Fast and Furious Arcade Edition is the home version of Raw Thrills’ 2022 arcade machine, only without the twin 65” UHD screens. It’s fun to see that even they resort to weapons grade bullshots on their publicity material, what’s shown there are in fact renders as shown on the loading […]

Fast and Furious Arcade Edition – PS5 Review

Gnomdom is the latest from our pals at Silesia Games. In a somewhat shocking turn of events, it’s NOT a hidden cat game. It definitely falls into the casual cosy game category, so not a massive deviation in that regard. Developed by Dana and Vivi, we guess a small indie […]

Gnomdom – PS5 Review

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Platypus Reclayed is a horizontally-scrolling shoot ’em from UK-based studio Claymatic Games.  Why all the references to clay already?  Well, this game, itself a remake of the 2002 PC shoot ’em up Platypus, sports a rather unique look.  Everything in the game has been modelled in clay, captured and animated. It’s […]

Platypus Reclayed – PS5 Review

Super Mining Mechs is a follow up to last year’s Mining Mechs, an exploration/mining game that we liked, even  if it didn’t particularly wow us.  We thought of it more like a podcast game, something to chill out with while listening to something else. This game follows on from the […]

Super Mining Mechs – PS5 Review

I’ve visited a couple of submarines as a tourist and I’m always struck by their economy of space. Quarters are packed tight and only a cigar-shaped, torpedo-armed hull is protection against atmospheres of pressure. It’s a wild thing to think about but now UBOAT attempts to replicate it with this […]

UBOAT – PS5 Review

We normally open our reviews by saying what genre the falls under and that’s usually pretty straightforward. With BALL x PIT, the latest game by Brooklyn’s own Kenny Sun, it’s just not as clear how to classify it. The problem is that the game is three different genres but in […]

BALL x PIT – PS5 Review

Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter first came out PC in 2004 and then PSP in 2006. Western audiences didn’t get it until XSeed did a localisation job of the PSP edition in 2011 and even then it passed many by, including us. It even came out on Vita a […]

Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter – PS5 Review

There’s a danger with job simulators where they could venture too close into feeling like work. Some manage to avoid it with simplified mechanics, an interesting toolset or bizarre narratives. Ship Graveyard Simulator 2 is certainly playing it straight. Whilst that does lead to a methodical time, the dismantling of […]

Ship Graveyard Simulator 2 – PS5 Review

Sonic Wings Reunion is a sequel to the original Sonic Wings (Aero Fighters in Western markets), a vertically-scrolling shoot ’em up from Tecmo that was originally released in arcades back in 1992 (with a popular conversion hitting the SNES a year later).   Several sequels followed, with Aero Fighters 2 and 3 being released on the Neo […]

Sonic Wings Reunion – PS5 Review

Cats & Seek: Kyoto is the latest from Silesia Games, this time developed by noobzilla. Sharp eyed readers might remember this dev also did Cats & Seek: Dino Park and this is very much more of the same in that regard. As it happens that was the first hidden cat […]

Cats & Seek: Kyoto – PS5 Review

Gloomy Eyes was originally a VR movie released in 2020 featuring that fella Colin Farrell as the narrator aka the gravekeeper. This is the game of the movie if you will, using many of the assets from the pre-rendered movie for the game. It shares the same scenario broadly as […]

Gloomy Eyes – PS5 Review

King of Meat is a co-op focused mix of platforming, puzzling and hack and slash action from Guildford-based games developers Glowmade.  But have Surrey’s squad of software specialists been able to combine those genres into a cohesive game?  Let’s find out. The first thing that you’ll see when firing up […]

King of Meat – PS5 Review