From Polish-based publisher Ultimate Games comes the console port of a three-year-old PC game, Bus World. Originally produced by Russian developer Kishmish Games, this port was likely produced by Ultimate Games as going by the Steam page for the game, it seems to have been pretty much abandoned by the […]

Bus World – PS5 Review

Maybe I’m getting jaded by the indie horror offerings. If it’s not zombies, it’s eldritch horror. Dark Atlas: Infernum offers the latter. After a successful Kickstarter campaign, Night Council Studio’s debut delivers some strong world building but I left it feeling a little underwhelmed. There are seeds of promise here […]

Dark Atlas: Infernum – PS5 Review

Static Dread: The Lighthouse comes to us from Solarsuit Games and Games Harbor. You play as the nameless keeper of the previously automated Outsmouth Lighthouse. Quite why it falls to you isn’t entirely clear, but it sets you up for all manner of eldritch goings on as you see out […]

Static Dread: The Lighthouse – PS5 Review

Another month, another Hidden Cats game, once again from Silesia Games and Nukearts, this time in Istanbul. Not Constantinople, that’s right out. Once more unto the breach with lovely lightly animated images and finding the cats. This is basically the same template as the Rio De Janeiro installment, once again […]

Hidden Cats in Istanbul – PS5 Review

Kill It With Fire 2 from Casey Donnellan Games is the follow-up from the original that we reviewed in 2021.  That was quite a fun tightly focussed puzzle game. Our anticipation was that this would be more of the same, having been in early access on PC for more than […]

Kill It With Fire 2 – PS5 Review

Dino Land is a port of a pinball game originally developed by Japanese developers Wolf Team and released on the Megadrive/Genesis (and also the Sharp X68000) way back in 1991.  And it’s really a strange choice of game to port.  The original never led to any sequels, the developers eventually […]

Dino Land – PS5 Review

Ultimate Zombie Defense is a top-down twin-stick shooter, with some tower defense elements, from Belfast-based studio Terror Dog.  And this is a really strange game.  Not so much because of the mechanics of it, this sort of thing has been done before in games like #killallzombies, but more because of basically […]

Ultimate Zombie Defense – PS5 Review

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Skate Story is a skateboarding/adventure game from New York native Sam Eng which has been creating quite a stir on social media for a couple of reasons.  The first is that it looks a bit like SKATE, which is important because EA’s new free-to-play update to that franchise is a load of […]

Skate Story – PS5 Review

You only get to make one first impression. If Project Motor Racing sounds familiar, it’s because it’s from former Slightly Mad alumni. They’re now stationed at Straight 4 Studio and have only had one thing in mind.  Whilst Project Cars was a more fully-featured racing sim, this spiritual successor is […]

Project Motor Racing- PS5 Review

Despite being one of the few classic coin-ops that still plays well today, you don’t really get many games that riff on the old Pac-Man formula.  Sure, Namco will drag Pac’s carcass out of the cupboard and beat a few more pennies out of it every chance they can but for […]

Dungeons and Ducklings – PS5 Review

MARVEL Cosmic Invasion is an arcade-style beat ’em up from Quebec-based studio Tribute Games who were behind other coin-op/retro-inspired titles like Mercenary Kings and Scott Pilgrim.  But more recently the were behind the brilliant Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge which, like this game, was very much a love letter to the […]

MARVEL Cosmic Invasion – PS5 Review

Hannah is a 3D platformer from Spaceboy. It boast a decent dollop of horror and unease but the platforming, and lack of peril can really undercut the mood. Dreamy and surreal, it has a cohesive style and some mildly engrossing puzzles. Unfortunately, it’s a little too rough around the edges […]

Hannah – PS5 Review