Monthly Archives: July 2022

There must be something in the water lately. Another lone developer effort has landed on my lap. This time around, Broken Mind is the game in question. Coming from 2Bad Games, this 5-year passion project has finally hit the Playstation 4. It’s a dark budget horror that, whilst it doesn’t […]

Broken Mind – PS4 Review

July 31, 2022 in PS4 / Reviews tagged 2bad games / adventure / broken mind / detective work / first person / guns / melee combat / puzzles / stealth / survival horror / tony de lucia by Mike

Train Valley is a puzzle game from Lithuanian developers Flazm Interactive and it takes all of the content from the original 2015 PC game and incorporates DLC content too. It looks a little like a city-building strategy game with railway management elements but this has more in common with those […]

Train Valley: Console Edition – PS5 Review

July 29, 2022 in PS5 / Reviews tagged puzzle / puzzler / railway / strategy / train valley / trains by Richie

Two Hundred Ways from Sunlight Games is the imaginatively named sequel to the XBox and PC only One Hundred Ways. That game had a hundred levels, so have a guess how many levels are in the sequel! This is something of a belated release on PS4, coming some months after […]

Two Hundred Ways – PS4 Review

July 28, 2022 in PS4 / Reviews tagged boring / crap trophies / puzzle / two hundred ways to leave your lover by Ian

With the democratising of games development, it’s nice to see more solo developers get off the ground. Wreck Tangle Games is a one-person studio that’s looking to mix bedtime stories with horror. The result is Quintus and the Absent Truth, a visually appealing title that does somewhat suffer from a […]

Quintus and the Absent Truth – PS5 Review

July 23, 2022 in PS5 / Reviews tagged adventure / horror / mouse / musician / narratively-driven / platforming / quintus and the absent truth / wreck tangle games by Mike

The developers of Hell Pie describe it as an obscene 3D platformer, so you can imagine the vibe they’re going for. It is a platformer with a heavy focus on collectibles, like the N64 games of the past rather than difficult platforming, combat or speed. It certainly has a unique […]

Hell Pie – PS5 Review

July 21, 2022 in PS5 / Reviews tagged 3d / collectathon / hell pie / humour / obscene / platformer by Gareth

Ultra Mission is a top-down shoot ’em up from State-side indie studio, Gumbo Machine (which is mainly just Benjamin Hapferer who handles programming and graphics duties on this game). On the face of it, this is a fairly unremarkable game. We’ve seen plenty of top-down shooters on PSN (we seem to […]

Ultra Mission – PS5 Review

July 21, 2022 in PS5 / Reviews tagged last vita game / shoot em up / top down / ultra mission by Richie

Formerly known, on Steam, as Chernobyl: Road of Death, the recently renamed Road of Death, is a twin-stick shoot ’em up game with survival elements. It’s a Ratalaika joint, so enjoy your quick Platinum, and developed by Diedemor Studio. The post-nuclear setting means that you’ll be facing off against irradiated foes using […]

Road of Death – PS5 Review

July 20, 2022 in PS5 / Reviews tagged mutants / ratalaika / road of death / top down / twin-stick shooter by Richie

From boutique Brazilian dev Naoka Games and prolific publisher eastasiasoft, we have Rayland. It’s a very simple concept and we wish we could say it’s been fully fleshed out to a bigger game. You see, Rayland is another bite sized effort with just forty two levels from start to finish. […]

Rayland – PS5 Review

July 19, 2022 in PS4 / PS5 / Reviews tagged eastasiasoft / naoka games / ray of light / rayland yutani by Ian

We’ve seen this game before, back in 2018, but Riddled Corpses EX has just had a PS5 release. This game, from French devs Cowcat, is an isometric/top-down twin-stick shooter that places equal emphasis on blasting zombies and upgrading your firepower. Set just after some sort of demonic apocalypse, the game has […]

Riddled Corpses EX – PS5 Review

July 13, 2022 in PS5 / Reviews tagged Pixel art / riddled corpses ex / twin-stick shooter / zombies by Richie

Indie platformers are a dime a dozen and it can be hard to sort the diamonds from the rough. Especially if they don’t initially appear to stand out visually or heavily lean on a gameplay hook. Still, I enjoy a good one and Guin Entertainment’s hoping to provide with Adventures […]

Adventures of Chris – PS4 Review

July 10, 2022 in PS4 / Reviews tagged 2D Platformer / adventures of chris / Balloons / fat children / globe-trotting / guin entertainment / metroidvania / thanks chris / vampire by Mike

From Lowtek Games and Ratalaika comes Parasite Pack. As the name might suggest, this is a couple of smaller games that being thematically similar, made sense to release together. The two games in question are Flea and Tapeworm Disco Puzzle. Flea was originally coded in the Nesmaker game engine with […]

Parasite Pack – PS5 Review

July 8, 2022 in PS4 / PS5 / Reviews tagged flea / lowtek games / nesmaker / not the rhcp bassist / pull the tapeworm out of your ass / ratalaika / tapeworm disco puzzle by Ian

From Brazilian based Pulsatrix Studios comes Fobia – St. Dinfna Hotel. Heavily influenced by Resident Evil, this is a first person survival horror game with a larger emphasis on puzzles than combat. You play as Roberto, an up and coming journalist who has heard about strange goings on in Treze […]

Fobia – St. Dinfna Hotel – PS5 Review

July 5, 2022 in PS5 / Reviews tagged bosses / collectibles / first person / Fobia - St. Dinfna Hotel / puzzles / resident evil / survival horror by Gareth