Cultic PS5 Review 9/10 "Quaking in a Doomed world with Blood in its veins!"🧨

Cultic PS5 Review – A Modern Classic Drenched in ’90s Horror Vibes

Cultic is a game that was on my radar for years; its visuals and gloomy demeanour calling to mind Monolith’s monolithic macabre magical masterpiece Blood, a title that is never far from my mind! Comprised of two lengthy chapters, Cultic is an FPS set in the 1960s in the town of New Grandewal. You play a detective who follows leads to an asylum whilst investigating local disappearances and gets knocked out and assumed dead. Waking up in a grave, you continue your investigation into a strange cult. So far, so Blood...so... good!

Let’s not beat around the bush, Cultic is a fantastic game, and it grabs you by the BUILD Engine from the get-go, with a drudgy, moonlit colour palette that’s rich in darkness and groove. 

The audio melds with the muted visual tone in an almost incomprehensibly golden blend that had me literally hanging around and staring at trees with a flickering brazier in the distance just to drink in the ambience, or perhaps linger in a darkened corridor with buzzing electrical lights; the mood is HEAVY and punishingly beautiful – consistently so. 

As you make your way through the stages, all of which flow into the next in a way that directs the narrative further into the dimmer reaches of humanity – and beyond – to create an enthralling and immersively bleak experience.

Heave Ho 2 Nintendo Switch 2 Review 9/10 "A sequel that (wonderfully clumsily) tosses the original into a cocked hat" 💪

Heave Ho 2 Is the Gold Standard for Modern Party Games

I covered the original Heave Ho back in 2019, and even then I was the steamboat captain of the good ship Le Cartel Studio. They had gifted the world Mother Russia Bleeds – an incredibly bleak and satisfying side-scrolling brawler that was not for the faint of heart (or stomach) – and whilst Heave Ho was very much a change in direction, I needn’t have worried, for their impeccable tastes meant that seemingly everything that they put their hands to turns to gold.

My incredibly devilish editor Rich ‘Show Me Your Passport First, Love’ Fotheringhay informed me that review codes were in for Heave Ho 2, and I knew instantly that my evening was a complete write-off, because I couldn’t not play it (great sentence, Britt – ed...also it’s Rich ‘9 Inches) (and I’m Not Talking About My Telly, Love) Fotheringham) until I blacked out from lack of sleep, for the Heave Ho series continues to be one of the most invigorating, infuriating, and hilarious co-op games of the last decade, and deserves to sell millions of copies.

Celestial Return Starts STRONG – First 40 Minutes Of PC Gameplay 🎲

Rich steps into the neon‑drenched nightmare of Netherveil City as he dives into the first 40 minutes of Celestial Return on PC.

This cosmic‑noir adventure blends detective storytelling, dice‑driven choices, and a stunning manga‑meets‑American‑comics art style that hits you right in the eyeballs. In this opening chunk, we meet Detective Howard, explore the city’s grimy underbelly, roll dice to shape our fate, interrogate the living (and the not‑so‑living), and get our first taste of the cosmic horror lurking beneath the streets.