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.

Super Destronaut DX is the latest effort from the oddly prolific Finnish dev crew Ratalaika Games who are starting to create a very odd niche in the indie gaming sphere. This particular title is their take on the grandaddy of them all, Space Invaders, and while it’s fundamentally different to their […]

Super Destronaut DX – PS4/Vita Review

July 12, 2018 in PS4 / Vita tagged cross buy / easy trophies / ratalaika / space invaders by Richie

Runbow from 13Games is a port of the 2015 Wii-U party platformer and two big clues to the game’s nature are found in the title. You run and colour has a big effect on the gameplay. The core gameplay involves you running across a 2D level, jumping on platforms and generally […]

Runbow – PS4 Review

July 10, 2018 in PS4 tagged 2D Platformer / online / party game / platforming / runbow by Richie

While any arcade puzzle title that isn’t Tetris tends to feel like a bit of a Johnny Come Lately kind of effort, it’s easy to forget that Lumines has been around as a series since 2004. Tetsuya Mizuguchi’s music-laden take on the falling blocks type of puzzler has had quite a few outings […]

Lumines Remastered – PS4 Review

June 30, 2018 in PS4 tagged arcade / falling blocks / lumines / puzzle / rez / tetris by Richie

Earth Atlantis is a multi-directional scrolling shoot ’em up and comes to us from indie developers/publishers Headup Games and while we’ll get be getting into the pros and cons of the game in due course, one thing should stand out immediately: those visuals. In Earth Atlantis, you play as a […]

Earth Atlantis – PS4 Review

June 20, 2018 in PS4 tagged earth atlantis / monochrome / nice graphics / shoot em up / submarine by Richie

Vampyr, the latest effort by Parisian coders Don’t Nod (or DONTNOD depending on who is writing it) who are most celebrated for Life is Strange but are more fondly known by us at least for Remember Me, is an interesting game. I know that’s an odd thing to lead with in a review but think […]

Vampyr – PS4 Review

June 11, 2018 in PS4 tagged blood / dontnod / horror / moral choice / rpg / stats / vampire / vampyr by Richie

This update of the 2016 PC title Riddled Corpses is a cross-buy title for PS4 and Vita that would give you cirrhosis of the liver if there was a drinking game based on current trends in the indie games market. Twin-stick shooter? Drink! Rogue-lite? Drink! Pixel graphics! Drink! Zombies! DRINNNKKKKK! But despite […]

Riddled Corpses EX – PS4/Vita Review

June 4, 2018 in PS4 / Vita tagged arcade / retro / rogue-lite / twin stick / zombies by Richie

2016’s Aragami was a third-person stealth action game that was reasonably well received and caught our interest because it looked like the Tenchu game we’ve always wanted on the PS4. It told the story of Aragami, the titular supernatural assassin who used darkness to navigate the game’s world and to take out the […]

Aragami: Nightfall – PS4 Review

June 4, 2018 in PS4 tagged aragami / dlc / nightfall / ninja / stealth by Richie

I Hate Running Backwards is an endless runner/shoot ’em up from Croatian coders Binx Interactive and was formed around an idea or rather just a quote. “I hate running backwards” was uttered by Serious Sam in the game of the same name. Now I played Serious Sam back on the PC when […]

I Hate Running Backwards – PS4 Review

June 1, 2018 in PS4 tagged i hate running backwards / serious sam / shoot em up / shooter / top down by Richie

Following on from March’s Midnight Deluxe, Spanish coders Ratalaika Games are back with InkSplosion, a colourful twin-stick shooter that is available now as a cross-buy title for PS4 and the Vita. With no plot to worry about and not even a tutorial (a splash screen showing you the controls is available though), […]

InkSplosion – PS4/Vita Review

May 13, 2018 in PS4 by Richie

While I generally prefer games where I’m shooting things, there’s something nice about a chilled out game where you get to build things. From Minecraft to Stardew Valley, those kind of games can be insanely popular and so Spanish dev team Chibig have decided to resurrect Deiland, a farming/survival game that first came […]

Deiland – PS4 Review

May 11, 2018 in PS4 tagged building / deiland / mining / quaint / survival by Richie

Spacejacked is an usual cross between a side-viewed run and gun shoot ’em up and a tower defence game that is out now as a cross-buy title for PS4 and the Vita and comes to us by way of Singapore-based indie coders Rotten Mage. The game follows the exploits of […]

Spacejacked – PS4 Review

May 7, 2018 in PS4 tagged arcade / retro / run and gun / spacejacked / tower defence by Richie

Devious Dungeon by Spanish coders Ratalaika Games is a port of their popular 2014 iOS game and is out now as a cross-buy title for PS4 and Vita. This simple rogue-lite platformer tasks you with saving a kingdom from an ancient evil that lurks in the catacombs under the king’s castle […]

Devious Dungeon – PS4/Vita Review

April 29, 2018 in PS4 / Vita tagged 2d / devious dungeon / Pixel art / platformer / retro / rogue legacy / rogue-lite by Richie