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Truckzilla – Monster Truck Mega Ramp Mania from Moldovan dev Midnight.Works arrived with nary any fanfare and this reviewer decided to take a punt on what looked like a lightweight racing game. Unusually for current releases, it’s a PS4 only joint with no PS5 version in the equation at all. […]

Truckzilla: Monster Truck Mega Ramp Mania – PS4 Review

December 12, 2023 in PS4 / Reviews tagged extravaganza at the carson fairgrounds / k-billy the station where the seventies survived / moldova / monster trucks by Ian

Settris comes to us from developer Zoo Corporation and prolific publisher eastasiasoft. As you might surmise from the name, it involves quads, not unlike Alexei Pajnitov’s masterwork that remains relevant to this day through its constant iterations. The latest of which Tetris Effect is even playable via PSVR. We even […]

Settris – PS5 Review

November 24, 2023 in PS4 / PS5 / Reviews tagged settris. eastasiasoft by Ian

Alina of the Arena is a deck-building, roguelike strategy game from Taiwanese indie studio, PINIX. It’s been out for a while on Steam and the Switch but has now found its way over to PSN and it should be of interest to fans of games such as Slay the Spire and Into […]

Alina of the Arena – PS4 Review

November 23, 2023 in PS4 / Reviews tagged alina of the arena / pinix / roguelite / strategy / turn-based 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

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

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

Kentucky Route Zero – TV Edition to give its full name, is the console port of developer Cardboard Computer’s episodic adventure. First released in 2013 with five acts appearing sporadically with the final act coming in January 2020. As a lapsed Edge reader, this reviewer watched from afar with interest […]

Kentucky Route Zero : TV Edition – PS4 Review

September 8, 2023 in PS4 / PS5 / Reviews tagged cardboard computer / equus oils / kentucky route zero / point and click by Ian

It started with a message from our editor. “Review this” he said. “Review what?” we asked. We initially thought it was his sort of thing, until we realised it was erroneously labelled as a football game. Let’s be clear, Legend Bowl is an NFL game in all but name. The […]

Legend Bowl – PS5 Review

August 22, 2023 in PS4 / PS5 / Reviews tagged crap kicking / gridiron / Pixel art / wide right by Ian

Jeffrey Koch is a porcine crime lord. And he’s in deep trouble. Forced into his safe house by hostile forces tipped off by an informer within his own organisation, he has a week to root out the mole and somehow survive against the odds. Developed by Wooden Monkeys and published […]

Save Koch – PS4 Review

August 9, 2023 in PS4 / Reviews tagged clip clop / death by a thousand stabbings / funky porcini / pigs pigs pigs pigs pigs pigs pigs / the light at the end of the tunnel is the light of an oncoming train by Ian

Akai Katana Shin is a collection of three versions of Akai Katana, a horizontally-scrolling shoot ’em up that debuted in arcades back in 2010 before receiving pretty much this port on the Xbox 360 in 2011. Akai Katana is one of four horizontal shooters from the legendary developer Cave, best known for their […]

Akai Katana Shin – PS4 Review

August 3, 2023 in PS4 / Reviews tagged akai katana shin / cave / horizontally-scrolling / retro / shoot em up by Richie

If there’s one thing we’d change about this generation of gaming, it’s the influences on game design that have come from F2P and mobile games. The sort of baffling complexity that got introduced during the PS4-era that creates such bad first impressions whenever we fire up a new game. Now, […]

Killsquad – PS4 Review

July 24, 2023 in PS4 / Reviews tagged co-op / killsquad / loot / top down / twin-stick shooter by Richie

Oaken from Poznań-based dev Low Poly Dreams and Goblinz Publishing is a deceptive game. On the face of it, it’s an attractive looking hex strategy game with turn-based combat. However, almost from the start it manages to frustrate and obfuscate key mechanics that it never really explains. It doesn’t really […]

Oaken – PS4 Review

July 23, 2023 in PS4 / Reviews tagged card battler / hex battler / mark oaken / poznan by Ian