cyberpunk

I can’t say I had high hopes for Marathon. The protracted development cycle, issues over stolen artwork and a general malaise around pre-release had me wondering if Bungie could still pull something out of the bag. I may not be all that into extraction shooters but Marathon‘s world of corporate […]

Marathon – PS5 Review

March 17, 2026 in PS5 / Reviews tagged bungie / corporate espionage / cyberpunk / designer's republic / extraction shooter / future aesthetic / marathon / online multiplayer only / robotic shell by Mike

It’s something of a shame that there’s some wonderful throwback first-person-shooters that don’t quite escape the PC’s gravitational pull. Even when some do make it across, I often wonder about the quality of the ports and controllers just don’t have the precision of a mouse. With that in mind, I […]

Turbo Overkill – PS5 Review

March 6, 2025 in PS5 / Reviews tagged apogee / boomer shooter / cyberpunk / fps / gore / platforming / trigger happy interactive / turbo overkill by Mike

I love the original System Shock. Coming in 1994, the expectations and boundaries of a first-person perspective hadn’t really been hammered home. As such, there was a lot of experimentation in how to control and interact within a cyberpunk setting which led to some interesting results. I finished it within […]

System Shock – PS5 Review

June 2, 2024 in PS5 / Reviews tagged cyberpunk / first person / hacker / immersive sim / nightdive / puzzles / shodan / shooting / space station / system shock by Mike

I know games sometimes like to cover civil unrest, protest and it’s consequences but they largely don’t concern themselves too much with ethical quandaries behind the curtain. There’s always a greater good and the good guys usually win out. Vengeful Heart has a fairly obvious cause to fight for but […]

Vengeful Heart – PS5 Review

April 4, 2022 in PS5 / Reviews tagged cyberpunk / dystopia / eco-terrorists / insurgency / l / narratively-driven / salmon snake / vengeful heart / visual novel by Mike

The Ascent is a top-down, twin-stick action RPG from Swedish software house Neon Giant. It’s their first game but members of Neon Giant were involved in Gears of War, Doom, Wolfenstein and PSC favourite Bulletstorm. With its top-down perspective and ‘dungeon-crawling’ mission structure, a lot of people seem to think of The Ascent as […]

The Ascent – PS5 Review

March 28, 2022 in PS5 / Reviews tagged cyberpunk / the ascent / top down / twin-stick shooter by Richie

Ape Tribe Games released Disjunction a few weeks back via publisher Sold Out. It’s set in a dystopian nightmare version of New York in the near future. Graphically we’re reminded of Beneath A Steel Sky, which is no bad thing. It’s cyberpunk we guess, but we’re wary of pigeonholing it, […]

Disjunction – PS4 Review

March 23, 2021 in PS4 / Reviews tagged cyberpunk / disjunction / Noir / sold out by Ian

Observer: System Redux is a sci-fi cyberpunk adventure from Polish horror specialists Bloober Team who were also responsible for Layers of Fear, Blair Witch and, of course, Observer which was the original 2017 PS4 title that this is a PS5 update of. The game places you in the shoes of Daniel Lazarski who is […]

Observer: System Redux – PS5 Review

November 25, 2020 in PS5 / Reviews tagged blade runner / cyberpunk / horror / observer / sci fi by Richie

RUINER is the debut title by Polish dev squad Reikon Games and it combines twin-stick shooting with a cyberpunk aesthetic, which is a combination that PS4 gamers, and reviewers, are more than familiar with. The game stands out though thanks to developers’ commitment to the Blade Runner-esque style of the […]

RUINER – PS4 Review

September 29, 2017 in PS4 tagged cyberpunk / isometric / ruiner / twin-stick shooter by Richie