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RIVE cover art

RIVE

Two Tribes · Two Tribes Publishing · 2016-09-13

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Action

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Side view

Releases: Oct 13, 2016 (Mac), Sep 13, 2016 (PlayStation 4), 2017 (Xbox One), 2017 (Nintendo Switch), 2016 (Wii U), Sep 13, 2016 (Linux)

This 360-degree shooter/platformer hybrid lets you choreograph a ‘dance of destruction’ in insanely spectacular battles and set-pieces. RIVE feels like the explosive games of yore, pumping megapixels in true 21st century style.

RIVE is an Action game released in 2016, priced at $14.99, with an estimated 100,000 .. 200,000 owners and a Very Positive review sentiment (83% of 1051 reviews).

4
playing now
83%
positive of 1.1k reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
75/100
critic score (11 outlets, IGDB)
87/100
IGDB user rating (7 ratings)
4.00★
PlayStation Store rating (753 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$14.99
steam price (US)

4 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 15:00 UTC (census sample)

Rive is a platforming shoot-em-up game created by the Dutch video game company Two Tribes for PlayStation 4, Microsoft Windows, OS X, Linux and Nintendo Switch, and is the first major release by the company after the company's downsizing and closure of their primary development team in late 2013. The game was unveiled in July 2014, after a long time of quiet development of the game that originated as a 3D shooter for the Nintendo DS in 2005. The game uses the same engine as Toki Tori 2+ and was developed by a three-man core team.

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 4 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 26 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~3/week).
  • · Review velocity up 4% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 15% of 27,649 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-31

Estimated sales: 26k–63k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,051 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

Steam$1.04-93%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $0.74 at Humble Store (2020-05-07) · bundled 2×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $14.99 · on sale 26 of 33 observed days · $0.30 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
111120172026Week of 2017-11-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-01-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2018-08-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-10-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 2 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

702026-09-15 00:00 — 1 players2026-09-16 09:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 16:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 00:00 — 1 players2026-09-20 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 15:00 — 1 players2026-09-22 22:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 06:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 13:00 — 0 players2026-09-26 21:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 04:00 — 1 players2026-09-29 12:00 — 0 players2026-09-30 19:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 10:00 — 0 players2026-10-04 19:00 — 1 players2026-10-06 02:00 — 1 players2026-10-07 10:00 — 2 players2026-10-08 17:00 — 3 players2026-10-10 01:00 — 1 players2026-10-11 08:00 — 2 players2026-10-12 16:00 — 2 players2026-10-13 23:00 — 3 players2026-10-14 15:00 — 4 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$14.99$0.742016-03-142026-10-142016-03-14 — best price $14.992016-12-22 — best price $10.042017-05-11 — best price $8.992017-09-07 — best price $7.492017-11-28 — best price $14.992018-01-25 — best price $14.992018-07-05 — best price $14.992018-11-01 — best price $14.992019-06-03 — best price $2.992019-08-19 — best price $3.742019-10-28 — best price $1.492020-01-02 — best price $14.992020-05-21 — best price $14.992020-09-10 — best price $14.992020-11-28 — best price $1.492021-03-31 — best price $1.492021-10-28 — best price $1.492022-03-04 — best price $1.492022-06-23 — best price $1.492022-09-19 — best price $1.492023-03-16 — best price $1.492023-07-07 — best price $14.992023-09-25 — best price $1.492023-12-21 — best price $1.492024-03-21 — best price $1.492024-05-21 — best price $14.992024-07-04 — best price $14.992024-10-07 — best price $1.042024-12-19 — best price $1.042025-03-13 — best price $0.892025-05-19 — best price $14.992025-08-25 — best price $0.892025-12-18 — best price $0.892026-06-15 — best price $14.992026-09-01 — best price $1.042026-09-07 — best price $1.042026-10-07 — best price $1.042026-10-14 — best price $1.04
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

1512026-05-29 — 10 pageviews2026-06-02 — 7 pageviews2026-06-06 — 7 pageviews2026-06-10 — 7 pageviews2026-06-14 — 6 pageviews2026-06-18 — 3 pageviews2026-06-22 — 8 pageviews2026-06-26 — 10 pageviews2026-06-30 — 9 pageviews2026-07-04 — 6 pageviews2026-07-08 — 1 pageviews2026-07-12 — 5 pageviews2026-07-16 — 8 pageviews2026-07-20 — 3 pageviews2026-07-24 — 5 pageviews2026-07-28 — 8 pageviews2026-08-01 — 9 pageviews2026-08-05 — 5 pageviews2026-08-09 — 8 pageviews2026-08-13 — 7 pageviews2026-08-17 — 9 pageviews2026-08-21 — 15 pageviews2026-08-25 — 7 pageviews2026-08-29 — 4 pageviews2026-09-02 — 7 pageviews2026-09-06 — 7 pageviews2026-09-10 — 7 pageviews2026-09-14 — 8 pageviews2026-09-18 — 6 pageviews2026-09-22 — 7 pageviews2026-09-26 — 1 pageviews2026-09-30 — 5 pageviews2026-10-04 — 12 pageviews2026-10-07 — 4 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

44
achievements tracked
62.9%
earned "Breaking and Entering"
1.3%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsCaptions availableSteam CloudSteam LeaderboardsFamily Sharing

12 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Dutch, Portuguese - Brazil, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese

Player tags

2DIndieActionArcadeRobotsShooterDifficultPlatformerBullet HellShoot 'Em Up

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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Similarity via IGDB.

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