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Review The Pathless (PS5) - Giant Squid Avoids the Sophomore Slump
They call me the wanderer
Giant Squid Studios’ debut title ABZÛ was a stunning debut for the studio founded by former thatgamecompany art director Matt Nava. Given how great that debut title was, surpassing it was never going to be an easy task. However, the team – with the help of one of the best publishers in the business, Annapurna – has...
Round Up The Pathless Reviews Reveal Another Winner in PS5's Launch Lineup
Right on target
The PlayStation 5 already has a pretty killer launch lineup, so what's one more? The Pathless, from ABZU studio Giant Squid, is getting its first batch of reviews, and it looks like another solid launch game for PS5 owners. The cross-gen sandbox adventure is being praised for its sizeable open world, exhilarating traversal, and...
News Buying The Pathless on PS5 or PS4 Unlocks Other Version for Free
Various editions detailed
There's actually quite a large number of games releasing day and date with PlayStation 5, so it's easy to forget some of them. One game we'd suggest you keep an eye on, though, is The Pathless, the new game from ABZU creators Giant Squid. This open world action adventure has you playing as an archer that can zip across the...
News The Pathless Ruled Out as PS5's First Free PS Plus Game
A different path
We don’t actually know what the deal will be with regards to free PlayStation Plus games on the PlayStation 5 yet. The platform holder will continue to giveaway two PlayStation 4 titles every month which will presumably be playable with backwards compatibility, and there will be the new PS Plus Collection for all subscribers to...
News The Pathless Confirmed as a PS5 Launch Game
Another for the list
Giant Squid, the developer behind Abzu, has today confirmed that The Pathless will be a PlayStation 5 launch title, releasing on 12th November 2020. It will also come to PlayStation 4 on the same day, but PS5 owners can look forward to support for 60 frames-per-second on the next-gen console. The game was detailed recently in a...
News PS5's Stray Shares New Story and Gameplay Details
Untangle an ancient mystery
Stray might be one of the most adorable PlayStation 5 games announced so far, meaning any new details are always going to be met with enthusiasm here at Push Square. And luckily enough, today's update to the game's official PS5 page has brought with it new story and gameplay details that help to give us a slightly better...
News Annapurna Interactive Announces Physical PS4 Collection, Eight Games Included
Pre-orders open at iam8bit
There are indie labels, and then there's Annapurna Interactive. Pretty much every game the boutique publisher has put out has been fantastic — it's honestly an impressive catalogue. Case in point: the just-announced Annapurna Interactive Deluxe Limited Edition. It's an ultra-sleek physical collection of eight of the...
News First Person Puzzler Maquette Brings a Recurring World to PS5, PS4
And it looks awesome
We do love a good puzzle game here at Push Square Towers, so it makes us happy to see games like Maquette. This first person head-scratcher is coming to both PlayStation 5 and PS4 "soon", and you can see what it's all about in the above trailer. Maquette is set within an infinitely recurring world. This means that within each...
Review Telling Lies - FMV Thriller on the Cusp of Greatness
Speech check
As the video game industry begins to accommodate more and more unique experiences, what we define as interactive entertainment expands. This is largely thanks to the boom in independent development over the past two generations, which as a result, has given rise to select genres once assumed dead. Full-motion video is just one example,...
News Critically Acclaimed FMV Thriller Telling Lies Comes to PS4 Next Week
Discover the truth
If you know Push Square, you'll know that we're big fans of FMV games. We've reviewed some of the good, bad, and the ugly (we're looking at you, The Quiet Man) over the years, but what is supposed to be one of the very best examples of what the genre can do has never made its way to the PlayStation 4. That is until now. Sam...
Review Kentucky Route Zero: TV Edition - An Adventure Unlike Anything Else in Video Games
Long journey home
Once in a while, you stumble upon a game that absolutely blows you away. Maybe the graphics set a new industry standard, maybe it’s really funny, or maybe it’s evocative of a mood you didn’t know you wanted in a game until it hit you. This is where dev Cardboard Computer comes in, with its fascinating journey more than seven...
News Kentucky Route Zero: TV Edition Brings All Five Episodes to PS4 on 28th January
Making that last delivery
Three years after its original PlayStation 4 announcement, Kentucky Route Zero will finally be making its way to Sony's current-gen console later this month on 28th January. Dubbed the TV Edition, this version will bring all five of the game's episodes under one roof along with every interlude which was released along the...
News Kentucky Route Zero May Finally Get Its Long Overdue Conclusion Soon
PS4 release incoming?
