River City Girls 2
River City Girls 2
Game
Game2019
River City Girls
Developer WayForward
River City Girls is a 2019 beat 'em up video game developed and published worldwide by WayForward and published in Japan by Arc System Works. A spin-off in the Kunio-kun franchise, the game stars Misako and Kyoko, who fight their way through enemies and obstacles to rescue their kidnapped boyfriends, series protagonists Kunio and Riki. The game was released for the Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Windows, and Xbox… From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
318 reactions from 4 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Lemmy, Mastodon) · newest Nov 4, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
76
LovedLoved
135 positive · 43 negative
95% range 69–82%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 135 | 43 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 36 | 7 | 56 |
| Lemmy * | 3 | 0 | 20 |
| Mastodon * | 3 | 0 | 15 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Very Positive
1,394 of 1,698 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
77% recommend · 139 yes, 42 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 181 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Very Positive (3,202 of 3,814 positive).
Players praise the game's art, music, and co-op fun. [1][2][3] Some reviewers find the combat repetitive and enemies too tanky. [4][5][6]
Liked
Representative posts
- [14]
This is probably the worst beat 'em up I have ever played. Okay, let's first go over some positives. The art direction is brilliant! I love the art in this game. It is really colorful and full of expression. It looks as if a lot of effort was put into the art. The music is pretty good too. Some people find the humor to be annoying, but I think it's fine. I liked it, and even the story is silly and enjoyable. The …
- [1]
RIVER CITY GIRLS This is where it all truly began — the attitude, the punchy humor, the glorious chaos, and the iconic duo that kicked off the whole series. Combat & Co-op Straight up, this is one of the best co-op beat-'em-ups ever made. The combat is fast, silly, and stupidly satisfying — every punch lands like a tiny cartoon explosion going off in your face. And throw a friend into the mix? The chaos becomes …
- [10]
I absolutely love playing this co-op with my daughter (8). It’s become some of our favorite bonding time, and she thinks it’s hilarious that our boyfriends got kidnapped and WE have to go rescue THEM. Obviously. She says, girls go to college to get more knowledge, and boys go to Jupiter to get more stupider, HA! And then we go across River City beating the crap out of everybody until we get our boyfriends back. …
- [4]
It's good! I'd wait for at-least a 50% of sale or something though - especially with the sequel already out. If you've enjoyed the Streets of Rage games, TMNT beat-em-ups like 'Shredder's Revenge,' or whatever other similar game (i.e., Castle Crashers, Fight'N'Rage, Mother Russia Bleed, Simpsons Arcarde Game, etc.) you'll likely find a lot to enjoy about this game. However, one thing you'll likely come to dislike …
- [2]
What I liked The Artstyle, Music, Combos and humour - The artstyle and character designs are extremely well done, both pixel and illustration wise, the quality is extremely consistent throughout the games (except for one character in my opinion) - The Music is amazing and there's no song that misses in my opinion, The vocal tracks are a very special treat and i loved hanging around in those areas more - The combos …
Summarised from 34 of the 286 public posts collected about this game; every point cites the posts behind it ([n] opens the post) and the split is counted from the posts’ own ratings. Updated Oct 12, 2026. How summaries are made
RottenBot@rottenbot · automated account
Players who liked River City Girls talk about great art style and character designs; those who didn't talk about combat gets repetitive and enemies are too tanky. Which matters more to you?
Critics, per Wikipedia
River City Girls received "generally favorable" reviews from critics and a score of 79 according to review aggregator Metacritic, based on 16 reviews for the PlayStation 4 version and 12 reviews for the Nintendo Switch version. Reviewers generally praised the game's art style, graphics, and sense of humor. The soundtrack was called out for special praise. The game's inventive bosses were considered a strength, and the two-player co-operative mode was praised as well. Some of the more ambivalent reviewers felt that the beat 'em up action was ultimately a tad repetitive, while others pointed out that the RPG elements such as equipping accessories were often so minor as to be ignorable. The…
From the “Reception” section of Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Critic context only — not part of the audience score.
