PS5 Game Reviews
Mini Review Neon Noodles (PS5) - Cyberpunk Factory Puzzler Doesn't Quite Satisfy
Food for thought
Neon Noodles is an assembly line puzzle game set in a dystopian future where it's your job to mass-produce various items of food. While that may sound a fairly tasty premise on the face of it, unfortunately the game itself doesn't quite have the sauce. The game is essentially about organising grid-based automations to fulfil...
Mini Review LEGO Voyagers (PS5) - A Short and Very Sweet Co-Op Experience
LEGO on an adventure
LEGO Voyagers might be one of the most adorable co-op games you can play, and it manages that with just a few plastic bricks. Only playable in co-op with a second participant (it has Friend's Pass functionality, by the way), this is a short puzzle platformer in which you play a pair of tiny, living LEGO pieces, on a mission to...
Review Bubsy in: The Purrfect Collection (PS5) - A True Look at What Could Possibly Go Wrong
When do the nine lives run out?
Like a cockroach continuing to return from sales situations that have killed many better series, Bubsy In: The Purrfect Collection packs all of the bobcat’s “classic” games into a bundle, including the various console versions for each release, and even a refurbished version for its worst game. Also included are...
Review Hollow Knight: Silksong (PS5) - A Silky Smooth Sequel Well Worth the Wait
But you'll needle little patience
Hollow Knight: Silksong, a sequel originally planned as free downloadable content for Hollow Knight, was first shown off in February 2019 and fans have been clamouring for its release ever since. This is evidenced by the fact the original has sold a whopping 15 million copies, and the sheer number of fans...
New mystery, same old Indy
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle: The Order of Giants is a fun little slice of Indy action. Set within the maze-like tunnels beneath the Vatican City, Indy, working with a priest and his pet parrot, is trying to uncover a millenia-spanning mystery regarding giant warriors. The DLC, which runs for about three hours or...
Outer the way
Daemon X Machina: Titanic Scion makes a rough first impression. After creating your custom protagonist, you're thrust straight into a chaotic action sequence with next to no explanation of controls or mechanics. You haplessly slash and blast your way through a series of samey sci-fi corridors as characters waffle over comms, and the...
Review Everybody's Golf: Hot Shots (PS5) - First Non-Clap Hanz Entry Is a Subpar Effort
Bogey
Everybody's Golf is one of those franchises many people associate with PlayStation, as it's been a fairly consistent presence on each console since the very start. Unfortunately, developer Clap Hanz is no longer partnered with Sony to deliver these consistently fun golf games, and duty has fallen to HYDE for Everybody's Golf: Hot Shots, the...
Review Cronos: The New Dawn (PS5) - Captivating, Twisted, and Wickedly Entertaining
Get down with the sickness
Cronos: The New Dawn is a bold new sci-fi horror from Polish developer Bloober Team. It proudly wears its influences on its sleeve, while standing out on its own with a brazen visual style. In a way, it can lack originality – especially where gameplay is concerned – but what it does, it does really well. As fans of...
Review Lost Soul Aside (PS5) - Long Awaited Action Is Both Awesome and Painfully Awkward
Exit the dragon
Finally getting to play a game that you've been waiting on for years can be a daunting experience. Expectations can shift significantly in that amount of time depending on marketing, previews, and the project's own development cycle. Lost Soul Aside has walked a strenuous road to get where it is now. Originally a one-man effort, the...
Mini Review Hirogami (PS5) - Origami Adventure Looks Great But Lacks Depth
Folding at home
Papercraft-styled games remain a surprising rarity, despite the cult success of Tearaway and its PS4 remake. It’s been five years since the adventures of Iota/Atoi, so Kakehashi Games' Hirogami serves as a welcome reminder of the striking impact of playable paper art. It’s a slight and breezy experience, but one with an...
