Tag: Raw Fury
News Pizza Possum Eats Garbage, Causes Havoc on PS5
Life is good when you're a possum
Following in the webbed footsteps of anarchy simulator Untitled Goose Game, Pizza Possum is an arcade action game in which you, a possum, try to eat as much trash as you can without being caught. It's coming to PS5 at some point in the future. We couldn't help noting that the titular possum does not, in fact,...
News Kingdom Eighties Brings Micro-Strategy and Retro Nostalgia to PS5
Let the good times roll
Micro-strategy game Kingdom Eighties is a nostalgic love letter to that iconic decade, and it's coming to PS5 in 2023. Like other entries in the Kingdom series, like Two Crowns or New Lands, Eighties will be a standalone title. You play as the Leader, a camp counsellor who must defend the town from mysterious creatures known...
News Post Trauma Is All About That Classic Survival Horror, Out Next Year
All the hallmarks of the genre
Fixed camera angles? Check. A tape recorder masquerading as a save point? Check. Convoluted puzzles? Check. That's Post Trauma, announced at The Game Awards last night. Very much a classic survival horror experience, it is launching on consoles in 2023. PS5, PS4 weren't actually confirmed — no platforms were — but...
Mini Review Sable (PS5) - Beautiful Coming of Age Adventure
Sable is not so stable
After a year of exclusivity over on Xbox and PC, Sable — a coming of age exploration game — has finally made its way over to PS5. The important question, as always, is has the wait been worth it? And the answer is yes, but only if you’re willing to overlook its technical issues. On a desert planet called Midden, when a...
Mini Review Norco (PS5) - A Peculiar Prosaic Paradigm
Norc by Norcwest
While on the surface, Norco might seem a fairly traditional point-and-click adventure title, this would do a gross disservice to what the game actually has to offer. A grungy, dystopian, post-capitalist mining town, Norco, Louisiana is a bleakly beautiful setting for a brilliant story. Offering a unique cross-pollination of...
News Gorgeous Indie Game Sable Dated for 29th November on PS5, PS4
But will you have time to play it?
Raw Fury has announced by way of a Sony tweet that Sable will release for PS5 and PS4 on 29th November 2022. First put out on Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, and PC last year, the indie title was handed a Metacritic rating of 76, with a lot of critics praising its beautiful art style. Now PS5, PS4 users can enjoy it for...
News Acclaimed Indie Game Norco Delayed Indefinitely on PS5, PS4
Unforeseen issues
It looks like we'll have a slightly longer wait before we can play the indie hit, Norco. Publisher Raw Fury has just announced the point n' click adventure game's release on consoles has been delayed. The reason for this is "unforeseen issues", as stated in the below tweet: No new date has been given as yet, though hopefully it...
News Highly Acclaimed Narrative Adventure Norco Riding onto PS5, PS4 in October
Point n' clicker a smash hit on PC
Earlier this year, PC title Norco released to universal acclaim. Beloved by critics and fans alike, this indie title from Raw Fury and Geography of Robots is among the highest rated games of 2022. A console conversion seemed inevitable, and that's exactly what's happening — the game is headed to PS5 and PS4 on...
News Gorgeous Exploration Game Sable Makes the Journey to PS5 in Late 2022
Good things come to those who wait
Gorgeous exploration game Sable is coming to PS5, having previously only been available on PC and Xbox, and it's coming with several new features only present in the PlayStation version. Get ready to blast off in late 2022. In addition to a new fishing minigame, players will be able to add various fish and insects...
Mini Review Backbone (PS5) - Escalating Mystery Bites Off More Than It Can Chew
A dog eat dog world
Backbone makes a great first impression. This is a noir, narrative-driven game in a world inhabited by anthropomorphic animals, all living their lives in a dystopian city. Playing as Howard Lotor, a private detective who's barely making ends meet, you take on what appears to be a simple job, but it soon leads you to a much...
News Backbone Brings Anthropomorphic Investigations to PS5, PS4 on 28th October
A "post-noir" adventure game starring a private eye raccoon
A good mystery is sometimes just what the doctor ordered, but what about one starring a bunch of animals? Backbone, a self-described post-noir narrative adventure, puts you in control of Howard Lotor, a private eye who's also a depressed raccoon. The game has just been announced for...
Mini Review Call of the Sea (PS5) - A Pretty But Predictable Puzzler
Lost at sea
Norah is ill, and her husband Harry is missing after having gone searching the world for a cure. After receiving a mysterious package, Norah decides to go to the place Harry was last known to be — an island off the coast of Tahiti. Call of the Sea bills itself as a Lovecraftian mystery game, and whilst the first person adventure...
News Call of the Sea Confirmed for PS5, PS4 Release Next Month
Highly praised adventure game receives port
After teasing the port last week, developer Out of the Blue has now confirmed that Call of the Sea will indeed be coming to PlayStation systems. It's scheduled to release at some point next month for both PS5 and PS4, but the studio has not locked down a specific day just yet. Confirmed on Twitter, the...
News First-Person Adventure Call of the Sea Seemingly Sailing to PS5, PS4
Greatness awaits
Call of the Sea, the critically acclaimed first-person adventure game which first launched last year, is seemingly sailing to PlayStation platforms. A cryptic teaser on the title’s Twitter account exclaims: “Nothing but greatness awaits!” The former PS4 slogan is accompanied by a tilted image of what appears to be the...
