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River Rush

Take your chance and feel like 10 again.😊To start let's meet this retro cutie.🚀 River Rush is reminiscent of an old vertically scrolling shoot’em up games.🚀 If you remember them, it's time to catch up with nostalgia. Or your father's nostalgia.😉 Board in and have some fun.👨‍🚀

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Developer
2nd Best Games
Publisher
2nd Best Games
Release
May 3, 2022
4 years and 91 days ago
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Positive12 reviews100.0%

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  • How it's meant to be played in the first place? Imagine you are impatiently waiting for pizza you ordered and need some distraction. This is it !
  • Have you ever played old vertically scrolling shoot 'em ups but wanted
    more? Then River Rush is a game for you.
  • It's easy to start playing and easy to get to the next checkpoint (about 15 minutes).
  • An improved version of oldschool SHMUP games , like River Raid, 1940, Harrier Attack, Galaga etc.




  • Survive by evading or destroying enemies.
  • Keep an eye on fuel and avoid terrain that is not river.
  • Your weapons for terminating enemies are laser bullets (like form old GI Joe and Transformers cartoons) plus rockets.
  • Rockets are fired with delay of 0.4 sec so you have to think ahead when to use them.
  • You move with WAD or Arrows. Fire bullets with Space and rockets with N



  • It has challenging gameplay, if you don't think ahead you'll get into mayhem from which it won't be easy to get out.
  • Enhanced pixel art experience from the 80es.
  • 13 types of enemies. Each needing a different approach.
  • No need for mouse, just keyboard.
  • Local leader board (like on old arcade machines, one per one PC).
  • Relive your youth. Or see what dad used to play :)
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