Stronger Collectively’ Gives Very Completely different Co-Op Experiences

River Tails: Stronger Collectively 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 bought the possibility to play a few of this recreation at EGX this 12 months, the place I had a good time. You may play as a little bit fish or an enormous 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 attention-grabbing expertise. As a fish, you want to keep within the water. As a cat, you hate water and wish to leap round on platforms. These two characters present an attention-grabbing recreation to play by way of as you’ll be able to decide which character and expertise you need. It seems like an awesome recreation for a kid and an grownup to play, as you’ll be able to really assist your buddy and be sure that they’re guided by way of the sport. 

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

The sport requires working collectively, but it surely’s very clear the place you’re going and what must be completed subsequent. In case 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 a little bit bit. 

River Tails: Stronger Collectively is a stunning, well-made platformer that feels so enjoyable to play with your mates or household. It’s stress-free, easy, and supplies simply sufficient problem in puzzles so that you can must suppose barely earlier than transferring on. 



River Tails: Stronger Collectively is presently in growth, 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, Huge Boss Battle, AlphaBetaGamer, and plenty of extra, all with a deal with 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 this planet, judges many jams and occasions. Jupiter can be the Adept Video games Wizard at Armor Video games.