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When I looked at a trailer for VED, I wondered if it would be for me. I saw dice rolls in an RPG setting and slightly baulked at the idea of reviewing it. Thankfully, VED is an interesting mix of turn-based action with a heavy narrative focused around the discovery […]

VED – PS5 Review

November 24, 2024 in PS5 / Reviews tagged choose your own adventure / corporate espionage / dice rolling / faction warfare / fairies / Fantasy / karaclan / magic / narratively-driven / rpg / turn-based combat / ved by Mike

King Arthur: A Knight’s Tale is an RPG with turn-based combat and with it’s mostly top-down viewpoint is very in keeping with the rest of the software catalogue of Hungarian developers NeocoreGames given that they made all those Van Helsing games and Warhammer 40,000: Inquisitor. They’re known for combining a solid story […]

King Arthur: A Knight’s Tale – PS5 Review

March 11, 2024 in PS5 / Reviews tagged adventure / king arthur: a knight's tale / rpg / the knights who say nic / turn-based by Richie

Hammerwatch II is a top-down RPG hack and slasher from Swedish studio, CrackShell. It follows on directly from the 2013 original Hammerwatch, pretty much ignoring their 2018 rogue-like Heroes of Hammerwatch, a game that had its flaws but one that we liked enough to put in hundreds of hours with. Even now […]

Hammerwatch II – PS5 Review

December 23, 2023 in PS5 / Reviews tagged bad netcode / crackshell / hammerwatch II / Pixel art / rpg by Richie

Baldur’s Gate 3 is a role-playing game based on the Dungeons & Dragons (Fifth Edition) tabletop system and it comes to us from Belgian Studio Larian Games otherwise known for the Divinity series. The game itself has been out on PSN for a couple of weeks now and is already a shoo-in […]

Baldur’s Gate 3 – PS5 Review

September 19, 2023 in PS5 / Reviews tagged adventure / baldur's gate 3 / dungeons and dragons / larian / rpg by Richie

Remnant II is a third-person action/shooter/RPG that comes to us by way of Texan studio Gunfire Games and is, of course, the sequel to their 2019 offering Remnant: From The Ashes, a decent but fairly forgettable title that mixed a bit of post-apocalyptic misery with some looter-shooter gameplay. The original game had you […]

Remnant II – PS5 Review

August 8, 2023 in PS5 / Reviews tagged looter shooter / remnant II / rpg / souls-like / third-person by Richie

Spiders are a French developer most well known for action RPGs like the enjoyable Greedfall. They’re generally not the most polished titles but they’re reasonably ambitious. Steelrising is also an action RPG, but this time taking a far greater influence from From Software titles. That’s aiming very high, but how […]

Steelrising – PS5 Review

September 7, 2022 in PS5 / Reviews tagged action / automaton / bloodborne / metroidvania / paris / rpg / Souls / steelrising by Gareth

A few years ago I reviewed Sword and Fairy 6 for PlayStation Country. I still hold it up to this day as the most technically broken game I’ve reviewed, even though the game itself was fairly competent. You can read the review to get the details (though testing it on […]

Sword and Fairy: Together Forever – PS5 Review

August 4, 2022 in PS5 / Reviews tagged action / chinese / real time / rpg / sword and fairy / together forever by Gareth

Disgaea 6: Defiance of Destiny came out exclusively (in the West) on Switch a year ago, despite the close connection the series has with the PlayStation platform. That’s now been rectified with the release of Disgaea 6 Complete on PS4 and PS5. All the DLC that has come out over […]

Disgaea 6 Complete – PS5 Review

June 27, 2022 in PS5 / Reviews tagged 3d / anime / defiance of destiny / disgaea / dlc / grinding / rpg / strategy by Gareth

Ever since 2012, we’ve been telling anyone who will listen about the greatness that is Kingdoms of Amalur, an RPG that we first experienced on the Xbox 360 which combined solid storytelling, open-world exploration and fleshed-out RPG aspects with some of the best combat the genre has ever seen. Although it […]

Kingdoms of Amalur: Fatesworn DLC – PS4 Review

January 7, 2022 in PS4 / Reviews tagged dlc / fatesworn / kingdoms of amalur / rpg / skyrim but better by Richie

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

King’s Bounty 2 is a cross-over RPG/tactics game from Russian coders 1C Entertainment who have quite the softography of lesser-known titles behind them. Of course, this is a sequel to the original King’s Bounty, a 1990 tactical RPG that originated on the PC but did good business on the Amiga […]

King’s Bounty 2 – PS4 Review

August 29, 2021 in PS4 / Reviews tagged adventure / king's bounty / reboot / rpg / turn based strategy by Richie

Blightbound is an online-focused co-op hack and slasher with RPG elements and it comes to us from the fabulous Devolver Digital and was created by Dutch dev crew Ronimo Games. It started life as a PC early access title in 2020 but has now landed on all the consoles. Set after […]

Blightbound – PS4 Review

August 4, 2021 in PS4 / Reviews tagged 2d / blightbound / brawler / rpg by Richie