From Malmö based dev Simogo and published by Annapurna Interactive comes the intriguingly titled Lorelei and the Laser Eyes. Set in the recent past in and around the Hotel Letzes Jahr, that being Hotel Last Year, the black and white graphical style with occasional flashes of colour gives it an […]

Lorelei and the Laser Eyes – PS5 Review

Aspyr’s been working hard at remastering Crystal Dynamics’ back catalogue. After the success of the Tomb Raider Remasters, Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver 1 & 2 Remastered is next in line. It’s one of those series I’ve merely glanced at over the years. Playing them in 2024 has made me […]

Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver 1 & 2 Remastered – ...

You’re the lucky new proprietor of the titular Uncle Chop’s Rocket Shop on the planet of Little Mesa. In effect, a space garage where spaceships land in varying levels of decrepitude or disrepair. Though your tenure is wholly dependent on being able to make your rent after three days of […]

Uncle Chop’s Rocket Shop – PS5 Review

The Thing Remastered is a third-person shooter/horror title that began life in 2002.  Originally developed by Computer Artworks, the game received some okay reviews back in the day.  It wasn’t the most technically accomplished game of the PS2/Xbox era but fans of the John Carpenter movie that the game is based […]

The Thing Remastered – PS5 Review

Another day, another search action game to check out. This time it’s Biomorph from Lucid Dreams Studio. I bet it’s hard to elevate one game within a packed genre. Thankfully, they’ve mostly been up to the task, providing some interesting twists on abilities with some smart choices around map design. […]

Biomorph – PS5 Review

Good lord, this is clever.  On the face of it, Among Ashes is a survival-horror game that takes the genre right back to it’s Resident Evil-era roots.  Crafted by Rat Cliff Games, a Spanish Studio that’s mostly led by Daniel Ferrer, this horror game took us on a far more interesting journey than […]

Among Ashes – PS5 Review

Pretty Girls Pop Match is the latest puzzle game in eastasiasoft’s Pretty Girls series, a series that has had takes on pretty much every puzzle game format you can think of.  From Mahjong to 2048, there isn’t any sub-genre that developers, Zoo Corporation, won’t put some Anime girl portraits on.  Strangely though, they’ve […]

Pretty Girls Pop Match – PS5 Review

Mindcop from German dev Andre Gareis, originally released on Steam in 2020 and ported to console by Pixel Ratio and published by Little Villagers is something we’d heard about by virtue of it being advertised on a YouTube channel we frequent. Mindcop is a whodunit set over five days where […]

Mindcop – PS5 Review

Ravenswatch is a top-down roguelike action game from French crew Passtech Games and while we’re probably all a bit over the roguelike wave now, this is one that, to Passtech’s credit, does offer up some pretty interesting ideas. For a game that doesn’t really offer much of a story (there’s an […]

Ravenswatch – PS5 Review

Rage of the Dragons NEO is a tag-team fighting game port of an original 2002 SNK coin-op originally coded by Japanese devs Noise Factory who also put out other SNK hits such as Sengoku 3, King of Fighters: Maximum Impact and a couple of the later Metal Slug games.  Originally intended as a sequel to Double […]

Rage of the Dragons NEO – PS5 Review

When I looked at a trailer for VED, I wondered if it would be for me. I saw dice rolls in an RPG setting and slightly baulked at the idea of reviewing it. Thankfully, VED is an interesting mix of turn-based action with a heavy narrative focused around the discovery […]

VED – PS5 Review

Spellagis is an auto-shooter/survivors game from Shokin-dev/Nipobox and it’s published by eastasiasoft.  If you’re not familiar with the genre, this is a homage of the now very popular Vampire Survivors or, if you’re a real connoisseur, Brotato (arguably this reviewer’s favourite game). As with other examples of the genre, you basically have to defend yourself […]

Spellagis – PS5 Review