Review: RiverBond (Steam)

Riverbond is a ‘shoot-and-slash’ dungeon crawler with solo and couch co-op play, set in a stunning voxel world.

Pros:

• Voxel graphics.
• 539mb download size.
• Steam achievements.
• Controller support.
• Graphics-Fullscreen, resolution, and v-sync.
• Tutorial option.
• Action adventure gameplay.
• Drop in/out local 4 player co-op.
• Quick loading.
• 8 worlds each with a couple of levels in each with a big boss fight at the end.
• Earn score by collecting coins/gems, opening chests, killing enemies and talking to NPC.
• Hot-swap between 5 weapon slots.
• Chests-random loot.
• Set goals on each level.
• A lot of level destruction.
• Sub dungeons/areas in levels.
• Can play any world in any order as they are all unlocked from the beginning.
• Each weapon does a set amount of damage, both high and low.
• Presents-unwrap for random loot.
• Cool locations from Caves, snowy hills to swamps.
• Minibosses.
• Funny skin and weapons like upvote arrows, aubergines skin and more.
• Cameo of characters from games like Guacamelee and Bastion.
• Actions-jump, roll, shoot, melee and super slam.
• Occasional checkpoints.
• Easy achievements list.
• Can pick up objects and throw them, you can even throw enemies.
• Looks fantastic.
• Sweet boss explosion animations.

Cons:

• Limited graphics options.
• Repetitive mission structure. Kill X amount of people or press y on something.
• Boss fights are slow.
• The RNG on loot will determine how easy/long a boss fight will be.
• No online leaderboards.
• No online co-op.
• Not that difficult at all and no options.
• Can run/roll through large parts of the map.
• Tedious interactions like ladders not registering and the gun controls messing up when using super slam.
• NPC are pointless, little story and only done for the score.
• The score really has no bearing on anything.
• Super slam is not powerful at all.
• No idea how good a weapon is until you actually equip it and use it.
• Have to click to pick up health.
• Infinite lives.
• Inconsistent checkpoints.