Riverbond

Riverbond is just a very fun time, perfect for youngsters but oddly therapeutic for all of us grumpy old adults.

If Minecraft had a hammer, it'd crush Riverbond to the ground. Nah, it's only a joke, as it is fairly repetitive and easy, yet fun little title you can enjoy with up to 3 more friends, cooperatively. With lots of voxel explosions! Pretty...

So is Riverbond worth your time? If you have kids I would say that they couch coop experience is great. It introduces them to a great genre with a family-friendly filter. If you’re looking for the next dungeon crawler for yourself I worry that there just isn’t enough here to keep you interested for any length of time.

If you’re yearning for a test of skill – or at least something that can’t be beaten by taping down the attack button and pushing forward – Riverbond is unlikely to fulfill your need for hacking and slashing.

It might be a good first dungeon-crawler for a younger audience or a family that wants to play together, but this Riverbond ain’t wide enough for me to recommend it to you.

Riverbond coaxes you in with its charming feel and aesthetically pleasing voxel graphics, only to thrust you into a monotonous hack ‘n’ slash. With the plethora of other games that have interesting art styles and incredible looks, it is hard to let the gameplay here slide, even with its comedic relief and destructible environments as a backer.

Unless score chasing is your thing, Riverbond offers nothing else after completing its nine worlds.

Shame it turned into one of *those* games but I ended up finishing cleaning up the trophies for the plat last night. Not a very long game however some of the levels can take up to 40 minutes depending on how thorough you search for chests and dialogue options for trophies. About 9 levels in total with a boss at the end; the game is pretty fun for a top-down dungeon crawler. There are 50 weapons to discover with different attacking styles such as swords, guns, stabby weapons, slappy weapons and punchy weapons, however the loot is never randomised and the chests in every level always give you the same one each run, so basically the runs are exactly the same each time and there’s barely any point in replaying. You get an overall score for each level but it barely matters and isn’t too impressive as by the time you beat the level your score will average out the same each time (unless you purposely avoid enemies on specific levels you don’t need to kill any). On the final mission my score literally capped at 999,999 so for some missions you literally hit the score limit. You can die in game however there’s barely any consequence for it; especially on the boss segment at the end, there’s no lives counter and you can just keep dying until you beat the boss (which I didn’t have to do cus I’m gaming). Just a shame there’s, in essence, no true difficulty.Either way, the game is pretty fun and somewhat mindless. The artstyle is cute like crossy roads or trove in a way. Whilst fun it is short and lacks replayability. It was on a fat discount for like £1.60 or something and it’s usually like 20 or 25 quid (??) which is not worth the price in my opinion. I should expect this quality when the discounts are really cheap.