Yearly Archives: 2025

There’s been a few indie efforts playing off nostalgia for the old survival horror format. Fixed camera angles, puzzle solving and limited resources used to be the norm. I get why people clamour for it but the end results aren’t always desirable. The Order of the Snake Scale certainly falls […]

The Order of the Snake Scale – PS5 Review

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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