2.5d

I do love being impressed. In this job, almost everything is new to me but I never get tired of seeing new ideas work brilliantly. Coming from a single developer, Sam Enright has managed to pull together a visually impressive and cohesive universe whilst also providing a smart role-playing experience. […]

Beyond Galaxyland – PS5 Review

October 10, 2024 in PS5 / Reviews tagged 2.5d / adventure / aliens / beyond galaxyland / photography / platforming / puzzles / sam enright / sci fi / space / turn-based rpg by Mike

I’ll be honest, the Trine series has largely passed me by. I knew of it but never really had the curiosity to give the games a look. That’s changed with Trine 5: A Clockwork Conspiracy arriving on the Playstation 5. Frozenbyte have spent well over a decade polishing the cooperative […]

Trine 5: A Clockwork Conspiracy – PS5 Review

September 14, 2023 in PS5 / Reviews tagged 2.5d / Fantasy / frozenbyte / knight / physics-based / platformer / puzzles / thief / trine 5 a clockwork conspiracy / wizard by Mike

Ayo The Clown comes from apparently NY-based developer Cloud M1 and publisher EastAsiaSoft. Our hope of Ayo talking to his pals like he’s from the hood in hip-hop and gang patois wasn’t to be. Instead Ayo The Clown is a cutesy 2.5D platformer with the titular clown being the hero […]

Ayo The Clown – PS5 Review

April 26, 2022 in PS4 / PS5 / Reviews tagged 2.5d / bad cover version / clown / prerendered / yoshis island by Ian

Flat Kingdom is a 2D-ish puzzle platformer that comes to us by way of Mexican coders Fat Panda. It first emerged over in PC Country back in 2016 but has now found its way to PSN thanks to prolific porters Ratalaika Games. The game is set in the titular Flat […]

Flat Kingdom Paper’s Cut Edition – PS5 Review

April 6, 2022 in PS5 / Reviews tagged 2.5d / flat kingdom / paper / puzzle platformer / ratalaika by Richie

Preventive Strike is a vertically-scrolling shoot ’em up, from Moldovan one-man developer TocanaDev, which first landed on Steam three years ago but has just been brought to PSN by Polish porters SimFabric. You play as an un-named helicopter pilot who has to get through four levels of surprisingly intense aerial […]

Preventive Strike – PS4 Review

December 11, 2021 in PS4 / Reviews tagged 2.5d / helicopter / preventive strike / shoot em up / vertically scrolling by Richie

Fallen Knight is a sword-slashing, platform-jumping action game from Bangkok-based coders Fairplay Studios and it sees you playing as Lancelot and Galahad, two of the famous Knights of the Roundtable. The story has been updated a little though, putting it all in the future. In this future most of humanity’s […]

Fallen Knight – PS4 Review

August 3, 2021 in PS4 / Reviews tagged 2.5d / 2d / fallen knight / hack and slash / megaman / retro / swords by Richie

Urban Trial Tricky is a 2.5D motorcycle-based Trials-esque game from Polish dev crew Tate Multimedia. That is to say that while the action all takes place on a 2D plane, the visuals are polygonal and as for the Trials comparison, this game is more focused on stunts than shaving off seconds from speed […]

Urban Trial Tricky – PS4 Review

July 26, 2021 in PS4 / Reviews tagged 2.5d / motorbikes / stunts / trials / urban trial tricky by Richie

WarDogs: Red’s Return is an old-school 2D beat ’em up in the tradition of games like Renegade, Double Dragon and, most notably, Final Fight. It comes to us from QUByte Interactive and Brazilian coders Mito Games. In it you play as Red, an anthropomorphic fighter (human body, dog’s head) as he returns home […]

WarDogs: Red’s Return – PS4 Review

May 13, 2021 in PS4 / Reviews tagged 2.5d / arcade / Beat em up / final fight / too much story / wardogs by Richie

Post War Dreams is a slightly strange name, one that makes you think this particular run and gunner will have some sort of emotional content to it and the game’s blurb does talk about it being a “story-rich” affair but this 2.5D shooter isn’t a game that is rich in […]

Post War Dreams – PS4 Review

September 14, 2019 in PS4 tagged 2.5d / not good / post apocalyptic / post war dreams / run and gun by Richie

Planet Alpha is a game that wasn’t on our radar before Team 17 made us aware of it. More fool us as what we have here is probably one of the more refreshing takes on the 2.5D platformer in a sumptuously realised world. Besides the obvious appeal of the beautiful […]

Planet Alpha – PS4 Review

September 7, 2018 in PS4 / Reviews tagged 2.5d / 2D Platformer / team17 by Ian

The history of gaming is littered with mascots that didn’t quite make it. For every Sonic or Mario there are plenty of strange heroes and anthromorphic animals that have starred in their own platforming series that weren’t system sellers in their own right. Bubsy was one of those and the […]

Bubsy: The Woolies Strike Back – PS4 Review

November 5, 2017 in PS4 tagged 2.5d / bubsy / overpriced / platformer / retro by Richie

I’ve played both previous instalments and enjoyed them for what they were. They offered a kind of old school stealth, with sight cones, guards which were predictable and decent set pieces to allow you to vary your killing style. This final instalment seems superficially very similar to these, but upon […]

Assassins Creed Chronicles: Russia – PS4 Review

February 11, 2016 in PS4 tagged 2.5d / instant death / polonium-210 / russia / slowdown by Steven