Tag: Thunderful
News Hardcore Puzzler Dr Fetus' Mean Meat Machine Spins Up on PS5, PS4 in 2023
Super Meat Machine
Anxiety-inducing puzzler Dr Fetus' Mean Meat Machine is bringing its unique blend of gameplay features to PS5 and PS4 later in the year, and we got a glimpse of it in action during The Mix Showcase 2023. From the twisted minds that brought you Super Meat Boy and Super Meat Boy Forever, developer Team Meat has turned its talents...
News SteamWorld Build Breaks New Ground for the Series on PS5, PS4
Can you dig it?
The colourful SteamWorld franchise will be plumbing new depths in the just-announced SteamWorld Build, a city builder that tasks you to settle above and below ground in a somewhat novel twist. It's a little bit Sim City, and a lot bit Dungeon Keeper or Evil Genius, and it is absolutely something we will be keeping an eye on when it...
Mini Review Togges (PS5) - Cute, Colourful Platformer with a Curious Twist
Serious blockage
Togges (rhymes with bogies) is an imaginative puzzle platformer with a novel approach to movement. The titular creatures are cutesy cubes you can spawn in from certain points in each of the game's sizeable hub worlds. Essentially playing as a Roomba, you can move fairly freely, but you'll need to lead a connected trail of Togges to...
Mini Review Paper Cut Mansion (PS5) - A Slow-Paced and Repetitive Rogue-Lite
Fit for the Shredder
Paper Cut Mansion is a procedurally generated rogue-lite horror, set within a mansion made entirely of cardboard. You take on the role of police detective Toby, in search of clues to explain the strange goings on and how he came to be in this paper-craft property. You will explore the mansion floor by floor, with the aim being...
News Togges Looks Like a Delightful Puzzle Platformer in PS5, PS4 Launch Trailer
First we've heard of it
It's impossible to cover absolutely everything when games come out at such a clip, so some genuinely interesting-looking stuff inevitably falls through the cracks. Case in point: we've just spotted the above launch trailer for Togges, a 3D puzzle platformer from Thunderful and Regular Studio, and it looks really neat...
Mini Review LEGO Bricktales (PS5) - Solid Puzzler Taps into the Creativity of LEGO
If you build it, they will come
LEGO Bricktales is the latest attempt by LEGO to diversify its gaming portfolio beyond the formula popularised by TT Games. While some of these attempts have been worse than others, LEGO Bricktales is the latest in a line of successes. This is a puzzle game about a young minifig on their way to visit their...
News Get Square Eyes Staring at the Gorgeous Dioramas on Display in LEGO Bricktales
Hype levels building
LEGO Bricktales is a gorgeous-looking diorama-based puzzler in which players will work their through five classically-themed LEGO biomes, brick-by-brick, overcoming challenges and creating masterpieces along the way. It's coming to PS5 and PS4, and quite soon, launching on 12th October. The biomes will include a medieval...
News Cursed to Golf Putts Rogue-Like Elements in Side-Scrolling Golf on PS5, PS4 Next Month
"Golf-Like" launches 18th August
People get a bee in their bonnet about rogue-likes, don't they? We suppose that's mostly down to the sheer number of them; every other indie game seems to be incorporating randomly generated elements. It's fine by us, because when they're done right, they're absolutely fantastic, and Cursed to Golf looks like it...
News SteamWorld Headhunter Moves the Series to 3D in Third Person Co-Op Adventure
Follows the events of SteamWorld Dig 2
The SteamWorld games have always taken place on a 2D plane, but for the next entry in the series, the developer is literally adding a new dimension. SteamWorld Headhunter has just been announced by publisher Thunderful, and you can watch the teaser trailer above. There's very little information about the game...
News FuturLab Working on a Spiritual Successor to the Velocity Series
Thunderful to publish new IP
Velocity started life as a PlayStation mini (remember those?) for PSP, but FuturLab's talent was clear in the dinky little action game, and Velocity Ultra soon followed on PS Vita. The critically acclaimed game was praised for its fast-paced, addictive gameplay, and would go on to spawn a sequel, Velocity 2X. This trio...
News Don't Expect to Play The Gunk on PS5
"It'll be Xbox exclusive, period"
Another game announced at yesterday's Xbox Games Showcase which has raised questions over its exclusivity is The Gunk. From third-party publisher Thunderful Games, this was revealed as a Console Launch Exclusive but it doesn't look like the game will actually come to the PlayStation 5. Speaking with Kotaku, a...
Review Lonely Mountains: Downhill - A Great Take on Trials with an Eerie Atmosphere
Bike curious
You’ll probably remember the first time you played Trials HD – brilliant, wasn’t it? As time has gone by, though, the bike balancing formula has lost a little of its lustre. Lonely Mountains: Downhill recaptures some of the aforementioned series' early magic with a moreish outdoorsy outing that will have you both punching the air...
