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.

Busway Islands – Puzzle from Brazilian developer Rising Moon Games, AKA Moraes Game Studio, via publisher QUByte Interactive is a bit of a throwback to review games of yore for us here at PSC. Unusually, it’s PS4 only, we could well have seen this working on our beloved Vita as […]

Busway Islands – Puzzle : PS4 Review

July 16, 2024 in PS4 / Reviews tagged brasil / busway islands puzzle / moraes game studio / rising moon games by Ian

From developer Texel Raptor and publisher Blitworks Games comes a throwback of sorts in Parkitect: Deluxe Edition. Very much in the tradition of Theme Park and other parkbuilders such as Rollercoaster Tycoon, Parkitect started out as a Kickstarter over ten years ago, with a lengthy two year early access period […]

Parkitect: Deluxe Edition – PS5 Review

July 10, 2024 in PS5 / Reviews tagged hitler bad vandals good / parkitect / rollercoaster / theme park by Ian

The Land Beneath Us from Bangkok-based developer Fairplay Studios and French publisher Dear Villagers (aka Plug In Digital), is a bit different from their prior release Fallen Knight as reviewed by Richie almost three years ago. It’s another roguelike/lite/whatever. We’ve stopped caring what the actual definition is, more whether a […]

The Land Beneath Us – PS5 Review

July 3, 2024 in PS5 / Reviews tagged dear villagers / fairplay / rogue-like / the land beneath us by Ian

Still Wakes The Deep is the latest from The Chinese Room, something of a departure from their previous release Little Orpheus, reverting a little more to type and the likes of Dear Esther or Everyone’s Gone To The Rapture. Set in December 1975 on the North Sea oil platform Beira-D, […]

Still Wakes The Deep – PS5 Review

June 19, 2024 in PS5 / Reviews tagged beira-d / chinese room / loach / oil platform / still wakes the deep / terror from the deep / walken simulator by Ian

The schtick with Dig or Die from developer Gaddy Games is that you’re a representative of Craft & Co, selling “automated fabrication tools across the galaxy.” At least until you’re marooned on a dangerous wild planet. What this means practically is you’re playing what amounts to a clone of Terraria […]

Dig or Die – PS5 Review

June 10, 2024 in PS4 / PS5 / Reviews tagged a bit blav / dig or die / mining / terraria-a-like by Ian

Paper Trail comes to us from developer Newfangled Games who also self-published this origami-themed reality bending puzzle game. It’s also the second paper themed game we’ve had cross our threshold within a month. Perhaps they are the new zombie game? Though Paper Trail is a good deal more fleshed out […]

Paper Trail – PS5 Review

May 30, 2024 in PS5 / Reviews tagged folding puns / origami / paper trail / puzzle by Ian

Read Only Memories: NEURODIVER is a point and click visual novel from developer MidBoss and publisher Chorus Worldwide. It’s a sequel to 2017’s 2064: Read Only Memories that our man Steven reviewed way back when. Unlike the two-year delay between the PC and PS4 versions, all versions of Neurodiver released […]

Read Only Memories: NEURODIVER – PS5 Review

May 21, 2024 in PS5 / Reviews tagged Lgbtq / neurodiver / read only memories / sequel / visual novel by Ian

A Tale of Paper: Reloaded, as the name suggests is a re-release of October 2020’s A Tale of Paper, only rather than PS4 as the original was, it’s on PS5 this time. We didn’t review it the first time round, but it garnered reasonable reviews. To further complicate matters, the […]

A Tale of Paper: Refolded – PS5 Review

May 4, 2024 in PS5 / Reviews tagged a tale of paper / origami / platformer by Ian

From Gateshead based boutique developer Bunnyhug and co-located publisher Coatsink we have Moonglow Bay. Originally released on PC and Xbox in 2021, it’s made the leap to PlayStation. Was it worth the wait? For the most part yes, but with a few caveats. Incidentally, Bunnyhug is Sasketchawan slang for a […]

Moonglow Bay – PS5 Review

April 25, 2024 in PS5 / Reviews tagged buggy / bunnyhug / coatsink / dave / fish / moonglow bay / octopus / squid by Ian

From Seattle-based developer Moonless Formless and publisher Perp comes asylum-em-up Withering Rooms. Set in the Mostyn Private Asylum in Monmouth, perhaps modelled in part on the real-life Pen-y-Fal Psychiatric Hospital in nearby Abergavenny. Though given the fact the devs are from the Pacific North-West, perhaps not. There’s also a Mostyn […]

Withering Rooms – PS5 Review

April 23, 2024 in PS5 / Reviews tagged here we go yo / SeaUsRise / two point five D / withering rooms by Ian

Otxo, stylised as the rather shouty OTXO, comes from Idaho-based solo dev Lateralis Heavy Industries aka Nathan Haddock and publisher Super Rare Originals. Cited as inspired by the likes of 2012’s Hotline Miami and the likes of the interminable John Wick film series, ‘Otxo’ is the Basque word for wolf, […]

OTXO – PS4 Review

March 31, 2024 in PS4 / PS5 / Reviews tagged gore / guns guns guns / JJ Otxoa / john wicky wicky wah / roguelite / tonz 'o' gunz by Ian

For once we’re relieved that our review code for Balatro by solo dev LocalThunk was PS5 only. We started playing this time last week and have put in multiple sessions into the early hours since. Our PS5 reckons we’ve played twenty-one hours already. That’s with a break from Friday to […]

Balatro – PS5 Review

March 22, 2024 in PS5 / Reviews tagged balatro / goty candidate / poker / roguelike deckbuilder / sleep is for the weak by Ian