PC Reviews – Phenixx Gaming

Tomb Raider IV-VI Remastered (PC) – Review

Keiran McEwen — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 18:00:56 +0000

I’m glad everyone’s up to date on what is and isn’t Roman, so I don’t need to explain what IV, V, and VI are to Americans anymore. Continuing on from where Aspyr left off with the Tomb Raider remasters last year, we can once again jump, climb, and probably kill Lara in that poorly designed opener to The Angel of Darkness. This time (of course) we are focused on the original ending of Lara’s tale…

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Flint: Treasure of Oblivion (PC) – Review

Keiran McEwen — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 18:00:11 +0000

As the Sweet Transvestite sang, “And when you’re a professional pirate…” Set in the golden age of piracy (minus the bay of the internet), Flint: Treasure of Oblivion plays as a prequel to Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson’s seminal work and character, Captain James Flint. Though the marketing lacks major Treasure Island or The Sea Cook: A Story for Boys notes, the pirate-based CRPG plunders…

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Door Kickers 2: Task Force North (PC) – Review

Keiran McEwen — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 18:00:45 +0000

Much like America’s war in the Middle East, Romanian studio KillHouse Games’ Door Kickers 2: Task Force North felt somewhat like it was in early access for longer than time itself. Finally out in its 1.0 release, the fully updated sequel to 2014’s Door Kickers puts you in charge of a squad of US Rangers in a made-up destabilized Middle Eastern state, Nowhereaki. Commanding the team is the easy…

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The Stone of Madness (PC) – Review

Keiran McEwen — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 18:00:12 +0000

Set somewhere in the Pyrenees mountains, The Game Kitchen’s latest Roman Catholic guilt simulator is set in a monastery-come-sanatorium in the best year for mental health, 1799. You play as Father Alfredo, a priest who visited the monastery and is now a prisoner there. He and a few of the less insane plan on making an escape, breaking from The Game Kitchen’s two previous titles of hitting big…

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Eternal Strands (PC) Review

Mike Reitemeier — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 16:00:50 +0000

I love seeing hard-working employees of video game companies end up continuing to make games after they depart major studios. With how volatile the industry is, it’s a shame to see talent not get to see the light of day. In the case of Mike Laidlaw, who designed Dragon Age 1 and 2 and directed Inquisition, he leads a fabled legacy in contemporary fantasy RPG gaming. It’s great to see his expertise…

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Soul Reaver 1 & 2 Remastered (PC) Review

Alexx Aplin — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 18:00:28 +0000

2024 was the 25th anniversary of the release of the first Soul Reaver game. In celebration of this release, Aspyr released Soul Reaver 1 & 2 Remastered. This also marks the first “new” release in the Legacy of Kain franchise after it went dormant in 2003 after the release of Legacy of Kain: Defiance, which merged the storyline arcs of the main series and the Soul Reaver series. As such…

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Sniper Elite: Resistance (PC) – Review

Keiran McEwen — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 16:00:31 +0000

Bonjour, je M’appelle le buisson. Then again after that whole World War I business, I don’t know how many bushes are left in France. Joining the Jedburghs and the SAS in the SOE operation to establish a foothold in Europe ahead of D-Day, Harry Hawker of Sniper Elite 3–5’s multiplayer section takes center stage alongside Fairburne, kind of. Taking place during the events of Sniper Elite 5…

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Indiana Jones and the Great Circle (PC) Review

Alexx Aplin — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 18:00:05 +0000

One of the first great classic franchises I remember watching with my grandfather was Indiana Jones. We sat and watched Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom when I was young, and it inspired a thrill of adventure that never quite left me. I’ve watched the entire series multiple times over the years, and playing Indiana Jones and the Great Circle just felt right. From the very first section of…

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Antonblast (PC) Review

Mike Reitemeier — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 16:00:44 +0000

Nostalgia drives a lot of indie titles, whether it’s horror games evoking PS1 graphics or 3D platformers capturing the feel of an N64 game. A particularly untapped area from the early 2000s era of gaming is the Game Boy Advance, a plucky little handheld that helms tons of hidden gems past Pokemon and tried some really neat stuff with a considerable boost over the original Game Boy.

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Wild Bastards (PC) – Review

Keiran McEwen — Mon, 20 Jan 2025 16:00:31 +0000

Hailing from Australia, Blue Manchu’s Wild Bastards is the… Sequel(?), successor, continuation, or whatever you want to call it of the studio’s space-based title, Void Bastards. This time set in the Wild Wild Wild West, it is exactly the same in premise but this time with something a bit more open plains and barns in the middle of nowhere instead of attempts to be Rogue-like/lite System Shock 2.

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