Stronger Collectively’ Affords Very Completely different Co-Op Experiences

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

I bought the prospect to play a few of this recreation at EGX this yr, the place I had a good time. You possibly can play as slightly 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 fascinating expertise. As a fish, you want to 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 means of as you may decide which character and expertise you need. It appears like an excellent recreation for a kid and an grownup to play, as you may truly assist your good friend and be sure that they’re guided by means of the sport. 

Taking part in because the cat, you will want to hop from space to space, opening up doorways in order that your fish good friend can hold shifting 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 hold shifting ahead with the cat.

The sport requires working collectively, however it’s very clear the place you’re going and what must be achieved 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 slightly bit. 

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



River Tails: Stronger Collectively is presently in improvement, however within the meantime, you may 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 concentrate on 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 happening on the earth, judges many jams and occasions. Jupiter can be the Adept Video games Wizard at Armor Video games.