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RPM – Road Punk Mayhem is a vertically-scrolling shoot ’em up from Panda Indie Studio who, along with publisher eastasiasoft, have been responsible for a few shoot ’em ups in recent times. They’ve had mixed results though with Z-Warp and the Project Starship games being okay but with Feeble Light and Excessive […]

RPM – Road Punk Mayhem – PS5 Review

July 21, 2024 in PS5 / Reviews tagged road punk mayhem / RPM / shoot em up / vehicle / vertically-scrolling shoot em up by Richie

FROGUE is a rogue-like platformer from Brazilian-based Wired Dreams where you play as a sword-wielding frog as it clears room after room of enemies. The pixel-art visuals might suggest something a little generic, the usual indie fodder but this game genuinely brings something new to the genre. If you ever saw […]

FROGUE – PS5 Review

July 16, 2024 in PS5 tagged Frog / frogue / platformer / rogue-like / turn-based by Richie

Graven is certainly aiming at a specific inspiration. A first-person shooter set in a dark fantasy world, it looks to scratch that Hexxen itch. Slipgate Ironworks and 3D Realms are waist-deep in the genre but, even with all that experience, the Playstation 5 port remains troubled. Let’s get the bad […]

Graven – PS5 Review

July 11, 2024 in PS5 / Reviews tagged 3d realms / bows and arrows / fantasy hexxen / graven / magic / melee combat / plague / quests journal / retro first-person shooter / slipgate ironworks by Mike

Retaliate is a twist on the classic wave-based vertically-scrolling shooter and it comes from Austin Sojka, otherwise known as Romans I XVI Gaming. In researching the game we found an older version for the Roku TV platform and even a Commodore 64 (*spit!*) demake, so the idea for this game has […]

Retaliate – PS5 Review

July 10, 2024 in PS5 / Reviews tagged retaliate / shoot em up by Richie

From developer Texel Raptor and publisher Blitworks Games comes a throwback of sorts in Parkitect: Deluxe Edition. Very much in the tradition of Theme Park and other parkbuilders such as Rollercoaster Tycoon, Parkitect started out as a Kickstarter over ten years ago, with a lengthy two year early access period […]

Parkitect: Deluxe Edition – PS5 Review

July 10, 2024 in PS5 / Reviews tagged hitler bad vandals good / parkitect / rollercoaster / theme park by Ian

I have waited so long to play Beyond Good & Evil. It was always one of those games that was talked with such reverence but I’d never managed to get my hands on it. Now Ubisoft have decided to re-release and update the classic game with a 20th Anniversary Edition. […]

Beyond Good & Evil: 20th Anniversary Edition – PS5 Review

July 6, 2024 in PS5 / Reviews tagged alien invasion / beyond good and evil 20th anniversary edition / dictatorship / espionage / hovercraft racing / melee combat / photography / remaster / spying / stealth / ubisoft by Mike

Bouncy Chicken is a physics puzzler, of sorts, and it comes from Austrian coders YeTa Games. It’s published by eastasiasoft too so you can expect two versions of the game (PS4 and PS5) and a couple of reasonably easy Platinum trophies. We don’t usually mention the trophy situation that early on but, […]

Bouncy Chicken – PS5 Review

July 5, 2024 in PS5 / Reviews tagged bouncy chicken / easy platinum / physics / puzzle by Richie

Parasol Stars is a port of a 1991 platforming game that many younger readers will not have heard of. But, older readers may not have either. It was a sequel to a game in a beloved arcade series but it wasn’t an arcade game. Instead it was initially developed for […]

Parasol Stars – PS5 Review

July 5, 2024 in PS5 tagged Classic / parasol stars / platformer / port / retro / taito by Richie

Hot Blood is a 3rd person brawler from a developer called DEKLAZON and it comes to us from the ever-prolific eastasiasoft. And, as a bit of surprise, this isn’t a 2D effort either. Instead it taps into a low-poly PS1 sort of aesthetic but with a smooth, not jagged look. […]

Hot Blood – PS5 Review

July 3, 2024 in PS5 / Reviews tagged dead rising / eastasiasoft / hot blood / lollipop chainsaw / zombies by Richie

The Land Beneath Us from Bangkok-based developer Fairplay Studios and French publisher Dear Villagers (aka Plug In Digital), is a bit different from their prior release Fallen Knight as reviewed by Richie almost three years ago. It’s another roguelike/lite/whatever. We’ve stopped caring what the actual definition is, more whether a […]

The Land Beneath Us – PS5 Review

July 3, 2024 in PS5 / Reviews tagged dear villagers / fairplay / rogue-like / the land beneath us by Ian

Backpack Hero is a rogue-like mix of turn-based tactical RPG and inventory management sim genres and it comes to us by way of developer Jaspel. It’s been around on Steam for half a year now but has finally landed on PSN. In Backpack Hero, you play as Purse, a rat from the town […]

Backpack Hero – PS5 Review

July 1, 2024 in PS5 tagged backpack hero / inventory management / rogue-like by Richie

It’s not very often you see downloadable content coming so long after a game’s release. Elden Ring was critically acclaimed in 2022 and From Software has a fairly solid history of worthy expansions. With a relatively hefty price tag, Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree has, at the very least, […]

Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree – PS5 Review

June 30, 2024 in PS5 / Reviews tagged challenging / dark fantasy / deliberate combat / elden ring shadow of the erdtree / exploration / from software / george r r martin / open world / Souls by Mike