rogue-lite

Rogue-likes/lites come in many different flavours, some will let arcade skills balance out the randomness if you’re good enough for example. Crown Trick on PS4 does not, you only have your own tactical nuance to help battle the RNG. if you want to make the game go faster you should […]

Crown Trick – PS4 Review

September 15, 2021 in PS4 / Reviews tagged crown trick / grid based / luck / rng / rogue-lite / rpg / turn-based / upgrades by Gareth

I really, really liked Slay the Spire. I’m not one for card games and I’ve only semi-recently come around to Rogue-likes but the challenge offered combined with the learning curve and depth really struck a chord. Neoverse is very similar in concept but has some nifty ideas of its own […]

Neoverse – PS4 Review

March 18, 2021 in PS4 / Reviews tagged 3d / cards / neoverse / rogue-lite / slay the spire / turn-based by Gareth

Collapsed is a post-apocalyptic 2D rogue-lite from Glaive Games. It has you playing as a nameless protagonist (from a choice of four classes) and sees you running and gunning your way through randomly generated levels, facing off against various enemies and bosses and generally dying a lot. The thing with rogue-lites/likes […]

Collapsed – PS4 Review

March 18, 2021 in PS4 / Reviews tagged collapsed / dead cells / loot / rogue-lite / run and gun / shooting by Richie

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

I’ve come around to the idea of rogue-likes, though I prefer a rogue-lite if I’m honest, I like to see some sort of progression. It’s taken some classics to convince me that losing your progress every time you fail isn’t always a bad thing but that means newcomers have a […]

Fury Unleashed – PS4 Review

May 6, 2020 in PS4 tagged 2d platforming / comic / fury unleashed / rogue-lite / shooter / upgrades by Gareth

We’ve been fans of 10Tons for a while now thanks to their excellent line of roguelite twin-stick shooters. Neon Chrome, Tesla vs Lovecraft and the sensational Jydge were all excellent examples of the genre but now they’ve transposed their talent for roguelite mechanics into a hack and slash quest-driven adventure game. Undead Horde is the […]

Undead Horde – PS4 Review

January 14, 2020 in PS4 tagged 10tons / 10tonsltd / adventure / horde / loot / rogue-lite / RTS / undead by Richie

When the splash screen for Fantastico Studio popped up with a VHS-style filter, this reviewer had a dreadful feeling they were playing Far Cry: Blood Dragon again for a second. Thankfully beyond the synthwave musical stylings and and ’80s trappings that’s where the similarities end. Black Paradox is a space […]

Black Paradox – PS4 Review

April 29, 2019 in PS4 / Reviews tagged arcade shooter / bounty hunter / rogue-lite / synthwave by Ian

You may or may not have heard of Dead Cells. Yes, it’s only just been released but it’s been in Early Access on PC for quite some time and even in its pre-release state it was making a name for itself. Yes, it’s a rogue-lite. Yes it has a pixelated […]

Dead Cells – PS4 Review

August 6, 2018 in PS4 tagged 2d / addictive / dark souls / dead cells / difficult / early access / rogue-lite by Gareth

For a PS+ freebie, 2015’s Tower of Guns was a reasonably good game. It was a rogue-like FPS that had you playing as a lone soldier who had to make his way up the titular tower while facing off against mechanised gun turrets looking to blast you into smithereens. It […]

Mothergunship – PS4 Review

July 17, 2018 in PS4 tagged fps / mothergunship / rogue-lite / tower of guns by Richie

From Batterystaple Games and Fire Hose Games comes 20XX, a rogue-lite love letter to Mega Man X. If you’ve always wanted Mega Man X‘s difficulty to be turned up a notch but with the ability to make things easier by playing it over and over again then you’ve found your […]

20XX – PS4 Review

July 14, 2018 in PS4 tagged 20XX / boss rush / Mega Man / randomly generated / rogue-lite by Gareth

This update of the 2016 PC title Riddled Corpses is a cross-buy title for PS4 and Vita that would give you cirrhosis of the liver if there was a drinking game based on current trends in the indie games market. Twin-stick shooter? Drink! Rogue-lite? Drink! Pixel graphics! Drink! Zombies! DRINNNKKKKK! But despite […]

Riddled Corpses EX – PS4/Vita Review

June 4, 2018 in PS4 / Vita tagged arcade / retro / rogue-lite / twin stick / zombies by Richie

Making games is hard, there’s no doubt. What makes a game mediocre or an all time classic? What makes a game boring or impossible to put down? It’s that little bit of magic that must be so hard to program. Making a game run well must surely be the easy […]

Subaeria – PS4 Review

May 16, 2018 in PS4 tagged buggy / drone / dystopian / killed parents / rogue-lite / subaeria / underwater by Gareth