Casual

Hook: Complete Edition is, as the name might suggest, an amalgam of two separate titles. Hook and Hook 2 in fact. Penned as puzzle, casual and brain training on the PSN store, that’s a fair description. OK, review done. This is alright, go play it. Hours of mild diversion. Seriously […]

Hook: Complete Edition – PS5 Review

September 12, 2025 in PS5 / Reviews tagged Casual / hook / hook ce / puzzle / rainbow train by Ian

Build Lands is a casual building game from Brazilian-based Yaw Studios and after a 2022 PC release, it’s now out on console. Now, “casual building game” doesn’t tell you much and we’ll get onto that in a bit but this is genuinely a hard game to classify as it’s not […]

Build Lands – PS5 Review

March 5, 2025 in PS5 tagged build lands / building / Casual / minecraft / relax / task by Richie

Pretty Girls Pop Match is the latest puzzle game in eastasiasoft’s Pretty Girls series, a series that has had takes on pretty much every puzzle game format you can think of. From Mahjong to 2048, there isn’t any sub-genre that developers, Zoo Corporation, won’t put some Anime girl portraits on. Strangely though, they’ve […]

Pretty Girls Pop Match – PS5 Review

December 1, 2024 in PS5 tagged anime / anime is weird frankly / Casual / match-three / pretty girls pop match / puzzle by Richie

Magical Drop VI is the latest in a series of arcade puzzlers which date back to 1995 when the legendary arcade publisher Data East first released it in arcades. This latest instalment comes by way of French coders Highball Games and while it’s their first crack at the series, it sticks […]

Magical Drop VI – PS5 Review

June 23, 2024 in PS5 tagged anime / arcade / Casual / magical drop / puzzler by Richie

Rusty Spout Rescue Adventure is an indie puzzler from Thai-based coders 7 Ravens Studio and a game that revisits a classic game format from years past. Any reader over the age of twenty who is reading this, will have seen from the screenshots that this is pretty much a Puzzle Bobble/Bust-A-Move clone. […]

Rusty Spout Rescue Adventure – PS4 Review

December 9, 2020 in PS4 / Reviews tagged arcade / bust a move / Casual / puzzle / puzzle bobble / rusty spout rescue adventure by Richie

Lost Grimoires 2: Shard of Mystery is another Artifex Mundi game and the follow up to Lost Grimoires: Stolen Kingdom which I rather liked. As with all their other output this is a hidden object puzzle game and very much sticks to the template laid down in previous games. If you’ve played one […]

Lost Grimoires 2: Shard of Mystery – PS4 Review

December 14, 2017 in PS4 tagged alchemy / Casual / hidden object / lost grimoires / puzzle by Steven

Sometimes games defy easy categorisation and Butter & Friends: Babysitter Sim is one of those games. Inspired by the wallpapers and avatars popular on the PlayStation 3 this is an arcade experience unlike anything else I’ve played. The concept behind this game is that you and up to three local […]

Butter & Friends: Babysitter Sim – PS4 Review

November 1, 2017 in PS4 tagged arcade / Baby / Butter / Casual / why the fuck is this on the ps4 by Steven

The developers Artifex Mundi are back again with their latest release on PlayStation 4, Abyss: The Wraiths of Eden, another hidden object game. If you’ve been following our site you’ll know that we’ve a certain soft spot for these casual puzzle games. This latest title doesn’t change the established formula and fans […]

Abyss: The Wraiths of Eden – PS4 Review

October 21, 2017 in PS4 tagged abyss / artifex mundi / Casual / hidden object / puzzle by Steven

Grim Legends 2: Song of the Dark Swan is a game by Artifex Mundi, the purveyors of hidden object and light puzzle games. We reviewed the first Grim Legends game a while back and while this game shares the same name there is no carry over in the story between the two. If […]

Grim Legends 2: Song of the Dark Swan -PS4 Review

August 30, 2017 in PS4 tagged artifex mundi / Casual / grim legends 2 / hidden object / puzzle by Steven

Lost Grimoires: Stolen Kingdom is the latest Artifex Mundi joint and that can mean only one thing, there will be plenty of hidden objects to find. On the face of it there is little to differentiate this game from any of the other output from Artifex Mundi, and from the get […]

Lost Grimoires: Stolen Kingdom – PS4 Review

July 22, 2017 in PS4 tagged atrifex mundi / Casual / hidden object / lost grimoires / puzzle by Steven

Enigmatis 2: The Mists of Ravenwood is another game from Artifex Mundi, the hidden object game people. This is the second entry in the Enigmatis series and continues the tale of the same detective as she follows the trail of the murderous priest from the first game. If you’ve ever […]

Enigmatis 2: The Mists of Ravenwood – PS4 Review

June 9, 2017 in PS4 tagged Casual / Enigmatis / hidden object / puzzle / story by Steven

Artifex Mundi know how to tell a tale and their games all survive on the eventful stories being told. The sheer volume of what they put out has allowed them to explore a whole range of topics and settings. Eventide: Slavic Fable once again works within the same light adventure […]

Eventide: Slavic Fable – PS4 Review

April 27, 2017 in PS4 tagged artifex mundi / Casual / eventide / hidden object / puzzle by Steven