Tag: Secret Mode
Mini Review Parcel Corps (PS5) - A Speedy Dispatch, Not a Special Delivery
Fragile Express
Delivery games vary drastically from simple delivery driver simulators to more complex titles such as Death Stranding, where you traverse treacherous terrain to complete your daily drops. However, Parcel Corps, the cel-shaded, extreme sports delivery game from Billy Goat Entertainment, sticks to a more familiar concept, providing the...
News Colourful Courier Game Parcel Corps Set to Deliver on PS5 Early October
Pass the parcel
We've been quietly looking forward to Parcel Corps for ages, but it unfortunately missed its original release date of 3rd September. Now, publisher Secret Mode and developer Billy Goat Entertainment have revealed a new date, and it's exactly one month later on 3rd October, 2024. The news comes via a brief new trailer. For those out...
News Someone At Sony Has Got to Get DeathSprint 66 on PS5
Share this on your Strava
Calling Shuhei Yoshida and all third-party developer outreach executives at PlayStation: you need to get on the phone to Secret Mode and Sumo Digital and get DeathSprint 66 on PS5. Like, right now. This game has been going viral lately because the gameplay looks freakin’ awesome: it’s due out on 12th September for PC,...
News Make Way Is Micro Machines with DIY Race Tracks, and It's Out Now on PS5, PS4
Put the top down
Publisher Secret Mode and developer Ice Beam have announced the PS5 and PS4 versions of Make Way are now available. The game launched on other platforms earlier in the year, but this party racing title is now ready to hit the road on PlayStation systems. If you're unaware, Make Way is a four-player, top-down racing game you can...
Review Still Wakes the Deep (PS5) - Scottish Oil Rig Conjures Up the Horror Magic
Gonnae no dae that
There’s something special about a truly isolated horror setting. The Nostromo in Alien, Outpost 31 in The Thing, and the USG Ishimura in Dead Space. Well, you can add the Beira D to the list as Still Wakes the Deep crafts up a contorted setting, dripped in sea water, oil, and blood. Switching out the quaint English countryside...
News Promising PS5 Delivery Sim Parcel Corps Packed Up and Expected 3rd September
Hope it doesn't get lost in transit
Jet Set Radio-esque cycling delivery sim Parcel Corps has been on our wishlist for quite some time, and now it has an expected arrival date: 3rd September, 2024. That’s going to be a big day, because it also happens to be the release date for the upcoming Harry Potter: Quidditch Champions game – you may want...
News You'll Be Seeing Stars When You Play the New DLC for Indie Hit A Little to the Left
Launches later this month
A Little to the Left is an adorable, relaxing puzzler that's all about tidying up. You'd think that organising objects and sorting assortments wouldn't be much fun in a game, but it's a tactile, satisfying title that allows for multiple solutions on many of its levels. It's this aspect of the game that's the focus for its...
News Mysterious Narrative Puzzler Eternal Threads Is Finally Coming to PS5, PS4
Delayed console launch happening at last
Publisher Secret Mode and developer Cosmonaut Studios has just announced the long-awaited console port of its intriguing puzzle adventure, Eternal Threads. Initially announced for PS4 back in 2022, the game is now finally coming — with a PS5 version too — on 23rd May, 2024. If you're unaware, Eternal...
News Still Wakes the Deep Puts Horror on an Oil Rig, Out for PS5 This June
Can be wishlisted on the PS Store now
Everybody's Gone to the Rapture developer The Chinese Room has announced its next title Still Wakes the Deep will launch for PS5 on 18th June 2024. You can watch a new trailer above, which debuted during the Future Games Show earlier today. Set aboard an oil rig caught up in a storm, you must face "the...
Mini Review A Little To The Left (PS5) - Sorting Out Those Cosy Vibes
Watch out for that cat
There's nothing quite like a cosy game, and A Little to the Left is a perfect example of how a simplistic premise can deliver a comforting experience. In this relaxing puzzle game, you sort and organise basic household items, such as documents, books, toys, and anything you'd consider requiring a bit of a sort out, really...
News Adorable Indie Puzzler A Little to the Left Lines Up PS5, PS4 Launch
A tidy little announcement
The outstanding – and commercially huge – indie puzzler A Little to the Left is lining up a PS5 and PS4 launch, following its debut on Nintendo Switch a few years ago. The game, due out on 15th February, sees you gratifyingly tidying up all sorts of minor household messes, like kitchen drawers and book shelves. It...
News Still Wakes the Deep Is Dripping with Atmosphere in New Gameplay Trailer
This is rigged
In case you missed the announcement earlier this year, Still Wakes the Deep is the next game from The Chinese Room, the makers of Everybody's Gone to the Rapture and Dear Esther. A horror adventure set entirely on an oil rig in the North Sea, it's already a horrifying proposal, but it looks like there will be other terrors to de
News Crazy Taxi, Jet Set Radio-Esque PS5 Indie Parcel Corps Continues to Deliver the Goods
Still due in 2024
Satirical delivery sim Parcel Corps may not be scheduled to arrive until 2024, but it’s once again brought the goods with this traversal trailer. While the clip doesn’t reveal too much new, it does showcase how you’ll be able to use your bicycle to navigate its dystopian cel-shaded city, grinding on rails and wall-riding to...
News BMX-Based Deliveroo Outing Parcel Corps Pedals to PS5, And We Want It Now
Dystopian cycling title looks great
We’ve always said we’d happily do a couple of shifts for Deliveroo, winding through busy city streets on a bicycle to get a Wicked Zinger Meal to its destination in record time. Now we may actually have the opportunity, in the distinctly tongue-in-cheek Parcel Corps, a dystopian extreme sports deliver-‘em-up...
News Psychological Oil Rig Horror Still Wakes the Deep Plunges PS5 Next Year
Well, oil be damned
Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture developer The Chinese Room has returned to its psychological horror roots, with Still Wakes the Deep slated for an Early 2024 release on PS5. Announced earlier today during the Xbox Showcase, the title will see you assume the role of an off-shore oil rig worker, as he fights for his life through...
Mini Review Zool Redimensioned (PS4) - Blast from the Past Packs Neat Modern Features
Return of the ninja
Gremlin Interactive has a storied history, dating back to the early days of console gaming. Developing titles for Commodore 64, marshalling the Premiere Manager series through several generations, and later heading to PlayStation (anybody remember cult isometric shooter Loaded and its sequel?) — it's safe to say it has a varied...
News Zool Redimensioned Adds Multiplayer Party Modes to 90s Classic on PS4
Officially out on 16th May
Update: Secret Mode has officially confirmed that, yes, Zool Redimensioned is coming to PS4 on 16th May. But there’s more, as the remake will be bolstered by the addition as several local multiplayer party game modes, including Zool’s Gold, Rool of Zool, and Ball Brawl. That’s all in addition to an upgraded version...
News Journey to the Center of the Earth in The Chinese Room's Latest, Little Orpheus
A technicolour trek
The multi-award-winning Little Orpheus is an action platformer in which you play as a Soviet cosmonaut in the 1960s who, instead of exploring space, is instead dropped inside an extinct volcano, and embarks on a journey like no other. It's available on PS5 and PS4 as of today, 14th September. Developed by The Chinese Room, best...
News Change Time and Choices in Eternal Threads, Out on PS4 Next Month
Manipulate a seven-day timeline
Publisher Secret Mode might be the new kid on the block, but the first game it's putting out from Cosmonaut Studios is an intriguing one. Announced with a PlayStation 4 release on 19th May 2022, Eternal Threads is all about manipulating time and changing the actions of characters in order to save them from a house...