Reactions
60 of 318 · most liked firstMy gf and I played "River City Girls 2" game and I liked it so much that I decided to draw Kyoko and Misako from the game's cover, but in a style closer to the anime of the late 80s-early 90s, inspired by the designs of one of my favorite artists, David Liu @dsloogs.com #RiverCityGirls2 #art
positive · AI labelView post →(Completed) Steam keys for patient gamers. If you've been waiting to play one of these classics, now's your chance! Just leave a comment with the name of the game you want (please check the comments first to see if someone else has already requested it), and I’ll send you a DM. Also, please limit one per person, so more patient gamers can enjoy, and please redeem right away since keys expire, and let me know when you do so I can take it off the list! - ~~ABZU~~ - ~~BioShock Remastered~~ -…
neutral · AI labelView post →River City Girls, they're unforgettable💅👊💥 Happy 6 years to RCG! My partner Raph & I still haven't played the sequel, but we had fun co-opping the first game during the 2020 lockdown. I'll never forget Kyoko's iconic dab move😂 #rivercitygirls #cosplay #wayforward
positive · AI labelView post →hi bsky!! my name is Rich and I mostly cover music on YouTube, but recently I've been getting more into game OST work. Most recently I have a remix in the upcoming Sonic x Shadow game but have also worked on Call of Duty, Touhou: LostWord, River City Girls, and some other projects too
neutral · AI labelView post →A big thank you to the voice cast of the River City Girls 2 Double Dragon DLC! Returning to their roles of Billy and Jimmy Lee are the inimitable Game Grumps, Dan Avidan and Arin Hanson, providing full, unique VO for story mode plus an epic rap song! wayforward.com/games/RCG2-d...
neutral · AI labelView post →Available right now at the Okamoto Kitchen food truck in Burbank, CA, by Game Realms! Get the Merv Burger (River City Girls), Bug Byte Juice (Yars Rising), Spread Gunion Rings (Contra: Operation Galuga), and Deadly Clockcake (Clock Tower: Rewind), or the combo + free sticker!
neutral · AI labelView post →In two weeks on Dec. 7, it's WayForward Day at Game Realms in Burbank, CA! Meet the creators of River City Girls 2, Contra: Operation Galuga, Yars Rising, and Clock Tower: Rewind, purchase a signed Yars Rising comic, get game-inspired food from Okamoto Kitchen, and more!
neutral · AI labelView post →The game has fantastic presentation, character designs, voice acting, music, and the characters have so much wacky and charming personality that really shines through their dialogue, making every line a treat. But I just couldn’t get into the gameplay. Because every room of the game has hand drawn pixel art instead of looping/reusing assets, they try to maximize it by having a map that has you travel between locations as opposed to a level structure like most beat em ups. This means that you…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Martial arts master Billy "Don't Call Me Bimmy" Lee is back in action as a playable character in the River City Girls 2 Double Dragon DLC, armed with trademark moves like the Dragon Kick and Rising Hurricane! It's out now and there's even a discounted game+DLC bundle! wayforward.com/games/RCG2-d...
neutral · AI labelView post →WayForward announced a physical collection of the River City Girl trilogy, including the DLC on cart/disc. From the post: > > > River City Girls: Perfect Attendance Collection is coming to Switch and PS5! Published by Clear River Games and arriving next year, this physical collection includes River City Girls 1, 2, & Zero, plus the Double Dragon DLC, all on cart/disc! [https://shop.clearrivergames.com/collections/river-city](https://shop.clearrivergames.com/collections/river-city) > > --- I…
neutral · AI labelView post →Legendary warrior Jimmy Lee is back on the streets as a playable character in the River City Girls 2 Double Dragon DLC, kicking ass with moves like the Broduken & Dragon Hurricane! The DLC is out now on all major platforms and there's even a discounted game+DLC bundle! wayforward.com/games/RCG2-d...
neutral · AI labelView post →Oh, oh, I finally get to do this! [Disclosure: game provided by publisher] I just added River City Girls 2 to my curator page. This sequel to the shoujo bubble-gum punk reimagining of River City Ransom delivers more of everything that made the first one fun. store.steampowered.com/app/1920480/...
positive · AI labelView post →I think River City Girls 2 manages to check every box for 'shit I don't think you should do in a beatemup'. Absolutely unbelievable game (negative).
