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It’s been a busy time around here with releases starting to drop. February used to be a bit of a dumping ground but now, as games are delayed and release windows are hard to nail down, games feel like they can arrive at any time of year. Step forth, Scars […]

Scars Above – PS5 Review

February 28, 2023 in PS5 / Reviews tagged first contact / investigations / mad head games / metahedron / scars above / science / soulslike / space / third-person shooter by Mike

Hardspace: Shipbreaker is the latest title from Vancouver natives Blackbird Interactive and it’s genuinely got a different concept to really any game we’ve reviewed or played. It’s pretty much as the name suggests. You’re a spaceship salvager and you float around in space cutting up giant space ships before flinging their […]

Hardspace: Shipbreaker – PS5 Review

October 3, 2022 in PS5 / Reviews tagged hardspace shipbreaker / in space no one can make you put out the green bin / recycling / simulator / space / work by Richie

Cake Invaders is a shoot ’em up from Japanese devs Zoo Corporation that plays out like a modern version of the old Atari classic Missile Command. It’s published by Eastasiasoft who are known for their prolific Ratalaika-style, easy double-Platinum ports and is a port of the PC version that came out […]

Cake Invaders – PS5 Review

January 27, 2022 in PS4 / PS5 / Reviews tagged cake invaders / eastasiasoft / german cakes / missile command / shoot em up / space by Richie

Chorus is a space combat shooter from Fishlabs, the German developer best known for the popular Galaxy on Fire series (a similar set of space shooters that made their name on Android and iOS) and is their first original console title, following on from a couple of Saints Row remasters. The game is a […]

Chorus – PS5 Review

December 16, 2021 in PS5 / Reviews tagged Chorus / chorvs / combat / dogfighting / space / star wars by Richie

NASA will probably tell you golf and space go hand in hand. Ever since they hoofed balls on the Moon, there’s been a fascination with sport where the gravity simply isn’t there. Golf video games tend to play a lot more with reality and Golf Club: Wasteland is opting for […]

Golf Club: Wasteland – PS5 Review

September 4, 2021 in PS5 / Reviews tagged apocalypse / golf club wasteland / mars colonist / narratively-driven / radio talk show / ruins / space / sport by Mike

We’ve been quite excited about R-Type Final 2 ever since it was announced a couple of years ago (as a Kickstarter project) and it’s finally arrived. If you don’t know, R-Type is shoot ’em up royalty. A series that goes back to the golden age of the arcades with the first game hitting […]

R-Type Final 2 – PS4 Review

May 3, 2021 in PS4 / Reviews tagged arcade / coin-op / difficult difficult lemon difficult / horizontally-scrolling / r-type / r-type final 2 / shoot em up / space by Richie

It isn’t often that a series will fundamentally change from one game to the next but when Italian coding crew 34BigThings revisited Redout, their super-fast, futuristic racer, they decided to turn it into a space-based shoot ’em up. Redout: Space Assault is a third-person, into-the-screen shooter that has very little in common […]

Redout: Space Assault – PS4 Review

January 28, 2021 in PS4 / Reviews tagged arcade / redout / shoot em up / shooter / space / space assault by Richie

Couch co-op might not entirely be the best thing in mind during a pandemic. Still, there’s plenty of people stuck indoors, potentially with family, friends or flatmates so games of that ilk might see some joy. One such game is Bonkies, a cooperative building game that oozes charm but maybe […]

Bonkies – PS4 Review

January 28, 2021 in PS4 / Reviews tagged bananas / bonkies / building / cooperative / couch co-op / monkies / physics / solar system / space / stacking / studio gauntlet by Mike

Jedi Academy is a straight forward port of the 2003 sequel to Jedi Outcast. We reviewed that game’s port last year and gave it a respectable 7 out of 10 but were always bigger fans of Jedi Academy and so we were looking forward to this release, even if the almost twenty year […]

Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy – PS4 Review

April 1, 2020 in PS4 tagged hack and slash / jedi academy / port / rerelease / space / star wars by Richie

There’s an unknown quality to space that media loves to plunder and explore. H.P. Lovecraft’s work is an obvious example of this and Moons of Madness looks to take heavy inspiration from the Victorian horror writer. Now, forgive me if I’m a little worn out by the relatively recent influx […]

Moons of Madness – PS4 Review

March 24, 2020 in PS4 / Reviews tagged cosmic horror / lovecraft / mars / moons of madness / rock pocket games / space / story-driven / walking simulator by Mike

Shoot ’em up fans are well-catered for on Sony’s store and Iro Hero, a vertically scrolling shooter from Spanish devs Artax Games, is the latest addition to the genre. It sets up the story with some screens that explain that humanity is being exploited by aliens who want to us as […]

Iro Hero – PS4 Review

December 22, 2019 in PS4 tagged easy trophies / ikaruga / shoot em up / shooter / space / vertically scrolling by Richie

From developer No Code comes Observation, a science fiction thriller. It has an interesting concept in that you play as an AI watching the plot unfold through cameras rather than being the focus yourself. The artificial intelligence you embody is called Sam, short for SAMOS. You are the AI on […]

Observation – PS4 Review

May 21, 2019 in PS4 tagged artificial intelligence / observation / sci fi / science fiction / space / station / walking simulator by Gareth