Rendering Ranger: R2

Rendering Ranger: R2 - Rewind

You are the Rendering Ranger, a special forces soldier who defending Earth from a devastating alien invasion through nine levels of action platforming as well as blisteringly fast horizontal shooter stages…

20 March 2025

What Rendering Ranger: R2 - Rewind is

Rendering Ranger: R2 - Rewind is an arcade game developed by Limited Run Games and released in 2025. It was published by Ziggurat Interactive. It is available on PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and PC (Microsoft Windows).

The premise, in the publisher's words

The Rendering Ranger has travelled far, crossing galaxies and boldly faced the perils of the black hole. With lethal and malignant certainty, The Cube has been lurking for aeons, waiting just for him. Showing its demonic features, core of evil, black and old, legions of unholy creatures breath fire. Utmost evil's incarnation, the Silver Hero stands tall. In this quest for domination, who will win and who will fall? Spilling blood and raging fire is the price they have to pay. Evil doomed to funeral pyre. Yes, It's Armageddon Day!

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

What it launched against

Rendering Ranger: R2 - Rewind launched on 20 March 2025, within three weeks of Inzoi, Assassin's Creed Shadows, Split Fiction and Monster Hunter Wilds. It arrived 5 years into the PlayStation 5's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Inzoi, Assassin's Creed Shadows, Split Fiction, Monster Hunter Wilds.

Official trailer