
Hello! Welcome to the latest Geeky Brummie Games Release Roundup!
This week, a surprisingly packed schedule!
First off, apologies for a lack of updates last week. Got caught up other projects and didn’t have time to get around to the roundup. I would cover last week’s selection here, but this week is so busy I feel it’s not worth it. Sorry about that.
Meanwhile, this week was a difficult one to nail down a Game of the Week. It ultimately went to Citizen Sleeper 2 purely on the strength of the original game, but we also have spooky lighthouses, an escape from a dangerous mental hospital and a bouncer simulator that all make strong cases for one another. I am less likely to go to bat for Neptunia Riders though.
Re-Releases and Ports
Fans of old school sports games will be pleased with The Accolade Sports Collection (PC, PlayStation, Switch, Xbox), which brings together early 90s sports games from Accolade. These include Hardball and its sequel, Winter Challenge and Summer Challenge and a rebranded Barkley Shut Up and Jam (Charles Barkley clearly did not agree to the continued use of his name).
Hello Kitty Island Adventure comes to the Switch and PC, escaping its previous Apple Arcade prison. It’s a gentle cosy game where Hello Kitty hangs out with her Sanrio friends and goes on little adventures. All you need to know is you can befriend a forgotten Sanrio crocodile named Big Challenges. What else do you need?
Speaking of games escaping exclusivity, Spider-Man 2 is now on PC, allowing you to play as Peter Parker and Miles Morales doing whatever a spider can. Which I assume is getting stuck in the bath or something, I don’t know, I don’t pay attention to Marvel stuff.
If fighting game fans have anything to be thankful for, it’s the success of the Yakuza series, as it’s allowed Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio to let Sega hand them the keys to Virtua Fighter and bring it back from the dead. And after resurrecting Virtua Fighter 5 on PS4 in 2021, Virtua Fighter 5: R.E.V.O. is doing the same thing for PC. It’s pretty much exactly the same game as Ultimate Showdown, only this time with 4K support and rollback netcode.

New Releases
Little Lighthouse of Horror (PC) is a survival horror based on the 1900 Flannan Isle disappearance, where you play as a lighthouse keeper who is slowly losing his mind and/or being plagued by Horrors. Looks incredibly atmospheric.
The Stone of Madness (PC, PS5, Switch, Xbox X/S) is an isometric stealth game set in a Spanish monastery. You play as one of five prisoners in the mental asylum built into the facility, determined to escape your cruel fate, all while holding off your insanity.
Techno Banter (PC, PS5, Switch, Xbox X/S) is a game about being a bouncer for an exclusive club. You must negotiate with potential partygoers to ensure the club’s vibe is immaculate by turning away those who might ruin the atmosphere.
Tails of Iron II: Whiskers of Winter (PC, PlayStation, Switch, Xbox) is the sequel to the brutal side-scrolling RPG where you play as rats taking on the frog clan. This second game sees a new conflict emerge in that world’s frozen north, and the rats must now take arms against another threat.
Neptunia Riders vs Dogoos (PlayStation, Switch) is the latest game in the inexplicable Neptunia series, where anime girl personas of video game consoles get up to shenanigans. This one sees you taking your console girls out on bikes as they collect weird slime dogs for five hours. I played it for review. I gave it 5/10. Absolutely not essential unless you’re somehow on board with this series and its endless jank.
Phantom Brave: The Lost Hero (PlayStation, Switch) is the long-awaited sequel to the PS2/Wii RPG Phantom Brave, where a young girl named Marona uses Phantoms to battle enemies in tactical battles. This second game sees her venturing out across the seas to gather a crew capable of defeating a fleet of invading ghost ships.
Eternal Strands (PC, PS5, Xbox X/S) is a big open world game where you play a mage who can weave the natural elements to their will. What this means is using the environment to kick the ass of massive constructs to uncover the lost secrets of the world.
Sniper Elite: Resistance (PC, PlayStation, Xbox) reminds us all that killing Nazis is always fun and morally correct, just in case we somehow forgot. Wanna shoot a Nazi in the balls with realistic physics and detailed visuals? Hell yeah you do. This latest game is set in occupied France as you try and stop the Nazis developing a superweapon.

Game of the Week
Game of the Week is Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector (PC, PS5, Switch, Xbox X/S), a narrative adventure with RPG mechanics.
You play as an escaped android, a sleeper, trying to remember their history and staying out of the way of the corporation that created them. Gather a crew and figure out a way to stay safe and functioning in a harsh universe.
I absolutely adored the first Citizen Sleeper. It was a solid game which told a moody, heartfelt story about finding your place in the universe when so many forces hate your mere existence. The dice-based mechanics were a great addition that reshaped so much of the game’s progression, and even failed rolls led to interesting outcomes. The sequel promises even more of that, only more expansive, and I look forward to seeing where this story takes us.
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