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.

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

Age of Empires II is a port of the 2019 real-time strategy game originally published by Xbox Studios but that was a remake of the original Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings which dates back to 1999. And, of course, this has made its way to PSN thanks […]

Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition – PS5 Review

May 28, 2025 in PS5 tagged age of empires II / remaster / RTS / strategy / xbox by Richie

Super Engine GT Turbo SPEC is a racing game by solo developer Josep Monzonis Hernandez and it’s been published by eastasiasoft and it offers up some straightforward motorsports action on a budget. Our initial impressions of the game were a little bit weird. There are very little options there on […]

Super Engine GT Turbo SPEC – PS5 Review

May 12, 2025 in PS5 tagged motorsports / racing / retro / super engine gt turbo spec by Richie

Submarine Survivor is, like so many other games on PSN right now, the latest stab at the auto-shooting rogue-like genre popularised by Vampire Survivors and perfected by Brotato. It’s odd that so many of these games exist when you’re going up against two such brilliant games but here are The Bat Flight, or […]

Submarine Survivor – PS5 Review

May 6, 2025 in PS5 tagged auto-shooter / rogue-lite / submarine survivor / vampire survivors by Richie

ANNIE:Last Hope (their grammar, not ours) is a twin-stick shooter/zombie survival game from the mysterious developers Pixel Rice. And by mysterious we mean they haven’t got any kind of online presence that we could find. Originally released in 2020 on Steam, the game has been ported over to PSN and […]

ANNIE:Last Hope – PS5 Review

May 4, 2025 in PS5 tagged annie / last hope / pixel rice / top down / twin-stick shooter / zombie by Richie

Hegzis is a puzzle game from Turkish developers Clazz Apps who seem to have more of an avionics background than one making games but here they are with a six-sided spin on Tetris. The core gameplay here is pretty straightforward. You have to place shapes on a board and if they form […]

Hegzis – PS5 Review

April 28, 2025 in PS5 tagged clazz apps / eastasiasoft / hegsiz / puzzle / tetris by Richie

Steredenn: Binary Stars is a horizontally-scrolling shoot ’em up from Pixelnest Studio, a two-person team based in France. It follows on from 2015’s original Steredenn but rather than being a whole new game, this is more of an enhanced version of the original. On the face of it, this is a pretty […]

Steredenn: Binary Stars – PS5 Review

April 23, 2025 in PS5 tagged horizontally-scrolling / pixelnest studio / shoot em up / steredenn binary stars by Richie

Steel Seed is a third-person action/adventure game from Italian developers Storm in a Teacup and it tells the story of Zoe, a woman who finds her consciousness has been downloaded into a robot body by her father in his efforts to enable her to save the planet a millennia after […]

Steel Seed – PS5 Review

April 22, 2025 in PS5 tagged action / adventure / double-A / ninja / parkour / stealth / steel seed / storm in a teacup / third-person by Richie

S. Prism Destroyer is a run and gun style shooter from a small studio called MaidsWithGuns which was originally launched on Steam last year but was picked up by eastasiasoft for the console launch. In the game you play as Amor, a “cute girl that fell in love with a boy […]

S. Prism Destroyer – PS5 Review

April 14, 2025 in PS5 tagged contra / eastasiasoft / run and gun / s. prism destroyer by Richie

Sociable Soccer ’25 is an arcade football game which has a genuine lineage that traces back to not only one of the best football games of all time but one of the best games generally, Sensible World of Soccer. If you were gaming in the ’90s, there’s a good chance you lost […]

Sociable Soccer ’25 – PS5 Review

April 10, 2025 in PS5 tagged football / jon hare / sensible soccer / sociable soccer / swos by Richie

Legends BMX is an action sports title from Saga Legends Games and while it’s usually the skateboarders who tend to be the most-targeted in this sub-genre, there have been a handful of decent BMX titles over the years. 8-Bit gamers will remember BMX Simulator from Codemasters back in the day while PS1-era […]

Legends BMX – PS5 Review

April 1, 2025 in PS5 tagged extreme sports / legends bmx by Richie