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.

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

Turret Rampage is a one-tower tower-defense shooter from solo developer KhudO and is published by budget kings eastasiasoft. It got a PC release late last year and is now here on a PSN packed in, as ever, with an identical PS4 version. You place as the titular turret as you defend […]

Turret Rampage – PS5 Review

February 5, 2024 in PS5 / Reviews tagged easy platinum / mini-game / simple / tower defense / turret rampage by Richie

Starward Rogue is a top-down, twin-stick shooting rogue-like from state-side developers Arcen games. It’s a bit of a strange one this, as the game came out for PC back in 2015 albeit to a rather unsuccessful launch which was apparently so bad that it caused the studio to shed three employees […]

Starward Rogue – PS5 Review

January 29, 2024 in PS5 / Reviews tagged arcen games / rogue-like / starward rogue / twin-stick shooter by Richie

Nephenthesys is a vertically-scrolling, but wide-screen, shoot ’em up from budget kings eastasiasoft and it’s all been put together by enigmatic coders Let’s Dev Studios (we say enigmatic because these guys have no website and no social media presence). A credits screen reveals them to be a small studio with […]

Nephenthesys – PS5 Review

January 17, 2024 in PS5 / Reviews tagged eastasiasoft / nephenthesys / vertically-scrolling shoot em up by Richie

Cookie Cutter is a Metroidvania style platformer/brawler from Brighton-based studio, Subcult Joint LTD. Promising to fuse Manga stylings with a punk rock aesthetic, this futuristic title mixes a bit of dystopian sci-fi with some good old ultra-violence. You play as Cherry, a robot who receives a much needed refurb job after […]

Cookie Cutter – PS5 Review

January 15, 2024 in PS5 / Reviews tagged 2d / cookie cutter / metroidvania / retro by Richie

Shinorubi is a vertically-scrolling shoot ’em up from Parisian studio Last Boss 88 and it’s in the modern ‘Danmaku’ style which means it’s a bullet-hell affair so expect barrages of bullets to weave through and just a lot of stuff going on on-screen when you fire this one up. Now we […]

Shinorubi – PS5 Review

January 1, 2024 in PS5 / Reviews tagged danmaku / last boss 88 / shinorubi / shoot em up / vertically scrolling by Richie

Hammerwatch II is a top-down RPG hack and slasher from Swedish studio, CrackShell. It follows on directly from the 2013 original Hammerwatch, pretty much ignoring their 2018 rogue-like Heroes of Hammerwatch, a game that had its flaws but one that we liked enough to put in hundreds of hours with. Even now […]

Hammerwatch II – PS5 Review

December 23, 2023 in PS5 / Reviews tagged bad netcode / crackshell / hammerwatch II / Pixel art / rpg by Richie

Stickman’s Arena is a top-down auto-shooter from eastasiasoft. It’s the latest entry into a genre popularised by Vampire Survivors that has, so far, had a series of fairly mediocre games show up on PSN. So, can Stickman’s Arena improve on such recent games as Remedium Sentinels and Hero Survival? The game itself gives you a […]

Stickman’s Arena – PS5 Review

December 19, 2023 in PS5 / Reviews tagged auto-shooter / brotato / eastasiasoft / easy platinum / stickman's arena by Richie

Custom Mech Wars is a mech-based designer/shooter from D3 Publisher that came out of nowhere but immediately intrigued thanks to it being from some of the people that made some of the EDF games while also showing off a frankly ridiculous trailer that looked like it might just capture some of that EDF magic. […]

Custom Mech Wars – PS5 Review

December 15, 2023 in PS5 / Reviews tagged custom mech wars / d3 publisher / edf but not edf / mechs by Richie