Yearly Archives: 2025

God of Weapons developed by Hanoi-based dev Archmage Labs and published by Ultimate Games is an autoshooter set in a D&D style dungeon. Ostensibly you go up floors of a tower tackling waves of enemies as you go, though one murky dungeon is indistinguishable from another if we’re honest. It […]

God of Weapons – PS5 Review

August 4, 2025 in PS5 / Reviews tagged archmage labs / autoshooter / god of weapons / ultimate games / vietnam by Ian

Achilles: Survivor is a rogue-lite/auto-battler type of game and it comes to us from Polish programmers Dark Point Games. It’s the follow up to Achilles: Legends Untold, a tough little souls-like RPG, and while it sports a very similar look, this takes the series into a Vampire Survivors direction. That means that […]

Achilles: Survivor – PS5 Review

August 3, 2025 in PS5 tagged achilles / rogue-lite / survivor / survivors-like by Richie

Anybody in the mood for a McMansion? Architect Life: A House Design Simulator sure hopes you are. Coming from Shine Research, it pulls a few punches when it comes to simulating but the planning and constructing of a home has been a thoughtful process. It’s lenient with budgets and timescales […]

Architect Life: A House Design Simulator – PS5 Review

August 1, 2025 in PS5 / Reviews tagged architect life a house design simulator / brick and mortar / build to spec / career mode / free mode / homes / mcmansions / prefab / shine research by Mike

Time Flies is a puzzle game from Swiss-based developers Playable and it’s quite unlike anything we’ve played before. The game sees you playing as a fly that has to try to complete a list of goals in its meagre lifespan before it dies. But if that sounds like a bad premise […]

Time Flies – PS5 Review

July 31, 2025 in PS5 / Reviews tagged playables / puzzle game / retro / time flies by Richie

Secret Paws – Cozy Offices is the latest from eastasiasoft, in this case a take on the hidden cat genre developed by Sagitta Studios aka Alexandre. Quite possibly a solo dev, but that’s all good. As opposed to the usual isometric fixed view that you pan around, Secret Paws is […]

Secret Paws – Cozy Offices : PS5 Review

July 28, 2025 in PS4 / PS5 / Reviews tagged eastasiasoft / hidden cats / meow meow meow by Ian

Somber Echoes comes to us from Tønsberg based developer Rock Pocket Games, their location being known to us having flown into Sandefjord to the south with Ryanair last year. For the rest of you, it’s roughly 100km southwest of Oslo and was an ancient capital of Norway. Never mind that […]

Somber Echoes – PS5 Review

July 27, 2025 in PS5 / Reviews tagged greek myth / metroidvania / norway / somber echoes by Ian

From Void Interactive comes Ready or Not, a SWAT-em-up for want of a better description. Not a Fugees story-based affair then. Tch. After a rather involved tutorial in which you’re shown the commands to subdue, apprehend and restrain suspects, you’re also shown how to queue up actions for your squad. […]

Ready or Not – PS5 Review

July 24, 2025 in PS5 / Reviews tagged acab / lauryn hill / los suenos / pras michel / swat / wyclef jean by Ian

I feel like I missed all those 3D platformers back in the 90’s. At that time, I had a PC and most of them lived in Nintendo town. Approaching them as an adult makes me wonder if I’ve missed the boat. Ruffy and the Riverside, from Zockrates Laboratories is a […]

Ruffy and the Riverside – PS5 Review

July 21, 2025 in PS5 / Reviews tagged 3d platformer / collectibles / colours / letters / mischievous rubik's cube / number puzzles / ruffy and the riverside / swapping / zockrates laboratories by Mike

Perhaps the biggest no-brainer in gaming was when Activision commissioned the remaster of the first two Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater games back in 2020 (WAIT! It was FIVE YEARS AGO?!). Two of the most-loved games of all-time lovingly recreated for modern audiences. It was a big success and while it wasn’t perfect, […]

Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 + 4 – PS5 Review

July 21, 2025 in PS5 tagged extreme sports / skating / tony hawk's pro skater by Richie

I’m going to assume in the bowels of the Steam store there are simulators for everything. Not all of them find their way to console and I was surprised to see Drug Dealer Simulator make its way to Playstation 5 years after its initial release. Despite the age and the […]

Drug Dealer Simulator – PS5 Review

July 18, 2025 in PS5 / Reviews tagged byterunners / clarky cat / cocaine / dead drops / drug dealer simulator / e's and whizz / ecstasy / heroin / ilicit substances / stop and search / the nightmare of cake by Mike

Stunt Flyer is, as you might expect, a flying game and it comes to us from Australian studio Torus Games who, when they’re not pumping out licensed kids’ games like PAW Patrol and Ben 10, were responsible for the reasonably decent World War Z. But this game sees them not only going back to their […]

Stunt Flyer – PS5 Review

July 17, 2025 in PS5 / Reviews tagged flying / stunt flyer / stunts / torus games / wii by Richie

It’s not often an indie series undergoes a change of a developer. The original Wizard of Legend gained a passionate following, partly due to the immense variety that was on offer. For the sequel, Dead Mage have taken the reins. The variety has taken a hit with the new visual […]

Wizard of Legend 2 – PS5 Review

July 13, 2025 in PS5 / Reviews tagged arcanas / dead mage / earth / elemental magic / fire / ice / magic / overhead isometric perspective / roguelite / run-based / skeletons / wind / wizard of legend by Mike