Dynasty Warriors 9 is finally here! It feels like I’ve been waiting an eternity for the next game in the series of hack and slash games from developer Omega Force and Publisher Koei Tecmo – when in reality it has only been about five years if…
Author: Rob Pitt
Pinstripe is a successfully Kickstarted game from developer Atmos Games and publisher Armor Games. This is the second Kickstarter born game I’ve had the chance to review in the last few weeks with the other being Timothy vs. the Aliens – However, Pinstripe hit its initial goal of…
I’ve always dabbled but never really got into the Monster Hunter series. I own Monster Hunter 3, 4 and generations on the 3DS and 3 on the Wii U – I’ve put in over 100 hours combined, yet they all felt like a grind and less…
When I was a wee lad, I used to play a lot of beat ’em ups before I became obsessed with RPGs and adventure games. I used to love the feeling of being in control, taking out anyone who so much as looks at me (not…
When it comes to puzzle games, some games get really deep and create mind-boggling puzzles which have you scratching your head over, whereas others deliver games which are so easy a child could complete it within a few minutes. However, sometimes the simplest idea can be…
Alteric is a game that is heavily influenced by a few popular games, mainly Thomas was alone and Super Meat Boy. If you have played both of these titles then you will know how different they are, one is a calm and relaxing narrative adventure and…
Spiral Splatter is akin to those old metal puzzle games you used to play at local fairs where you would hold a baton and have to move it along a wire without making contact with the sides. The game has been modernised for the digital…
One More Dungeon is the latest pixel-graphics Rogue-like game from developer Stately Snail and Publisher Ratalaika Games. Ratalaika Games are well known for their help in porting smaller indie titles from the PC to consoles – in this case buying the game will net you the Vita and…
I’m not a fan of jumpscares. In fact, I hate them. They are the cheapest way to portray ‘horror’ and should only be used as a last resort if the atmosphere and tension aren’t working. So, imagine my delight when I foolishly volunteered to review…
Cold Iron is a first as far as I’m aware as it combines VR with a Puzzle game and a shooter – something I personally haven’t seen before and developed by Catch & Release who is an independent game studio that was founded by two brothers,…
Nine Parchments is the latest game from studio Frozenbyte, which is most famous for its ‘Trine’ series. If you have owned any gaming platform the in last 5-10 years then you will have seen the beautiful world they created and expanded upon within Trine and…
I previously only played Street Fighter V for a few hours upon launch and I wasn’t impressed. I’m not a massive online fan so the lack of any single-player content put me off and I quickly resold it to try and regain some of my…
Railway Empire is the latest resource management/simulation/strategy game published by Kalypso Media – they love this genre and I love them for doing so. Not only this, the developers of the game are Gaming Minds Studios – to those who aren’t familiar with their work, they…
2017 was my favourite year for the PS4 so far, there were so many amazing games that I instantly fell in love with. I’m a massive JRPG fan and 2017 brought us gems such as; Nights of Azure 2, Kingdom Hearts collection remasters, NieR: Automata,…
Have you ever seen films where a car gets stuck in the mud and you see the tires furiously spinning around, spitting mud all over the place yet moving nowhere? Upon seeing this did you ever think to yourself, “That’s easy, anyone could get out…
If you follow me on Twitter then you will know how much I love resource management, simulation and strategy games. For example, next week I have my review of Railway Empire going live (as well as a bunch of videos already on Youtube) and my most…
I’ll be honest here, I own L.A. Noire on the Xbox 360, PS3 and PC yet I’ve never played it until now. I didn’t not play it for any particular reason, I just saw it as a game which would need me to invest a…
I love a good puzzle, give me sudoku or a picross puzzle and I’ll hand it back to you completed within a matter of minutes as I like to think I have a logical mind and can easily overcome any problem thrown my way. Imagine…
Do you like speed? Check. Do you like adventure? Check. Do you like spending half of a game getting used to the controls and then starting to enjoy the game more? Erm… I’ll get back to you on that one! Defunct, developed by Freshly Squeezed…
What games did you play with your family over Christmas? Charades? Monopoly? Maybe even it’s Quiz Time? I went to my parents and we played all of the above plus one more which took centre stage for a few reasons, VR the Diner Duo from…
I only purchased one piece of new tech in 2017 which is strange as I usually jump on all new devices as soon as they become available. However, the new tech I bought was something I had owned once before, PSVR. When I initially purchased…
Beholder: Complete Edition is clearly inspired by dystopian works such as 1984 and Fahrenheit 451, it places you within a totalitarian state as the appointed landlord for an apartment building. There are a lot of moral choices which appear throughout the game yet every single ‘problem’ can…
