Wallride Games·Released Sep 10, 2024·Single player
A baby-fresh take on retro-inspired gameplay, featuring a unique co-op design, where kids and parents need to stick together to win!
Cumulatively, you end up with a title brimming with nostalgia and good ideas, but controls that hold the affair back.
Rugrats: Adventures in Gameland is a well-made platformer that captures the heart of what made the TV show tick, and that's perhaps its greatest achievement. The character swapping system isn't unique, but it works well owing to some clever and occasionally quite challenging stage design; and, while it doesn't reinvent the wheel, there's a fun action game here with a good level of exploration. Whether you're drawn to the HD or retro aesthetic variants is down to which of your nostalgic sentiments is strongest. Either way, the 8-bit representation is so accurate to hardware of that era we can't believe it wasn't actually released three decades ago.
