#ruffy and the riverside

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did small drawings for steam next fest demos ive played- not every single one but vast majority. gonna list the names of the games under readmore (and, well, tags)

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Ko-fi

Itaku

Pixeljoint

Bluesky

Furaffinity

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top row: goodlands, mars vice, fur and fables, heroes of the seven islands second row: mewseum: masterpieces, megabonk, paper animal adventure, locomoto third row: deep sea heroes, doggos in dungeon, yasha legends of the demon blade, piece by piece last row: john fox, mudborne, ruffy and the riverside, isopod a webbed spin-off

[satoshi-mochida]

Ruffy and the Riverside launches June 26 - Gematsu

Hand-drawn open-world action adventure game Ruffy and the Riverside will launch for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, Xbox One, Switch, PC via Steam on Jun 26, publisher Phiphen Games and developer Zockrates Laboratories announced.

Here is an overview of the game, via Phiphen Games:

About

In Ruffy and the Riverside, you wield the magic SWAP to Copy-and-Paste textures—turn ice into lava or waterfalls into vines! Explore, fight, skate on straw bales, and unleash your imagination in this quirky open-world action game. Dive into an adventure that lets you literally change the world!

Story

Join Ruffy on an exciting quest to stop the mischievous villain Groll from destroying the World Core and throwing Riverside into chaos. Along the way, you’ll travel to fantastic places with helpful friends like Pip the sassy bee, Sir Eddler the adventurous mole, and Silja the wise turtle. Meet a lively cast of characters, each with their own unique stories and dialogues, as the exciting adventure unfolds with unexpected surprises for Ruffy around every corner.

Unique Gameplay

As Ruffy, the Chosen One, you’ll harness the magical power of SWAP, and use it to transform the game world. With SWAP you’ll change the sun into the moon or ice into lava while overcoming countless puzzles and effortlessly manipulating objects to your will. You can turn a stone into wood to create a boat or swap a wall into rubble to clear your path, and much more as you fight, jump, and ride hay bales throughout the adventure. The unique SWAP ability opens up endless possibilities, making every moment feel magical and full of surprises.

2D levels and puzzles

Ruffy just won’t stop! When the 3D world ends, he leaps into new 2D levels to collect even more treasures, but watch out—many obstacles must be swapped before you can safely pass through walls. Use your cleverness and the magical SWAP mechanic to transform objects and unlock new paths in your delightful adventure!

Explore a magical open world

Explore the marvelous open world of Riverside, where Ruffy embarks on playful side quests, masters challenges, and collects magic treasures across seven distant regions. Ride hay bales, perform tricks on secret rails, and discover unknown areas as you meet the mysterious Etoi and team up with the Fish Gang to defeat bully sharks. Unleash your creativity by designing your own textures with Pix, transforming the game world into your personal adventure filled with surprises around every corner.

Key Features

Use and master the power of SWAP to transform elements in the game world.

Overcome various puzzles through creative manipulation of objects.

Engage in exciting adventure elements like fighting, jumping, and skating.

Solve puzzles and find treasures in challenging 2D levels

Unlock seven outer regions, each with unique challenges and settings.

More than a dozen characters offering new exciting quests.

Use dreamstones to create and apply custom textures to main game elements like stone, waterfalls and more…

Enjoy a magical atmosphere with a focus on exploration and discovery.

Gather various collectibles, such as butterflies, dreamstones, Etoi creatures, and coins, each contributing to gameplay and customization.

Watch a new trailer below.

Release Date Trailer

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Retro-inspired 3D platformer Ruffy and the Riverside releasing June 26th for PC and consoles

Continue reading Retro-inspired 3D platformer Ruffy and the Riverside releasing June 26th for PC and consoles

[twohitgames]

PlayStation Indies: destacados del mes de abril

La primavera florece con nuevas aventuras en PlayStation Indies: desde novedades como Blue Prince, pasando por divertidos juegos multijugadores como PlateUp!, sin olvidar las ediciones físicas de grandes juegos para los más coleccionistas. Estas son algunas de las novedades de videojuegos indies que llegan a PlayStation este mes: Blue Prince ya está disponible en PlayStation y PlayStation…

[grinds-n-games]

FINALLY a platformer. Ruffy and the Riverside from @zocklabs is this week and what a fun game it is. Ruffy is such a goofy character and the copy-and-paste ability really launches the game into a fun new space. I really enjoyed the demo.

[g4zdtechtv]

Cinematech's Trailer Park - Ruffy and the Riverside (Multiplatform)

An adventure that literally changes the world!

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Birds and bears bounce and run around in the center of the town.

The yellow bricks lead the towns-bearfolk between the homes and buildings, and the brilliant blue sky shines down happily.