News Surreal Psychological Thriller The Signifier Signal Boosts PS5, PS4
Director's cut includes new content
Psychological thriller The Signifier, which first launched on PC last October, is getting an extended director’s cut on PlayStation 5 and PS4 this year, which will feature new narrative content, including “new memories, dialogue, and voiceover, three additional story endings, and a new epilogue giving greater...
Mini Review Star Renegades (PS4) - Rogue-Lite RPG Is Complex But Compelling
Breaking the timeline
Star Renegades is another rogue-lite indie game, but it differentiates itself in some interesting ways. It's a turn-based RPG where you fight a threat that spans multiple alternate realities with a ragtag group. Sporting a lovely pseudo-3D pixel art style, it certainly looks the part, and its multifaceted gameplay is complex...
News Star Renegades Is a Rogue-Lite, Turn-Based RPG Coming to PS4 This Month
Aim for the stars
Star Renegades has been available on other platforms for a good few months, but it's now making the leap to PlayStation 4. It's a rogue-lite RPG in which you lead a group of freedom fighters aiming to save the multiverse. With a lovely pixel art style and strategic, turn-based battles, it definitely has some retro vibes. The game...
News GONNER 2 Brings Stylised Platforming to PS4 This Year
Not a goner
The GONNER franchise is proving to be anything but a goner, as GONNER 2 is scheduled to release on the PlayStation 4 this year. “In GONNER 2, our altruistic and unexpected hero Ikk is back,” the press release reads. “And this time Death needs his help. Her lair has been taken over by a mysterious presence and she needs Ikk to take...
News West of Dead Comes to PS4 in August
Dead man walking
The stylish twin-stick shooter named West of Dead confirmed a release window of August 2020 for PlayStation 4 during the Guerrilla Collective livestream. Publisher Raw Fury hasn't nailed an exact date during the month just yet, but this violent take on the wild west is just around the corner. What's more, we've got a new trailer...
News Call of the Sea Publisher Raw Fury Has 'No Further Information' on PS5 Release
Just Xbox and PC
Following the recent Inside Xbox broadcast, which introduced us to several third party next-gen games, we reached out to some of the teams about the status of any PlayStation 5 versions. There was some ambiguity as to which of the titles shown will be exclusive to Xbox and which are coming to Sony's console too. One game we were...
News Wacky Roguelite Farming Sim Atomicrops Comes Into Harvest on PS4 Next Month
Farm, marry, kill
What if Stardew Valley fell victim to a nuclear disaster? That's kind of what Atomicrops is shooting for, and it looks mad. The game, published by indie label Raw Fury, blends together the addictive, slow-burn nature of farming sims with the chaos of roguelite games. In addition to farming and harvesting various mutant plants,...
News Mosaic Is a Surreal Dystopian Adventure Marching onto PS4 This Month
The daily grind
Mosaic looks like a game about the boy from Inside as an adult in a dead end job he hates. It's not related at all, of course; developed by Krillbite Studio and published by Raw Fury, this is a new adventure title coming to PlayStation 4 in just a couple of weeks. As you can tell from the above trailer, it's all about the monotony...
News Twin Stick Shooter West of Dead Brings Purgatory to PS4 in 2020
Starring Ron Perlman
Indie label Raw Fury has announced West of Dead, a stylish twin stick action game coming to PlayStation 4 next year. In it, you'll play as William Mason, a deceased gunslinger who's stuck in a world between life and death. It's here that you'll blast your way through procedurally generated levels, fending off evil souls in...
News Atomicrops Looks Like a Roguelite Spin on Stardew Valley
We're in
This cool looking title has seemingly cropped up out of nowhere, but it's certainly caught our attention. Called Atomicrops, this new game from publisher Raw Fury is a farming simulator with roguelite elements set in a post-nuclear world. It has quite the trailer -- we suggest you give it a watch. You play a character who inherits a farm...
Review Kingdom Two Crowns - Enjoyably Minimalist Strategy
Regal action
Strategy games can be rather intimidating. Generally speaking, they're difficult by design, forcing you to think several steps ahead, and make decisions more carefully than you would in other genres. Occasionally you'll come across a strategy title that's a little easier to get into, and the Kingdom games are certainly in that ballpark...
News Micro-Strategy Game Kingdom Two Crowns Will Reign on PS4 Next Month
Long live the king
A series of side-scrolling strategy games named Kingdom has been a quiet success over in PC land, and normally when that happens, a console port is never too far away. The next game is Kingdom Two Crowns, and it's heading to PS4 on 11th December. The Kingdom series sees you play as the ruler of a 2D landscape, and as you ride...
Island hopping
Bad North is an oddity, as it's quite a niche game wearing a casual game's clothing. It's a rogue-like real-time strategy game, but don't let that scare you off -- it takes a minimalist approach, throwing out a lot of the fiddly stuff associated with the genre in its pursuit of purity. The result is an extremely lean experience that...
News Bad North Is a Promising, Cutesy Strategy Game Marching to PS4 Soon
Good North?
Bad North was announced a few months ago, but it may have flown a little under the radar for most. As you can see in the above announcement trailer, the game's action takes place on small isometric islands,...
News Gonner, a Gorgeous Roguelike Platformer, Announced for PS4
Gonner be good
Roguelikes are ten a penny these days, but rarely do they look or sound as good as Gonner, a roguelike platformer/shooter hybrid that's just been announced for PlayStation 4. Luke Icenhower from publisher Raw Fury perhaps describes the game best in his PlayStation Blog post: "Gonner is a procedurally-generated 2D platformer with...
