Reviews

Zombies never seem to vanish from media, do they? Seems like any game that needs a quick and easy reason for survival goes with the undead threat. Sure enough, Days of Doom settles on a zombie apocalypse setting for a roguelite tactical RPG. From Sneakybox, the premise delivers some charming […]

Days of Doom – PS5 Review

October 9, 2023 in PS5 / Reviews tagged ambushes / days of doom / decisions / raiders / roguelite / run-based / sneakybox / tactical turn-based rpg / zombie apocalypse by Mike

RedRaptor is a traditional vertically-scrolling shoot ’em up from publisher eastasiasoft and is the debut effort from Novax Games. As with most of the shoot ’em ups from this publisher, this one is short, reasonably basic and with an initially tricky difficulty level that soon settles down and gives you that […]

RedRaptor – PS5 Review

October 9, 2023 in PS5 / Reviews tagged eastasiasoft / redraptor / vertically-scrolling shoot em up by Richie

I’ve been away from Ubisoft’s stealthy stab ’em up for over a decade now. Perhaps it’s fitting I come back when the marketing claims the series is returning to it’s roots. Assassin’s Creed Mirage is certainly a return of sorts. A middle-Eastern setting certainly harkens back to the 2007 original […]

Assassin’s Creed Mirage – PS5 Review

October 6, 2023 in PS5 / Reviews tagged assassin's creed mirage / assassination / combat / detective vision / historical setting / murder / stealth / thief of baghdad / third-person / ubisoft by Mike

Diorama Dungeoncrawl is a retro hack and slasher from Alec S, otherwise known as Renegade Sector Games. Released on Steam in 2019, the game has now made its way over to PSN courtesy of prolific publishers eastasiasoft. Promising a low-poly 16-bit style adventure, the idea here is that you get the […]

Diorama Dungeoncrawl – PS5 Review

October 6, 2023 in PS5 / Reviews tagged diorama dungeoncrawl / eastasiasoft / hack and slash / low poly / platforming by Richie

Paleo Pines is a dinosaur-themed farming simulator from UK-based studio Italic Pig where you find yourself on a cute island where there are townsfolk to meet, dinosaurs to befriend and secrets to discover. The game starts with you creating your character, who has to be female (unless we missed something), […]

Paleo Pines – PS5 Review

October 4, 2023 in PS5 / Reviews tagged cute / dinosaurs / Farming simulator / paleo pines by Richie

We didn’t quite know what to expect when it came to reviewing Touhou: New World, not least because it wasn’t Lies of P that we were expecting from our editor. The bag of the fag packet summary for this from Team Shanghai Alice and Ankake Spa is a bullet hell […]

Touhou: New World – PS5 Review

October 2, 2023 in PS4 / PS5 / Reviews tagged arpg / bullet-hell / touhou by Ian

Visual novel hybrids do interest me. Aside from the usual tales of choosing your own adventure, the addition of light gameplay elements can elevate them above the genre’s more wordy literature. Shuyan Saga is another attempt at that Lofty Sky Entertainment have undertaken. Set in a feudal China, this addition […]

Shuyan Saga – PS4 Review

September 28, 2023 in PS5 / Reviews tagged brawler / canada / chinese mysticism / lofty sky entertainment / narrative choice / shuyan saga / visual novel by Mike

Mechs V Kaijus is a tower-defence game from Uruguay-based devs, Doble Punch Games. Originally released in 2018 on PC, the game has now made it over to PSN courtesy of publishers JanduSoft. The game puts you in the role of Commander, overseeing a squadron of powerful mechs as they defend the […]

Mechs V Kaijus – PS5 Review

September 28, 2023 in PS5 / Reviews tagged mechs v kaijus / strategy / tactical / tower defence / tower defense by Richie

From Korean devs Neowiz & Round8 we’ve got what we consider to potentially be the worst monickered game we’ve ever reviewed. Based on the original 1883 Adventures of Pinocchio novel by Italian novelist Carlo Collodi, Lies of P is set in the city of Krat. Automata run the city, only […]

Lies of P – PS5 Review

September 25, 2023 in PS5 / Reviews tagged krat / pinocchio / soulsborne by Ian

Mystic Gate is a twin-stick shooter from Zoo Corporation that has a rogue-like structure and a dungeon-crawling setting. It’s been around since February on PC but has now made its way over to PSN thanks to the ever-prolific publishers eastasiasoft (their lack of capitalisation, not ours). The game’s thin plot involves […]

Mystic Gate – PS5 Review

September 25, 2023 in PS5 / Reviews tagged eastasiasoft / mystic gate / Pixel art / rogue-like / twin-stick shooter by Richie

Baldur’s Gate 3 is a role-playing game based on the Dungeons & Dragons (Fifth Edition) tabletop system and it comes to us from Belgian Studio Larian Games otherwise known for the Divinity series. The game itself has been out on PSN for a couple of weeks now and is already a shoo-in […]

Baldur’s Gate 3 – PS5 Review

September 19, 2023 in PS5 / Reviews tagged adventure / baldur's gate 3 / dungeons and dragons / larian / rpg by Richie

What originally started out as a student project, Ad Infinitum is a first-person horror experience set in World War I. In almost a decade of development, the final product has, at long last, come to fruition. Whilst Hekate’s efforts are admirable, the lasting impressions I took from this are mixed. […]

Ad Infinitum – PS5 Review

September 17, 2023 in PS5 / Reviews tagged ad infinitum / german / hekate / monsters / paranormal / psychological horror / puzzles / trenches / world war i by Mike