🎮 Ruffy and the Riverside

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[linuxgamenews]

Ruffy and the Riverside is due to excite players

Ruffy and the Riverside release for the hand-drawn 3D platformer game on Linux and Windows PC has been announced. All thanks to the brilliant minds at Zockrates Laboratories, who keep the creativity flowing. Working to find its way onto Steam. Ruffy and the Riverside, the hand-drawn 3D platformer from German indie studio Zockrates Laboratories and US publisher Phiphen, finally has a release date! The game is officially launching on Linux, June 26, 2025. Originally planned for an early 2025 release, the devs decided to push it back to make it even better and ensure a simultaneous release on all platforms. And from what critics are saying, it was worth the wait! Some are already calling it "one of the best platformers of 2025!" Oh, and if you want to hear more straight from the devs, tune into the Future Games Show – Live from GDC on March 20th. There’s going to be an interview with the creators, so don’t miss it!

Ruffy and the Riverside - Release Date Trailer

If you haven’t heard about Ruffy and the Riverside release, let’s fix that. This is a colorful, open-world hand-drawn action 3D platformer where you get to literally change the world around you using a magic ability called SWAP. With SWAP, you can Copy & Paste textures within the world to solve puzzles, reach new areas, and just mess around. Imagine turning ice into lava, waterfalls into vines, or making paths where there were none before. It’s a wild mechanic that opens up tons of creative possibilities. But that’s not all! Ruffy isn’t just exploring the 3D world—he also jumps into special 2D levels, packed with even more treasures, puzzles, and challenges. But watch out! You’ll need to swap obstacles to safely make it through these tricky sections.

What Can You Do in the Ruffy and the Riverside release?

Here’s a quick rundown of what’s waiting for you in this one of a kind adventure:

Master the power of SWAP – Change the world around you by transforming objects.

Solve puzzles with creative tricks – Overcome obstacles by copying and pasting textures.

Jump, fight, and skate your way through Riverside – Ride hay bales, grind rails, and explore every corner.

Switch between 3D and 2D levels – Discover hidden treasures and swap obstacles to find your way through.

Explore seven different regions – Each one has its own unique look, challenges, and secrets.

Meet quirky characters and complete side quests – Help the locals and uncover Riverside’s mysteries.

Customize the world with dreamstones – Change the textures of stones, waterfalls, and more to suit your style.

Collect all sorts of goodies – Coins, butterflies, dreamstones, and the adorable Etoi creatures are waiting to be found.

And of course, so much more!

Why You Should Be Excited

If you like titles that encourage creativity, exploration, and fun platforming challenges, Ruffy and the Riverside release should definitely be on your radar. With its gorgeous hand-drawn style, unique SWAP mechanic, and open-world freedom, it’s shaping up to be something truly special. So, mark your calendars for June 26, 2025, and get ready to jump, swap, and explore on Steam like never before. Coming to Linux and Windows PC. Want to see the title in action? Don’t forget to catch the dev interview at Future Games Show – Live from GDC on March 20th.

[19thperson]

19th's Steam Next Fest Impressions Feb 2025 Edition - Day 2

Day 0/Day 1

The Hundred Line -Last Defense Academy-

Like everyone who has enjoyed a Kazutaka Kadoka game, I have a lot of mixed feelings about his stuff. He writes broad stroke interesting concepts and bombastic characters, with really strong visual direction, and then doesn't sweat the small stuff… even if the small stuff is the glue holding everything together. So far it's no different. While the setup and systems are very different, this is Dangan Ronpa 4.

I will say, I am unexpectedly enjoying the strategy RPG combat. Previous games have given me the impression that whenever they make it not pure adventure game, they kinda fumble, but it seems they've found some ample footing.

It's a strategy RPG with incredibly low health and damage numbers. enemies come in large waves, but most of them die quickly. Each unit has a different "shape" of attack, so it becomes a puzzle of most efficiently spreading damage. Combine that with the ability to earn extra actions with deaths and a metered super system and it feels surprisingly elegant.

One odd thing is that the plot is supposed to cover 100 days, but the demo ends on day 7, and the plot doesn't feel like it's moved a lot. I'm wondering if this will be a time loop game.

Ruffy and the Riverside

I've been looking forward to this game but... I was mildly disappointed.

It's a 3d platformer where the gimmick is that you can pick up textures from one surface and throw them on another. Depending on what texture you've thrown, you can interact with the new surface in a new way, like a climbable wall.

The problems are twofold. The first is that the platforming isn't that fun. Your character doesn't have a good sense of weight or momentum, and the level design doesn't really challenge the player at all.

The second is that the game's gimmick at first seems freeing, but as you play you realize it comes with a lot of restrictions. You can TAKE a texture from any surface, but the game is picky on what you can GIVE textures to. This is understandable. these limits are probably required to have level design at all instead of a scribblenauts style shallow sandbox, but I kept wanting to experiment and the game kept telling me "no" instead of letting an interesting interaction play out.

The closing section of the demo did tease a much larger map that looked fun to explore. I'm still somewhat interested, I'll just need to adjust my expectations on what the game is going for.

