Ruffy and the Riverside
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Ruffy and the Riverside is an adventure developed by Zockrates Laboratories, released 26 June 2025 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch and Xbox One.
What Ruffy and the Riverside is
Ruffy and the Riverside is an adventure game developed by Zockrates Laboratories and released in 2025. It was published by Phiphen Games. It is available on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.
The premise, in the publisher's words
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.
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy and open world. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 47 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Ruffy and the Riverside holds a critic score of 82 out of 100. That places it above 76% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2025 averaged 78, so it scored 4 points above the year average.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for x64 architecture with SSE2 instruction set support, 4 GB RAM and DX10, DX11, DX12 capable. At 4GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 6GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
Ruffy and the Riverside launched on 26 June 2025, within three weeks of Death Stranding 2: On the Beach, Dune: Awakening, The Alters and Donkey Kong Bananza. All of them reviewed better. 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: Death Stranding 2: On the Beach, Dune: Awakening, The Alters, Donkey Kong Bananza.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Ruffy and the Riverside yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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