THREE TO PLAY
PSN games you might have missed Every month, loads of games come to the PS Store. You’d be hard-pressed to play them all, so we’re looking at some that didn’t quite make the cut. This month we’re lighting them up and knocking them down across short bouts
First, allow us to illuminate you. In Seed Of Life, protagonist Cora searches for the titular alien device in the hopes of rekindling the sun and saving her planet, which is dying without the light. While the lushly realised world, with gorgeous plants, craggy rocks, and dramatic skies, is one you’ll want to get lost in, there’s a lot holding you back. For a start, your exploration is significantly restricted by a toxic, health-sapping atmosphere outside of waypoints, and you’re given very little guidance on where to go between them. Still, at only a few hours long, this may be an action-adventure puzzler you’ll find it worth shining a light on.
Next, do you know what an ungulate is? If you do, then chances are you’re already aware of Them’s Fighting Herds, the fighting game with an all-female cast of hooved mammals. In addition to the ones you’d expect, such as a cow and a sheep, there are a couple you might not – a unicorn and a longma (a Chinese mythical dragon-scaled, winged horse). It’s more than just a riff on My Little Pony, though the concept started as a fangame. The fighting credit is there, too, the cute veneer hiding plenty of technical moves, though it can feel like each fighter is maybe a bit too quick to learn without loads of surprises. A story mode presented like a top-down RPG features lots of chatting and even dungeon-like exploration as you take on enemy encounters. A novel diversion, if perhaps not the next must-play fighter.
Finally, it’s time to plot a path through the dark in expansive RPG Pathfinder: Wrath Of The Righteous. Based on the Pathfinder TTRPG and featuring many, many, many hours of isometric action through a fantasy land chockfull of demons, and with interesting choices for you to make, you can perhaps understand why this isn’t an ideal title for anyone on a deadline. But if you’re a genre fan, there’s little that should deter you from taking the tiefling by the horns and losing yourself in this cracking, combatheavy campaign. Who will you be, and how many demons will you kiss – uh, we mean kill!