Monthly Archives: May 2023

Laserpitium is a 2D horizontally-scrolling shoot ’em that comes to us from one of the more prolific publishers in the genre, eastasiasoft, and was created by French studio, The ReeTeam. They have a long record of making low budget indie shooters that mostly ended up on Steam but this appears […]

Laserpitium – PS5 Review

May 31, 2023 in PS5 tagged 2d / eastasiasoft / horizontally-scrolling / laserpitium / shoot em up by Richie

Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun is a chip off a very familiar block. I’m not sure how I feel about the term ‘boomer shooter’ but it is accurate in conveying a very specific first-person experience. I’m not a fan of the fiction but the setting certainly lends itself perfectly to a no-nonsense, […]

Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun – PS5 Review

May 29, 2023 in PS5 / Reviews tagged auroch digital / boomer shooter / first-person shooter / Games workshop / heresy / platforming / space marine / warhammer 40k boltgun by Mike

Herodes is a 2D horizontally-scrolling shoot ’em up from Brazilian indie studio TecnoloGils. It does the old bit of putting you into a microscopic ship and injecting you into a human who is suffering from some sort of deadly disease. We’ve seen the concept before in games like Viva Ex Vivo […]

Herodes – PS4 Review

May 24, 2023 in PS4 / Reviews tagged herodes / indie / retro / shoot em up by Richie

Glitch Busters: Stuck On You is a 3D co-op platformer from Tokyo studio Toylogic Inc. who have had a hand in the development of various co-op games such as Warlander and Happy Wars. It’s a PS4 joint and it’s out now at the not-quite-budget price of £15.99. The game is set, conceptually, around […]

Glitch Busters: Stuck On You – PS4 Review

May 23, 2023 in PS4 / Reviews tagged 3d platformer / astrobot / glitch busters / online co-op / stuck on you by Richie

Dicey Dungeons is a game we’ve been peripherally aware of for quite a while due to following Niamh Houston aka Chipzel on Musk’s hellsite. That’s off the back of her contribution to Chime Sharp. Man, we love Chime Sharp almost as much as we loved Chime on the 360 and […]

Dicey Dungeons – PS4 Review

May 20, 2023 in PS4 / PS5 / Reviews tagged chipzel / dice battler / dicey dungeons / rng / terry cavanagh by Ian

World Championship Boxing Manager II is, as the name suggests, a boxing management simulator and it comes to us by way of Pittsburgh programming crew Mega Cat Studios, a studio that formed some twenty-five years after the original game came out. As in the original game, you play as a […]

World Championship Boxing Manager II – PS4 Review

May 17, 2023 in PS4 / Reviews tagged boxing / fighting / management / simulator / world championship boxing manager 2 by Richie

While the 16-bit era’s biggest successes were Nintendo’s SNES and the Sega Megadrive, many gamers spent their formative years with a Commodore Amiga and, let’s admit it, a stack of pirated games on cheap floppy discs that they got from some sketchy guy who ran a computer shop that is […]

Zool Redimensioned – PS4 Review

May 15, 2023 in PS4 / Reviews tagged 16-bit / amiga / port / redimensioned / retro / zool by Richie

XEL pronounced Excel, yes like the spreadsheet application, is a forced isometric perspective adventure with Metroidvania type elements. At least in terms of certain areas being inaccessible at the outset. To begin with you can’t hit anything. So you get a sword. And then you can’t open gates until you […]

XEL – PS4 Review

May 14, 2023 in PS4 / Reviews tagged buggy / dungeon crawler / lemon / metroidvania-ish / somehow good / xel by Ian

Timing is everything with sports titles and TT Isle of Man : Ride on the Edge 3 has managed to land right in the middle of the road racing season. With the marquee event mere weeks away, Raceward Studios has produced a challenging and rewarding racer that makes the Isle […]

TT Isle of Man: Ride on the Edge 3 – ...

May 11, 2023 in PS5 / Reviews tagged conor cummins / ian hutchinson / michael dunlop / motorsport / online multiplayer / public roads / raceward studios / racing / time trial / tt isle of man ride on the edge 3 by Mike

Wild Dogs is a 2D run and gun shooter from Brazilian coders 2nd Boss. Sporting a deliberate four-colour Gameboy/NES aesthetic and taking most, but not all, of its gameplay cues from Contra, this is as old-school as it gets but that’s not to say that Wild Dogs doesn’t have a […]

Wild Dogs – PS4 Review

May 10, 2023 in PS4 / Reviews tagged 2d / contra / retro / run and gun / wild dogs by Richie

One look at Strayed Lights had me interested. With a fairly minimal approach to storytelling and a parry-based combat system, I was anticipating something unique. Whilst it does try to plough it’s own furrow, Embers’ effort has me a little underwhelmed. Visually appealing, the sparse narrative and forgiving fights have […]

Strayed Lights – PS5 Review

May 9, 2023 in PS5 / Reviews tagged coming of age / embers / exploration / minimalist storytelling / parry / platforming / rite of passage / strayed lights by Mike

Run from the savepoint, skip the cutscene, jump to grab a ring, another cutscene showing the miasma that’s chasing you, platform section, mess up a jump, get eaten by the miasma. Then repeat last three sections over and over again until you die and start from the savepoint again. This […]

Itorah – PS4 Review

May 7, 2023 in PS4 / Reviews tagged grimbart / itorah / mesoamerican / metroidvania / super sunday super bore by Ian