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Neon Abyss is a rogue-like plaformer-shooter from Chinese coding crew, Veewo Games. It actually released in 2020 but we’ve ended up with a review key for it and so let’s take a look at this already well-regarded game. In Neon Abyss you play as part of the Grim Squad, a team of […]

Neon Abyss – PS4 Review

September 1, 2022 in PS4 / Reviews tagged neon abyss / platformer / rogue-lite / run and gun / twin stick by Richie

Aniquilation is a twin-stick shooter from Colombian coders R-Next that offers over thirty levels of 3D shooting action with a similar viewpoint to Nano Assault and Super Stardust Ultra in that each level is a small sphere, essentially a mini-planet. As you traverse the level, your ship appears to stay in place as […]

Aniquilation – PS5 Review

August 5, 2022 in PS5 / Reviews tagged aniquilation / or 'annihilation' according to every auto-corrector out there / planetoid / shoot em up / twin stick by Richie

We reviewed the PS4 version of Jydge back in 2017 and it turned out to be a real hidden gem. It was a twin-stick shooter with an emphasis on weapon and character upgrades and it benefitted from some truly excellent level design. In going for the platinum trophy we really […]

Jydge – PS5 Review

November 24, 2020 in PS5 / Reviews tagged 10tonsltd / 2000 ad / dredd / hidden gem / jydge / neonchrome / roguelike / twin stick / upgrades by Richie

From Belfast-based dev Level 91 and publisher PQube, comes Inertial Drift. A twin-stick driving game “set in a 90’s retro future.” So the future? Or the past? We’re confused. The influence of a particular manga / anime series with Japanese cars and drifting couldn’t be any clearer if we scrambled […]

Inertial Drift – PS4 Review

September 10, 2020 in PS4 / Reviews tagged drift / inertial drift / norn iron / not initial d / twin stick by Ian

RogueCube is the latest Ratalaika release, this time from Spanish indie Bipolar Dawn. This is their first console release and it’s a fair debut. Incidental loading text informs us that this was originally intended to be a puzzle game, but eh. You’d be forgiven for expecting a typical Rata rinse […]

RogueCube – PS4 Review

August 15, 2020 in PS4 / Reviews tagged espana / ratalaika / rng / roguecube / twin stick by Ian

#killallzombies featured image — UPDATE: Check the bottom of the review for a change from the original 7 out of 10 score. If you’ve ever played Crimsonland from 10ton Games, #killallzombies by Beatshapers is basically that to the point where we assumed it was a sequel. That means this game sees you running around a large-ish arena, fending off […]

#killallzombies – PS4 Review

July 19, 2020 in PS4 / Reviews tagged #killallzombies / streaming / twin stick / twitch / zombie by Richie

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

April 18, 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

October 16, 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

September 29, 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

August 14, 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

June 4, 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

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