Yearly Archives: 2022

Let’s Build A Zoo is a zoo management title by Singapore-based software specialists, Springloaded. The game launched on PC, to good reviews, back in 2021. The thing is, this genre works great on a PC with its mouse and keys set up but how does it fare on consoles? And specifically […]

Let’s Build A Zoo – PS5 Review

October 9, 2022 in PS5 / Reviews tagged 16-bit / addictive / let's build a zoo / management / tycoon by Richie

Super Jagger Bomb is an arcade action title from Spanish software soloist CheapeeSoft Games. However, anyone who ever frequented an arcade in the ’80s will definitely recognise where this game gets its inspiration from. With its jumping, floating and bomb-collecting action, this game is very much a clone of Tehkan’s […]

Super Jagger Bomb – PS5 Country

October 5, 2022 in PS5 / Reviews tagged action / arcade / bomb jack / eastasiasoft / easy platinum / super jagger bomb by Richie

Casual Challenge Players’ Club is a top-down pool game from Yume Game Studio and is part of a larger series of anime-based casual titles. The top-down view is how most pool/snooker games were presented back in the ’80s and ’90s until the now typical 3D view became the way to do […]

Casual Challenge Players’ Club

October 5, 2022 in PS5 / Reviews tagged apooling / casual challenge players' club / eastasiasoft / easy platinum / pool by Richie

It must be train simulator season. No sooner have I finished reviewing Train Sim World 3, another one pulls up to the station. Train Life: A Railway Simulator is an effort more concerned with management and a wider world than authenticity and accuracy. With a lenient attitude, Simteract are looking […]

Train Life: A Railway Simulator – PS5 Review

October 3, 2022 in PS5 / Reviews tagged cargo / european tourism / job / management / passenger trains / postage / simteract / train life a railway simulator by Mike

Hardspace: Shipbreaker is the latest title from Vancouver natives Blackbird Interactive and it’s genuinely got a different concept to really any game we’ve reviewed or played. It’s pretty much as the name suggests. You’re a spaceship salvager and you float around in space cutting up giant space ships before flinging their […]

Hardspace: Shipbreaker – PS5 Review

October 3, 2022 in PS5 / Reviews tagged hardspace shipbreaker / in space no one can make you put out the green bin / recycling / simulator / space / work by Richie

There’s a weird phenomenon that happens sometimes in the indie game scene, where one dev comes up with an idea and almost immediately, another game releases with an uncanny resemblance to that idea. Last November, I reviewed a game called BPM: Bullets Per Minute Which featured the novel concept of marrying […]

Metal Hellsinger – PS5 Review

October 2, 2022 in PS5 / Reviews tagged action / arch enemy / doom / fps / matt heafy / Metal hellsinger / rhythm / serj tankian / trivium by Grizz

Midnight Fight Express is a 3D beat ’em up single-handedly programmed by one-man Polish powerhouse Jacob Dzwinel (albeit with a little help in the writing and music department). It takes the classic brawler type of game and gives it a fairly unique perspective as it tells the story of a man, […]

Midnight Fight Express – PS4 Review

September 28, 2022 in PS4 tagged brawler / fighting / fighting force / final fight / gangs / isometric / midnight fight express by Richie

Little Orpheus from semi-indie dev The Chinese Room and publisher Secret Mode, tells the story of the hapless Ivan Ivanovich as he’s interrogated by an incredulous general after the event. You see, Ivan is somehow being held responsible for the loss of the titular nuclear device in the centre of […]

Little Orpheus – PS4 Review

September 28, 2022 in PS4 / Reviews tagged apple arcade / chinese room / episodic / little orpheus / nuclear wessels / prokofiev / secret mode by Ian

It seems like forever since I’ve played a roguelike platformer. A few years back, they arrived more frequently but that drought has now been broken. Chenso Club is a fast-paced, 2D platformer that combines forgivable platform challengers with some simple but swift combat. Swedish developer Pixadome are at the helm. […]

Chenso Club – PS4 Review

September 27, 2022 in PS4 / Reviews tagged 16-bit / 2D Platformer / chenso club / melee combat / pixadome / roguelike by Mike

It’s all right there in the title but Session: Skate Sim is, unsurprisingly, a skateboarding simulation. However, that doesn’t mean that Montreal-based Crea-ture Studios haven’t surprised the hell out of us with this game. Like every other right-minded gamer, we grew up on the Tony Hawk games and while they taught us a lot […]

Session: Skate Sim – PS5 Review

September 25, 2022 in PS5 / Reviews tagged difficult difficult lemon difficult / session / sim / simulation / skate by Richie

Falcom’s JRPGs have become firm favourites of mine. I’ve reviewed a few Trails games over the years and they’ve all hit the spot for old school JRPG enjoyment. They’re not trying to modernise the genre, they’re taking its strengths and applying them as best as they can. The Legend of […]

The Legend of Heroes: Trails from Zero – PS4 Review

September 23, 2022 in PS4 / Reviews tagged falcom / jrpg / legend of heroes / trails from zero / trails of cold steel / turn based battles / world building by Gareth

Attempts to make World War I’s trench warfare compelling have been made before but I’ve never really seen them as great successes. At best, they recreated the meat grinder nature of an attritional conflict and, at worst, they become a lesson in frustration. Taking a more vertical approach with less […]

Isonzo – PS5 Review

September 20, 2022 in PS5 / Reviews tagged astro-hungarians / blackmill games / class warfare / first-person shooter / isonzo / italians / mustard gas / online multiplayer / trench warfare / verdun / world war i by Mike