Yearly Archives: 2025

Sociable Soccer ’25 is an arcade football game which has a genuine lineage that traces back to not only one of the best football games of all time but one of the best games generally, Sensible World of Soccer. If you were gaming in the ’90s, there’s a good chance you lost […]

Sociable Soccer ’25 – PS5 Review

April 10, 2025 in PS5 tagged football / jon hare / sensible soccer / sociable soccer / swos by Richie

I know these type of games have existed in the past but Pets Hotel offers me a different realm of management. Games Incubator originally brought the game to Steam almost two years ago and now it’s seeing a Playstation 5 release. Whilst the game does try to keep you busy, […]

Pets Hotel – PS5 Review

April 4, 2025 in PS5 / Reviews tagged animal care / cats / dogs / fish / game incubator / human resources / management / mini games / pets hotel / rabbits / walkies by Mike

What a weird thing Sorry We’re Closed is. Coming from al a mode games, this homage to survival horror coats it in a vibrant palette with a story heavily focused around love. It almost teeters into chaos but there’s enough craft on display to result in something unique. It’s stylish, […]

Sorry We’re Closed – PS5 Review

April 1, 2025 in PS5 / Reviews tagged al a mode games / androgyny / dutch angles / fetish / fixed perspective / killer7 / lgbt / loud aesthetic / love / romance / sorry we're closed / valve puzzles by Mike

Legends BMX is an action sports title from Saga Legends Games and while it’s usually the skateboarders who tend to be the most-targeted in this sub-genre, there have been a handful of decent BMX titles over the years. 8-Bit gamers will remember BMX Simulator from Codemasters back in the day while PS1-era […]

Legends BMX – PS5 Review

April 1, 2025 in PS5 tagged extreme sports / legends bmx by Richie

Police Shootout is a turn-based first person shooter from Polish dev team Hypnotic Ants. Their previous work includes Deconstruction Simulator, Ship Graveyard Simulator and Dreamo. None of which you’ll have heard of but you can tell from each game’s artwork that we’re not dealing with a triple-A studio here. And Police Shootout, pretty much from […]

Police Shootout – PS5 Review

March 26, 2025 in PS5 tagged fps / hypnotic ants / police shooter / simulator / turn-based by Richie

Beyond the Ice Palace II is quite the relic. The first game came out in 1988 on our beloved Speccy, the Commodore 64, Alan Sugar’s turdbox plus the Amiga and the Atari ST. Published by Elite Systems, formerly Richard Wilcox Software, they’ll be more familiar to contemporary gamers due to […]

Beyond the Ice Palace II – PS5 Review

March 22, 2025 in PS5 / Reviews tagged broken / elite systems / ice palace / shitroidvania / storybird / the thing that should not be by Ian

3D Don’t Die Mr Robot is an arcade style dodging game from UK dev team Infinite State games and is a sequel, of sorts, to their 2014 original Don’t Die Mr Robot. Now, we’ve got a soft spot for Infinite State Games here. The original game was one of the first […]

3D Don’t Die Mr Robot

March 17, 2025 in PS5 tagged 3d don't die mr robot / arcade / dodging / eastasiasoft / infinite state games by Richie

Recall: Empty Wishes is a narrative horror title from Puff Hook Studio. This is their first fully-fledged effort and, whilst it hasn’t quite resonated with me, there is an interesting story here and attempt to tell that story in an absorbing way. Unfortunately, it’s a very linear experience with simplistic […]

Recall: Empty Wishes – PS5 Review

March 13, 2025 in PS5 / Reviews tagged 2d perspective / grief / horror / psychological thriller / puff hook studio / recall empty wishes / schoolgirl / sealth / taiwan / trauma by Mike

Under Defeat is a vertically-scrolling shoot ’em up that has an interesting history. Developed by Japanese shoot ’em up experts G.Rev, the game originally showed up in Japanese arcades, running on the Sega NAOMI hardware. This made it a perfect candidate for a Dreamcast port in 2006, one of the last […]

Under Defeat – PS5 Review

March 12, 2025 in PS5 tagged coin-op / dreamcast / g-rev / helicopter / under defeat / vertically-scrolling shoot em up by Richie

From dev noobzilla and publisher Silesia Games comes the latest in a genre we’d never previously been particularly aware of, let alone interested in. Cats and Seek: Dino Park follows on from the previous in the series, that being Cats and Seek: Osaka. Silesia have published a lot of hidden […]

Cats and Seek: Dino Park – PS4 Review

March 11, 2025 in PS4 / Reviews tagged dinosaurs / meow meow meow / noobzilla / polska / silesia by Ian

Ever 17: The Out of Infinity is another visual novel from KID that’s been given the remake treatment. Originally a 2002 release, this new version adds a lot of new art and an official English translation. Under the hood, it’s essentially the same game but the story and setting seems […]

Ever 17: The Out of Infinity – PS4 Review

March 10, 2025 in PS4 / Reviews tagged artificial intelligence / choose your own adventure / disaster / escape / ever 17 the out of infinity / fish facts / kid / sci fi / underwater park / visual novel by Mike

Alright, back to the visual novel gulag. I’ve avoided them for a while but this one at least feels historic, in a sense. Never 7: The End of Infinity originally released in 2000 in Japan and was previously only available to Westerners via a fan translation. Now KID’s effort has […]

Never 7: The End of Infinity – PS4 Review

March 9, 2025 in PS4 / Reviews tagged choose your own adventure / kid / never 7 the end of infinity / romance / sci fi / stranded teenagers / time loop / visual novel by Mike