Type-NOISE: Shonen Shojo

An extremely stylish Zero Escape-like. Teens with partial amnesia awaken trapped in "Noise Scramble City" and are told by the morally ambiguous mascot character that the only way to escape is to retain their lost memories. From there they find themselves being chased by faceless passerbys and ending up in escape rooms where the clues for escape are hidden in their lost memories.

Something like this would normally be entirely my shit, and the production values are great, especially the animation and visual design. The main problem is that it's kneecapped by an awkward translation. Everything is too stiff and formal, save for the occasional typos. This lack of interesting prose leaves it really easy to see that... so far the plot is kinda thin? It's early on, so it'll probably get more complex, but the traumatic memories we're seeing feel... nothing to write home about.

As for the puzzles, they were passable. Not great but passable. I'm somewhat interested in the built in flowchart, hopefully it'll imply some timeline shenanigans. I also hope that there's something more complicated going on than the heavily telegraphed "This is a simulation" twist.

Bonnie Bear Saves Frogtime

Bonnie Bear is a depressed Hikkikomori, so on her birthday her friends get her out of her slump by getting her into Frog YuGiOh (doctor's note: do not get your friends into YuGiOh if you want them to stop being depressed. This will have the opposite effect)

During the birthday celebration, the king of the beach Rik Spec (look at his six pack) crashes the party and steals her other gift, a mysterious shell. He says he won't return it unless she beats him at frogtime and becomes the new king of the beach. Thus beginning a journey of self actualization via collectable frog playing games.

I was not expecting this game to be as funny as it was. It's hard to pin down it's specific vibe... The closest thing I can say is "European Children's Show Homestar Runner" and even that leaves something lacking. A lot of humor based on odd turns of phrase, left-in vocal bloopers, sight gags, and some deliberately awkward letting-the-joke-run-too-long. Like when Rik Spek (look at his six pack) steals Bonnie Bear's birthday cake, eats almost all of it with his bare hands, and then stops to eat the last few bites with a fork.

The game of frogtime is a simple checkers-ish deal. You have frogs with different abilities. Most can jump over each-other. Sending a frog to the opponent's side of the board does damage. There's a fun wrinkle in that turns are simultaneous. An opponent can move in a way that disrupts your plan, so you have to constantly play with prediction instead of reaction.

Main complaint is that you only have a deck of 9 frogs and instead of having a bulging binder of frogs you have to throw out one when you get a 10th.

[theindieinformer]

Ruffy And The Riverside Preview: Swap Meet

We checked out Ruffy and the Riverside's Steam demo and walked away largely impressed with its texture-swapping spin on the 3D platformers of yesteryear.

Developer Zockrates Laboratories UG • Publisher Phiphen Games • Release 2025 • Platforms PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, Switch, PC Platformers usually ask players “How can you overcome this obstacle?”. Ruffy and the Riverside changes the question by asking “What if you could change the obstacle itself?” Its unique texture-swapping mechanic offers an eyebrow-raising answer. After sitting down…

[chatwithzachtank]

There's this puzzle platformer called #ruffyandtheriverside and it has piqued my interest. It has a literal copy and paste technique which is new and fresh. I need to play this new experience but it seems like it's coming out next year. I've wanted to play something on this level that is more thought provoking and this takes elements from basic computer usage. It also doesn't have branding for grade school only players like Nintendo and Sega types. If you haven't heard anything about it, look up zockrates labs!

[lazyboycentral]

This entire video played muted in a banner ad on a gaming site I was on while I was half-asleep and thought I was having a stroke. That might sound mean, but this game actually looks great. Just thought I’d share that.

Anyway, I’m looking at this and thought to myself, “did they mod the fuck outta Sonic Robo Blast 2 and are trying to sell it?” I mean the action moves super fast like something made in the classic Doom engine, and the flat 2D characters just add to that feel. At any rate, the aesthetics in this game are charming as hell and are right up my alley. I’ll keep an eye on this one.

[obscurevideogames]

Steam Next Fest Demos - Winter 2025

It's almost over, but here are a few of my favorites to check out while you can:

Beyond the Ice Palace II - excellent Castlevania clone

FUBUKI ～zero in on Holoearth～ HOLOLIVE ALTERNATIVE - fun, nice-looking Japanese pixel girls run 'n' gun, from the developer of the Record of Lodoss War metroidvania

Gal Guardians: Servants of the Dark - Inti Creates metroidvania with gorgeous pixel art

Moroi - bizarre top-down action adventure

Nekograms - sliding puzzle game, but it's sliding cats onto pillows

The Perfect Pencil - plays a bit like Hollow Knight, but with some really odd characters

Promise Mascot Agency - a GTA/Yakuza-style game about running a Japanese mascot talent agency

Ruffy and the Riverside - looks like Paper Mario, but plays like Super Mario 64

Twilight Monk - an incredibly fun and well-made kung fu metroidvania/action RPG

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Nintendo Switch file sizes – Ruffy and the Riverside, Deltarune, more

Nintendo Switch file sizes - Ruffy and the Riverside, Deltarune, more

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Ruffy and the Riverside – Release Date Trailer