Ian

About Ian

Ian likes his games weird. He loves his Vita even if Sony don't anymore. He joined the PS4 party relatively late, but has been in since day one on PS5.

Under The Island from four-man dev team Slime King Games and publisher Top Hat Games is a fun pixel art island-based romp where you play as Mia, the daughter of a family on vacation. The island in question is peppered with caves and ancient ruins, the mystery of which aren’t […]

Under The Island – PS5 Review

February 21, 2026 in PS4 / PS5 / Reviews tagged hamburg / koality time / not zelda / Pixel art / under the island by Ian

Ship’s Cat comes to us from solo dev Daniel Caddy and self-published by him too as Caddy Computing, as opposed to one of the usual suspects like Silesia for example. The back of the fag packet description is Stray on a cruise liner. Just a bit more silly. You play […]

Ship’s Cat – PS5 Review

February 20, 2026 in PS5 / Reviews tagged ps ps ps / ship's cat / tabby / we are looking for nuclear wessels by Ian

While it might be February, it hasn’t stopped Nukearts and Silesia Games bringing us Hidden Cats in Christmas. We understand there was a bit of a delay with the PS5 port which explains matters in terms of timing. And we guess that a small publisher is a little more hand […]

Hidden Cats in Christmas – PS5 Review

February 18, 2026 in PS5 / Reviews tagged brasil / hidden cats / it's chriiiiiiistmas / nukearts / silesia games by Ian

Roguematch : The Extraplanar Invasion is a roguelike match 3 puzzler from Starstruck Games. Unlike the likes of, say, Gems Of War, Puzzle Quest or our own personal favourite Grindstone, you also get to control your character, being a cute animal. Roguematch is animal themed into the bargain, with your […]

Roguematch: The Extraplanar Invasion – PS5 Review

February 4, 2026 in PS5 / Reviews tagged cute animals / difficulty spike / dungeon crawler / match-three by Ian

Cats Around Us: Giant Cat is the latest cat-em-up from our pals at Silesia Games. The dev is noobzilla, they of the Cats and Seek subset. The price on the PSN store is £2.49, but even for one of Silesia’s games, this is slim pickings. You first have a stage […]

Cats Around Us: Giant Cat – PS5 Review

January 27, 2026 in PS5 / Reviews tagged giant cat / meow meow / noobzilla / silesia by Ian

I Am Future or to give it its full name, I Am Future: Cozy Apocalypse Survival comes to us from developer Mandragora and publisher Tinybuild. Mandragora being based in Armenia with a globally spread team. That’s a thing now we guess. The full title is fairly descriptive of what to […]

I Am Future: Cozy Apocalypse Survival – PS5 Review

January 18, 2026 in PS5 / Reviews tagged are you future too / cozy apocalypse / i am future / mandragora / no zombies thankfully / tinybuild by Ian

From Polish-based publisher Ultimate Games comes the console port of a three-year-old PC game, Bus World. Originally produced by Russian developer Kishmish Games, this port was likely produced by Ultimate Games as going by the Steam page for the game, it seems to have been pretty much abandoned by the […]

Bus World – PS5 Review

January 8, 2026 in PS5 / Reviews tagged bus world / from russia with bugs / here we go yo / janky mess / ultimate games by Ian

Static Dread: The Lighthouse comes to us from Solarsuit Games and Games Harbor. You play as the nameless keeper of the previously automated Outsmouth Lighthouse. Quite why it falls to you isn’t entirely clear, but it sets you up for all manner of eldritch goings on as you see out […]

Static Dread: The Lighthouse – PS5 Review

December 20, 2025 in PS5 / Reviews tagged fax machine / jog wheel / lighthouse / lovecraftian / minidisc / outsmouth / papers if you will / static dread / the old ones by Ian

Another month, another Hidden Cats game, once again from Silesia Games and Nukearts, this time in Istanbul. Not Constantinople, that’s right out. Once more unto the breach with lovely lightly animated images and finding the cats. This is basically the same template as the Rio De Janeiro installment, once again […]

Hidden Cats in Istanbul – PS5 Review

December 16, 2025 in PS5 / Reviews tagged hidden cats / istanbul not constantinople / nukearts / silesia games by Ian

Kill It With Fire 2 from Casey Donnellan Games is the follow-up from the original that we reviewed in 2021. That was quite a fun tightly focussed puzzle game. Our anticipation was that this would be more of the same, having been in early access on PC for more than […]

Kill It With Fire 2 – PS5 Review

December 16, 2025 in PS5 / Reviews tagged burn burn burn / casey donellan / hsf vindicator / kill it / spider hell / why did have to be spiders by Ian

Lumines Arise is the last of the loose trilogy of Synaesthesia Engine games from Enhance & Monstars, following Rez Infinite and Tetris Effect, both being Tetsuya Mizuguchi jams. The concept might be familiar to you, first appearing as a PSP launch title and with a subsequent sequel on the same […]

Lumines Arise – PS5 Review

November 29, 2025 in PS5 / PSVR / Reviews tagged enhance / lumines arise / mizuguchi / monstars / synaesthesia by Ian

This reviewer’s kid used to love this book by a writer called Julia Donaldson called What The Ladybird Heard, most of the fun of reading as a parent being really enthusiastic doing the animal noises. If you read a book to your kid in excess of twenty times, you make […]

Cat God Ranch – PS5 Review

November 22, 2025 in PS5 / Reviews tagged bafflement / cat god / China / crazy potato by Ian