negative · AI labelView post →Finished Scott Pilgrim EX. Yeah, this wipes the floor with the previous game. It's funny too, the original was definitely riffing on River City Ransom, but this one just straight up feels like a real RCR game, even moreso than the (also awesome) River City Girls games. Can't wait to play again!
neutral · AI labelView post →This is probably the worst beat 'em up I have ever played. Okay, let's first go over some positives. The art direction is brilliant! I love the art in this game. It is really colorful and full of expression. It looks as if a lot of effort was put into the art. The music is pretty good too. Some people find the humor to be annoying, but I think it's fine. I liked it, and even the story is silly and enjoyable. The voice acting has some questionable bits, but overall it's solid. Alright,…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →[Epic] River City Girls 2. I have played the first one, great series
positive · AI labelView post →I don't get River City Girls. + Animated cutscenes, strong themeing + A lot of voiced dialogue - Only two difficulties, and the easier 'normal' seemed impossible without grinding and a lot of luck - Unlikeable, cheesy, caricaturish, shallow characters - Story and story progression did not captivate me at all; more annoying than anything - Not a brawler or fighter, more of a boring patient grinder - Problematic gameplay design and implementation - Sometimes does not trigger actions - Regularly…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's 'post a random game of your collection' Saturday! This week, i'm going with River City Girls! 💕 I adore this game so much, it's pixel art is amazing, it's comic book like cutscenes are so cool, it's really fun and charming, AND IT'S SOUNDTRACK IS SO GOOD!!! Love it 🥰
positive · AI labelView post →* A Hat in Time - $30 USD * Caveblazers - $10 * Unravel Two - $20 * Alien Hominid Invasion - $20 * Magicka 2 - $15 * Jamestown - $10 * Ship of Fools - $22 * Pixeljunk Shooter - $9 * River City Girls - $30 * Degrees of Separation - $20 * Speedrunners - $15 * Blanc - $15 * Cat Quest 2 - $15 * Potion Party - $10 * Double Dragon Gaiden - $25 * Biped - $15 * Guacamelee 1 + 2 - $15 & $20 * KeyWe - $25 All of these are full price, so if you wait for a sale (like I do), you can usually find each of…
neutral · AI labelView post →The only way I'm ever gonna get a version of Jam in a fighting game I enjoy again is if Wayforward hires me to make the River City Girls fighting game idea I have and ArcSys lets me put Jam in it as a guest character.
positive · AI labelView post →So last night we tried out Kunio no Nekketsu School Fighters, and I'm super wowed by this game!! Made by a single dev over the course of like 3 years, featuring the cast of River City Girls -- it's bonkers how good this game feels! usagiru-orochi.itch.io/kunio-no-nek...
neutral · AI labelView post →Do not buy this game if you want to play couch coop. This game has very poor controller support. With two different 8BitDo controllers you can not do local multi player. Even with two Steam Controllers you can not do local multi player. This has been an issue since launch (now almost 7 years ago) so I doubt it will ever be fixed at this point.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →River City Girls You can play as the boys.
neutral · AI labelView post →Game 332: River City Girls 2 Bringing even more of the excellent combat, engaging exploration, and irreverent dialogue featured in the first game, this one is the definition of a "if it ain't broke, don't fix it." sequel, but with even more fun scenarios and over-the-top bad guys/gals to beat up.
positive · AI labelView post →River City Girls is free right now, I might finally give it a try but the Game Grumps involvement causes me to gag whenever I remember it 😭
negative · AI labelView post →My family loves: + Spelunky (sidescroller Indiana-Jones-themed platformer action-roguelite) + Pikmin 3 (3D silly minion-bossing treasure hunting) + River City Girls (sidescrolling beat-em-up with amazing soundtrack) + Moving Out (3D "goofy physics" furniture-moving obstacle course) + Kirby and the Lost World (3D action adventure) + Stardew Valley (isometric farm sim) All of these are fully coöp from the beginning.
positive · AI labelView post →Prize pack will include Vitamin Connection, River City Girls 2, RCG2 Double Dragon DLC, Spidersaurs, and Dawn of the Monsters. Vitamin Connection is Switch only; other game codes will be on the platform of winner's choosing.
neutral · AI labelView post →You need a mod to change key bindings.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →What is "SJW" about Skull & Bones? People disliked that because it wasn't the Black Flag multiplayer they thought it would be. Why is River City Girls even there? It's a fun indie game that no one in their right mind expected a 10m seller from.