UPDATE: 6:00 P.M. EST: The game's composer Ben Babbit has released a track from Act V on his bandcamp page. Possibly trailer music? Something is definitely afoot. An episodic title that began release in 2013, Kentucky Route Zero might finally be nearing the end. Arguably known more for the ungodly gaps of time between episodes...
Review Wattam - Katamari Creator Returns with Another Gleefully Weird Playground on PS4
Kaboom it
The most common question we see about Wattam is quite a big one: what is it, and what do you do? You may be surprised to learn that the answer is pretty straightforward. This is a game helmed by Katamari creator Keita Takahashi, so a degree of whimsical weirdness is to be expected. However, as with his other games, all the bright colours...
Mini Review Untitled Goose Game - 2019's Most Popular Indie Waddles Onto PS4
Honk Fuzz
Untitled Goose Game has finally migrated to PlayStation 4, and it's every bit as wonderful as you've heard. You play as the titular antagonistic avian with the sole intent of causing as much misery as possible. The residents of the small English village are going about their day, and it's your job to stick your beak where it's not wanted...
Mini Review Ashen - One of the Best Souls-Likes Around
Ruined beauty
After a year of exclusivity, one of 2018’s best indie titles has finally been given its chance to shine by way of a glorious PlayStation 4 port. Ashen is a Souls-like in every sense of the word, but it’s one of the few which comes close to matching the quality of From Software. With a gorgeous open world to explore and deep,...
News Look, We Need to Talk About Wattam's Physical Edition
Now this is art
Wattam is out digitally tomorrow on PlayStation 4, at long last. We've been waiting for Keita Takahashi's latest crazy creation for about half the generation, but it's finally here. Very soon, we'll be able to play the latest game from the creator of Katamari Damacy and Noby Noby Boy, which is very exciting indeed. It might be...
News Outer Wilds Patch 1.02 Improves Technical Performance on PS4
Plus plenty more
Outer Wilds made a successful landing on PlayStation 4 a month or so back, and it's an inventive space-faring adventure you should probably check out. One major drawback, however, has been rather inconsistent performance, meaning you'd quite often see the frame rate take a hit depending on what's happening. Developer Mobius Digital...
News Outer Wilds Composer Wants to Get Back at Subway with The Game Awards Nomination
Southwest sauce with that, please
The Game Awards are just around the corner and the developer behind Outer Wilds, Mobius Digital, finds itself nominated in the Fresh Indie Developer category. Gunning for first prize alongside the studios behind Disco Elysium, Gris, My Friend Pedro, Slay the Spire, and
News Wattam Is the Weirdest PS4 Experience You'll Have in the Lead Up to Christmas
Release date announced
Hot off the heels of its weirdly wonderful Trophy description reveal, Wattam has announced its release date on PlayStation 4. It's going to be a rather odd undertaking in the lead up to the visit of Santa Claus as the title launches on Tuesday 17th December. Announced as part of possibly the most bizarre interview to grace...
News Wattam Might Have the Best Trophy Descriptions of All Time
"You've pooped 101 times"
We're always keeping our eye out for new Trophy lists on Exophase, and the peculiar-looking Wattam just appeared on the site ahead of its planned December launch. It's not your ordinary list of trinkets, however, because the Funomena title could have the best Trophy descriptions we've ever seen. Thankfully, the 37 tasks on...
Review Outer Wilds - An Engaging, Open Ended Sci-Fi Mystery
The great unknown
Rather than making space an endless slog to explore, Mobius Digital has condensed its starry sandbox down to a handful of small planets packed with secrets. Outer Wilds is an open ended sci-fi title with a time-twisting mystery at its heart, and it manages to do a lot with a little. It might take some getting used to, but this is a...
Review Sayonara Wild Hearts - An Emotional Journey Inside a Neon-Filled Music Video
Sayonara bye bye
If you’ve ever been watching a music video, and thought “wow, listening to this is cool, but I wish I could play it,” look no further. A literal emotional journey that takes you through the highs and lows of falling in and out of love, Sayonara Wild Hearts is a vibrant and creative rhythm game. Using tarot cards as a framework...
News Wattam Finally Tips Its Hat on PS4 This December
Wattam time to be alive
It feels like an eternity since we first saw Wattam, but it's finally coming to PlayStation 4. A colourful, whimsical new trailer for the Annapurna Interactive title reveals a December release date for the cutesy adventure. Turns out that teaser wasn't for nothing after all. In an illuminating new interview on the...
News Annapurna Interactive Teases the Return of Wattam
Another potential State of Play announcement?
Keita Takahashi's latest creation, Wattam, has been long in the making. It was announced way back in 2015, and we've been waiting to acquaint ourselves with the bizarre looking adventure ever since. Very little about the game has been shown over the years, but all the trailers point to something just as...
