Yearly Archives: 2024

Another day, another search action game to check out. This time it’s Biomorph from Lucid Dreams Studio. I bet it’s hard to elevate one game within a packed genre. Thankfully, they’ve mostly been up to the task, providing some interesting twists on abilities with some smart choices around map design. […]

Biomorph – PS5 Review

December 9, 2024 in PS5 / Reviews tagged 2d / biomorph / cartoon aesthetic / exploration / graph paper maps / lucid dreams studio / melee combat / metroidvania / search action game / transformation by Mike

Good lord, this is clever. On the face of it, Among Ashes is a survival-horror game that takes the genre right back to it’s Resident Evil-era roots. Crafted by Rat Cliff Games, a Spanish Studio that’s mostly led by Daniel Ferrer, this horror game took us on a far more interesting journey than […]

Among Ashes – PS5 Review

December 9, 2024 in PS5 tagged among ashes / rat cliff games / resident evil / survival horror by Richie

Pretty Girls Pop Match is the latest puzzle game in eastasiasoft’s Pretty Girls series, a series that has had takes on pretty much every puzzle game format you can think of. From Mahjong to 2048, there isn’t any sub-genre that developers, Zoo Corporation, won’t put some Anime girl portraits on. Strangely though, they’ve […]

Pretty Girls Pop Match – PS5 Review

December 1, 2024 in PS5 tagged anime / anime is weird frankly / Casual / match-three / pretty girls pop match / puzzle by Richie

Mindcop from German dev Andre Gareis, originally released on Steam in 2020 and ported to console by Pixel Ratio and published by Little Villagers is something we’d heard about by virtue of it being advertised on a YouTube channel we frequent. Mindcop is a whodunit set over five days where […]

Mindcop – PS5 Review

November 28, 2024 in PS5 / Reviews tagged mindcop / mindreading / open your mind by Ian

Ravenswatch is a top-down roguelike action game from French crew Passtech Games and while we’re probably all a bit over the roguelike wave now, this is one that, to Passtech’s credit, does offer up some pretty interesting ideas. For a game that doesn’t really offer much of a story (there’s an […]

Ravenswatch – PS5 Review

November 28, 2024 in PS5 tagged passtech games / ravenswatch / roguelike by Richie

Rage of the Dragons NEO is a tag-team fighting game port of an original 2002 SNK coin-op originally coded by Japanese devs Noise Factory who also put out other SNK hits such as Sengoku 3, King of Fighters: Maximum Impact and a couple of the later Metal Slug games. Originally intended as a sequel to Double […]

Rage of the Dragons NEO – PS5 Review

November 25, 2024 in PSVR tagged arcade / fighting game / neo geo / port / rage of the dragons / SNK by Richie

When I looked at a trailer for VED, I wondered if it would be for me. I saw dice rolls in an RPG setting and slightly baulked at the idea of reviewing it. Thankfully, VED is an interesting mix of turn-based action with a heavy narrative focused around the discovery […]

VED – PS5 Review

November 24, 2024 in PS5 / Reviews tagged choose your own adventure / corporate espionage / dice rolling / faction warfare / fairies / Fantasy / karaclan / magic / narratively-driven / rpg / turn-based combat / ved by Mike

Spellagis is an auto-shooter/survivors game from Shokin-dev/Nipobox and it’s published by eastasiasoft. If you’re not familiar with the genre, this is a homage of the now very popular Vampire Survivors or, if you’re a real connoisseur, Brotato (arguably this reviewer’s favourite game). As with other examples of the genre, you basically have to defend yourself […]

Spellagis – PS5 Review

November 18, 2024 in PS5 tagged auto-shooter / eastasiasoft / spellagis / survivors / top down by Richie

I’ll always root for a little guy, especially if there’s a good idea on display. Shieldwall is a tactical battle simulator that uses a comedic set of characters to lighten the mood. Nezon Productions are a very tiny team and it’s unfortunate that this size has produced a game with […]

Shieldwall – PS5 Review

November 17, 2024 in PS5 / Reviews tagged ancient warfare / capture the flag / greek / Hero / historical / infantry / nezon productions / real time strategy / roman / shieldwall / squad management / tactical by Mike

From Kraków-based developer 7Levels comes an official Monsterverse tie-in, in this case Kong: Survivor Instinct. Were it not for the fact that Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire had released in March this year, we’d suspect that it was attempting to hype up a forthcoming film. It does feature several […]

Kong: Survivor Instinct – PS5 Review

November 15, 2024 in PS5 / Reviews tagged alan jonah / fay wray / monsterverse / neil armstrong he had balls bigger than king kong first big suit on the moon and he's off to play golf hole in one by Ian

Tetris Forever is a digital documentary, a compilation of various Tetris and Tetris-inspired games that tells the history of one of the most important titles in gaming history. It comes to us by way of Digital Eclipse who have been carving a niche in this sort of gaming history area with what they […]

Tetris Forever – PS5 Review

November 14, 2024 in PS5 tagged documentary / forever / museum / retro / slava ukraini / tetris / timewarp by Richie

Irem Collection Volume 2 is a compilation of arcade games from legendary coin-op company Irem who have a history dating back to the ’70s. This, of course, follows up from Volume 1 which featured three shoot ’em ups (two vertical, one horizontal) but this volume now has a bit of a run-and-gun […]

Irem Collection Volume 2 – PS5 Review

November 14, 2024 in PS5 tagged air duel / arcade / compilation / gunforce / irem / retro by Richie