River Tails: Stronger Together is a vibrant journey recreation geared toward two gamers – a cat and a fish – that may have a really completely different expertise with the sport.

I acquired the possibility to play a few of this recreation at EGX this yr, the place I had a good time. You can play as somewhat fish or a giant cat (or each, if you wish to take it on as a solo). These two completely different characters have completely different skills and options to them, making for an fascinating expertise. As a fish, you should keep within the water. As a cat, you hate water and want to leap round on platforms. These two characters present an fascinating recreation to play by way of as you’ll be able to choose which character and expertise you need. It looks like an ideal recreation for a kid and an grownup to play, as you’ll be able to really assist your good friend and be sure that they’re guided by way of the sport. 

Playing because the cat, you will want to hop from space to space, opening up doorways in order that your fish good friend can preserve shifting ahead with you. Your fish additionally wants safety – if every other fish seem within the water, you should go close to them to scare them away in order that they don’t chase your pal. As the fish character (which is a neater function), you should pull on ropes to open areas for the cat to leap to, in addition to preserve shifting ahead with the cat.

The recreation requires working collectively, but it surely’s very clear the place you’re going and what must be accomplished subsequent. If your fish does find yourself leaping out of water or getting attacked by one other fish, it’s okay as there are many checkpoints alongside the best way. It’s the identical with the cat getting caught in water – you’ll simply each be introduced again somewhat bit. 

River Tails: Stronger Together is a beautiful, well-made platformer that feels so enjoyable to play with your folks or household. It’s enjoyable, easy, and gives simply sufficient problem in puzzles so that you can must assume barely earlier than shifting on. 



River Tails: Stronger Together is at present in improvement, however within the meantime, you’ll be able to add it to your Steam Wishlist.

Jupiter Hadley

Jupiter is a prolific indie recreation journalist, writing for Metro UK, Big Boss Battle, AlphaBetaGamer, and plenty of extra, all with a give attention to smaller indie gems. She covers 1000’s of recreation jams and indie video games on her YouTube channel, letting each recreation have a second within the highlight. She runs indiegamejams.com, a calendar of the entire recreation jams occurring on the earth, judges many jams and occasions. Jupiter can also be the Adept Games Wizard at Armor Games.