Category: Reviews

Earlier this year, Dead Space had a superb remake that hit current PC and console platforms. I was very impressed with how it looked and ran on Steam Deck, and called it the first tech showcase for the system in 2023. Following that brilliant horror release, I was very curious about how Resident Evil 4 […]

TouchArcade Rating: When SNK was looking to launch its new arcade/console platform, it had one fairly big problem on its hands: a lack of recognizable IPs. The Ikari series had largely burned all of its fuel and its creator had left the company, wanting nothing to do with the standardization that came with the NEOGEO. […]

TouchArcade Rating: When Terra Nil (Free) from Devolver Digital and Free Lives was revealed, the striking aesthetic and premise had my attention. Devolver is known to publish interesting games, even if I don’t enjoy every release from them, but Terra Nil looked like it could be special. Having now played it across iPhone 11, iPhone […]

TouchArcade Rating: In a lot of ways, Voice of Cards: The Isle Dragon Roars back in 2021 felt like the start of Square Enix’s recent experimental phase where the publisher has released multiple smaller scale titles in addition to the usual big RPGs. Last year saw a plethora of those games of varying sizes and […]

TouchArcade Rating: When it comes to the NEOGEO, a few genres come to mind. Fighting games. Side-scrolling action games. Maybe shooters and beat-em-ups. The usual array of sports. You probably don’t think of horse racing games, but this was an arcade platform that was sold in Japan in the 1990s. With that in mind, it’s […]

Having played wrestling games since the original PlayStation with WWF Warzone, ECW Anarchy Rulz, and WCW Backstage Assault taking up a ton of my time, I missed out on the PS2 era of wrestling games until much later. I started getting back to playing them regularly towards the end of the PS3 generation. A lot […]

TouchArcade Rating: Those who follow Hamster’s Arcade Archives releases on the Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4 will know that the developer pretty clearly appreciates the shoot-em-up genre. Sure, it’s partly a result of the age of the games Hamster tends to work with, but there are around one hundred shooters in the full Arcade Archives […]

When SNK and Hamster started bringing the Arcade Archives line of NEOGEO ports to mobile platforms, it wasn’t particularly surprising to see the Samurai Shodown series represented among the opening salvo of titles. Historically, it’s been one of SNK’s most popular IPs, only coming in behind The King of Fighters and Metal Slug. With Samurai […]

A long time ago, a Shaun of a time long past reviewed a game from another Shaun of a time long past. That game was called Shoot the Moon (Free), and it was a triumph of simple gameplay married with a slick presentation to create a charming and fun game. In the years since then, […]