Monthly Archives: January 2021

It isn’t often that a series will fundamentally change from one game to the next but when Italian coding crew 34BigThings revisited Redout, their super-fast, futuristic racer, they decided to turn it into a space-based shoot ’em up. Redout: Space Assault is a third-person, into-the-screen shooter that has very little in common […]

Redout: Space Assault – PS4 Review

January 28, 2021 in PS4 / Reviews tagged arcade / redout / shoot em up / shooter / space / space assault by Richie

Couch co-op might not entirely be the best thing in mind during a pandemic. Still, there’s plenty of people stuck indoors, potentially with family, friends or flatmates so games of that ilk might see some joy. One such game is Bonkies, a cooperative building game that oozes charm but maybe […]

Bonkies – PS4 Review

January 28, 2021 in PS4 / Reviews tagged bananas / bonkies / building / cooperative / couch co-op / monkies / physics / solar system / space / stacking / studio gauntlet by Mike

Helheim Hassle from developer and publisher Perfectly Paranormal is another tale of macabre humour from the same guys that brought us Manual Samuel. You control limbs here too, only rather than having to manually breathe or keep your posture as you did before, each limb can be individually controlled. Bjørn […]

Helheim Hassle – PS4 Review

January 27, 2021 in PS4 / Reviews tagged detachable limbs / helheim / norse mythology / perfectly paranormal / vikings by Ian

Every so often an indie game comes along which happens to be utterly fantastic, we wish we could report that Balancelot was one of them. Unfortunately the latest from Ratalaika isn’t even close to good. The title Balancelot is a great little pun, given the setting. The tagline is ‘medieval […]

Balancelot – PS4 Review

January 26, 2021 in PS4 / Reviews tagged easy trophies / Medieval / physics / ratalaika / unicycle by Ian

Windfolk catches the attention pretty quickly. Not many games give you the ability to fly at pace in a 3D environment and the visuals are simple but bright as you whizz past them. As the tutorial level teaches you how to fly it makes a good first impression and the […]

Windfolk – PS4 Review

January 25, 2021 in PS4 / Reviews tagged combat / flying / jetpack / story / superman 64 / time trials / windfolk by Gareth

Factor 5 were a game studio with long and varied history behind them. Depending on your age, and videogame system of choice, you might remember their name being associated with scores of quality games. Most famously they teamed with LucasArts to make a great Indiana Jones platformer on the SNES […]

Turrican Flashback – PS4 Review

January 24, 2021 in PS4 / Reviews tagged 16-bit / compilation / retro / run and gun / turrican / turrican flashback by Guest

It was almost a year ago when we reviewed Project Starship, a vertically scrolling shoot ’em up from Panda Indie Studio and the prolific publishing house Eastasiasoft, our take away was that it was fun, unusual and quite mad but was let down by being too easy and far too short. We […]

Project Starship X – PS4 Review

January 24, 2021 in PS4 / Reviews tagged arcade / eastasiasoft / panda indie studio / project starship x / retro / vertically-scrolling shoot em up by Richie

Loot Hero DX is the latest Ratalaika offering and a game that comes by way of Swedish indie casual gaming specialists Varagtp. Now with Ratalaika you generally know what to expect – easy trophies, casual gameplay, retro presentation – but this game is somewhat unlike anything we’ve ever seen before. Sure, […]

Loot Hero DX – PS4 Review

January 20, 2021 in PS4 / Reviews tagged 16-bit / easy platinum / loot hero dx / Pixel art / ratalaika / retro by Richie

From veteran Italian developer and publisher Milestone comes MXGP 2020 – The Official Motocross Videogame, based on the planned 2020 FIM MXGP race series. The seventeen unique tracks on offer here represent the series as it was supposed to have been in 2020, before, you know, 2020 happened. In reality, […]

MXGP 2020 : The Official Motocross Game – PS5 Review

January 19, 2021 in PS5 / Reviews tagged 2020 / Apart from on commentary where else on earth can you hear the word 'aplomb' being used? / hello moto / i'll stomp a mudhole in your ass / milestone / mxgp / shortened season by Ian

PlayStation gamers were never able to play the original 2013 Hammerwatch, a hack and slasher from Swedish (not Danish!) coding squad, Crackshell. They have however just dropped 2018’s Heroes of Hammerwatch on us, a game that takes the original hacking and slashing but builds quite a complex upgrading system behind the action. […]

Heroes of Hammerwatch – PS4 Review

January 16, 2021 in PS4 / Reviews tagged classes / hack and slash / heroes of hammerwatch / Pixel art / retro / rogue-like / rogue-lite / upgrade by Richie

Ultimate Fishing Simulator from developer Bit Golem in conjunction with joint publishers Console Labs and Ultimate Games is pretty much exactly what it says. It’s a fishing simulator in a variety of locations where you… fish. The well used Unity engine does a fair job of depicting the locales in […]

Ultimate Fishing Simulator – PS4 Review

January 9, 2021 in PS4 / Reviews tagged chubb / does the fish have chips / how much is the fish / muzak / perch / sturgeon / trout / ultimate fishing simulator by Ian

Rigid Force Redux is a horizontally-scrolling shoot ’em up from confusingly named German indie coders ‘com8com1’ and is a console port of their earlier PC release Rigid Force Alpha. As you can see from the screenshots this is an arcade style title which evokes memories of shoot ’em ups from […]

Rigid Force Redux – PS4 Review

January 6, 2021 in PS4 / Reviews tagged arcade / horizontal / r-type / rigid force redux / shoot em up by Richie