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The Perplexing Orb: Bounce Mania is a platforming game indie from TreeFall games. It shares a sub-genre with other rolling ball platformers like Trailblazer, Bouncer, Spindizzy and, if you want an example that isn’t from the ’80s, Super Monkey Ball. It’s the fifth entry in a series of Perplexing Orb games with the previous […]

The Perplexing Orb: Bounce Mania

January 22, 2026 in PS5 tagged bounce mania / don't buy this / indie / platformer / the perplexing orb by Richie

I Am Future or to give it its full name, I Am Future: Cozy Apocalypse Survival comes to us from developer Mandragora and publisher Tinybuild. Mandragora being based in Armenia with a globally spread team. That’s a thing now we guess. The full title is fairly descriptive of what to […]

I Am Future: Cozy Apocalypse Survival – PS5 Review

January 18, 2026 in PS5 / Reviews tagged are you future too / cozy apocalypse / i am future / mandragora / no zombies thankfully / tinybuild by Ian

Hextreme Void is the latest of many auto-battling, rogue-lite games all following on from the great success of Vampire Survivors a couple of years ago. This one comes to us by way of a little studio called Double Mizzlee and has been released by PSN’s most-prolific publishers Eastasiasoft. The game is a little […]

Hextreme Void – PS5 Review

January 17, 2026 in PS5 tagged arkanoid / double mizzlee / hextreme void / rogue-lite / vampire survivors by Richie

You could still argue the kart racer genre is not well-served, outside of Nintendo’s platforms. Coming from particularly barren era, Street Racer managed to find some renown on the Super Nintendo whilst also being ported to anywhere that would have it. Street Racer Collection takes four of these versions and […]

Street Racer Collection – PS5 Review

January 11, 2026 in PS5 / Reviews tagged championship / circuit racing / DOS / gameboy / kart racing / Mega Drive / old school / power ups / SNES / soccer / street racer / turbo / violence / vivid image by Mike

From Polish-based publisher Ultimate Games comes the console port of a three-year-old PC game, Bus World. Originally produced by Russian developer Kishmish Games, this port was likely produced by Ultimate Games as going by the Steam page for the game, it seems to have been pretty much abandoned by the […]

Bus World – PS5 Review

January 8, 2026 in PS5 / Reviews tagged bus world / from russia with bugs / here we go yo / janky mess / ultimate games by Ian

Maybe I’m getting jaded by the indie horror offerings. If it’s not zombies, it’s eldritch horror. Dark Atlas: Infernum offers the latter. After a successful Kickstarter campaign, Night Council Studio’s debut delivers some strong world building but I left it feeling a little underwhelmed. There are seeds of promise here […]

Dark Atlas: Infernum – PS5 Review

January 3, 2026 in PS5 / Reviews tagged cosmic / dark atlas infernum / dark council studios / eldritch horror / monsters / occult / puzzle solving / Spain / stealth / survival horror by Mike

Static Dread: The Lighthouse comes to us from Solarsuit Games and Games Harbor. You play as the nameless keeper of the previously automated Outsmouth Lighthouse. Quite why it falls to you isn’t entirely clear, but it sets you up for all manner of eldritch goings on as you see out […]

Static Dread: The Lighthouse – PS5 Review

December 20, 2025 in PS5 / Reviews tagged fax machine / jog wheel / lighthouse / lovecraftian / minidisc / outsmouth / papers if you will / static dread / the old ones by Ian

Another month, another Hidden Cats game, once again from Silesia Games and Nukearts, this time in Istanbul. Not Constantinople, that’s right out. Once more unto the breach with lovely lightly animated images and finding the cats. This is basically the same template as the Rio De Janeiro installment, once again […]

Hidden Cats in Istanbul – PS5 Review

December 16, 2025 in PS5 / Reviews tagged hidden cats / istanbul not constantinople / nukearts / silesia games by Ian

Kill It With Fire 2 from Casey Donnellan Games is the follow-up from the original that we reviewed in 2021. That was quite a fun tightly focussed puzzle game. Our anticipation was that this would be more of the same, having been in early access on PC for more than […]

Kill It With Fire 2 – PS5 Review

December 16, 2025 in PS5 / Reviews tagged burn burn burn / casey donellan / hsf vindicator / kill it / spider hell / why did have to be spiders by Ian

Dino Land is a port of a pinball game originally developed by Japanese developers Wolf Team and released on the Megadrive/Genesis (and also the Sharp X68000) way back in 1991. And it’s really a strange choice of game to port. The original never led to any sequels, the developers eventually […]

Dino Land – PS5 Review

December 15, 2025 in PS5 / Reviews tagged 1991 / dino land / megadrive / pinball by Richie

Ultimate Zombie Defense is a top-down twin-stick shooter, with some tower defense elements, from Belfast-based studio Terror Dog. And this is a really strange game. Not so much because of the mechanics of it, this sort of thing has been done before in games like #killallzombies, but more because of basically […]

Ultimate Zombie Defense – PS5 Review

December 11, 2025 in PS5 tagged tower defence / twin-stick (sort of) shooter / ultimate zombie defence / zombies by Richie

Skate Story is a skateboarding/adventure game from New York native Sam Eng which has been creating quite a stir on social media for a couple of reasons. The first is that it looks a bit like SKATE, which is important because EA’s new free-to-play update to that franchise is a load of […]

Skate Story – PS5 Review

December 8, 2025 in PS5 tagged adventure / sam eng / skate story / skateboarding by Richie