Yearly Archives: 2023

Alive Paint is an art utility/game from the mysteriously named solo developer KhudO and it comes to us by way of the ever-prolific publisher eastasiasoft. It was released initially on PC back in March but is now available on consoles. Essentially this is a colouring book. At the start of each […]

Alive Paint – PS5 Review

October 27, 2023 in PS4 / Reviews tagged alive paint / art / eastasiasoft / painting / utility by Richie

The Oakland Athletics baseball team were founded in 1901 in Philadelphia, with a twelve-year stint from 1955 in Kansas City, moving to their current home at the Oakland Coliseum in 1968. Their current owner is a guy called John Fisher who has been running the team on a shoestring for […]

The Gap – PS5 Review

October 24, 2023 in PS5 / Reviews tagged crunching koalas / label this / oh boy / sell the team / the gap by Ian

Harmony’s Odyssey is from Warsaw-based dev MythicOwl and published by fellow Poles WeDigGames. We got a similar feel to the work of Artifex Mundi, also based in Poland. We’d not be all that surprised if MythicOwl had some staff in common with that dev either either. Harmony’s Odyssey is a […]

Harmony’s Odyssey – PS4 Review

October 21, 2023 in PS4 / Reviews tagged harmony's odyssey / mythology / puzzle by Ian

Funny how things come full circle. When the original Lords of the Fallen arrived in 2014, the soulslike sub-genre was not really a consideration. As one of the first to try their hand at From Software’s formula, the game stumbled into mediocrity. Almost a decade and a troublesome development later, […]

Lords of the Fallen – PS5 Review

October 21, 2023 in PS5 / Reviews tagged ci games / difficult / hexworks / lords of the fallen / magic / melee combat / poison swamp / sorcery / soulslike / spells / world swapping by Mike

There was something about Overpass I just didn’t get on with. I love the idea of a more serious, obstacle-based racer but the feel of the game just felt off and I couldn’t get to grips with it. Well, Neopica’s taking another crack at the series and Overpass 2 does […]

Overpass 2 – PS5 Review

October 19, 2023 in PS5 / Reviews tagged atv / hill climb / neopica / obstacle course / off road / overpass 2 / racing / rock bouncer / time trial / trials / utv by Mike

Hero Survival is a top-down auto-shooter from indie studio PigeonDev which combines the dodging/shooting action genre made popular by Vampire Survivors with simple 16-bit visuals. This genre is exploding on mobile platforms but is just getting started on PSN. We previously reviewed Remedium: Sentinels which had a go at this sort of […]

Hero Survival – PS5 Review

October 18, 2023 in PS5 / Reviews tagged 16-bit / auto-shooter / hero survival / Pixel art / rogue-like / top down by Richie

Zombies never seem to vanish from media, do they? Seems like any game that needs a quick and easy reason for survival goes with the undead threat. Sure enough, Days of Doom settles on a zombie apocalypse setting for a roguelite tactical RPG. From Sneakybox, the premise delivers some charming […]

Days of Doom – PS5 Review

October 9, 2023 in PS5 / Reviews tagged ambushes / days of doom / decisions / raiders / roguelite / run-based / sneakybox / tactical turn-based rpg / zombie apocalypse by Mike

RedRaptor is a traditional vertically-scrolling shoot ’em up from publisher eastasiasoft and is the debut effort from Novax Games. As with most of the shoot ’em ups from this publisher, this one is short, reasonably basic and with an initially tricky difficulty level that soon settles down and gives you that […]

RedRaptor – PS5 Review

October 9, 2023 in PS5 / Reviews tagged eastasiasoft / redraptor / vertically-scrolling shoot em up by Richie

I’ve been away from Ubisoft’s stealthy stab ’em up for over a decade now. Perhaps it’s fitting I come back when the marketing claims the series is returning to it’s roots. Assassin’s Creed Mirage is certainly a return of sorts. A middle-Eastern setting certainly harkens back to the 2007 original […]

Assassin’s Creed Mirage – PS5 Review

October 6, 2023 in PS5 / Reviews tagged assassin's creed mirage / assassination / combat / detective vision / historical setting / murder / stealth / thief of baghdad / third-person / ubisoft by Mike

Diorama Dungeoncrawl is a retro hack and slasher from Alec S, otherwise known as Renegade Sector Games. Released on Steam in 2019, the game has now made its way over to PSN courtesy of prolific publishers eastasiasoft. Promising a low-poly 16-bit style adventure, the idea here is that you get the […]

Diorama Dungeoncrawl – PS5 Review

October 6, 2023 in PS5 / Reviews tagged diorama dungeoncrawl / eastasiasoft / hack and slash / low poly / platforming by Richie

Paleo Pines is a dinosaur-themed farming simulator from UK-based studio Italic Pig where you find yourself on a cute island where there are townsfolk to meet, dinosaurs to befriend and secrets to discover. The game starts with you creating your character, who has to be female (unless we missed something), […]

Paleo Pines – PS5 Review

October 4, 2023 in PS5 / Reviews tagged cute / dinosaurs / Farming simulator / paleo pines by Richie

We didn’t quite know what to expect when it came to reviewing Touhou: New World, not least because it wasn’t Lies of P that we were expecting from our editor. The bag of the fag packet summary for this from Team Shanghai Alice and Ankake Spa is a bullet hell […]

Touhou: New World – PS5 Review

October 2, 2023 in PS4 / PS5 / Reviews tagged arpg / bullet-hell / touhou by Ian