A while back I reviewed Strawberry Vinegar and it was arguably the moment where I really, really started to sound alarm bells about the visual novel genre. It was probably one of my first introductions to the fiction that is, ostensibly for weirdos, by weirdos. I knew Ebi-Hime had written […]

Blackberry Honey – PS5 Review

First off, we got mighty confused thinking this was a follow on to a prior game. No, that was Unravel and its sequel released under the EA Originals banner. K? K. Unbound: Worlds Apart is completely unrelated, coming from Bucharest-based developer Alien Pixel and publisher Digerati. On the face of […]

Unbound: Worlds Apart – PS5 Review

It’s been interesting to see puzzle games find their way into my rotation lately. A lot of them have been of an indie persuasion and they haven’t been especially enduring. A puzzler with a good hook or some interesting ideas will always grab me and In My Shadow manages to […]

In My Shadow – PS4 Review

I love a good rhythm-action game. Of all the genres of games I play, this is by far the one that keeps me coming back for more, such is the moreish nature of short-lived experiences that offer immense replay ability. After all, my formative gaming years would be nothing without […]

Beat Souls – PS5 Review

Mages and Treasures is a puzzle game from yer man lightUP and Ratalaika. It might look familiar to anyone playing the long game with Ratalaika games as we have been. It’s practically identical in terms of layout to another lightUP game that came out the other year on PS4 & […]

Mages and Treasures – PS4 Review

When a game has a connection to Shin Megami Tensei I sit up and take notice. Monark is from ex-Atlus developers who worked on the tough but oh so rewarding and atmospheric JRPG series and you can see some connecting threads here and there, but this isn’t a Shin Megami […]

Monark – PS5 Review

Mekabolt+ is a rehash of Mekabolt on PS4/Vita from 2019 by somepx and Ratalaika. We reviewed it back then and this is fundamentally the same game, only just for PS5 in this instance. We’re not entirely sure why this is so, given the levels are slightly different to that which […]

Mekabolt+ – PS5 Review

Despite the ‘cover’ art and name suggesting this might be a Bomberman/Dynablaster clone, Dyna Bomb isn’t quite what we expect.  This one comes to us from 7 Raven Studios and is a 2D arcade-action puzzler that doesn’t have any strong comparisons with other games and there might be a reason for that but […]

Dyna Bomb – PS4 Review

Occasionally, adventure games catch my drift and The Song Out of Space seems right up my alley. Coming from Pixel Noire, the tale of extra-terrestrial interference, murders and Cold War tensions do tick a lot of my boxes. Unfortunately, it all seems rushed and doesn’t linger on the intrigue to […]

The Song Out of Space – PS5 Review

Moto Roader continues the recent trend of obscure old console games getting ported to  modern consoles and certainly this is pretty damned obscure.  The original Moto Roader was a top-down futuristic racer which came out for the PC Engine in 1989 and, aside from a Wii Virtual Console appearance, it’s never had […]

Moto Roader – PS5 Review

The clumsily-named QUByte Classics – The Humans by Piko, is a port of a handful of versions of The Humans, a retro-puzzle game from the ’90s that feels a bit like Lemmings but plays a little more like The Lost Vikings but if you’re not familiar, don’t worry.  We’ll tell you all about it. In any […]

The Humans by Piko – PS4 Review

Zombie games, they never die do they? Rather apt really. You can go back ten to fifteen years and people were calling for a break from them. Similarly the open world genre is saturating gaming somewhat, with every game needing huge maps with icons all over it to keep the […]

Dying Light 2: Stay Human – PS5 Review