News Acclaimed Sci-Fi Adventure Game Outer Wilds Rated for PS4 in Korea
It's happening?
Outer Wilds is a title that certainly seems to have made an impression this year. The game -- not to be confused with Obsidian's sci-fi RPG The Outer Worlds -- is highly regarded, resonating with critics and players alike. Currently only available on Xbox One and PC, it's a space-faring adventure game with an intriguing mystery at...
News Sayonara Wild Hearts Bops onto PS4 Next Week
Trippy rhythm game gets a release date
When we played Sayonara Wild Hearts earlier in the year, we came away pretty impressed. The latest title from Annapurna Interactive is an unusual, musical adventure in which you'll race through multiple levels to pop tunes. The experimental game now has a release date on PlayStation 4, and it's right around the...
News Ashen Comes to PS4 This December After a Year of Xbox Exclusivity
One of the best Souls-likes around
Alright, this is one you need to keep your eye on. Ashen is coming to PlayStation 4 on 9th December after it spent a year tied up in exclusivity deals on the Xbox One and PC, and it was by far one of the very best games of 2018. Check out the trailer above for some context. It's a Souls-like with a minimalist art...
News Legendary PlayStation Exclusive Journey Launches on PC Next Week
Mountain climber
Sony’s been very accommodating with PC releases of late, licensing out so-called “second party” titles like Heavy Rain and Flower to different publishers in order to get them on non-PlayStation storefronts. Journey is the latest legendary PlayStation exclusive to, well, effectively lose its exclusivity – with a 6th June...
Review What Remains of Edith Finch - A Melancholic Masterpiece
This old house
Republished on Wednesday 1st May 2019: We're bringing this review back from the archives following the announcement of May's PlayStation Plus lineup. The original text follows. It's been five long years since developer Giant Sparrow released its debut title The Unfinished Swan. We absolutely adored that game when it launched, giving...
Hands On Eating Everything in Sight in Wattam
Wattam matter with you?
In our Sayonara Wild Hearts PAX East hands on, we mentioned that another of the games Annapurna brought to show was Wattam. A curious title from Keita Takahashi, the creator of the Katamari games, Wattam is an utterly charming title that, to put it mildly, is incredibly bizarre. The gameplay demo starts with you taking...
Hands On Runnin’ Down a Dream in Sayonara Wild Hearts
Sayonara Bye Bye
One of our favourite booths to visit each PAX East is the Annapurna booth. With an ever-changing, always impressive lineup of interesting titles, it’s usually a highlight of the entire event. This excitement goes all the way back to their first PAX East in 2017, where they brought What Remains of Edith Finch and Gorogoa, and...
News Hyper Light Drifter Dev Reveals Next Game, Solar Ash Kingdom
Check out the first trailer
Hyper Light Drifter is one of our favourite PS4 indie titles, so we're excited to see a first glimpse of developer Heart Machine's follow-up project. The studio has released a teaser trailer for its next game, called Solar Ash Kingdom, and you can see it above. Currently only confirmed for PC, it looks like it'll be...
News Classic PS3 Bloom-'Em-Up flower Comes to PC
Bloomin' heck
It looks like Sony is allowing Annapurna Interactive to bring some of the PlayStation 3's more famous indie titles to the PC, with Journey already announced and flower available now. The legendary thatgamecompany exclusive -- which sees you control petals as you restore natural beauty to increasingly polluted scenes -- first launched...
The Game Awards 2018 PlayStation Exclusive Journey Coming to PC
A new Journey
Legendary adventure game Journey is coming to the PC via the newly launched Epic Games Store, per publisher Annapurna Interactive. The iconic thatgamecompany experience is owned by PlayStation, but it seems the platform holder has allowed it to be released elsewhere, which is great for people who haven’t played it yet.
The Game Awards 2018 ABZU Dev Giant Squid Returns with The Pathless
Run, forest
The Pathless has just been announced at The Game Awards, and it looks like another mystical adventure from Giant Squid. As you can see from the above trailer, it looks a little more action packed than the studio's previous game, ABZU, with an eagle friend helping you fly and giant creatures to battle. Sadly we don't know a whole lot...
Raccoon City
How many developers can say their game was inspired by a tweet from a parody Twitter account? Donut County's central premise of controlling a hole in the ground and swallowing up objects is wonderfully novel, and has resulted in a game that's more entertaining than you'd think. In the best possible way, it's one of the silliest...
