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.

Maiden Cops is a proper old-school scrolling beat ’em up and it comes to us from indie developers Pippin Games. And while this two-man studio are Brazilian, you’d be forgiven for thinking they were absolutely Japanese when playing this game. Set in Maiden City, a place where everyone is female and […]

Maiden Cops – PS5 Review

August 12, 2025 in PS5 tagged anime / Beat em up / japanese / maiden cops / retro by Richie

Achilles: Survivor is a rogue-lite/auto-battler type of game and it comes to us from Polish programmers Dark Point Games. It’s the follow up to Achilles: Legends Untold, a tough little souls-like RPG, and while it sports a very similar look, this takes the series into a Vampire Survivors direction. That means that […]

Achilles: Survivor – PS5 Review

August 3, 2025 in PS5 tagged achilles / rogue-lite / survivor / survivors-like by Richie

Time Flies is a puzzle game from Swiss-based developers Playable and it’s quite unlike anything we’ve played before. The game sees you playing as a fly that has to try to complete a list of goals in its meagre lifespan before it dies. But if that sounds like a bad premise […]

Time Flies – PS5 Review

July 31, 2025 in PS5 / Reviews tagged playables / puzzle game / retro / time flies by Richie

Perhaps the biggest no-brainer in gaming was when Activision commissioned the remaster of the first two Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater games back in 2020 (WAIT! It was FIVE YEARS AGO?!). Two of the most-loved games of all-time lovingly recreated for modern audiences. It was a big success and while it wasn’t perfect, […]

Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 + 4 – PS5 Review

July 21, 2025 in PS5 tagged extreme sports / skating / tony hawk's pro skater by Richie

Stunt Flyer is, as you might expect, a flying game and it comes to us from Australian studio Torus Games who, when they’re not pumping out licensed kids’ games like PAW Patrol and Ben 10, were responsible for the reasonably decent World War Z. But this game sees them not only going back to their […]

Stunt Flyer – PS5 Review

July 17, 2025 in PS5 / Reviews tagged flying / stunt flyer / stunts / torus games / wii by Richie

Irem Collection Volume 3 is a collection of three arcade shoot ’em ups from Irem, the classic coin-op company. And this one offers up three arcade-perfect ports, as well as a Turbografix/PC Engine one, and they’re all shoot ’em ups, which is a running theme for these collections so far. As […]

Irem Collection Volume 3 – PS5 Review

July 9, 2025 in PS5 / Reviews tagged arcade / compilation / irem collection volume 3 / shoot em up by Richie

Exo-Calibre is a vertically-scrolling shoot ’em up from London-based one-man studio, Vampixel Games. It’s also published by eastasiasoft, one of many shoot ’em ups they’ve put out. And this one is pretty typical of the genre and gives you pretty much exactly what you’d expect at this price point. Set across […]

Exo-Calibre – PS5 Review

July 8, 2025 in PS5 tagged eastasiasoft / exo-calibre / vampixel / vertically-scrolling shoot em up by Richie

Crime Boss: Rockay City originally came out in 2023 and was a co-op heist-based stealthy shooter and it was put together by a group of Czech coders known as Ingame Studios. And when it came out we basically ignored it because of a few reasons. It had a middling reception (it […]

Crime Boss: Rockay City (Update 16 and DLCs) – PS5 ...

July 7, 2025 in PS5 tagged bank / crime / crime boss / heist / payday / rockay city / stealth by Richie

Keeper’s Toll is this week’s stab at the old Vampire Survivors-esque roguelike style game and it comes to us by Stingbot Games who, like most of your favourite 1980s thrash metal bands, hail from the Bay Area in California. And as we always seem to say, when this genre is done […]

Keeper’s Toll – PS5 Review

June 26, 2025 in PS5 tagged auto-shooter / eastasiasoft / keeper's toll / roguelite / survivors by Richie

Soulstone Survivors is, as you can probably guess, an auto-shooter, rogue-lite game in the same vein as Vampire Survivors and Brotato and it comes to us by way of Brighton-based studio Game Smithing, an oddly drab and functional studio name that might make you think this is just another cheap attempt to cash-in on […]

Soulstone Survivors – PS5 Review

June 18, 2025 in PS5 tagged auto-shooter / roguelite / soulstone survivors by Richie

The PuK Thumbstick is an accessory for smartphones that hopes to address the one universal truth about mobile gaming: virtual controls are absolutely rubbish. And while the main application for this hardware is Android/iOS gaming, we figured we’d look at it through a different lens: the PS5’s Remote Play function. But […]

PuK Thumbstick – Hardware Review

June 10, 2025 in Reviews tagged hardware / puk by Richie

Gore Doctor is a horror game from Salient Games which came out in March 2024 on Steam before inevitably making its way to consoles a year later. But rather than being your usual Resident Evil/Silent Hill kind of affair, this one’s going for a something of a Saw vibe which isn’t something […]

Gore Doctor – PS5 Review

June 10, 2025 in PS5 tagged gore doctor / horror / salient games by Richie