Richie

About Richie

Rich is the editor of PlayStation Country. He likes his games lemony and low-budget with a lot of charm. This isn't his photo. That'll be Rik Mayall.

We’re on a strange run of retro ports with all sorts of unexpected games getting the re-release treatment on PS5, but City Hunter has to be one of the oddest yet. Originally released by Sunsoft in 1990, this run-and-gunner was only ever available for the TurboGrafx-16 (known as the PC […]

City Hunter – PS5 Review

March 4, 2026 in PS5 tagged city hunter / pc engine / port / retro / sunsoft / turbografix by Richie

Centipede Gun is an autobattling rogue-like from Brazil-based solo developer Mateusk2m. It is, of course, another in a long list of entries into the post-Vampire Survivors genre, and it makes its way to PSN a couple of years after its initial Steam release. The game sees you playing as the […]

Centipede Gun – PS5 Review

February 19, 2026 in PS5 tagged autobattler / centipede gun / rogue-like by Richie

In this modern gaming world, what we don’t have enough of is characters. Not in the games. We’ve got plenty of those. Even if they are the usual archetypes: young ladies with bow and arrows, muscular men with swords and whatever John Protagonist fella that Ubisoft wants to put in […]

Romeo is a Dead Man – PS5 Review

February 12, 2026 in PS5 tagged hack and slasher / romeo is a dead man / suda51 by Richie

I Hate This Place is a survival/horror game from ex-Bloober Team devs, Rock Square Thunder, who are based out of Poland. But when we say survival/horror, we don’t mean it in the Resident Evil kind of way. Instead, this is a mixture of straight up horror gameplay but with survival […]

I Hate This Place – PS5 Review

February 4, 2026 in PS5 tagged comic / horror / i hate this place / rock square thunder / survival by Richie

Saber Interactive’s World War Z has been around since 2019 and was a solid co-op shooter. We reviewed it when it came out, giving it a respectable 7/10, and a couple of us played through it all a couple of years ago and, yeah, it was decent. It never had the same […]

World War Z x The Walking Dead – PS5 Review

February 1, 2026 in PS5 tagged dlc / the walking dead / world war z / zombies by Richie

The Fighting Force Collection is, as the name suggests, a collection of two fighting games originally released in the late 1990s and now ported to modern consoles (well, not you, Xbox; the wait continues) thanks to retro-friendly publisher Limited Run Games. What you get here is the original, semi-legendary Fighting […]

Fighting Force Collection – PS5 Review

January 31, 2026 in PS5 by Richie

The Perplexing Orb: Bounce Mania is a platforming game indie from TreeFall games. It shares a sub-genre with other rolling ball platformers like Trailblazer, Bouncer, Spindizzy and, if you want an example that isn’t from the ’80s, Super Monkey Ball. It’s the fifth entry in a series of Perplexing Orb games with the previous […]

The Perplexing Orb: Bounce Mania

January 22, 2026 in PS5 tagged bounce mania / don't buy this / indie / platformer / the perplexing orb by Richie

Hextreme Void is the latest of many auto-battling, rogue-lite games all following on from the great success of Vampire Survivors a couple of years ago. This one comes to us by way of a little studio called Double Mizzlee and has been released by PSN’s most-prolific publishers Eastasiasoft. The game is a little […]

Hextreme Void – PS5 Review

January 17, 2026 in PS5 tagged arkanoid / double mizzlee / hextreme void / rogue-lite / vampire survivors by Richie

Dino Land is a port of a pinball game originally developed by Japanese developers Wolf Team and released on the Megadrive/Genesis (and also the Sharp X68000) way back in 1991. And it’s really a strange choice of game to port. The original never led to any sequels, the developers eventually […]

Dino Land – PS5 Review

December 15, 2025 in PS5 / Reviews tagged 1991 / dino land / megadrive / pinball by Richie

Ultimate Zombie Defense is a top-down twin-stick shooter, with some tower defense elements, from Belfast-based studio Terror Dog. And this is a really strange game. Not so much because of the mechanics of it, this sort of thing has been done before in games like #killallzombies, but more because of basically […]

Ultimate Zombie Defense – PS5 Review

December 11, 2025 in PS5 tagged tower defence / twin-stick (sort of) shooter / ultimate zombie defence / zombies by Richie

Skate Story is a skateboarding/adventure game from New York native Sam Eng which has been creating quite a stir on social media for a couple of reasons. The first is that it looks a bit like SKATE, which is important because EA’s new free-to-play update to that franchise is a load of […]

Skate Story – PS5 Review

December 8, 2025 in PS5 tagged adventure / sam eng / skate story / skateboarding by Richie

Despite being one of the few classic coin-ops that still plays well today, you don’t really get many games that riff on the old Pac-Man formula. Sure, Namco will drag Pac’s carcass out of the cupboard and beat a few more pennies out of it every chance they can but for […]

Dungeons and Ducklings – PS5 Review

December 3, 2025 in PS5 tagged beer belly games / dungeons and ducklings / pac-man / retro / rogue-lite by Richie