PS4

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

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

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

It’s not every day I have to write something that feels like a public service announcement. Wrath: Aeon of Ruin is game developed by Slipgate Ironworks and KillPixel. It came out on PC in February after a long and protracted early access phase and has now found it’s way to […]

Wrath: Aeon of Ruin – PS4 Review

May 5, 2024 in PS4 / Reviews tagged episodes / first-person shooter / key grabbing / killpixel / neo-retro / quake / slipgate ironworks / wrath aeon of ruin by Mike

Mighty Mage is the latest top-down, (sort of) auto-shooting Survivors-like to hit PSN and it comes from Brazilian-based coders Afil Games (essentially the home of solo dev Antonio Filipe). It hit Steam a year ago but has now been ported to PSN and the Switch. There are quite a few of these […]

Mighty Mage – PS4 Review

April 2, 2024 in PS4 / Reviews tagged afil games / brotato / mighty mage / too easy / vampire survivors by Richie

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

Manic Mechanics is a co-op action party game from Scottish devs 4J Studios and it follows the tradition of other ‘work’ based games doing for car maintenance what Overcooked did for catering and what Moving Out did for furniture removals. This game sees you working in a series of garages where cars come in […]

Manic Mechanics – PS4 Review

March 31, 2024 in PS4 / Reviews tagged co-op / manic mechanics / moving out / Overcooked / party game by Richie

Match Village is a minimalist puzzle game that combines a sort of chilled-out city building set up but with a match three element and it comes to us from Brazil-based solo dev Moraes Game Studio. It’s currently on PSN for a penny under four quid and it has been published […]

Match Village – PS4 Review

March 22, 2024 in PS4 / Reviews tagged islanders / match village / match-three / puzzle by Richie