Recent reviews by CSH Picone

If you haven't been keeping an eye Turbo Sliders, you should be. It's been in the works for a long time now but it's coming out of EA very, very soon. It's highly polished, looks and plays super smooth, and features easy-to-use level editor & player campaigns. It's awesome.

Turbo Sliders is a delightful spiritual successor to games like Micro Machines that I loved in the 90s but with sexy modern graphics. Controls are perfect, levels are well-designed and challenging.

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I grew up with pinball machines - the real ones but also Epic Pinball and Space Cadet, absolute legends in their time. And now I'm having a blast with FlipScapes. FlipScapes is a brilliant new pinball game that absolutely makes the most of its digital nature with highly interactive levels, dynamic objectives, characters and special abilities. It's top notch.

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The controls take a bit of getting used to (right stick controls a cursor, not the arm directly), as does the combat (you need to fling things at the enemy - or fling the enemy at things - while dodging bullets and charge attacks) but Grimstone Valley is fun.

Grimstone Valley is a fun little twinstick "shooter" (except you have an eldritch lasso arm) with a weird west theme, some unusual aesthetics which I've grown to love, and a surprisingly strong story.

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Fresh out of the oven! New twinstick shooter, Hadley's Run! The environmental challenges (defence weapons, asteroid showers, EM fields) are the game's best feature. Has excellent progression and meta-progression so it never feels tired. Good range of bosses and enemies and there's even a nice little story to tie it all together.

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This review took me a long time to work through (it's big! And relatively complex) - new Vacation Season DLC adds almost a whole new game-within-a-game to Highrise City.

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100 Hidden Cthulhu Fish is a short but sweet item finder. The fish are easy to find, making for a chill experience. The two overarching images are fantastic but I'd love more - beat the game in 10mins.

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JDM: Rise of the Scorpion is has a nice little story told through a manga but the real star is the drifting. It's an arcade racer (not a racing sim) so just strap in and have fun - handbrake to drift!

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While Silent Depth 2 is a fairly clunky experience with small scope at the moment, the roadmap looks promising. This is a sim-lite, not a spiritual successor to Silent Hunter. Go in with an open mind.

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DeathBound's a clever fighter with a gnarly modern fantasy vibe and tons of demons ripe for slaying. You control a bunch of characters with totally different attacks/abilities, it's challenging & fun.

The devs have posted new release DeathBound as a Souls-like. I have no idea how true that is because I was never able to bring myself to like Dark Souls. But DeathBound's a lot of fun.

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If you're into your Where's Wallys, Headless Chicken Games presents a fun new item finder. Love the pixel graphics, love the puzzles. A touch more variety would have been nice but there's still plenty of replayability. You get stars for beating time too but I found it a tad easy. Chill game.

Baimason's Thing Finder's as relaxing as it is fun - or race against the clock. Proc-gen and daily challenges keep it endlessly replayable although it could use just a touch more variety.

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