Poppy Playtime Chapter 5 – Broken Things (Xbox Review)

Poppy Playtime has always thrived on mystery. It’s a series built on half-revealed lore, viral moments, and that constant feeling that something is just out of sight. By the time Poppy Playtime Chapter 5: Broken Things lands on Xbox Series…

Hollowbody Review – A Chilling Return to Classic Survival Horror

As many of the juggernauts of survival horror continue to diverge significantly from the genres they either created or made popular, there’s a small group of indie developers continuing to mine away in the pits of macabre madness. By embracing…

Cthulhu The Cosmic Abyss Review – A Terrifying Deep Dive Into Cosmic Horror

Cthulhu  The Cosmic Abys – 2053. And the world’s going down the toilet. Worldwide flooding is continuing. Billionaires are plundering the ocean. Strange things are happening everywhere, and cults are springing up like weeds. And it’s your job as an…

Legacy of Kain Defiance Remastered Review – A Must-Play

When Aspyr dropped the Legacy of Kain Soul Reaver 1 and 2 Remasters, I was over the Moon. Something I’d been waiting for, for more than a decade, had finally happened: the remastering of one of the greatest video games and video…

Romeo is a Dead Man Review – Pure Suda 51 Chaos Unleashed

I’ve seen that term thrown around a lot in recent reviews and, as an ‘80’s kid, I can honestly say, there are few things in modern entertainment outside of Asian cinema that capture that idea in all it’s glory. And…

GreedFall 2 The Dying World Xbox Review – Classic CRPG Returns

Developer Spiders has been consistently plugging away in the action RPG genre for a good many years now. The influence of BioWare’s Mass Effect can clearly be seen in most of their games, with a heavy focus on exploration, character-driven…

Code Vein II Review – Stunning Anime Epic

There’s the saying that no good deed goes unpunished. And nowhere is it more true than in Bandai Namco’s follow up to it’s 2019 Anime Soulslike, Code Vein. With Code Vein II we’re dropped into the aftermath of an ongoing…

Anima Gate of Memories 1 and 2 Remaster – A Dark Saga Reborn

With Anima Gate of Memories, developers Anima Project took on the Herculean task of translating the tabletop RPG Anima: Beyond Fantasy to digital life. Choosing to bring any tabletop RPG to another medium with its oodles of dense lore and…

Forgive Me Father 2 Xbox Review – Brutal Lovecraftian Shooter

Developer Barrel Bytes invites you to tread the dark worlds of Lovecraftian horror with Forgive Me Father 2, the sequel to their ballistic and tentacle-filled boomer shooter, Forgive Me Father. With madness your eternal friend and the darkness calling for…

Tormented Souls 2 Xbox Review

Tormented Souls 2 takes place two years after developer Dual Effect first put Caroline Walker through the ringer in an abandoned hospital, where she lost her eye, travelled through time, and descended into a dark, other-side world to save herself…