parkour

I’ve played a few of these precise, 3D platformers over the years. I can’t say I’ve found a truly bad one but the biggest metric for success tends to rest on the patience of the person playing. The Confinement is the latest attempt to deliver a quick-fire adrenalin rush from […]

The Confinement – PS5 Review

April 25, 2026 in PS5 / Reviews tagged 3d / futuristic / mr. dev studio / obstacle course / online leaderboards / parkour / precision platformer / the confinement / the floor is lava / time trial by Mike

Steel Seed is a third-person action/adventure game from Italian developers Storm in a Teacup and it tells the story of Zoe, a woman who finds her consciousness has been downloaded into a robot body by her father in his efforts to enable her to save the planet a millennia after […]

Steel Seed – PS5 Review

April 22, 2025 in PS5 tagged action / adventure / double-A / ninja / parkour / stealth / steel seed / storm in a teacup / third-person by Richie

Have rhythm games left the stage or have they just transitioned into first-person shooters? I’ve seen a few now where shooting on the beat has been their gimmick but Robobeat is the first one I’ve had to a review. Coming from the mind of Simon Fredholm, this effort takes a […]

Robobeat – PS5 Review

February 8, 2025 in PS5 / Reviews tagged bounty hunting / first-person shooter / gun-fu / guns / parkour / parrying / rhythmic shooter / robobeat / roguelite / simon fredholm / technopunk by Mike

Zombie games, they never die do they? Rather apt really. You can go back ten to fifteen years and people were calling for a break from them. Similarly the open world genre is saturating gaming somewhat, with every game needing huge maps with icons all over it to keep the […]

Dying Light 2: Stay Human – PS5 Review

February 17, 2022 in PS5 / Reviews tagged dying light / first person / open world / parkour / stay human / zombies by Gareth

Schacht is a third-person time-trial platformer that comes to us by way of German developers GuriGroup and for an indie effort it’s unusually slick, especially given that this was essentially a student project and comes from a small team. There’s no plot to speak of and the title doesn’t hint […]

Schacht – PS4 Review

February 17, 2018 in PS4 tagged parkour / platformer / racing / schacht / space by Richie

Cloudbuilt is one of those games that went almost completely unnoticed to all but a few when it first launched in 2014 on PC. Although it was fantastic to look at and equally so to play, for some reason it couldn’t penetrate the hearts and minds of the many, […]

Super Cloudbuilt – PS4 Review

July 28, 2017 in PS4 / Reviews tagged Cloudbuilt / free running / parkour / speedy / Super by Grizz