
In Ruffy and the Riverside, you wield the magic SWAP to Copy & 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!
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Reviews, worldwide (the counter carries no country): 0/day in the week to Aug 24 → 0/day in the week after.
About
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.

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.

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 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.

List of 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.
Add-ons
Each DLC is estimated with the same model as a game, then summed — a modeled figure, not reported DLC sales.
Sums Steam only; PlayStation, Xbox, Epic, Nintendo publish no volume signal, so the true total is higher by an unknown amount.
| Store | Price | Audience | Score | Chart | Est. revenue |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
SteamYou are here | $19.99 | 236reviews | 88% | — | $94.7K |
| $19.99 | 157ratings | 89% | — | not modelled | |
Engagement
Reviews
Themes across 43 recent reviews and how positive each mention is. A keyword signal, not full sentiment analysis.
Reviews
The game features lovely art style that blends elements of a children's book with nods to classic platformers. But the game is sorely lacking in appeal: the puzzles are lackluster, as is the platforming gameplay. The concept of copying and pasting a texture offers some funny ideas here and there, but not enough to sustain an entire game. On top of that, it’s a gimmick that preys on the nostalgia of retro gaming enthusiasts. It feels like a rip-off. A huge disappointment.
This 3D platformer has style. Great music and art direction, with a cool mechanic that let's you swap the materials of assets in the world1. Nitpicks: - Could benefit from more Banjo/Animal Crossing style speech and less big blocks of text, especially for a vibes based game like this one. - What materials some assets can be swapped to feels somewhat restrictive at times; I found myself wanting to swap colors and materials with objects that were incompatible which, though reasonable from a puzzle/area design perspective, occasionally felt like a wet blanket. - Tough to jump back into; I took a break from this game and reorienting myself felt tougher than one might expect a light-hearted platformer. All-in-all, whether you love 3D platformers or are curious about the vibe of this game, it is an easy recommendation and I am very excited to see more from this developer!
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For scale, across Steam · Top Sellers · Brazil over the last 30 days: the 26 chart moves that followed a price cut of more than 20% went a median of 7 places towards #1, and the 2,400 moves with no price cut behind them went 2 away. One store, one chart, one country — it is the only place we have enough observations to say even that.
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Languages: English, German, Japanese, French, Portuguese - Brazil, Spanish - Latin America, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese
| $19.99 |
| 33ratings |
| 94% |
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| not modelled |
| $19.99 | — | 76%* | — | not modelled |
| $19.99 | — | — | — | not modelled |
Matched by title — a reused name can pair the wrong games. * is a critic aggregate. Prices and positions are each store's United States storefront; Epic charts worldwide. Audience and Score too, except Steam's, which is worldwide.
Hours played at review time, across 43 reviews with recorded playtime.
positive critical· bar length = how often the theme comes up
Today’s game: Ruffy and the Riverside I don’t remember where I saw this game, but it’s a niche indie puzzle platformer with a Paper Mario inspired artstyle. The main gameplay focuses around the SWAP, a mechanic allowing you to copy textures from on object and put them onto another. For such a simple concept, this game uses it amazingly! Puzzles feel creative and unique, and the mechanic feels like a true part of gameplay rather than just a gimmick. The game also reminds me of Tear of the Kingdom, where I was finding puzzles and things to do every direction I turned. One of my favourite parts of the game is that almost every puzzle you see you can do from the start. It instead relies on you to figure out what things mean but testing what happens when you change textures. As soon as you figure out one type of puzzle, you’ll know how to do it next time, and it feels good. The story is alright. It’s a semi-cliche “chosen one” story, but the characters are pretty funny. There’s few characters that are actually good people, most have slight tendencies that make them feel flawed in a fun way that doesn’t need to be developed or changed. Now, I haven’t finished this game yet, only halfwayish I’d guess, but I haven’t clicked with a game this quick for a long time. ESPECIALLY for a game I just stumbled across and didn’t spend months waiting for a release. All in all, I recommend this game if you want something not stressful. Puzzles are rewarding mentally and creative.
Players by region
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