From Honig Studios and published by HandyGames, we have El Hijo. In the dev’s own words, a stealth game. In this case in a spaghetti western setting in which the titular El Hijo finds himself in an orphanage. Only he’s not an orphan as his mother is still alive, so […]

El Hijo – PS4 Review

I’m back once again playing visual novel roulette and the latest bullet for me is C14 Dating by Winter Wolves. My previous knowledge of the dating simulator genre is fleeting but the slimmed down stat tracking and emphasis on friendship does make this more palatable to me. Set amid the […]

C-14 Dating – PS4 Review

Released on PC a couple of years ago to critical acclaim, Disco Elysium has now hit the PS5 (the focus of this review) and PS4 in a Final Cut version. This has added new voice lines, more dialogue choices and more items to collect but that won’t mean too much […]

Disco Elysium: The Final Cut – PS5/PS4 Review

We’ve probably all, at one point in our lives, dragged matchbox cars across the bedroom floor or the kitchen worktops. Letting our imagination place impossible jumps, hazards and courses that weave around tables and chairs. Games are no stranger to the concept but it’s been a while since a toy […]

Tinker Racers – PS4 Review

Outbuddies DX is an old-school Metroidvania-esque explorer/platformer/shooter from one-man developer Julian Laufer that tells the story of Nikolay Bernstein, a maritime archaeologist who unwittingly becomes trapped in Bahlam, an underwater fortress (not the South London town on the Northern Line) that was home to the Old Gods, but now harbours […]

Outbuddies DX – PS4 Review

From developer Sketchbook Games and publisher Modus, we have Lost Words: Beyond The Page. Notably, the narrative is penned by Rhianna Pratchett and sets the tone very well. As does great music by David Housden (previously of Thomas Was Alone). The key component here is an emotive voice performance from […]

Lost Words: Beyond The Page – PS4 Review

SturmFront is a top down, twin-stick shooter from German developers Andrade Games and while this genre is heavily represented on PSN, this game more so than many others feels like a direct homage to some of the ’80s arcade titles that popularised this style of game. You play as Siegfried […]

SturmFront: The Mutant War – PS4 Review

One Escape is the latest from Ratalaika Games by way of dev Bug Studio in which you have to, yes, escape. Playing as one of three accomplices who’ve robbed a bank, they find themselves in the slammer. This sets up twenty discrete levels for each of the three characters, Dook […]

One Escape – PS5 Review

There was a time at PlayStation Country where if a visual novel came in it meant that I, as the resident fan of niche Japanese games, had to do it. Basically I like JRPGs therefore I was the best set for visual novels. Thankfully that’s not necessarily the case any […]

Root Film – PS4 Review

Traditional adventure games have never quite settled for me. There’s quite a few that pay homage to the Lucas Arts template in terms of puzzles and humour which I find slightly off-putting. Cloak and Dagger Games’ Sumatra: Fate of Yandi firmly sits in an old school camp with some low-resolution […]

Sumatra: Fate of Yandi – PS4 Review

Stubbs The Zombie in Rebel Without A Pulse to use its full title, is a port of the 2005 original XBox / PC game from the now-defunct Wideload Games and Aspyr Media, the latter handling the port to modern consoles. We played it sparingly at the time, though we’re not […]

Stubbs The Zombie in Rebel Without A Pulse – PS4 ...

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Tennis World Tour 2 is the sequel to Big Ben Interactive’s poorly received tennis game Tennis World Tour.  We actually reviewed the PS4 version of this sequel last September, giving it 4 out of 10, a score that was in range of its Metacritic rating but Nacon have given the game […]

Tennis World Tour 2 – PS5 Review