Reviews

Skate Story is a skateboarding/adventure game from New York native Sam Eng which has been creating quite a stir on social media for a couple of reasons. The first is that it looks a bit like SKATE, which is important because EA’s new free-to-play update to that franchise is a load of […]

Skate Story – PS5 Review

December 8, 2025 in PS5 tagged adventure / sam eng / skate story / skateboarding by Richie

You only get to make one first impression. If Project Motor Racing sounds familiar, it’s because it’s from former Slightly Mad alumni. They’re now stationed at Straight 4 Studio and have only had one thing in mind. Whilst Project Cars was a more fully-featured racing sim, this spiritual successor is […]

Project Motor Racing- PS5 Review

December 3, 2025 in PS5 / Reviews tagged career mode / cars / circuit racing / GT1 / Hypercars / online multiplayer / project motor racing / racing / straight 4 studios / weekly challenges by Mike

Despite being one of the few classic coin-ops that still plays well today, you don’t really get many games that riff on the old Pac-Man formula. Sure, Namco will drag Pac’s carcass out of the cupboard and beat a few more pennies out of it every chance they can but for […]

Dungeons and Ducklings – PS5 Review

December 3, 2025 in PS5 tagged beer belly games / dungeons and ducklings / pac-man / retro / rogue-lite by Richie

MARVEL Cosmic Invasion is an arcade-style beat ’em up from Quebec-based studio Tribute Games who were behind other coin-op/retro-inspired titles like Mercenary Kings and Scott Pilgrim. But more recently the were behind the brilliant Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge which, like this game, was very much a love letter to the […]

MARVEL Cosmic Invasion – PS5 Review

December 3, 2025 in PS5 tagged arcade / Beat em up / cosmic invasion / fighting / marvel / retro by Richie

Hannah is a 3D platformer from Spaceboy. It boast a decent dollop of horror and unease but the platforming, and lack of peril can really undercut the mood. Dreamy and surreal, it has a cohesive style and some mildly engrossing puzzles. Unfortunately, it’s a little too rough around the edges […]

Hannah – PS5 Review

December 2, 2025 in PS5 / Reviews tagged 3d platfomer / hannah / horror / narratively-driven / obligatory stealth segment / puzzles / small girl big world / spaceboy / trauma by Mike

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

Schildmaid MX is the latest shoot ’em up from our prolific publishing pals Eastasiasoft and it comes to PSN a couple of years after its initial PC release. And this is quite an unusual take on the genre as while it does look like your standard low-budget horizontally-scrolling shooter, there are […]

Schildmaid MX – PS5 Review

November 26, 2025 in PS5 tagged eastasiasoft / horizontally-scrolling shoot 'em up / schildmaiden mx by Richie

I can see the appeal of truck sims. There’s a meditative quality to long drives through a gorgeous landscape, all while keeping an eye on your precious cargo. Truck Driver: The Dutch Connection attempts to coalesce the mercenary jobs into a cohesive narrative. That largely succeeds but the act of […]

Truck Driver: The Dutch Connection – PS5 Review

November 25, 2025 in PS5 / Reviews tagged delivery / dutch / kyodai / precious cargo / schipol / simulator / soedesco pilsen / trailer / trucking / tulips / windmills by Mike

Sektori is a twin-stick shoot ’em up which comes to us from solo developer Kimmo Lahtinen. That name might not be familiar to everyone but if we tell you that Kimmo was one of the original founders of Housemarque, best known for Returnal but also responsible for the PS4’s best game, Returnal, […]

Sektori – PS5 Review

November 24, 2025 in PS5 by Richie

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

Of all the things I expected to review this year, an interactive musical was not on my bingo card. Coming from small Dutch studio, Bonte Avond this charming tale arrives on console almost two years after the PC release. Once Upon a Jester might not resonate with everyone, but I […]

Once Upon a Jester – PS5 Review

November 22, 2025 in PS5 / Reviews tagged bonte avonde / diamond heist / dutch / friendship / improv / musical / once upon a jester / quick time events / songs / story-driven / Theatre by Mike

When it comes to shoot ’em series, there are few as legendary as R-Type. Sure, Space Invaders was the OG (but as a series, most of the games are pretty dull – although we’d kill for a PSN remake of Infinity Gene) and the Galaga, 194x and Gradius franchises took the genre to new heights but, if […]

R-Type Delta HD Boosted – PS5 Review

November 20, 2025 in PS5 tagged 1998 / horizontally-scrolling shoot 'em up / port / r-type delta by Richie