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.

Howdy, folks. We have decided to close up for good. It’s been a nice run though, hasn’t it? PlayStation Country started in 2014 and we’ve reviewed over 2000 games in the last twelve years. But, honestly, the fun is draining out of it a bit these days and we want […]

PlayStation Country is over!

May 6, 2026 in Reviews tagged laters by Richie

The Spell Brigade is yet another Survivors-like, but one that has the twist of being focused on co-op play, which is a little unusual for this genre, and it’s from Bolt Blaster Games, a Belgium-based studio. The game sees you, and up to three other players, being under siege from […]

The Spell Brigade – PS5 Review

April 30, 2026 in PS5 tagged auto-battler / roguelite / survivors-like / the spell brigade by Richie

Drop Duchy is a strategy game with puzzle and deckbuilding elements, and it comes to us from Sleepy Mill Studio, a French coding crew. And it’s really quite a strange mix of genres that really come together in quite a clever way. The initial onboarding process with Drop Duchy isn’t […]

Drop Duchy – PS5 Review

April 30, 2026 in PS5 tagged drop duchy / puzzle / sleepy mill studio / strategy / tetris by Richie

Trash Goblin is a cosy shopkeeping simulator from London-based devs Spilt Milk Studios, the team behind Tango Fiesta (which was a fun-but-flawed shooter) and Powerwash Simulator (a reasoanbly well-received job sim effort). As with the latter, this game sees you playing in a job role as the titular Goblin (that’s […]

Trash Goblin – PS5 Review

April 22, 2026 in PS5 by Richie

Let Them Come: Onslaught is this week’s Vampire Survivors clone, and it’s a sequel to Tautara Games’ earlier Let Them Come, which was a 2D horde defence shooter. Shifting the viewpoint to above and adopting the now tried-and-tested formula of throwing a ton of enemies at you while you move […]

Let Them Come: Onslaught – PS5 Review

April 15, 2026 in PS5 / Reviews tagged autobattler / let them come onslaught / roguelite / tautara games / vampire survivors by Richie

We’re sure that if you asked David Doak (Golden Eye) and Steve Ellis (Timesplitters) twenty-five years ago what they would be making today, neither of them would have guessed they would be releasing Beyond Words. Just as Balatro took poker but filtered it through an addictive-roguelike structure, this game is […]

Beyond Words – PS5 Review

April 7, 2026 in PS5 tagged balatro / beyond words / puzzle / roguelike / scrabble / words by Richie

Ever since Vampire Survivors took hold of the indie gaming scene, we’ve had a steady stream of imitators. Some good, some bad, but generally, as a genre, these games tend to be reasonably enjoyable. However, if there’s a downside to them, it’s that they can be kind of repetitive, dragging […]

Grind Survivors – PS5 Review

March 23, 2026 in PS5 tagged autobattler / grind survivors / rogue-lite / vampire survivors by Richie

Devil Jam is an auto-battling, roguelite, and it comes to us from Belgium-based devs, Rogueside (originally Crazy Monkey Studios, the team behind the Guns, Gore and Cannoli games). This is the latest game to riff off the Vampire Survivors formula, with you playing as members of a band who have […]

Devil Jam – PS5 Review

March 13, 2026 in PS5 tagged autobattler / devil jam / heavy metal / roguelite by Richie

John Carpenter’s Toxic Commando is a squad-based first-person shooter from Saber Interactive, the developers behind various remasters, the Mudrunner games, a few VR titles and, most importantly for this review, World War Z, a similarly co-op shooter which uses a similar structure to this game but now features a story […]

John Carpenter’s Toxic Commando – PS5 Review

March 11, 2026 in PS5 tagged fps / john carpenter / shooter / squad-based / toxic commando / world war z by Richie

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