walking simulator

Back when browser games were king, QWOP tested your ability to operate a runner by triggering the muscles of their legs. It was hell and, unfortunately, someone gave Bennet Foddy, Gabe Cuzzillo and Maxi Boch more money to realise this horrifying ambition on a larger scale. Baby Steps is slightly […]

Baby Steps – PS5 Review

October 6, 2025 in PS5 / Reviews tagged baby steps / bennett foddy / comedy / donkeys / failure / gabe cuzzillo / hiking / maxi boch / open world / physics-based / walking simulator / wilderness by Mike

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

RIP Bigben Interactive, we barely knew ye. Now known as Nacon, they bring us Belgian developer Neopica’s latest in Hunting Simulator 2. Something of an about face from ETRC by the same developer, though they did release the first of these games in 2017. We have to confess it passed […]

Hunting Simulator 2 – PS4 Review

June 29, 2020 in PS4 / Reviews tagged hunting / nacon / neopica / walking simulator by Ian

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

There’s been plenty of stories involving science going too far and Storm in a Tea Cup’s Close to the Sun attempts to add their own spin on a common narrative. I do love a walking simulator and the initial trailers showcasing an art deco style had me intrigued from the […]

Close to the Sun – PS4 Review

November 3, 2019 in PS4 / Reviews tagged adventure / close to the sun / narrative driven / nikola tesla / puzzles / storm in a teacup / thomas edison / walking simulator by Mike

Mutazione is described by Danish developers Die Gute Fabrik as a “mutant soap opera” and that’s a pretty good description but before we get into all of that, there’s something you need to know. This is one of those games, an indie game about feelings where not very much happens […]

Mutazione – PS4 Review

September 20, 2019 in PS4 tagged feelings / indie / music / mutazione / walking simulator 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

Shape of the World is a difficult game to review given its meditative qualities. On the one hand, it sets out to do exactly what the developer Stu Maxwell (AKA Hollow Tree Games) had in mind. That is to evoke his local park in videogame form and the relaxing qualities […]

Shape of the World – PS4 Review

June 14, 2018 in PS4 / Reviews tagged isitart / serenity / shapeoftheworld / walking simulator by Ian

Horror games are great when done well, and Amnesia: The Dark Descent was one of the good ones when it was released on the PC back in 2010. It has now come over to the PS4 as a full package of the game, DLC and sequel. With recent evolutions in […]

Amnesia Collection – PS4 Review

November 27, 2016 in PS4 tagged frictional / puzzle / terror / the chinese room / walking simulator by Steven

Look. This is a tricky one to review. Maybe that’s why there aren’t many reviews of the game out there. Of all the games that have come along in this PSVR launch period, Loading Human was certainly not one of the ones I was most excited about but, for various […]

Loading Human: Chapter 1 – PSVR Review

October 15, 2016 in PSVR tagged episodic / loading human / point and click / PSVR / stop staring at Alice / virtual reality / walking simulator by Richie

Originally a Half-Life 2 mod, Dear Esther became a commercial product in 2012. Four years later, an expanded and repackaged version of The Chinese Room’s breakout hit has arrived on the current generation of consoles. Its arguably one of the founding moments of the walking simulator phenomenon and I’m curious […]

Dear Esther: Landmark Edition – PS4 Review

September 22, 2016 in PS4 / Reviews tagged damascus / dear esther / landmark edition / narrative driven / the chinese room / walking simulator by Mike