News Donut County, A Game Where You Play as a Hole, Launches This Month on PS4
Holey moly
Donut County, a game that's just about as mental as its name might suggest, will burrow its way onto PlayStation 4 later this month. In it, you play as a literal hole in the ground, and your job is to swallow up charming scenery all to the beat of a quirky sounding story. If you're still not sure quite what we're on about, give the...
Goro-go and buy this game
Have you ever played one of those games where it became immediately apparent that you had something special on your hands? Something so good that it may well fundamentally change the manner in which you play and think about games? Well this is Gorogoa. And it just so happens to be one of those games. Publisher Annapurna...
News Acclaimed Puzzle Game Gorogoa Coming to PS4
Panel show
About a year ago, we went hands on with the intriguing puzzle game Gorogoa, and came away very impressed. At the time, platforms for release were uncertain, but the game recently launched on Switch, PC, and iOS to universal critical praise. The good news, then, is that the curious puzzler is coming to PlayStation 4. Exactly when is...
PSX 2017 Take a Trip to Donut County, Coming to PS4 in 2018
What's updog?
Donut County, the latest indie title from Annapurna Interactive, is heading to PlayStation 4 next year. Announced during Sony's PlayStation Presents show at PSX 2017, this unusual game sees you play as a small hole in the universe, with a loose goal of swallowing up all and sundry to grow bigger, though to what end remains a mystery...
News Flower Floats to iOS Devices Via Annapurna Interactive
PlayStation exclusive extends its petals to phones
Flower, the thought-provoking float-‘em-up by Journey developer thatgamecompany, has soared to iOS courtesy of indie label Annapurna Interactive. This is a bit of a weird one because the licensing information still states that Sony owns the game, so some kind of arrangement must have been made. To...
News The Wacky Wattam Returns Courtesy of Annapurna Interactive
No longer published by Sony
Sony Santa Monica’s indie publishing arm has handed off another title to Annapurna Interactive – this time it’s Funomena’s wacky Wattam. Last seen in 2015, many had feared that the Keita Takahashi creation had been cancelled, but instead it’s simply switched publishers and been awarded a 2018 release window...
News Kentucky Route Zero: TV Edition Announced by Annapurna
Releasing in early 2018
Annapurna Interactive already has a rather impressive portfolio of indie titles to its credit. After launching its first title – What Remains of Edith Finch, which we gave a perfect score – a few months ago, it lost no time in adding another notable title to its repertoire: Cardboard Computer's...
E3 2017 The Artful Escape of Francis Vendetti Secures New Trailer
Rock and roll
Microsoft's E3 press conference was packed with fascinating indie titles. One of the standouts is a game that comes from Australian dev Beethoven and Dinosaur, The Artful Escape of Francis Vendetti . Backed by publisher Annapurna Interactive, Francis Vendetti is a game we actually got some hands-on time with at PAX East this year,...
Video What Remains of Edith Finch Makes a Strong First Impression
Watch the first 15 minutes
Ah, this is awesome. Being a so-called walking simulator, What Remains of Edith Finch is sure to split opinion, but first impressions don't get much better than this. You play as the titular teenager who's returned to her family home for reasons not entirely known. The twist is that the house is a do-it-yourself castle...
Round Up What Remains of Edith Finch PS4 Reviews Prolong Year of Dreams
Letters to you
The Unfinished Swan is the rare recipient of a 10/10 score here at Push Square, so we've been eyeballing the imaginative What Remains of Edith Finch with intrigue ever since. Turns out that developer Giant Sparrow has eschewed the sophomore slump with ease, as reviews are out for the fascinating follow-up, and positively glowing...
Soapbox Is PAX EAST 2017 Proof That Annapurna Interactive Is the Next Big Indie Publisher?
Nothing but quality
There are tons of gaming companies that range in size and scope from the big guns like Sony and Bethesda to the smaller groups like Super Giant or Double Fine. But in between all of this is one type of publisher who's been gaining popularity of late: Annapurna Interactive. Annapurna was a film company founded in 2011 that worked...
Hands On What Remains of Edith Finch Offers a Somber Tale
A series of unfortunate events
Publisher Annapurna Interactive brought a spate of games with it to PAX East 2017. Among them is a game we've been waiting on patiently – that actually just received a release date – for four years now: What Remains of Edith Finch. The follow-up to developer Giant Sparrow's masterpiece The Unfinished Swan, Edith...
Hands On Incredible Puzzle Game Gorogoa Needs to Come to PS4
Port begging
Publisher Annapurna Interactive brought four games with it to PAX East 2017, and the one that was by far the busiest all weekend was the incredible and unique puzzle game, Gorogoa. A hand-drawn point-and-click puzzle game, Gorogoa revolves around utilising four panels that function almost like a comic. You start with just one panel and...
