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Ruffy and the Riverside

Ruffy and the Riverside

Zockrates Laboratories·Released Jun 26, 2025·Single player

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Genres
PlatformerPuzzleRPGSimulationAdventureIndie
Critic65/100
Across 2 reviews
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About

In Ruffy and the Riverside, you wield the magic power of SWAP, using it to Copy & Paste textures within the game world. Turn ice into lava or waterfalls into vines as you ride hay bales, explore, fight, and solve puzzles throughout Riverside. Unleash your imagination in this quirky open-world action game that literally lets you change the world!

Reviews

2 reviews
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Stephen Tailby·Jun 25, 2025
Critic50/100
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Ultimately, Ruffy and the Riverside is a game we wanted to like, but despite its attractive visual style and unique ideas, it never really comes together in a satisfying way. While there's some fun to be had running around in the semi-open world, it never evolves beyond that.

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Nintendo Life
PJ O'Reilly·Jun 25, 2025
Critic80/100
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Ruffy and the Riverside is an enjoyable return to the colourful 3D platforming romps of the late 1990s, and it's one that brings its own clever idea to the table, rather than just simply copy/pasting everyone else's homework. With nods to Mario, Zelda, Crash Bandicoot and more, levels jam-packed full of fun puzzles and the easy, breezy nature of Ruffy's copy-pasting abilities at the heart of it all, this is one of the better odes to this sort of caper that I've played and, performance issues aside, a very impressive debut to boot.

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