Gunborg: Dark Matters is a 2D run and gun shooter-platformer from Swedish software specialists Ricpau Studios which is really just Rickard Paulsson, an animator who decided to learn how to make games, and some friends he’s made along the way.  This is his first release and one that has quadrupled its […]

Gunborg: Dark Matters – PS5 Review

The Last Cube is the best kind of game we get in for review here at PSC.  It literally came out of nowhere with no fanfare or hype yet we find it entirely took over our gaming for a good week or so. We meant to write this review sooner, […]

The Last Cube – PS5 Review

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Slipstream is a racing game from Brazilian-based coder Sandro Luis de Paula, otherwise known as Ansdor.  Set somewhere in the 1990s, this arcade-style driving game is a love letter to the Out Run games, ’80s neon visuals, ’90s arcades and synth music and it certainly turned heads when it was released on […]

Slipstream – PS5 Review

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Z-Warp is the latest shoot ’em up from Panda Indie Studio, the one-man shoot ’em up specialist behind most of Eastasiasoft’s impressive array of shooters.  As ever, this is a vertically-scrolling, arcade style bullet-hell game and it has plenty of Panda Indie’s trademark characteristics.  So, if you want to know […]

Z-Warp – PS5 Review

Flat Kingdom is a 2D-ish puzzle platformer that comes to us by way of Mexican coders Fat Panda.  It first emerged over in PC Country back in 2016 but has now found its way to PSN thanks to prolific porters Ratalaika Games. The game is set in the titular Flat […]

Flat Kingdom Paper’s Cut Edition – PS5 Review

I know games sometimes like to cover civil unrest, protest and it’s consequences but they largely don’t concern themselves too much with ethical quandaries behind the curtain. There’s always a greater good and the good guys usually win out. Vengeful Heart has a fairly obvious cause to fight for but […]

Vengeful Heart – PS5 Review

If you’re unaware of the term ‘immersive sim’ then it’ll probably mean nothing to you. It’s a genre that let’s the player choose, whether that’s story options or how to play. It wants to immerse you in the experience by letting you play how you want and adapting around you. […]

Weird West – PS4 Review

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I have always admired when game developers eschew convention in favour of sticking to their guns. Very few are willing to do this as sticking to one franchise, genre or art style can often wind up with those games becoming very stale, very quickly. The flipside of course, is that […]

Thunder Kid: Hunt for the Robot Emperor – PS4/PS5 Review

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Andro Dunos II is a horizontally-scrolling shoot ’em up from Picorinne Soft and it really highlights what an usual time this is for the indie games market.  You see, the original Andro Dunos, itself also a shoot ’em up, came out in 1992 as a Neo Geo game.  It’s not particularly well-known and […]

Andro Dunos II – PS4 Review

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The Ascent is a top-down, twin-stick action RPG from Swedish software house Neon Giant.  It’s their first game but members of Neon Giant were involved in Gears of War, Doom, Wolfenstein and PSC favourite Bulletstorm.   With its top-down perspective and ‘dungeon-crawling’ mission structure, a lot of people seem to think of The Ascent as […]

The Ascent – PS5 Review

Royal Frontier is a strategy game from prolific Canadian coders Woblyware and it comes to us by way of Ratalaika Games.  Now, we tend to review the vast majority of games from Ratalaika and so we knew we could most likely request a review code for this one but with half […]

Royal Frontier – PS5 Review

Valley of the Dead: MalnaZidos is a third-person survival horror game which comes to us by way of Gammera Nest and the Spanish PlayStation Talents program.  That initiative is a way to get lesser-known talent into the PSN marketplace and so far it’s not made for many good games but […]

Valley of the Dead: MalnaZidos – PS4 Review