Knight’s Retreat is a Chess-themed puzzle game from minimalist developers Minimol Games and is a continuation of their Knight Swap series.  The idea here is that you have to move your knight pieces to target positions on each level using their standard L-shaped moves.  Of course, beyond the early levels […]

Knight’s Retreat – PS4 Review

Moose Life is the latest from Llamasoft AKA Jeff Minter, ungulate obsessed coder par excellence. This reviewer first got into Jeff’s work with the amazing Tempest 2000 on Jaguar, though no doubt some of PSC’s editorial guys of similar vintage hark back even further. The PS4 Llamasoft games have been […]

Moose Life – PS4 Review

It may be the nostalgia talking, but what would be the first thing you think of when reading or hearing the pop-punk warcry of “YA YA YA YA YA”? Chances are, you either have no idea what I am talking about and are too young to remember it. That or […]

Taxi Chaos – PS4 Review

As luck would have it, we were clamouring for a PS5 redux of The Sinking City as previously reviewed by our man Mike in 2019. OK, perhaps we weren’t, but this is a welcome addition to the burgeoning indie catalogue on Sony’s newest console. The opening splash screens indicate that […]

The Sinking City – PS5 Review

The top-down run and gunner is a sub-genre that we don’t tend to see in its original form anymore.  Sure, you’ll get them as twin-stick shooters or with a heap of rogue-lite elements attached but Thunderflash, the latest offering from Ratalaika, is very much in the original style.  You shoot in […]

Thunderflash – PS4 Review

It’s always a bit weird playing a sequel to a game without having ventured through the original. Like many, the original Anodyne is one of those titles that completely passed me by. The first was released in 2013 on PC, right at the time that the new consoles had landed […]

Anodyne 2: Return to Dust – PS5/PS4 Review

Speed Limit is a very varied arcade-style title from Croatian coding crew Gamechunk.  It’s a game that draws heavily from several sources of inspiration.  So much so that it’s central theme is variety.  Sure, it’s a 2D run and gunner initially but the game takes you on some incredible twists […]

Speed Limit – PS4 Review

What do you do if you want to create a Spider-Man VR game but can’t get hold of the licence? You make a game about a cosmonaut travelling to Jupiter, giving him a grappling hook on each hand and making him swing through obstacles in order to create a new […]

Yupitergrad – PSVR Review

Bullet Beat is a confident little shoot ’em up is from Ternox Games and is best described as a mix of Space Invaders Infinity Gene and Rez.  It’s a cheap and cheerful addition to PSN’s ever-growing library of shoot ’em ups and is aimed at arcade fans and anyone who still remembers dubstep. […]

Bullet Beat – PS4 Review

Neptune and company are back with a new title, Neptunia Virtual Stars on PS4. Neptunia titles come in two flavours: JRPGs and spin offs which can be of any genre, from hack and slash to idol manager. This is a spin off, with the goddesses of Gamindustri now wielding guns […]

Neptunia Virtual Stars – PS4 Review

While many of our contemporaries like to focus on the big triple-A titles, our roots here at PlayStation Country are in playing the indie stuff and it didn’t get more indie than the now-defunct Xbox Live Indie Games service on the Xbox 360.  While that service was plagued with some […]

Shoot 1UP DX – PS4 Review

Pumpkin Jack has been out since October 2020 on Xbox One and Switch, only just releasing on PS4 which is why we’re reviewing it now. Obvious timing for Halloween there, but we got blessed with Costume Kingdom instead. Yeah. The less said of that the better. Developed by solo developer […]

Pumpkin Jack – PS4 Review