Tag: Ratalaika Games
News Mekorama Is a Cute Puzzle Platformer Keeping the PS Vita Going in 2020
Coming to PS4 too, of course
Sure, it might be a port of a mobile game, but Mekorama looks like an adorable and enjoyable puzzler. It has you exploring mechanical dioramas (hence the name) with B, a little robot who needs your help completing each stage. You'll be solving some pretty simple puzzles throughout the game's 50 stages, but it looks like...
News Ratalaika Games Announces Seven Visual Novels for PS4, PS Vita
Are you ready?
Ratalaika Games is almost single-handedly responsible for keeping the PS Vita alive in 2020, and its support isn’t stopping any time soon. The port house, which specialises in converting indie titles to Sony’s systems, has announced seven new visual novels for the PlayStation 4 and a couple for the aforementioned portable...
Mini Review Ganbare! Super Strikers - Tactical Take on the Beautiful Game
You'll get a kick out of it
Think of Ganbare! Super Strikers not as a sports game, but as a strategy campaign a little bit like Advance Wars or XCOM. That’s how this fusion of football and tactics works, adopting a turn-based format where you need to move your players into position, pass the ball, and, fingers crossed, score some goals. There’s...
Mini Review Knightin'+ - Zelda-Lite Is Too Simplistic with Just Dungeons
Trifine
Are we witnessing the origins of an all-new genre? Knightin’+ started life on itch.io and bills itself as a Zelda-lite. The gameplay is easy to describe: it’s Zelda in dungeon form only. This means that there’s no hub-world to explore, just a maze of rooms with keys to find, puzzles to solve, and bosses to beat. You’ll also happen...
News Soccer Strategy Ganbare! Super Strikers Scores PS4, PS Vita Release Date
Financial fair play
Strategy-themed soccer title Ganbare! Super Strikers will dribble its way to the PlayStation 4 and PS Vita on 25th February, following a successful Steam launch a couple of years ago. “Win matches to level up and earn new equipment that will allow you to learn special abilities, boost your players’ stats, or protect yourself...
Mini Review Zero Zero Zero Zero - Hellish Monochrome Platforming
From zero to hero
Zero Zero Zero Zero reminds us of Sound Shapes – although the latter undoubtedly has a better name. Do you remember those dastardly single-screen stages in the aforementioned PlayStation exclusive outing? This monochrome platformer is like 100 of those, each rotating randomly every time you die. And you will die – again and...
Mini Review Milo's Quest - Pixelated Puppy Stars in Simple Adventure Game
Oh my dog
Milo’s Quest could carry the subtitle ‘My First Adventure Game’ and it would all make sense. This straightforward isometric outing sees you take control of a lovingly animated pooch, and sees you embark on an adventure across a colourful landscape filled with marshmallow-shaped ghouls and bricks to push. It’s probably the most...
News Ganbare! Super Strikers Pairs Soccer with Strategy on PS4, PS Vita
Kick off
Sports simulations are obviously entertaining enough, but we’ve been disappointed with the number of arcade adaptations this generation. Ganbare! Super Strikers sounds like a great alternative to FIFA, fortunately, providing a strategy-based soccer experience where you need to level up your team and unlock new equipment leading to special...
Mini Review FoxyLand 2 - A Bright and Bushy Side-Scroller
No fox given
Where the fox have you been? This is indie developer BUG-Studio’s second crack at its foxy FoxyLand series, with the previous edition carefully marshalled onto the PlayStation 4 and PS Vita by the ever-industrious Ratalaika Games. A vibrant side-scrolling platformer, this version boasts over 40 levels and co-operative play – though...
Review Red Bow - Pixel Art Horror That Will Tie You in Knots
Bow constrictor
Pixel art horror has been all the rage ever since platforms such as the PlayStation Store ushered the industry into something of an indie boom. Red Bow is effectively a Japanese horror movie in Super Nintendo-style 16-bit form, putting you in the place of the immaculately dressed Roh as she explores a nightmare world filled with...
News Jump into Bed with Promiscuous Adventure Game One Night Stand on PS4
Cold coffee
One Night Stand poses the question: what would you do if you woke up in bed next to a complete stranger? This curious adventure game arrived on PC several years ago, but as announced at E3 2019, it's cheating on its long-term platform with PlayStation 4. The game is available now. This narrative adventure about the morning after...
News Cybarian: The Time Traveling Warrior Looks Like an Entertaining Action Romp on PS4 and Vita
Scanline city
Yes, that's right -- it's a brand new game coming to PS Vita. Cybarian: The Time Traveling Warrior might not look like the greatest action game of all time, but it has a cool retro aesthetic and some fun-looking combat. Check out the trailer above. It comes from Ratalaika Games, a studio with a reputation for straightforward games...
E3 2019 Rotoscoped Visual Novel One Night Stand Gets Freaky on PS4
Slumber games
One Night Stand sees you wake naked in a stranger’s bed, and it’s down to you to figure out how you got there. Could we, perhaps, make a couple of suggestions? Oh, that’s age inappropriate? You’ll have to wait for the full game, then. On-the-nose premise aside, this rotoscoped indie from publisher Ratalaika Games and developer...
News I Am the Hero Is a Stylish Beat-'Em-Up Arriving Today on PS4 and PS Vita
Beat 'em up, beat' em down
There are a good few examples of the humble beat-'em-up on PS4, but more are always welcome in our book. Until DotEmu finishes up work on Streets of Rage 4, we can whet our appetites for 2D brawling with I Am the Hero, which lands on PS4 and Vita today in North America and tomorrow in Europe. This indie effort looks like...
