Yearly Archives: 2023

Frictional Games have been at the forefront of the indie horror genre and their Amnesia series has been, for the most part, very well received. I’ve yet to play the earlier games but I always considered their restrictive nature to be off-putting. Sneaking around an environment with little to arm […]

Amnesia: The Bunker – PS4 Review

June 22, 2023 in PS4 / Reviews tagged amnesia the bunker / claustrophobia / frictional games / immersive sim / isolation / Monster / psychological / puzzle solving / supernatural / survival horror / world war i by Mike

Orbital Bullet is a run and gun shooter/platformer that comes to us from German games dev SmokeStab. And while we get plenty of run and gunners to review here at PlayStation Country, this one has a very cool mechanic that elevates it above many of its contemporaries. The gimmick here is […]

Orbital Bullet – PS4 Review

June 19, 2023 in PS4 / Reviews tagged loop / orbital bullet / rogue-lite / run and gun / shooter by Richie

We have to confess being a little nervous about (deep breath) We Love Katamari REROLL+ Royal Reverie. For whatever reason, its PS4 predecessor Katamari Damacy REROLL didn’t feel right. Perhaps it was the fact it didn’t particularly work for us with the Dualshock 4. At any rate, We Love Katamari […]

We Love Katamari REROLL+ Royal Reverie – PS5 Review

June 17, 2023 in PS4 / PS5 / Reviews tagged bandai namco / katamari damacy / remaster / reroll / save the pandas by Ian

MotoGP might still be the greatest sport I never watch. Since it was bumped off free-to-air TV, I’ve barely stayed current with it, although it’s been intriguing to keep an eye on it since Valentino Rossi moved towards team ownership and Mark Marquez injures himself into a sad decline. I […]

MotoGP 23 – PS5 Review

June 15, 2023 in PS5 / Reviews tagged championship / milestone / moto2 / moto3 / motogp 23 / motorcycles / motorsport / online multiplayer / time trial by Mike

Danmaku Unlimited 3 is a vertically-scrolling shoot ’em up from one-man Canadian coder, Doragon Entertainment. The previous two games never made it over to PSN, and seem to just be mobile phone efforts, but this game landed on the Switch back in 2019 and has now finally made it to […]

Danmaku Unlimited 3 – PS4 Review

June 15, 2023 in PS4 / Reviews tagged bullet-hell / danmaku unlimited 3 / retro / vertically-scrolling shoot em up by Richie

We’re not exactly sure why MOSS and NIS America insist on releasing their Raiden games in such a bizarre order, but following on from Raiden 5: Director’s Cut and Raiden 4 x MIKADO, here is their last updated port and this time it’s Raiden III x MIKADO MANIAX. Dating back to 2005, Raiden III is […]

Raiden III x MIKADO MANIAX – PS5 Review

June 12, 2023 in PS5 / Reviews tagged arcade port / mikado / raiden III / remaster / vertically-scrolling shoot em up by Richie

Farming simulators seem to get of traction these days. Maybe it’s a question of escapism or the fact they trivialise the back-breaking labour of farm work but people seem to love them. I can see the appeal but there’s always a sense the repetition might wear me down. In comes […]

Everdream Valley – PS5 Review

June 11, 2023 in PS5 / Reviews tagged child labour / cosy / ducks / everdream valley / Farming simulator / fishing / herding / livestock / moon eaters / sheep by Mike

Undead Horde 2 is a top-down strategy/hack and slash mash up from Finnish studio 10TonsLtd and if you’ve ever read our reviews of their games, you’ll know that we’re huge fans of their work. The game is, of course, the follow-up to their 2020 original, a game that we liked […]

Undead Horde 2: Necropolis – PS5 Review

June 6, 2023 in PS5 / Reviews tagged 10tonsltd / hack and slash / strategy / undead horde 2 by Richie

Wobbledogs: Console Edition comes to us on PS4 from developer Animal Uprising and publisher Secret Mode (aka Sumo Digital’s publishing arm), having released on Steam in March last year. This reviewer decided to have a go as our kid seemed to have enjoyed it on PC. At least until he […]

Wobbledogs – PS4 Review

June 3, 2023 in PS4 / Reviews tagged animal uprising / breeding / secret mode / wobbledogs by Ian

Laserpitium is a 2D horizontally-scrolling shoot ’em that comes to us from one of the more prolific publishers in the genre, eastasiasoft, and was created by French studio, The ReeTeam. They have a long record of making low budget indie shooters that mostly ended up on Steam but this appears […]

Laserpitium – PS5 Review

May 31, 2023 in PS5 tagged 2d / eastasiasoft / horizontally-scrolling / laserpitium / shoot em up by Richie

Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun is a chip off a very familiar block. I’m not sure how I feel about the term ‘boomer shooter’ but it is accurate in conveying a very specific first-person experience. I’m not a fan of the fiction but the setting certainly lends itself perfectly to a no-nonsense, […]

Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun – PS5 Review

May 29, 2023 in PS5 / Reviews tagged auroch digital / boomer shooter / first-person shooter / Games workshop / heresy / platforming / space marine / warhammer 40k boltgun by Mike

Herodes is a 2D horizontally-scrolling shoot ’em up from Brazilian indie studio TecnoloGils. It does the old bit of putting you into a microscopic ship and injecting you into a human who is suffering from some sort of deadly disease. We’ve seen the concept before in games like Viva Ex Vivo […]

Herodes – PS4 Review

May 24, 2023 in PS4 / Reviews tagged herodes / indie / retro / shoot em up by Richie