Yearly Archives: 2024

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

Empire of the Ants is a real-time strategy game from French studio Tower Five and it’s very different to the usual RTS games we get generally. As the game suggests, you’ll be controlling an army of ants but there’s a lot more going on here. You play as a lone […]

Empire of the Ants – PS5 Review

November 6, 2024 in PS5 tagged empire of the ants / open world / RTS / tower five by Richie

SlavicPunk: Oldtimer is an action-shooter adventure game from Polish developers Red Square Games and it’s based on a series of books by Michał Gołkowski. It released on PC back in the Summer of 2023 but now its time for us PSN folk to see what we’ve been missing out on. […]

SlavicPunk: Oldtimer – PS5 Review

November 6, 2024 in PS5 / Reviews tagged dystopian / oldtimer / polish / red square games / slavicpunk / the ascent / twin-stick shooter by Richie

Squirrel with a Gun by Deedee Creations and published by Maximum Entertainment is pretty much what you might expect from the title. Quite literally a squirrel with a gun. In effect, it’s an Unreal Engine 5 physics sandbox with you running around making a nuisance of yourself. Think Untitled Goose […]

Squirrel with a Gun – PS5 Review

November 5, 2024 in PS5 / Reviews tagged gunplay / hello mr anderson / open world sandbox / physics-based / ue5 by Ian

Skautfold‘s been a weird series with something of an identity crisis. Each of Pugware’s games so far have settled in a different genre whilst trying to push forward a narrative about the occult, eldritch horror and colonial conflict. Whilst it does propel an air of mystery about the series, the […]

Skautfold: Into the Fray – PS5 Review

November 3, 2024 in PS5 / Reviews tagged 2d aesthetic / american war for independence / lovecraft / melee combat / Pixel art / pugware / rituals / skautfold into the fray / twin-stick shooter by Mike

AK-xolotl: Together is a new DLC for the original top-town shooter/rogue-like, a game that came out in 2023 and somehow evaded our attention. It was put together by Brazilian-based coders 2Awesome Studio and came out to a reasonably positive reception. But now, as the DLC’s title suggests, they’ve added some […]

AK-xolotl: Together – PS5 Review

October 28, 2024 in PS5 by Richie

From Belfast based developer Billy Goat and publisher Secret Mode comes Parcel Corps, best described as an amalgam of two classic Sega games of the Dreamcast era. The games being Crazy Taxi and Jet Set Radio. You play as a bicycle courier in a cel shaded world with a similar […]

Parcel Corps – PS5 Review

October 27, 2024 in PS5 / Reviews tagged billy goat / crazy taxi / jet set radio / parcel corps / secret mode / spiffing / the rep grows bigger by Ian

In this climate of almost everything getting remastered, I was not expecting the Playstation 5 release of Darksiders II: Deathinitive Edition to do a whole lot for me. I’d played the first game in the series and, whilst it did well to execute on some pretty obvious inspirations, I ran […]

Darksiders II Deathinitive Edition – PS5 Review

October 27, 2024 in PS5 / Reviews tagged darksiders ii deathinitive edition / death / horsemen of the apocalypse / not portal / not zelda / platforming / puzzles / third person melee combat / vigil games by Mike