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Review Hell Is Us (PS5) - One of the Best Mystery Experiences on PS5
The devil’s in the details
Hell Is Us may be one of the most unique games of 2025. Part Soulslike, part adventure game, part detective simulator, this gargantuan puzzler is dense, immaculately detailed, and devilishly dark. You won’t play anything else like it this generation. You play as Remi, a sociopath that has snuck his way into the war...
Mini Review Goosebumps: Terror in Little Creek (PS5) - Scrappy Spooks with Just Enough Spirit
First-time frights
Goosebumps: Terror in Little Creek is a genuinely admirable attempt at repurposing the formula from modern horror games like Outlast and Resident Evil into a kid-friendly adventure game. The results are scrappy and predictably low budget, but there’s fun to be had here. You play as Sloane Spencer, a bespectacled swot from the...
Review Gears of War: Reloaded (PS5) - Iconic Xbox Shooter Is the Perfect Intro for PlayStation Fans
Fenix rising
Gears of War: Reloaded is the remaster of a remaster of a game from 2006, and it shows. A true classic of the Xbox 360 era, it defined how cover shooters played for a generation, influencing the likes of Uncharted, Mass Effect, and spawning a long list of copycats. Without it, many third-person games wouldn’t be what they are today...
Smokin' hot psychogun
Originally inspired by Buichi Terasawa’s intergalactic action manga from the late 1970s, Space Cobra (or Space Adventure Cobra) was a 1982 anime series involving an adventurer named Cobra who found himself at the centre of all kinds of intergalactic battles. While relatively niche these days, the effort’s distinctive sense...
Review Shinobi: Art of Vengeance (PS5) - A Gorgeous, Triumphant Return for SEGA's Ninja Series
Ankou very much
SEGA's fan favourite Shinobi series is one that casts a long shadow, dating all the way back to the late eighties. Despite several beloved entries in the franchise, it's been sitting dormant since 2011, but that's all changed with the arrival of Shinobi: Art of Vengeance. This brand new game, from the studio behind Streets of Rage 4...
Mini Review Discounty (PS5) - Shop 'Til You Drop in This Addictive Life Sim
Store-dew Valley
When it comes to the 2D pixel art cozy genre that Stardew Valley has owned over nearly the last decade, there are a ton of imitators. In the case of Discounty, we've got that focus on becoming part of a community mixed with addictive supermarket management that really stands out in this crowd. All of it comes together to make an...
Review Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater (PS5) - The Best Version of an Undisputed Classic
What a thrill
As the lines between what constitutes a remake and a remaster become increasingly blurred, Konami and Virtuos have come along with the new definition of what a pure remake represents. Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater is the most faithful, most loyal, most dedicated recreation of its source text since the Nintendo GameCube remake of...
Review Sword of the Sea (PS5) - Stunning Journey-Like Is a PS Plus Extra Hall of Famer
Surf's up
Giant Squid is one of the best developers in the biz when it comes to crafting beautifully breezy indie adventures. Sword of the Sea, its latest outing, will never escape the obvious Journey comparisons, but it still stands tall as the team's most refined game to date. Without wanting to strip the title of its elegance, Sword of the Sea...
Mini Review Heretic + Hexen (PS5) - Dark Fantasy Shooters Righteously Resurrected
Watch your profanity
First released in 1994, Heretic took DOOM's DNA and put a dark fantasy twist on it. A year later, Hexen took the reimagining further, opting for less linear level design, and sprinkling in a bit of RPG flavour by offering the player three different classes to choose from — warrior, cleric, and mage — each with their own...
Mini Review Hello Kitty Island Adventure (PS5) - Purrfectly Cosy, Slightly Clawed
Sanrio magic meets island life
Hello Kitty Island Adventure is finally available to play on the PS5. The game (whose title was presumably inspired by South Park almost 20 years ago) originally released on Apple Arcade in 2023 and then on PC and Switch last January. A mixture between a cosy life simulator and an adventure game, the player helps...
