Ruffy and the Riverside is a platformer first, but its cut-and-paste puzzle gameplay separates it from other games in the same genre. The hand-drawn open-world game has players cutting and pasting textures to continue progressing through the platforming world. Originally set to be released in Q1 2025, Ruffy and the Riverside was delayed to allow time to polish it and…
There was a time when the 3D platformer was one of the most creative genres out there. Driven by the delight that people had for Mario 64, Banjo Kazooie, and others, developers fell over themselves to try to carve out their own niche with quirky, different ideas. Most of those…
Remember the childhood game of trying to keep a balloon in the…
The recent passion for retro remakes has seen a whole host of…
A lot of people, especially a bunch of the DDNet team, have long and winding roots of fond memories of the golden age of Flash browser games, so it is quite pleasing to see Armor Games Studio still publishing games that look like they were from that era. Games like…
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Developed by Hikotel and co-produced by Phoenixx and Gotcha Gotcha Games, Kokoro Clover Season 1 has been announced to release on August 4 for the Switch, and PC via Steam. But who are the names behind this release’s development? Gotcha Gotcha Games is a well-known organisation, a subsidiary of Kadokawa…
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“Whimsy” is the dominant word to describe the experience across the two titles in the Klonoa Phantasy Reverie collection. In so many ways these two games represent the platforming genre at its most perfect, with intricately entertaining levels wrapped up with a charming efficiency of character and design. It’s a…
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Hailing from Osaka, Japan, X PLUS, the indie devs of Smelter, a similar game that has also been inspired by the pixelated era of retro platformer gaming, has announced an update in the development process for Bat Boy, which is expected to release at around the January 2023 mark. The…
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Before there was Bubble Bobble, there was Snow Bros., and the original remains the best. I should explain. Bubble Bobble did actually come first chronologically, but Snow Bros. (the “clone”) was the first single-screen platformer I personally played. Way back on the Game Boy, there was a shrunk-down version of…
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Nintendo is a versatile company. Over the many years that it has been around, it has produced everything from experimental artsy experiences to blockbuster trend-setters, and lengthy single-player journeys to pure multiplayer joy. There’s little Nintendo can’t do, but if I was to pick out one thing within the oeuvre…
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