

This long awaited retro revival puts players once again on the rough and tumble urban streets of River City. With so many phenomenal titles released that hit hard with 90’s retro gamers, and the only title really living up to this incredibly high standard ( Scott Pilgram Vs The World), why has this genre become so neglected lately? That may be a question for another day, but if you feel the way I do about beat em’ ups, then you’ll be happy to know that the team over at Conatus Creative intends to change all of that with their release of River City Ransom Underground.Īs the “officially licensed North American follow-up to one of the most beloved RPG beat em’ ups of all time”, River City Ransom Underground was funded on Kickstarter on September 9 th 2013. These are by far some of my favorite games of all time. Classics like Streets of Rage, Final Fight, Double Dragon, and River City Ransom (to name a few), became the go-to names in the beat em’ up genre for their ferocity, challenge level, characters, design, and catchy as hell musical scores. Often times when digging through a somewhat limited collection of titles, I just give up and end up going back to the same ones over and over again. It’s so hard nowadays to find good modern beat em’ up games.

River City Random Underground – The beating you’ve been waiting for since 90’
