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Samurai Riot

Samurai Riot

Released: 9/13/2017

Samurai Riot is a 2D cooperative Beat’em up Arcade game with a twist! Playing as Sukane or Tsurumaru, two charismatic warriors torn between their duty and beliefs, follow your own way of honor through multiple scenarios and story endings! A UNIQUE COOPERATIVE SYSTEM The co-op system evaluate the quality of your cooperation and rewards great teamwork. Coordinate your attacks with your partner and fill up the central co-op gauge to unleash one of the deadliest attack of Samurai Riot: the Co-op Special Move! 8 DIFFERENT ENDINGS Deep moral choices: would you rather burn an entire village to the ground or stay clean but lose the war? Any decision you make will greatly impact your story. Choose to follow the same path as a team or choose to disagree and battle it out during a PvP fight! STRONG REPLAY VALUE Multi-branching scenario: be ready to play many new games to get all the whole story of Samurai Riot! Fighting schools: the more you play, the more you accumulate points to unlock new fighting schools, each character will get exclusives gameplay variations and abilities. FIGHT WITH STYLE Characters: discover two strong and highly skilled heroes offering unique gameplay and stunning attacks, plus a bunch of vicious enemies to fight against. Controls: to remain true to arcade games history, we created very intuitive controls, enjoyable with any Controller or Arcade stick. We want the gameplay to be completely flexible, so it feels exactly like what you want it to be! SPEED-RUNNERS: ON YOUR MARKS, SET, GO! Find all the tools you need for a perfect speed-run (time ranking, score ranking…)!

Samurai Riot is a 2D cooperative Beat’em up Arcade game with a twist! Playing as Sukane or Tsurumaru, two charismatic warriors torn between their duty and beliefs, follow your own way of honor through multiple scenarios and story endings! A UNIQUE COOPERATIVE SYSTEM The co-op system evaluate the quality of your cooperation and rewards great teamwork. Coordinate your attacks with your partner and fill up the central co-op gauge to unleash one of the deadliest attack of Samurai Riot: the Co-op Special Move! 8 DIFFERENT ENDINGS Deep moral choices: would you rather burn an entire village to the ground or stay clean but lose the war? Any decision you make will greatly impact your story. Choose to follow the same path as a team or choose to disagree and battle it out during a PvP fight! STRONG REPLAY VALUE Multi-branching scenario: be ready to play many new games to get all the whole story of Samurai Riot! Fighting schools: the more you play, the more you accumulate points to unlock new fighting schools, each character will get exclusives gameplay variations and abilities. FIGHT WITH STYLE Characters: discover two strong and highly skilled heroes offering unique gameplay and stunning attacks, plus a bunch of vicious enemies to fight against. Controls: to remain true to arcade games history, we created very intuitive controls, enjoyable with any Controller or Arcade stick. We want the gameplay to be completely flexible, so it feels exactly like what you want it to be! SPEED-RUNNERS: ON YOUR MARKS, SET, GO! Find all the tools you need for a perfect speed-run (time ranking, score ranking…)!

Samurai Riot is a 2D cooperative Beat’em up Arcade game with a twist! Playing as Sukane or Tsurumaru, two charismatic warriors torn between their duty and beliefs, follow your own way of honor through multiple scenarios and story endings! A UNIQUE COOPERATIVE SYSTEM The co-op system evaluate the quality of your cooperation and rewards great teamwork. Coordinate your attacks with your partner and fill up the central co-op gauge to unleash one of the deadliest attack of Samurai Riot: the Co-op Special Move! 8 DIFFERENT ENDINGS Deep moral choices: would you rather burn an entire village to the ground or stay clean but lose the war? Any decision you make will greatly impact your story. Choose to follow the same path as a team or choose to disagree and battle it out during a PvP fight! STRONG REPLAY VALUE Multi-branching scenario: be ready to play many new games to get all the whole story of Samurai Riot! Fighting schools: the more you play, the more you accumulate points to unlock new fighting schools, each character will get exclusives gameplay variations and abilities. FIGHT WITH STYLE Characters: discover two strong and highly skilled heroes offering unique gameplay and stunning attacks, plus a bunch of vicious enemies to fight against. Controls: to remain true to arcade games history, we created very intuitive controls, enjoyable with any Controller or Arcade stick. We want the gameplay to be completely flexible, so it feels exactly like what you want it to be! SPEED-RUNNERS: ON YOUR MARKS, SET, GO! Find all the tools you need for a perfect speed-run (time ranking, score ranking…)!

Critics
56
Steam
76

Score Breakdown

55.6

Critic Average

18 reviews

76

Steam User Score

71 reviews

N/A

Metacritic User Score

Less than 20 reviews

Disparity Breakdown

Steam Disparity
-20.4
Metacritic Disparity
N/A
Combined Disparity
-20.4

Average of both sources

Review Timing

1 early (6%)6 launch window (33%)11 late (61%)