I think it’s fair to say that a lot of people have been on the fence about VR over the last 12 months, is it worth investing into a VR headset device or are there only ‘experiences’ available for it? I have nothing against the…
Yakuza, Nier, Persona and Gravity Rush are all considered ‘niche’ titles – a few of them might not be anymore but at the beginning of last year they were. The vast majority of people wouldn’t have known much about them if you asked them to…
Back in the early 2000s, there were three games I played constantly on my Gameboy Advance; The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap, Final Fantasy Tactics and Advance Wars. The latter of which and its sequel, Black Hole Rising, would keep me company as I…
We rarely get games on the PS4 or Vita which try and portray serious, realistic topics. We may get the odd game here or there which has a ‘life lesson’ in it which tries to deliver a topic with a lesson thrown in. However, they…
Son of Scoregasm is a twin-stick shooter from Charlie’s Games. Charlie’s Games is a one-man developer studio, something we don’t see very much over on the console front so I was eager to find out just how well one man can stand up against studios…
A few years back, if an indie title came out and it was; artistic, drained of colour or silent, then you knew you were in for something different, something exciting. Nowadays, we have a shed-load of titles that fit within this description due to the…
I have many fond memories of the Xbox 360 era; it was the first time I played a Dynasty Warriors game, the first time I ever played online, and surprisingly the first time I had played a JRPG and really become emotionally attached and excited to…
Energy Invasion is the latest game from Sometimes You, a developer and publisher who has published a number of games in the last six months. The theme I get from the games they publish is ‘easy to play but hard to master’ as most of…
We rarely get games that look ‘different’ these days as a lot of indie developers favour the simplistic look over the realistic and AAA developers do the opposite. Knuist & Perzik have given us a game in the artistic style of titles such as Yoshi’s Island…
If you have ever worked in a supermarket on either the checkout or packing duties then you have most likely drifted off into your own fantasy world at some point. The monotonous task of scanning item after item, or placing the correct thing into the…
Defiant Development has gone and surprised us with a sequel to their truly amazing 2015 game, Hand of Fate. Personally, I think the first game flew under a lot of peoples radars as everyone I spoke to about the sequel hadn’t heard of the first one. This…
Max: The Curse of Brotherhood was once behind an ‘exclusive’ locked door with only Microsoft holding the Key. Microsoft bought the developer’s studio back in 2012 and then proceeded to close it and sell off its assets in 2016. This is always a terrible event; however,…
Have you ever sat down, turned on your PS4 and thought to paw-self; “Boy, I wish I was a cat on an epic adventure to find my sister who has been cat-napped by an evil pussy”? If you have then you’re either a little strange…
It’s Quiz Time is a new party based quiz game that is similar to the recent PlayLink releases in that you play along with your phone. The main difference here is that It’s Quiz Time allows up to eight players, CPU or a mixture of…
Planet of the Apes: Last Frontier is set between the Dawn of the Planet of the Apes and the War of the Planet of the Apes films; however, there is no direct connection to any of the movies from what I gather (I haven’t seen the…
SCEE’s London Studio has released a new Singstar for us all to enjoy solo, with friends and even online (which I’ll come to later on). This iteration has been created with the new PlayLink integration in mind, however, it doesn’t really get as involved as you would…
Hidden Agenda is the new innovative, narrative-driven adventure game by Supermassive Games. This game was clearly built from the ground up with the new PlayLink design in mind as everything you perform takes place on your phone, whether you’re playing on your own or with…
Back in July, at E3 2017, PlayStation announced the birth of their new PlayLink system – a collection of games that use your mobile phones and tablets to control the games. As an introduction they gave everyone on PS+ their first game, That’s You, for free! Now,…
Daedalic Entertainment has answered my prayers (or many emails and tweets) and have managed to bring the second game from the amazing Deponia series to the PS4 (Chaos on Deponia). The series started out as a trilogy; however, due to overwhelming popular demand, they decided…
This year we had the release of Yooka-Laylee, a successfully backed Kickstarter campaign that included many of the original developers from Rare (Banjo Kazooie). This game promised a return for old-school 3D platformers with a modern twist; however, it only received a lukewarm reception. I…
You know what they say, you wait ages for a bus and then two of them turn up at the same time, I felt this way with LEGO games this year. Disregarding LEGO Worlds and the level packs for Lego Dimensions, we have had two…
