Vera Blanc: Full Moon is the latest from Ratalaika. It’s another visual novel using the same RenPy scripting language we’ve encountered on multiple occasions already. This time it’s from Italian developer Winter Wolves aka Celso Riva. This originally came out in 2010 anyway… Unlike some of the others this is […]

Vera Blanc: Full Moon – PS4 Review

The fruitful partnership between Zen and whoever owns the Williams pinball IPs pays off once again with this, the sixth compilation of classic Williams pinball tables for Zen’s magnificent Pinball FX3.  This time we get Funhouse (1990), Dr. Dude and His Excellent Ray (1990) and, for the first time digitally, Space […]

Pinball FX3: Williams Pinball (Volume 6) – PS4 Review

It’s been a long while since a new Wipeout has hit a Sony console. Now, at the end of the generation, R8 Games have taken the matter into their own hands. Pacer looks to emulate and pay homage to the feel of the futuristic racer. With imitations like this, they […]

Pacer – PS4 Review

From developer Blacklight Interactive and publisher Team 17, comes Golf With Your Friends. We freely admit that this is our first sight of the game that initially came out in May 2020, reaching us courtesy of Team 17 to publicise the new DLC of three additional courses penned the New […]

Golf With Your Friends – PS4 Review

We’ve reviewed Söldner-X 2: Final Prototype before.  It came out in 2015 but was itself a port of the original 2010 PS3 release.  As with the Vita version, this combines the original PS3 game and its DLC but, slightly protracted history aside, the game is a 2D shoot ’em up, very […]

Söldner-X 2: Final Prototype Definitive Edition – PS4 Review

It’s hard to believe how long-running the Dirt series has become. It’s has been spun-off and reinvented more than once but now the series appears to be facing another identity crisis. Dirt 5 lands at the tail-end of the generation and Codemasters have taken a leaner approach. What lands is […]

Dirt 5 – PS4 Review

Visual novels just don’t stop coming. It’s not a genre I’m especially enamoured with but it’s been fascinating to see the genre transform over time. After plenty of development time and a successful kickstarter, Undead Darlings: No Cure for Love has finally come to fruition. Mr. Tired Media are mixing […]

Undead Darlings: No Cure for Love – PS4 Review

Well, this is different.  We’re used to getting wildly varied games from Ratalaika but this one is definitely something entirely new.  Essentially, Ord. is a text adventure.  Those of you under 30 may have never played one of those before but back in the 8-bit days, it was a pretty popular genre […]

Ord. – PS4 Review

Now that we’re conservatively half a century into videogaming, there aren’t too many original ideas left when it comes to core gameplay mechanics and so the easier option is to try to combine two disparate ones into something relatively new.  In the indie gaming world, this usually means trying to […]

Galacide – PS4 Review

From Bristol-based indie developer The Polygon Loft and publisher Apriori Digital comes Double Pug Switch. The elevator pitch is an auto-runner with pugs. However, there’s a bit more to it than that. You’re a pug in a laboratory. All is well until an accident involving a fellow occupant of the […]

Double Pug Switch – PS4 Review

I quite like the time based platformer genre. Super Meat Boy is the best example, but I’ve enjoyed Shio on the PS4 and 10 Second Ninja X is a good example of a game that isn’t just about platforming but disposing of enemies in a timely fashion too. Damsel has […]

Damsel – PS4 Review

Indie platformers are plentiful and it does seem a fair few chase a responsiveness and challenge that I’m not always up to. Two Parsecs from Earth is a rather more bitesize effort, coming from ABX Game Studios. Whilst it does have some interesting ideas about progression and a fairly focused […]

Two Parsecs from Earth – PS4 Review