Review Mafia: The Old Country (PS5) - Historical Crime Story Runs Out of Ammo
An offer you maybe can refuse
At a time when games take the best part of a decade to make, Mafia: The Old Country presents an antidote with a more streamlined, story-focused single player campaign. Unfortunately, it also demonstrates the potential pitfalls of a project like this, with a largely repetitive romp that somehow manages to outstay its...
Mini Review Gradius Origins (PS5) - Impressive Collection Bundles Classics with Brand New Title
How did you get this far?
Gradius Origins is a seriously impressive package. Not only does it include six classic shoot 'em up titles — the original Gradius trilogy, two Salamander games, Life Force, and regional variants — but it includes the first brand new Salamander title in nearly 30 years. Salamander is, of course, the spinoff series of...
Review Senua's Saga: Hellblade 2 Enhanced (PS5) - Cinematic Spectacle Offers Little Else
I hear voices in my head
Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2 is a game that’s not particularly good in a traditional sense, yet is still worth playing through. Picking up where the 2017 original left off, it’s a sequel that doubles down on the best and worst features of that first experience, leaning into cinematic storytelling, outstanding visuals,...
Review Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound (PS5) - A Throwback Worthy of the Hayabusa Name
Clan of attack
The Ninja Gaiden series has been around for a long time, and it's changed a lot, moving from 2D action platforming to full-on, big budget, 3D adventures. While many will know the franchise from these later hack-and-slashers, the most recent entry, Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound, winds back the clock, taking us back to its side-scrolling...
Mini Review Time Flies (PS5) - You'll Get a Buzz from This Silly Insect Excursion
Living your pest life
Time Flies is a short but sweet adventure game about making the most of your life on planet Earth — even if it only lasts a matter of seconds. Playing as a common fly, the game detects your real-world location and uses that country's average life expectancy to determine the length of your fly's life in seconds. You can...
Review Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba - The Hinokami Chronicles 2 (PS5) - A Cut Above
Hashira highlights
Anime-themed arena brawlers have generally become a bad joke in the console space, largely due to their lazy adaptation of the source material and overall low quality. The wordy Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba - The Hinokami Chronicles from CyberConnect2 bucked this trend, though, leveraging the Japanese developer’s trademark...
Mini Review Tales of the Shire: A Lord of the Rings Game (PS5) - One Cosy Game to Bore Them All
A half-baked Hobbit's life
Tales of the Shire: A Lord of the Rings Game is a cosy Hobbit life simulator by Weta Workshop, set in the idyllic world of The Shire from JRR Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings. After creating your own character, you arrive in Bywater, but despite living in an epic fantasy world, swords are of no use here and your biggest...
Review Ready or Not (PS5) - Disturbing Co-Op Shooter Is a Tactical Must-Play
"Here I come"
Ready or Not is a slow-paced, uber-tactical first-person shooter. It’s a super serious PC release that’s finally made its way to PS5, offering up a darker and grittier co-op experience than anything else currently on the market. But does that mean it’s worth your time? While Ready Or Not won’t be for everyone, for us there’s...
Review Wheel World (PS5) - Open World Cycling Sim Is a Joy When It Isn't Chugging Along
On yer bike
Wheel World is an open world cycling title with a clear love for all things biking. While it's more of an arcade racer than some sort of bicycle simulator, it manages to capture the joys of pedalling like very few other games have. You play as the comically unbothered Kat, a silent protagonist who sets out on a quest to help Skully —...
Mini Review Wuchang: Fallen Feathers (PS5) - Decent Souls-Like Suffers Technically
Wu chang clan
The demands for fewer Souls-likes in the gaming release calendar make quite a lot of sense when they're as formulaic and familiar as Wuchang: Fallen Feathers. From developer Leenzee, the debut effort is a mostly competent attempt at a Dark Souls experience, but it doesn't do nearly enough to stand out from its many, many peers...
