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.

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

MARVEL Cosmic Invasion is an arcade-style beat ’em up from Quebec-based studio Tribute Games who were behind other coin-op/retro-inspired titles like Mercenary Kings and Scott Pilgrim. But more recently the were behind the brilliant Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge which, like this game, was very much a love letter to the […]

MARVEL Cosmic Invasion – PS5 Review

December 3, 2025 in PS5 tagged arcade / Beat em up / cosmic invasion / fighting / marvel / retro by Richie

Schildmaid MX is the latest shoot ’em up from our prolific publishing pals Eastasiasoft and it comes to PSN a couple of years after its initial PC release. And this is quite an unusual take on the genre as while it does look like your standard low-budget horizontally-scrolling shooter, there are […]

Schildmaid MX – PS5 Review

November 26, 2025 in PS5 tagged eastasiasoft / horizontally-scrolling shoot 'em up / schildmaiden mx by Richie

Sektori is a twin-stick shoot ’em up which comes to us from solo developer Kimmo Lahtinen. That name might not be familiar to everyone but if we tell you that Kimmo was one of the original founders of Housemarque, best known for Returnal but also responsible for the PS4’s best game, Returnal, […]

Sektori – PS5 Review

November 24, 2025 in PS5 by Richie