To anyone who is familiar with the original trilogy – forget what you know. To those who only know about the Black Mirror TV show – don’t associate the show with this game. To those who don’t know anything about the old series or the TV show…
I’ve played a lot of games over the years, seen many movies and one thing always stuck out – zombies, why are they always trying to eat brains? What’s their reasoning? I wouldn’t find it very appetising, so why would an undead version of me…
Burly Men at Sea is a unique game in which you follow three bearded sailors as they go on an adventure across the ocean. Along their journey, they will encounter various different creatures, people and events which have multiple outcomes. These outcomes determine which path…
People say ‘don’t judge a book by its cover’, in this case, you get exactly what it says on the tin! The game involves school girls and zombies – It’s as simple as that. School Girl/Zombie Hunter came out in Japan back in January this…
Ben 10 is a new 3D platforming brawler from Outright Games which is inspired by the latest series of the cartoon that’s currently airing on Cartoon Network. In the game, you play as Ben and all ten of his alien transformations in an adventure to…
I’ll be the first to admit that I’m not a massive Sonic fan. I grew up with a certain moustached plumber and Hylian so I have no nostalgia towards Sonic the blue hedgehog. That said, I have played a fair few of the Sonic games…
Pretty much anyone who owned a Wii back in the day bought de Blob, if not for its rather amusing name then for how colourful and fun the game looked! Children love colouring in, it keeps them busy and they’d have fun in essentially bringing…
I could write over 1,000 words regarding the original Outcast and how it came to be (which I did before editing it out) but I think I’ll save that, possibly for another day, as it’s quite interesting and goes into detail on how a small…
If you’ve ever thought to yourself, what would happen if you took a bullet-hell game (a side-scrolling shooter with non-stop bullets coming towards you) and a cute anime fighter then merged the two together and cranked the difficulty up to 11, I believe we have…
This is not a game. This is not a Movie. This is a piece of immersive theatre with many tangled threads. Explore the story to untangle the truth. But remember: “Truth is a matter of perspective”. The Invisible Hours is the latest game from Tequila…
The Girl and the Robot is one of the few games I’ve played which started as a Kickstarter campaign and was successfully released, not only on the platforms the campaign was for but also for others such as the PS4. The physical release of the…
Nights of Azure 2: Bride of the New Moon is the new Action-RPG title developed by Gust and published by Koei Tecmo. The game is set after the events of the first game, although knowledge of the previous game isn’t required. Creatures called fiends, which…
Detention is a dark and atmospheric point-and-click paranormal horror game from the Taiwan-based studio, Red Candle. I wouldn’t be surprised if you hadn’t heard of the developers before as this appears to be their first major release, hopefully, the first of many. The first thing that…
Artifex Mundi is back with another hidden object game (HOG) in which you must solve puzzles, find hidden objects, complete domino sections and explore the beautifully hand-drawn locations to stop the villain and save the day. As noted in my review for ‘Eventide 2’, I…
Imagine the top-down, quick response gameplay of Hotline Miami mixed with the unstoppable Judge Dredd, performing his job by sentencing the criminals and freeing the innocent whilst destroying anything that gets in his way – Sounds good doesn’t it! This is what I felt while…
The Inner World: The Last Wind Monk from Studio Fizbin is the sequel to the aesthetically good looking ‘The Inner world’ which was released on PC back in 2013 and on PS4 earlier this year. I’ll be honest, I haven’t played the original on the…
Cast your mind back to the late ’90s, back when games were challenging (but fun) and Bullfrog was still around and releasing hit after hit. One of their biggest titles at the time was Dungeon Keeper – an RTS which turned the tables and allows…
Where do you start when reviewing a LEGO game? Everyone’s played one and knows what the main gameplay mechanics are, if you don’t then you must have been living under a rock as there have been 12 games this generation on the PS4 alone! However,…
Eventide 2: Sorcerer’s Mirror is the latest PS4 release from Artifex Mundi – The name of this developer may not instantly jump out at you; however, if you have played any popular HOG (Hidden object game) on Steam, iOS, Android, Xbox One or PS4 then…
Fragments of Him is a first-person narrative game from developer Sassybot. The story revolves around a tragic accident and the life of the victim and his loved ones before and after the incident. The player plays through the events and the locations as if they…
Danganronpa V3 is the fourth game in the series, developed by Spike Chunsoft and localised by NIS America. The series is well known for its dark humour and a rather bizarre take on various subjects (V3 contains things ranging from brutal deaths to Incest). The…
