tagged 10tonsltd / jydge / neon chrome / shoot em up / top down / twin stick by Richie

Time Recoil is the latest joint for 10TonsLtd, a developer that we’ve been following for a while here and it follows the template set by one of their earlier games, Neon Chrome, which you might know as a recent PS+ freebie. After cutting their teeth on basic physics puzzle/arcade games […]

Time Recoil – PS4 Review

13 Sep, 2017 in PS4 tagged 10tons ltd / neon chrome / shooter / time recoil / twin stick by Richie

You generally know what you’re going to get with a Housemarque game. Slick twin stick action and plenty of visual flair are the cornerstones of what the Finnish coders do but there’s a couple of things that are surprising about their latest joint. Firstly, Matterfall comes hot on the heels […]

Matterfall – PS4 Review

17 Aug, 2017 in PS4 tagged arcade / housemarque / matterfall / shoot em up / twin stick by Richie

It seems that not a week goes by that we do not end up talking about a new independently developed Rogue-like action game. Once an underutilised genre, The Rogue-like has gone from strength to strength, cosying with many different genres in the process. For today’s indie Rogue botherer we have […]

Cryptark – PS4 Review

6 Jul, 2017 in PS4 / Reviews tagged Cryptark / ps4 / review / shmup / twin stick by Grizz

Nex Machina is the latest shoot ’em up from twin-stick powerhouses Housemarque, best known for the masterful Resogun and the not-quite-as-special Alienation and Dead Nation games. As expected, it is another twin-stick shooter and it comes with a degree of anticipation even if this is one of the most crowded […]

Nex Machina – PS4 Review

20 Jun, 2017 in PS4 tagged arcade / housemarque / nex machina / resogun / twin stick by Richie

Another twin-stick shooter with a bit of levelling up? Yes, Demon’s Crystals isn’t going to be winning any awards for originality and this little arcade shooter has an absolute tonne of competition on PSN already – I’m pretty sure we review at least one a month – so let’s keep […]

Demon’s Crystals – PS4 Review

22 May, 2017 in PS4 tagged arcade / demon's crystals / shoot em up / shooter / twin stick by Richie