Maiden Cops is a proper old-school scrolling beat ’em up and it comes to us from indie developers Pippin Games.  And while this two-man studio are Brazilian, you’d be forgiven for thinking they were absolutely Japanese when playing this game. Set in Maiden City, a place where everyone is female and […]

Maiden Cops – PS5 Review

I’m not one to buy into soulslike fatigue. I think, as long as the execution is good, I will persevere with it. Wuchang: Fallen Feathers is an effort from Chinese developer Lenzee. It has it’s own twists on the blueprint with some solid level design. Unfortunately, it also frustrates me […]

Wuchang: Fallen Feathers – PS5 Review

God of Weapons developed by Hanoi-based dev Archmage Labs and published by Ultimate Games is an autoshooter set in a D&D style dungeon. Ostensibly you go up floors of a tower tackling waves of enemies as you go, though one murky dungeon is indistinguishable from another if we’re honest. It […]

God of Weapons – PS5 Review

Achilles: Survivor is a rogue-lite/auto-battler type of game and it comes to us from Polish programmers Dark Point Games.  It’s the follow up to Achilles: Legends Untold, a tough little souls-like RPG, and while it sports a very similar look, this takes the series into a Vampire Survivors direction. That means that […]

Achilles: Survivor – PS5 Review

Anybody in the mood for a McMansion? Architect Life: A House Design Simulator sure hopes you are. Coming from Shine Research, it pulls a few punches when it comes to simulating but the planning and constructing of a home has been a thoughtful process. It’s lenient with budgets and timescales […]

Architect Life: A House Design Simulator – PS5 Review

Time Flies is a puzzle game from Swiss-based developers Playable and it’s quite unlike anything we’ve played before.  The game sees you playing as a fly that has to try to complete a list of goals in its meagre lifespan before it dies.  But if that sounds like a bad premise […]

Time Flies – PS5 Review

Secret Paws – Cozy Offices is the latest from eastasiasoft, in this case a take on the hidden cat genre developed by Sagitta Studios aka Alexandre. Quite possibly a solo dev, but that’s all good. As opposed to the usual isometric fixed view that you pan around, Secret Paws is […]

Secret Paws – Cozy Offices : PS5 Review

Somber Echoes comes to us from Tønsberg based developer Rock Pocket Games, their location being known to us having flown into Sandefjord to the south with Ryanair last year. For the rest of you, it’s roughly 100km southwest of Oslo and was an ancient capital of Norway. Never mind that […]

Somber Echoes – PS5 Review

From Void Interactive comes Ready or Not, a SWAT-em-up for want of a better description. Not a Fugees story-based affair then. Tch. After a rather involved tutorial in which you’re shown the commands to subdue, apprehend and restrain suspects, you’re also shown how to queue up actions for your squad. […]

Ready or Not – PS5 Review

I feel like I missed all those 3D platformers back in the 90’s. At that time, I had a PC and most of them lived in Nintendo town. Approaching them as an adult makes me wonder if I’ve missed the boat. Ruffy and the Riverside, from Zockrates Laboratories is a […]

Ruffy and the Riverside – PS5 Review

Perhaps the biggest no-brainer in gaming was when Activision commissioned the remaster of the first two Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater games back in 2020 (WAIT!  It was FIVE YEARS AGO?!).  Two of the most-loved games of all-time lovingly recreated for modern audiences.  It was a big success and while it wasn’t perfect, […]

Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 + 4 – PS5 Review

I’m going to assume in the bowels of the Steam store there are simulators for everything. Not all of them find their way to console and I was surprised to see Drug Dealer Simulator make its way to Playstation 5 years after its initial release. Despite the age and the […]

Drug Dealer Simulator – PS5 Review