CYGNI is a vertically-scrolling shoot ’em up that comes to us by way of Scottish studio KeelWorks and famed publisher Konami who have surprised us somewhat by putting out an original IP. The game has had quite the media push over the last few months with it landing on the […]

CYGNI: All Guns Blazing – PS5 Review

From Adelaide-based developer Exbleative aka Jay Weston and publisher Future Friends comes interplanetary exploration game Exo One. If we were lazy reviewers we’d say that it was Journey crossed with mid-80’s film Flight of the Navigator, only without the pseudo-mysticism of the former and Pee Wee Herman voicing the ship […]

Exo One – PS5 Review

Earth Defense Force 6 is a third-person action shooter and is developed by Japanese coders Sandlot.  It’s the latest in a long series of games that have a true cult following and we count ourselves as fully paid up members of that cult.  But now that the series is two […]

Earth Defense Force 6 – PS5 Review

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

The indie space is full of search action games that don’t always manage to set themselves apart. Frontier Hunter: Erza’s Wheel of Fortune comes from IceSeaTeam and, after a long spell in early access, the full product is available for Playstation 5. What arrives is a fully-baked effort that, whilst […]

Frontier Hunter: Erza’s Wheel of Fortune – PS5 Review

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

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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

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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

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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

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

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

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