rogue-like

From Puppygames and Thalamus Digital comes the game formerly known as Basingstoke. Originally released on PC in 2018, it has made the move to PS5 and gained a Welcome to prefix, though we have to question quite why. The Basingstoke part could just as well have been any number of […]

Welcome to Basingstoke – PS5 Review

September 19, 2025 in PS5 / Reviews tagged amazingstoke / basingstoke / geographical inconsistencies / rogue-like by Ian

FROGUE is a rogue-like platformer from Brazilian-based Wired Dreams where you play as a sword-wielding frog as it clears room after room of enemies. The pixel-art visuals might suggest something a little generic, the usual indie fodder but this game genuinely brings something new to the genre. If you ever saw […]

FROGUE – PS5 Review

July 16, 2024 in PS5 tagged Frog / frogue / platformer / rogue-like / turn-based by Richie

The Land Beneath Us from Bangkok-based developer Fairplay Studios and French publisher Dear Villagers (aka Plug In Digital), is a bit different from their prior release Fallen Knight as reviewed by Richie almost three years ago. It’s another roguelike/lite/whatever. We’ve stopped caring what the actual definition is, more whether a […]

The Land Beneath Us – PS5 Review

July 3, 2024 in PS5 / Reviews tagged dear villagers / fairplay / rogue-like / the land beneath us by Ian

Backpack Hero is a rogue-like mix of turn-based tactical RPG and inventory management sim genres and it comes to us by way of developer Jaspel. It’s been around on Steam for half a year now but has finally landed on PSN. In Backpack Hero, you play as Purse, a rat from the town […]

Backpack Hero – PS5 Review

July 1, 2024 in PS5 tagged backpack hero / inventory management / rogue-like by Richie

Starward Rogue is a top-down, twin-stick shooting rogue-like from state-side developers Arcen games. It’s a bit of a strange one this, as the game came out for PC back in 2015 albeit to a rather unsuccessful launch which was apparently so bad that it caused the studio to shed three employees […]

Starward Rogue – PS5 Review

January 29, 2024 in PS5 / Reviews tagged arcen games / rogue-like / starward rogue / twin-stick shooter by Richie

Hero Survival is a top-down auto-shooter from indie studio PigeonDev which combines the dodging/shooting action genre made popular by Vampire Survivors with simple 16-bit visuals. This genre is exploding on mobile platforms but is just getting started on PSN. We previously reviewed Remedium: Sentinels which had a go at this sort of […]

Hero Survival – PS5 Review

October 18, 2023 in PS5 / Reviews tagged 16-bit / auto-shooter / hero survival / Pixel art / rogue-like / top down by Richie

Mystic Gate is a twin-stick shooter from Zoo Corporation that has a rogue-like structure and a dungeon-crawling setting. It’s been around since February on PC but has now made its way over to PSN thanks to the ever-prolific publishers eastasiasoft (their lack of capitalisation, not ours). The game’s thin plot involves […]

Mystic Gate – PS5 Review

September 25, 2023 in PS5 / Reviews tagged eastasiasoft / mystic gate / Pixel art / rogue-like / twin-stick shooter by Richie

Die After Sunset is a third-person shooter with rogue-like elements and it comes to us by way of Spanish studio Playstark. With its colourful palette, a host of crates to loot and a lot of verticality, the immediate comparison is with the insanely popular Fortnite and certainly this game does have […]

Die After Sunset – PS5 Review

September 1, 2023 in PS5 / Reviews tagged die after sunset / fortnite / playstark / risk of rain 2 / rogue-like / upgrades by Richie

Despite getting three lots of DLC last year, the Far Cry 6 expansions keep coming with the latest, Lost Between Worlds, now available on PSN. Unlike those previous DLCs though, this one gives the player back control of Dani Rojas, the protagonist from the main game. A short, slightly glitchy cutscene sets […]

Far Cry 6: Lost Between Worlds DLC – PS5 Review

January 17, 2023 in PS5 / Reviews tagged dlc / far cry 6 / lost between worlds / rogue-like / ubisoft by Richie

Gods Will Fall is a new Rogue-like title with some interesting ideas. The titular gods have started to get greedy, asking for more and more sacrifices and man has had enough. An army sails towards the island that the gods inhabit but the majority don’t make it, the gods destroying […]

Gods Will Fall – PS4 Review

February 6, 2021 in PS4 / Reviews tagged bloodlust / dark souls / gods will fall / Mega Man / rewards / rogue-like / stories by Gareth

PlayStation gamers were never able to play the original 2013 Hammerwatch, a hack and slasher from Swedish (not Danish!) coding squad, Crackshell. They have however just dropped 2018’s Heroes of Hammerwatch on us, a game that takes the original hacking and slashing but builds quite a complex upgrading system behind the action. […]

Heroes of Hammerwatch – PS4 Review

January 16, 2021 in PS4 / Reviews tagged classes / hack and slash / heroes of hammerwatch / Pixel art / retro / rogue-like / rogue-lite / upgrade by Richie

We’ve made no secret of our love for 10Tons Ltd and their range of top down shooters. Follow us on Twitter and you’ll regularly see us going on about Jydge which we recently reviewed again when it showed up as part of the PS5’s launch line-up. As soon as we […]

Tesla Force – PS5 Review

November 28, 2020 in PS5 / Reviews tagged 10tonsltd / arcade / neonchrome / rogue-like / tesla force / twin-stick shooter by Richie