Fantasy

Alright, I can finally cross off 4X strategy games off my gaming blind-spot. I can’t say I’ve actively avoided them but I do prefer strategy to be more real time and, preferably involve some kind of power fantasy. Spellforce: Conquest of Eo certainly provides the fantasy part. Taking place across […]

Spellforce: Conquest of Eo – PS5 Review

November 13, 2023 in PS5 / Reviews tagged combat / crafting / Expand / exploit / explore / exterminate / Fantasy / owned by gravity / resource management / spellfoce conquest of eo / turn based strategy 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

GreedFall is an action role-playing game from Spiders. They’ve released a few over the years though I have to admit I’ve not played any of them, though some did interest me. Their most recent attempt combines influences from the 17th century as well as fantastical elements and has you colonising […]

GreedFall – PS4 Review

September 19, 2019 in PS4 tagged 17th century / action rpg / deplomacy / Fantasy / greedfall / spiders by Gareth

It’s not often I venture into fantasy ARPGs but there’s usually a relaxing, low-effort feel to a dungeon crawl against scores of disposable enemies. Warhammer Chaosbane comes from EKO Software who are looking to add Game Workshop’s universe to an already tried and true formula. With it’s inspiration very much […]

Warhammer Chaosbane – PS4 Review

June 4, 2019 in PS4 / Reviews tagged action rpg / diablo / dungeon crawler / eko software / Fantasy / loot / warhammer chaosbane by Mike

You don’t tend to see a lot of console real-time strategy, do you? Even when you do, controllers don’t seem to map nicely to keyboard and mouse so you wind up with something simplified and compromised. There have been rare success stories and Passtech Games are hoping Masters of Anima […]

Masters of Anima – PS4 Review

April 10, 2018 in PS4 / Reviews tagged Fantasy / golems / masters of anima / minions / passtech games / real time strategy by Mike

Battle Chasers Nightwar is a crowdfunded game based on the comic of the same name. I doubt I’m alone in not knowing anything about the comic but apparently this was well respected. The game then has been created by the same person behind the comic and is a perfect jumping on […]

Battle Chasers Nightwar – PS4 Review

October 1, 2017 in PS4 tagged Battle Chasers / comic / Fantasy / random / rpg by Steven

Whilst a vast swathe of modern indie games enjoy using the retro aesthetic of 8-bit pixel art, there are many other periods of retro gaming available. Pankapu has action which harks back to the 90s platform games of old but manages to catapult the graphics into the present day. Pankapu is a story […]

Pankapu – PS4 Review

September 20, 2017 in PS4 tagged 90s / Fantasy / pankapu / platformer / story by Steven

Heroes of the Monkey Tavern is retro to a fault. Taking cues from PC dungeon crawlers of yesteryear this looks like a homage to games like Might and Magic or Dungeon Master and is all about exploring those dungeons. You take control of a group of four heroes who, after a night of […]

Heroes of the Monkey Tavern – PS4 Review

March 30, 2017 in PS4 tagged dungeon crawler / Fantasy / Heroes of the Monkey Tavern / Monkey / rpg by Steven

Based on the Markus Heitz novel of the same name, King Art Games are attempting to provide tactical-RPG fans with something a little different. Will the small package punch above it’s weight or will the diminutive figure dwindle under the weight of expectation? First thing’s first, the source material gets […]

The Dwarves – PS4 Review

December 3, 2016 in PS4 / Reviews tagged Fantasy / king art games / markus heitz / tactical rpg / the dwarves by Mike

Point and click, point and click. There really should be another name for this genre on consoles as when you play it with a DualShock 4 its more like walk and press X game. Silence is the sequel to a PC game from 1998 called The Whispered World, yeah no […]

Silence – PS4 Review

November 19, 2016 in PS4 tagged Fantasy / Guff / point and click / Sadwick / Silence by Steven