Reviews

Alright, I can finally cross off 4X strategy games off my gaming blind-spot. I can’t say I’ve actively avoided them but I do prefer strategy to be more real time and, preferably involve some kind of power fantasy. Spellforce: Conquest of Eo certainly provides the fantasy part. Taking place across […]

Spellforce: Conquest of Eo – PS5 Review

November 13, 2023 in PS5 / Reviews tagged combat / crafting / Expand / exploit / explore / exterminate / Fantasy / owned by gravity / resource management / spellfoce conquest of eo / turn based strategy by Mike

Spells & Secrets is a rogue-lite title from German games devs Alchemist Interactive. Set in a wizard academy called Greifenstein, you have to create and play as a first-year student as they attempt to save the school from evil forces. So, yes, if you’re thinking Hogwarts Legacy, then you’re probably in […]

Spells & Secrets – PS5 Review

November 13, 2023 in PS5 / Reviews tagged alchemist interactive / isometric / magic / rogue-lite / spells & secrets by Richie

Excessive Trim is the latest effort from Panda Indie Studio best known for their long line of vertically-scrolling shoot ’em ups published by eastasiasoft. We’ve reviewed quite a lot of their games and while their last one, Feeble Light, was awful, we generally like what they do. This game is a […]

Excessive Trim – PS5 Review

November 5, 2023 in PS5 / Reviews tagged eastasiasoft / easy platinum / panda indie studio / retro / vertically scrolling by Richie

Cats and nosey sods, let’s be honest. I’ve had plenty through my life and their need for attention gets them in situations they really shouldn’t be in. Cats and the Other Lives is a narrative-driven puzzle game from Cultic Games which looks to replicate the feline experience. I’ll be honest, […]

Cats and the Other Lives – PS4 Review

October 31, 2023 in PS5 / Reviews tagged cats and the other lives / chase sequences / cultic games / dysfunctional family / eavesdropping / mouse catching / nattatively-driven / nosey feline / Pixel art / puzzles / stealth by Mike

Robocop: Rogue City is a first-person shooter/adventure title from Polish coders Teyon who are best known for doing a pretty good job with Terminator: Resistance and so now are taking on another iconic character from ’80s movies with cybernetic and human bits and a penchant for shooting people. And the omens […]

Robocop: Rogue City – PS5 Review

October 31, 2023 in PS5 / Reviews tagged film / fps / robocop / rogue city / Teyon by Richie

VISCO Collection is a compilation of Neo Geo games originally coded by the ’90s developer Visco Corporation. The majority of their output either came out in the arcades or on the Neo Geo, a sort of hybrid home/arcade system that only the rich kids could afford games for given that these […]

VISCO Collection – PS5 Review

October 30, 2023 in PS5 / Reviews tagged 90s / arcade / compilation / emulation / neo geo / retro / visco corporation by Richie

Alive Paint is an art utility/game from the mysteriously named solo developer KhudO and it comes to us by way of the ever-prolific publisher eastasiasoft. It was released initially on PC back in March but is now available on consoles. Essentially this is a colouring book. At the start of each […]

Alive Paint – PS5 Review

October 27, 2023 in PS4 / Reviews tagged alive paint / art / eastasiasoft / painting / utility by Richie

The Oakland Athletics baseball team were founded in 1901 in Philadelphia, with a twelve-year stint from 1955 in Kansas City, moving to their current home at the Oakland Coliseum in 1968. Their current owner is a guy called John Fisher who has been running the team on a shoestring for […]

The Gap – PS5 Review

October 24, 2023 in PS5 / Reviews tagged crunching koalas / label this / oh boy / sell the team / the gap by Ian

Harmony’s Odyssey is from Warsaw-based dev MythicOwl and published by fellow Poles WeDigGames. We got a similar feel to the work of Artifex Mundi, also based in Poland. We’d not be all that surprised if MythicOwl had some staff in common with that dev either either. Harmony’s Odyssey is a […]

Harmony’s Odyssey – PS4 Review

October 21, 2023 in PS4 / Reviews tagged harmony's odyssey / mythology / puzzle by Ian

Funny how things come full circle. When the original Lords of the Fallen arrived in 2014, the soulslike sub-genre was not really a consideration. As one of the first to try their hand at From Software’s formula, the game stumbled into mediocrity. Almost a decade and a troublesome development later, […]

Lords of the Fallen – PS5 Review

October 21, 2023 in PS5 / Reviews tagged ci games / difficult / hexworks / lords of the fallen / magic / melee combat / poison swamp / sorcery / soulslike / spells / world swapping by Mike

There was something about Overpass I just didn’t get on with. I love the idea of a more serious, obstacle-based racer but the feel of the game just felt off and I couldn’t get to grips with it. Well, Neopica’s taking another crack at the series and Overpass 2 does […]

Overpass 2 – PS5 Review

October 19, 2023 in PS5 / Reviews tagged atv / hill climb / neopica / obstacle course / off road / overpass 2 / racing / rock bouncer / time trial / trials / utv by Mike

Hero Survival is a top-down auto-shooter from indie studio PigeonDev which combines the dodging/shooting action genre made popular by Vampire Survivors with simple 16-bit visuals. This genre is exploding on mobile platforms but is just getting started on PSN. We previously reviewed Remedium: Sentinels which had a go at this sort of […]

Hero Survival – PS5 Review

October 18, 2023 in PS5 / Reviews tagged 16-bit / auto-shooter / hero survival / Pixel art / rogue-like / top down by Richie