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Nuclear Blaze is a 2D fire-fighting puzzle-platformer that is notable for being the new project from Sébastien Bénard, the lead designer behind the critically-acclaimed Dead Cells and the game has an interesting history. In its earliest form, Nuclear Blaze was coded in just two days as part of a ‘game […]

Nuclear Blaze – PS4 Review

April 26, 2023 in PS4 / Reviews tagged dead cells / fire / firefighting / nuclear blaze / platformer / puzzle by Richie

The venerable old Puzzle Bobble series came back in 2021 thanks to a PSVR-enabled outing and this game here is the non-PSVR PS5 port of the same game. But without its virtual reality gimmick have State-side software specialists Survios, got enough here for the game to standalone? Let’s find out. For the […]

Puzzle Bobble 3D: Vacation Odyssey – PS5 Review

September 15, 2022 in PS5 / Reviews tagged bubble bobble / bust a move / not psvr / puzzle / puzzle bobble 3d by Richie

Train Valley is a puzzle game from Lithuanian developers Flazm Interactive and it takes all of the content from the original 2015 PC game and incorporates DLC content too. It looks a little like a city-building strategy game with railway management elements but this has more in common with those […]

Train Valley: Console Edition – PS5 Review

July 29, 2022 in PS5 / Reviews tagged puzzle / puzzler / railway / strategy / train valley / trains by Richie

Two Hundred Ways from Sunlight Games is the imaginatively named sequel to the XBox and PC only One Hundred Ways. That game had a hundred levels, so have a guess how many levels are in the sequel! This is something of a belated release on PS4, coming some months after […]

Two Hundred Ways – PS4 Review

July 28, 2022 in PS4 / Reviews tagged boring / crap trophies / puzzle / two hundred ways to leave your lover by Ian

Puzzle games might be the only genre these days that gets my brain in full gear. Not to say that other games don’t have puzzle elements but I do like sitting in front of something that is entirely focused around testing your mental fortitude. System of Souls comes from Spanish […]

System of Souls – PS4 Review

June 28, 2022 in PS4 / Reviews tagged boxes / chaotic lab / first person / platforming / portal / puzzle / robots / Spain / switches / system of souls / test chamber by Mike

Remember Atari? They were famously co-founded by Nolan Bushnell in the early ’70s. After the videogame crash and even more half-arsed 1990s attempts at console hardware than Sega, they ceased to be. Also remember Infogrames? They acquired the rights to the Atari name and subsequently rebranded. Now they’re back with […]

Kombinera – PS5 Review

April 12, 2022 in PS5 / Reviews tagged kombinera / neil armstrong he had balls bigger than king kong first big suit on the moon and he's off to play golf hole in one / puzzle / rage by Ian

The Last Cube is the best kind of game we get in for review here at PSC. It literally came out of nowhere with no fanfare or hype yet we find it entirely took over our gaming for a good week or so. We meant to write this review sooner, […]

The Last Cube – PS5 Review

April 6, 2022 in PS4 / PS5 / Reviews tagged cubes / dion dublin's dube / don't go chasing waterfalls / improx / puzzle / stickers by Ian

The clumsily-named QUByte Classics – The Humans by Piko, is a port of a handful of versions of The Humans, a retro-puzzle game from the ’90s that feels a bit like Lemmings but plays a little more like The Lost Vikings but if you’re not familiar, don’t worry. We’ll tell you all about it. In any […]

The Humans by Piko – PS4 Review

February 19, 2022 in PS4 / Reviews tagged 2d / amiga / Collection / lemmings / megadrive / PC / port / puzzle / retro / the humans by Richie

It’s always odd for me to be introduced to a long-running series I know nothing about. Games come out in all shapes and sizes but finding out FM Studio’s output does make me realise my knowledge of available games is a drop in the ocean. The two-person studio have been […]

Forgotten Hill Disillusion – PS5 Review

January 8, 2022 in PS5 / Reviews tagged fm studio / forgotten hill disillusion / horror / logic / museum / mystery / point and click / puzzle by Mike

Gardener’s Path is the latest joint from yer man Ratalaika. As is the norm, this was originally on itch.io and developed by Viridino Studios, they also of Duck Souls, Rabisco and Pinkman. As is also the norm, the splash art on the loading screen is absolutely beautiful and bears little, […]

Gardener’s Path – PS4 Review

January 7, 2022 in PS4 / PS5 / Reviews tagged puzzle / ratalaika / viridino by Ian

Nuclear Corps is an arcade/puzzler which comes by way of the PlayStation Talents programme. It’s full title is actually Nuclear Corps: Veterans in Fukushima and it is inspired by the Fukushima disaster in 2011 where an earthquake and tsunami triggered a meltdown of a nuclear energy plant in Japan. That day a group […]

Nuclear Corps – PS4 Review

December 7, 2021 in PS4 / Reviews tagged arcade / lost vikings / nuclear corps / PlayStation Talents / puzzle by Richie

Insomnis is a first-person horror-themed walking simulator and puzzle game that comes to us by way of Barcelona-based coders Path Games and is the latest product of Spain’s ‘PlayStation Talents’ indie games programme. Despite its name sounding like a typo (try Googling it and see how much Google protests), we […]

Insomnis – PS4 Review

November 12, 2021 in PS4 / Reviews tagged 10p resi / first person / google it with quotation marks / horror / insomnis / puzzle / walking simulator by Richie