Ruffy and the Riverside

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 game. Dive into an adventure that lets you change the world!

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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.

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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.

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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!

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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.

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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.

Available Achievements

Savior of Riverside
100 XP
The first swap
5 XP
First dreamstone
5 XP
All dreamstones
50 XP
My paintings, my world
10 XP

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Ruffy and the Riverside Ratings & Reviews

NintendoWorldReport

by Jordan Rudek

7.5 / 10

It performs well on Switch 2, which is where I reviewed the game, and has a lot of content for completionists to sink their teeth into. Some of the puzzles can be frustrating or obtuse, but the unique swapping mechanic makes for a fun departure compared to other 3D action-adventure experiences. It may be a bit Ruffy around the edges, but this Riverside is one that I was happy to dip my toes into.

Checkpoint Gaming

by David McNamara

9 / 10

A gorgeously presented modern twist on the classic 3D platformer, Ruffy and the Riverside is positively glowing with charm. Featuring a cavalcade of fun environmental puzzles that take advantage of its unique copy-and-paste "SWAP" mechanic, a delightful blend of hand-drawn spritework and rendered environments, and cheeky writing that makes you fall in love with its silly little characters, this is a perfectly lovely adventure with tonnes of heart.

Nintendo Life

by PJ O'Reilly

8 / 10

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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Ruffy and the Riverside System Requirements

Minimum

Recommended

OS version

Windows 7 (SP1+), Windows 10, Windows 11 (64-bit versions only)

OS version

Windows 7 (SP1+), Windows 10, Windows 11 (64-bit versions only)

CPU

x64 architecture with SSE2 instruction set support

CPU

x64 architecture with SSE2 instruction set support

Memory

4 GB RAM

Memory

4 GB RAM

GPU

DX10, DX11, DX12 capable

GPU

DX10, DX11, DX12 capable

DirectX

DirectX 10

DirectX

DirectX 10

Storage

6 GB available space

Storage

6 GB available space

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Languages Supported

  • Audio: N/A

  • Text: Chinese (Traditional), Chinese (Simplified), Korean, Spanish (Latin America), Portuguese (Brazil), French, Japanese, German, English

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