Monthly Archives: October 2025

Painkiller is a co-op focused first-person shooter and is a reboot of a 2004 game that bears the same name (always fun when you’re trying to find tips and tricks for the new one but whatever). The original game’s devs, People Can Fly (responsible for Outriders and the brilliant Bulletstorm but now seemingly stuck in […]

Painkiller – PS5 Review

October 29, 2025 in PS5 tagged co-op / fps / painkiller / squad by Richie

Halls of Torment is an auto-battling/rogue-lite/survivors-style game from German games devs Chasing Carrots. It originally came out on PC in 2024 and also got a pretty nifty Android port too (which we’ve played the arse off on the Retroid Pocket 5). It’s now out on PS5 though but will it be […]

Halls of Torment – PS5 Review

October 28, 2025 in PS5 tagged auto-battler / halls of torment / rogue-lite / vampire survivors by Richie

Xenotilt, or to give its full name, XENOTILT: HOSTILE PINBALL ACTION, is an arcade-style pinball title from LA-based studio FLARB LLC (Flarb?!) which somehow manages to both modernise the genre while also taking it back to its earliest videogame roots. The pinball scene, in videogaming, has been ruled for years now by […]

XENOTILT – PS5 Review

October 28, 2025 in PS5 tagged pinball / retro / xenotilt by Richie

Byte Barrel have returned with a sequel to their retro FPS Forgive Me Father. Whilst there are a few tweaks around character progression, the formula remains largely the same with a smart, atmospheric look. Whilst the story is told by some unconvincing voice acting, the combat has a decent tempo […]

Forgive Me Father 2 – PS5 Review

October 27, 2025 in PS5 / Reviews tagged byte barrel / clocks / comic book aesthetic / darkness / forgive me father 2 / horror / lovecraftian / new game plus / retro first-person shooter by Mike

Fast and Furious Arcade Edition is the home version of Raw Thrills’ 2022 arcade machine, only without the twin 65” UHD screens. It’s fun to see that even they resort to weapons grade bullshots on their publicity material, what’s shown there are in fact renders as shown on the loading […]

Fast and Furious Arcade Edition – PS5 Review

October 24, 2025 in PS5 / Reviews tagged bernard is better / fast and furious arcade / full of holes like a swiss cheese / havana laugh / hong kong blaverage / rubberbandman / shallow / what colombia famous has made a prick out of you / you'll be furious fast if you buy this by Ian

Gnomdom is the latest from our pals at Silesia Games. In a somewhat shocking turn of events, it’s NOT a hidden cat game. It definitely falls into the casual cosy game category, so not a massive deviation in that regard. Developed by Dana and Vivi, we guess a small indie […]

Gnomdom – PS5 Review

October 23, 2025 in PS5 / Reviews tagged Gnome / puzzle / silesia games by Ian

Platypus Reclayed is a horizontally-scrolling shoot ’em from UK-based studio Claymatic Games. Why all the references to clay already? Well, this game, itself a remake of the 2002 PC shoot ’em up Platypus, sports a rather unique look. Everything in the game has been modelled in clay, captured and animated. It’s […]

Platypus Reclayed – PS5 Review

October 23, 2025 in PS5 / Reviews tagged claymation / horizontally-scrolling / platypus / reclayed / shoot em up by Richie

Super Mining Mechs is a follow up to last year’s Mining Mechs, an exploration/mining game that we liked, even if it didn’t particularly wow us. We thought of it more like a podcast game, something to chill out with while listening to something else. This game follows on from the […]

Super Mining Mechs – PS5 Review

October 20, 2025 in PS5 by Richie

I’ve visited a couple of submarines as a tourist and I’m always struck by their economy of space. Quarters are packed tight and only a cigar-shaped, torpedo-armed hull is protection against atmospheres of pressure. It’s a wild thing to think about but now UBOAT attempts to replicate it with this […]

UBOAT – PS5 Review

October 16, 2025 in PS5 / Reviews tagged das boot / deep water studios / germans / nazis / ship management / submarine / subterfuge / tactical / uboat / war simulator / world war 2 / ww2 by Mike

We normally open our reviews by saying what genre the falls under and that’s usually pretty straightforward. With BALL x PIT, the latest game by Brooklyn’s own Kenny Sun, it’s just not as clear how to classify it. The problem is that the game is three different genres but in […]

BALL x PIT – PS5 Review

October 15, 2025 in PS5 tagged arcade / arkanoid / ball x pit / dopeness / roguelike / town building by Richie

Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter first came out PC in 2004 and then PSP in 2006. Western audiences didn’t get it until XSeed did a localisation job of the PSP edition in 2011 and even then it passed many by, including us. It even came out on Vita a […]

Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter – PS5 Review

October 12, 2025 in PS5 / Reviews tagged falcom / i hate that duck / orbal / steampunkish / trails by Ian

There’s a danger with job simulators where they could venture too close into feeling like work. Some manage to avoid it with simplified mechanics, an interesting toolset or bizarre narratives. Ship Graveyard Simulator 2 is certainly playing it straight. Whilst that does lead to a methodical time, the dismantling of […]

Ship Graveyard Simulator 2 – PS5 Review

October 12, 2025 in PS5 / Reviews tagged games incubator / hammer / handsaw / hypnotic ants / job / Metal / power tools / recycling / salvage / scrap / ship graveyard simulator 2 / shipwrecks by Mike