Ruffy and the Riverside
Zockrates Laboratories UG · Phiphen Games · 2025-06-26
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Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Third person
Releases: Jun 26, 2025 (Xbox One), Jun 26, 2025 (PlayStation 5), Jun 26, 2025 (Linux), Jun 26, 2025 (Nintendo Switch), Jun 26, 2025 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Jun 26, 2025 (Xbox Series X|S)
In Ruffy and the Riverside, you wield the magic SWAP to Copy & Paste textures - turn ice into lava or waterfalls into vines! Explore, fight, skate on straw bales, and unleash your imagination in this quirky open-world action game. Dive into an adventure that lets you literally change the world!
Ruffy and the Riverside is a 2025 action-adventure platformer developed by German studio Zockrates Laboratories UG and published by Phiphen Games. It was released for Microsoft Windows, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S on 26 June 2025.
Health check
- · 9 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
- · Review velocity up 13% vs the prior 8 weeks.
- · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (65 reviews).
- · Top 27% of 28,442 Action games in the census by review count.
Review-multiple estimate from 238 total reviews — how this is computed.
All-time low: $13.99 at Steam (2025-12-18)via IsThereAnyDeal
Review momentum
Attention
Completion
- · 95% of players earned The first swap
- · 16.3% of players earned Pet Sounds
- · 5.7% of players earned My paintings, my world
Global achievement rates from Steam.
Details
9 supported languages: English, German, Japanese, French, Portuguese - Brazil, Spanish - Latin America, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese
Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2025-06-27 (Steam store data)
Console footprint
| Platform | Players tracked | Completion | Trophies/achievements |
|---|---|---|---|
| PS5 (PlayStation) | 349 | 26% | 47 |
| Steam (Steam) | 338 | 10% | 47 |
| Xbox Series, Xbox One (Xbox) | 147 | 10% | 47 |
| Switch (Nintendo) | 104 | 0% | 0 |
| Switch (Nintendo) | 2 | 0% | 0 |
Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.
Census log
- 2025-06-26First review activity on record (week of 2025-06-26).
- 2025-06-26Biggest review week on record: 65 reviews (week of 2025-06-26).
Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.
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Similarity via IGDB.