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Atomfall then. The lazy back of the fag packet description could well be Fallout in the Lake District. Only unlike Bethesda’s bloated behemoth that’s currently in GAAS purgatory with Fallout 76, Atomfall is unashamedly British coming from Oxford-based dev and publisher Rebellion. Given their previous with the Sniper Elite games, […]

Atomfall – PS5 Review

April 16, 2025 in PS4 / PS5 / Reviews tagged atomfall / hanging on the telephone / in the shadow of the mushroom cloud / no nukes please we're british / oberon / peace sells but who's buying / rebellion / windscale by Ian

From dev noobzilla and publisher Silesia Games comes the latest in a genre we’d never previously been particularly aware of, let alone interested in. Cats and Seek: Dino Park follows on from the previous in the series, that being Cats and Seek: Osaka. Silesia have published a lot of hidden […]

Cats and Seek: Dino Park – PS4 Review

March 11, 2025 in PS4 / Reviews tagged dinosaurs / meow meow meow / noobzilla / polska / silesia by Ian

Ever 17: The Out of Infinity is another visual novel from KID that’s been given the remake treatment. Originally a 2002 release, this new version adds a lot of new art and an official English translation. Under the hood, it’s essentially the same game but the story and setting seems […]

Ever 17: The Out of Infinity – PS4 Review

March 10, 2025 in PS4 / Reviews tagged artificial intelligence / choose your own adventure / disaster / escape / ever 17 the out of infinity / fish facts / kid / sci fi / underwater park / visual novel by Mike

Alright, back to the visual novel gulag. I’ve avoided them for a while but this one at least feels historic, in a sense. Never 7: The End of Infinity originally released in 2000 in Japan and was previously only available to Westerners via a fan translation. Now KID’s effort has […]

Never 7: The End of Infinity – PS4 Review

March 9, 2025 in PS4 / Reviews tagged choose your own adventure / kid / never 7 the end of infinity / romance / sci fi / stranded teenagers / time loop / visual novel by Mike

From developer Gameloft’s Australian studio, publisher Netflix Games and Houghton Mifflin comes a revival of a series only peripherally familiar to us over here in the UK, that being Carmen Sandiego. The first game in the long running series was originally released on formats of the time in 1985 as […]

Carmen Sandiego – PS5 Review

March 4, 2025 in PS4 / PS5 / Reviews tagged carmen sandiego / edutainment / gameloft / netflix by Ian

Shootvaders: The Beginning is, as the title suggests, a variation on the one-screen shoot ’em up style most obviously associated with games like Space Invaders and it comes to us by way of Thailand’s own 7 Raven Studios. Released in 2023, this one was a bit of a surprise when it showed […]

Shootvaders: The Beginning – PS4 Review

February 27, 2025 in PS4 tagged retro / shoot em up / shootvaders / space invaders by Richie

It’s been a while since we fired up Pinball FX, the confusingly-named fourth version of Zen Studio’s long-running pinball hub series (and that’s not including the various other standalone ones they’ve made including the horror-themed Pinball M). Indeed, Pinball FX released in 2023 to mixed reviews. Indeed, we had mixed feelings about it […]

Pinball FX – Williams Pinball Volume 8 – PS5 Review

January 21, 2025 in PS4 tagged pinball fx / williams by Richie

I’ll be honest, anything on itch.io is a mystery to me. It’s one of the PC storefronts I tend to ignore when looking for new games to try. GoobnBalloons originally saw the light of day there for free. Now an updated version has arrived with more content, improved visuals and […]

GoobnBalloonsDX – PS4 Review

October 5, 2024 in PS4 / Reviews tagged arcade / Balloons / campaign mode / goobnballoonsdx / iconicarts / local multiplayer / Pang / score attack / twin-stick shooter by Mike

We have a confession. Until we started playing Aero The Acro-Bat 2, we’d not twigged the pun in the title. You see he’s a bat and an acrobat. Never mind the first game came out more than thirty years ago. The gag entirely passed us by. In the case of […]

Aero The Acro-Bat 2 – PS5 Review

September 25, 2024 in PS4 / PS5 / Reviews tagged acro bat / adobe / aero / iguana / ratalaika / shinyuden by Ian

Road Defense: Outsiders is a hybrid twin-stick shooter/tower defense game from Brazilian-based studio Minicactus Games. It’s set in a futuristic wild west where you’ve got to safely escort vehicles across ten waves of action while an absolute horde of enemy cowboys try to destroy the cars and you. You’ve got five […]

Road Defense: Outsiders – PS4 Review

September 16, 2024 in PS4 / Reviews tagged minicactus / road defense: outsiders / tower defense / twin-stick shooter / western by Richie

It’s been a long, long while since I’ve ventured into a classic adventure game. It was never really a genre that was on my radar and I prefer my games to be more action packed and visceral. On top of that, I was never a PC gamer when the genre […]

Sam & Max: The Devil’s Playhouse Remastered – PS4 Review

August 20, 2024 in PS4 / Reviews tagged detective work / episodic / gumshoe / hard boiled / lucas arts / point and click adventure / sam & max the devil's playhouse remastered / supernatural / telltale games by Mike

From Spanish solo developer ViJuDa and publisher Eastasiasoft comes Super Woden GP II, the follow-up to 2022’s Super Woden GP that our man Richie reviewed. If you played that, this is more of the same and that’s no bad thing if we’re honest. Quite why it’s Super Woden, we’re not […]

Super Woden GP II – PS5 Review

August 1, 2024 in PS4 / PS5 / Reviews tagged isometric / not gran turismo / rally / super woden gp by Ian