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.

Outer Terror is an auto-shooter from Virginia-based studio Salt & Pixel LLC (actually solo developer Brandon Rodriguez) that follows the current trend of filling PSN with Vampire Survivors clones, something we don’t mind as we’re constantly banging on about the greatness of that game and Brotato. This one is quite different though. […]

Outer Terror – PS5 Review

April 12, 2024 in PS5 / Reviews tagged auto-shooter / horror / outer terror / ps1 / retro / vampire survivors by Richie

Flightpath: Adventures in Venaris is a vertically-scrolling shoot ’em up from Japanese devs Illogic Games and is the latest release from the ever-prolific eastasiasoft. While the shooting is front and centre, as you’d expect, Illogic have also elevated the importance of the story which is something you generally don’t see […]

Flightpath: Adventures in Venaris – PS5 Review

April 6, 2024 in PS5 / Reviews tagged adventures in venaris / eastasiasoft / flightpath / shoot up em / upgrades / vertically scrolling by Richie

Mighty Mage is the latest top-down, (sort of) auto-shooting Survivors-like to hit PSN and it comes from Brazilian-based coders Afil Games (essentially the home of solo dev Antonio Filipe). It hit Steam a year ago but has now been ported to PSN and the Switch. There are quite a few of these […]

Mighty Mage – PS4 Review

April 2, 2024 in PS4 / Reviews tagged afil games / brotato / mighty mage / too easy / vampire survivors by Richie

Manic Mechanics is a co-op action party game from Scottish devs 4J Studios and it follows the tradition of other ‘work’ based games doing for car maintenance what Overcooked did for catering and what Moving Out did for furniture removals. This game sees you working in a series of garages where cars come in […]

Manic Mechanics – PS4 Review

March 31, 2024 in PS4 / Reviews tagged co-op / manic mechanics / moving out / Overcooked / party game by Richie

Match Village is a minimalist puzzle game that combines a sort of chilled-out city building set up but with a match three element and it comes to us from Brazil-based solo dev Moraes Game Studio. It’s currently on PSN for a penny under four quid and it has been published […]

Match Village – PS4 Review

March 22, 2024 in PS4 / Reviews tagged islanders / match village / match-three / puzzle by Richie

Abriss, or to give it’s full title ABRISS – build to destroy, is a physics-based puzzle game from Berlin-based studio Randwerk and it’s really quite something. As it’s annoyingly uncapitalised subtitle suggests, this game is about building and destruction but it’s done in a way that’s wholly original and just technically so […]

Abriss – PS5 Review

March 21, 2024 in PS5 / Reviews tagged abriss / destruction / physics / puzzle game / randwerk by Richie

The Outlast Trials is a co-op focused survival horror game from Montreal studio Red Barrels who, despite some pedigree working in the industry previously, have a softography that, so far, only includes this game and the two previous Outlast titles. Set in a Cold War-era experimental facility, The Outlast Trials, exists in the same […]

The Outlast Trials – PS5 Review

March 15, 2024 in PS5 / Reviews tagged co-op / horror / outlast / saw / survival / the outlast trials by Richie

King Arthur: A Knight’s Tale is an RPG with turn-based combat and with it’s mostly top-down viewpoint is very in keeping with the rest of the software catalogue of Hungarian developers NeocoreGames given that they made all those Van Helsing games and Warhammer 40,000: Inquisitor. They’re known for combining a solid story […]

King Arthur: A Knight’s Tale – PS5 Review

March 11, 2024 in PS5 / Reviews tagged adventure / king arthur: a knight's tale / rpg / the knights who say nic / turn-based by Richie

Dead End City is a vertically-scrolling shoot ’em up by Dublin-based dev Thomas Schreiber otherwise known as Pixel Licker LLC and has been published by the ever-prolific eastasiasoft. However, unlike the usual military/space settings that these games tend to use, this game has a post-apocalyptic Mad Max vibe to it […]

Dead End City – PS5 Review

February 29, 2024 in PS5 / Reviews tagged dead end city / eastasiasoft / fury road was rubbish though right? / mad max / vertically-scrolling shoot em up by Richie

Geometry Survivor is an auto-shooter from London-based coders Brain Seal and its name really tells you know what their intentions with this game was. Essentially it’s the latest Vampire Survivors style auto-shooting rogue-lite game to hit PSN and it borrows its aesthetic pretty heavily from Bizarre Creations’ wonderful Geometry Wars series. That is to […]

Geometry Survivor – PS5 Review

February 28, 2024 in PS5 / Reviews tagged auto-shooter / geometry survivor / geometry wars / rogue-lite by Richie

Brotato is an auto-shooting ‘survivors’ game from French coding soloist Thomas Gervraud, otherwise known as Blobfish. Debuting on Steam in late 2022, the game caught the wave of popularity that Vampire Survivors brought to the genre but while it shares some common DNA with it, Brotato has a style and gameplay loop […]

Brotato – PS5 Review

February 21, 2024 in PS5 / Reviews tagged autoshooter / blobfish / brotato / vampire survivors by Richie

A Little to the Left is an organising/puzzler from Canadian coding crew, Max Inferno, and it has been floating around on Steam since November 2022 but is now making its way over to consoles for a reasonable £12 with some day one DLC, Cupboards & Drawers, setting you back another fiver if […]

A Little to the Left – PS5 Review

February 19, 2024 in PS5 / Reviews tagged a little to the left / max inferno / organisation / relaxed / sorting / tidying up by Richie