Yearly Archives: 2022

Z-Warp is the latest shoot ’em up from Panda Indie Studio, the one-man shoot ’em up specialist behind most of Eastasiasoft’s impressive array of shooters. As ever, this is a vertically-scrolling, arcade style bullet-hell game and it has plenty of Panda Indie’s trademark characteristics. So, if you want to know […]

Z-Warp – PS5 Review

April 6, 2022 in PS4 / PS5 / Reviews by Richie

Flat Kingdom is a 2D-ish puzzle platformer that comes to us by way of Mexican coders Fat Panda. It first emerged over in PC Country back in 2016 but has now found its way to PSN thanks to prolific porters Ratalaika Games. The game is set in the titular Flat […]

Flat Kingdom Paper’s Cut Edition – PS5 Review

April 6, 2022 in PS5 / Reviews tagged 2.5d / flat kingdom / paper / puzzle platformer / ratalaika by Richie

I know games sometimes like to cover civil unrest, protest and it’s consequences but they largely don’t concern themselves too much with ethical quandaries behind the curtain. There’s always a greater good and the good guys usually win out. Vengeful Heart has a fairly obvious cause to fight for but […]

Vengeful Heart – PS5 Review

April 4, 2022 in PS5 / Reviews tagged cyberpunk / dystopia / eco-terrorists / insurgency / l / narratively-driven / salmon snake / vengeful heart / visual novel by Mike

If you’re unaware of the term ‘immersive sim’ then it’ll probably mean nothing to you. It’s a genre that let’s the player choose, whether that’s story options or how to play. It wants to immerse you in the experience by letting you play how you want and adapting around you. […]

Weird West – PS4 Review

March 31, 2022 in PS4 / Reviews tagged dark fantasy / immersive sim / occult / stealth / third-person / weird west / wild west by Gareth

I have always admired when game developers eschew convention in favour of sticking to their guns. Very few are willing to do this as sticking to one franchise, genre or art style can often wind up with those games becoming very stale, very quickly. The flipside of course, is that […]

Thunder Kid: Hunt for the Robot Emperor – PS4/PS5 Review

March 30, 2022 in PS4 / PS5 / Reviews tagged ps4 / PS5 / renegae sector / thunder kid by Grizz

Andro Dunos II is a horizontally-scrolling shoot ’em up from Picorinne Soft and it really highlights what an usual time this is for the indie games market. You see, the original Andro Dunos, itself also a shoot ’em up, came out in 1992 as a Neo Geo game. It’s not particularly well-known and […]

Andro Dunos II – PS4 Review

March 30, 2022 in PS4 / Reviews tagged andro dunos 2 / andros townsend though / arcade / coin-op / horizontally-scrolling / shoot em up by Richie

The Ascent is a top-down, twin-stick action RPG from Swedish software house Neon Giant. It’s their first game but members of Neon Giant were involved in Gears of War, Doom, Wolfenstein and PSC favourite Bulletstorm. With its top-down perspective and ‘dungeon-crawling’ mission structure, a lot of people seem to think of The Ascent as […]

The Ascent – PS5 Review

March 28, 2022 in PS5 / Reviews tagged cyberpunk / the ascent / top down / twin-stick shooter by Richie

Royal Frontier is a strategy game from prolific Canadian coders Woblyware and it comes to us by way of Ratalaika Games. Now, we tend to review the vast majority of games from Ratalaika and so we knew we could most likely request a review code for this one but with half […]

Royal Frontier – PS5 Review

March 21, 2022 in PS5 tagged king's bounty / ratalaika / royal frontier / tactical / turn based strategy by Richie

Valley of the Dead: MalnaZidos is a third-person survival horror game which comes to us by way of Gammera Nest and the Spanish PlayStation Talents program. That initiative is a way to get lesser-known talent into the PSN marketplace and so far it’s not made for many good games but […]

Valley of the Dead: MalnaZidos – PS4 Review

March 20, 2022 in PS4 / Reviews tagged malnazidos / PlayStation Talents / resident evil poor / spanish / valley of the dead / zombies by Richie

Music Racer Ultimate is a rehash of a prior 2020 PS4 release by Abstract Art, that port being down to publisher Sometimes You and Light Road Games. The idea is that you can play using your own music to generate your own unique levels. At least that’s the idea. Sorta […]

Music Racer Ultimate – PS5 Review

March 20, 2022 in PS4 / PS5 / Reviews tagged cy young / dave stieb / music racer ultimate / retro aesthetic / synthwave by Ian

FMV games are always a fun thing to dig around. There’s something about an interactive medium featuring physical actors which always brings about some interesting results. The latest of these to come my way is Who Pressed Mute On Uncle Marcus? Coming from Wales Interactive, this is a product that […]

Who Pressed Mute on Uncle Marcus? – PS4 Review

March 18, 2022 in PS4 / Reviews tagged adventure / family quiz webchat / full motion video / Murder mystery / narratively-driven / poison / wales interactive / who pressed mute on uncle marcus by Mike

The deck building Rogue-lite has some strong representatives. Slay the Spire is probably the best on PlayStation but there are other examples on other platforms and even something like Neoverse is a good time. Roguebook is in a similar vein but has enough twists to make it stand out. You […]

Roguebook – PS5 Review

March 16, 2022 in PS5 / Reviews tagged 2d / cards / deck builder / Ink / neoverse / rogue-lite / roguebook / slay the spire / turn-based by Gareth