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.

Rainbow Cotton is an on-rails shoot ’em up and is a port of the Dreamcast exclusive game of the same name, originally published in 2000. ININ have already been busy porting other games from the series over to modern consoles including a reboot of the first game, Cotton, as well […]

Rainbow Cotton – PS5 Review

May 9, 2024 in PS5 / Reviews tagged dreamcast / port / rail shooter / rainbow cotton / retro by Richie

Space Mercenary Defense Force is a survivors-like from UK dev, Tom Paradise, and is published by the super-prolific eastasiasoft. We’ve reviewed a ton of these recently, including eastasiasoft’s own Stickman’s Arena which, like most of them, was kind of garbage. So, what does this one bring to the party? Well, the […]

Space Mercenary Defense Force – PS5 Review

May 4, 2024 in PS5 tagged auto-shooter / eastasiasoft / space mercenary defense force / survivors-like by Richie

Contra: Operation Galuga is a run and gun shooter that continues the legacy of the long running Contra series, one that started in the arcades of Japan in 1987, and brings it to modern consoles. Not that the series has ever gone that many years without a new entry. But, anyway, […]

Contra: Operation Galuga – PS5 Review

April 30, 2024 in PS5 / Reviews tagged arcade / contra: operation galuga / remake / retro / run and gun by Richie

Fans of zombies and aliens don’t tend to find much media that involves both of those things but Zombies, Aliens and Guns is here to change all that. It’s a top-down twin-stick shooter from Sergio Poverony that sees you playing as a lone soldier who needs to take on the alien threat […]

Zombies, Aliens and Guns – PS5 Review

April 27, 2024 in PS5 / Reviews tagged ratalaika / twin-stick shooter by Richie

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