positive · AI labelView post →One of the most frustrating and unresponsive beat 'em ups I've ever played. Enemies have tons of health and constantly respawn. Sometimes you gain experience for defeating them, and sometimes you don't—so I started running past anyone I didn’t absolutely have to fight. On top of it, you lose a ton of money when you die, leveling up barely feels impactful, and for some reason the game is filled with items that don’t explain what they do until you buy them. Even then, it's often something stupid…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Hit new beat-em up game featuring the Valentine sisters since River City Girls 2 already had Sol and Jam in it! #guiltygear #GGST
neutral · AI labelView post →Mini Fredo's Game-Os: A bit late to the party here but I've been checking out River City Girls 2, and much like the first game, it's a lot of fun! The first one came out in 2019 and this one came out in 2022, and for whatever reason I feel like it got way less attention
positive · AI labelView post →better than sex
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →RIVER CITY GIRLS This is where it all truly began — the attitude, the punchy humor, the glorious chaos, and the iconic duo that kicked off the whole series. Combat & Co-op Straight up, this is one of the best co-op beat-'em-ups ever made. The combat is fast, silly, and stupidly satisfying — every punch lands like a tiny cartoon explosion going off in your face. And throw a friend into the mix? The chaos becomes LEGENDARY. Solo works fine, sure, but co-op is unquestionably how this game was…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Redraw of official art from River City Girls (love that game) Arguably one of my biggest pieces yet, I'm hype to finally share it, it was rlly fun ✨️
positive · AI labelView post →I will always treasure this original piece of River City Girls art that WayForward gifted me. This is one of the hand drawn manga pages from the first game
neutral · AI labelView post →What I liked The Artstyle, Music, Combos and humour - The artstyle and character designs are extremely well done, both pixel and illustration wise, the quality is extremely consistent throughout the games (except for one character in my opinion) - The Music is amazing and there's no song that misses in my opinion, The vocal tracks are a very special treat and i loved hanging around in those areas more - The combos lead to a really nice mix and match of inputs and the air juggling is very…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Would it be a publicly available page, or accessible only for you? If it's a public page, you could possibly host shareware games or with other licenses with a similar effect. And there's plenty of games you can legally buy as ROMs (e.g. homebrews on Itchio), games that include ROMs in their files (e.g. River City Girls 0 on Steam, most Neo Geo releases on PC platforms and pretty much any MS-DOS game rerelease), and if you're from a region with laws not as draconian as the DMCA, there are…
neutral · AI labelView post →Playing River City Girls with normal non fighting game people is funny because they’re enjoying the beat ‘em up aspect and I’m doing 80 hit combos with Urien juggles on Riki
positive · AI labelView post →This utter piece of ♥♥♥♥ barely recognizes inputs and overall feels like some sort of test version of what supposed to be a game: Mechanics overlap each other, like if an enemy falls down in the middle of your combo next to you, your next attack will cancel ALL your actions to just pick him up, leaving you open to all attacks. Achievements only unlocks after you save and quit from the game entirely for some reason? Some commands are just random, like Powerbomb mid-air grapple on Misako.…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Get to know me (Video Game edition) 🎮 First game: Legend of Zelda (nes) Last game: River City Girls 2 Favorite game: Mega Man 2 Worst game: feel like Mon-Yu Game I've played the most: Pokémon Legends Z-A Most surprising: Project X Zone Next game: probably River city girls 2
positive · AI labelView post →#RandomGameSaturday Both River City Girls games on one disc! Fully playable in English, too! Launched the same day as RCG2 digital and cost the same as either game alone physically.
neutral · AI labelView post →We started River City Girls on stream tonight and that game is so damn fun! It’s hard as fuck, has a great soundtrack and killer gameplay. Can’t wait to play more!
positive · AI labelView post →This guy on the local news does on location stories at businesses and events and he's completely out of his element at this video game store. He picked up a copy of River City Girls 2 and said "looks like this has Addams Family" characters in it" and then talked about how he used to play "Wii cards"
neutral · AI labelView post →River City Girls is hot babe puzzle platformer despite not being a platformer or puzzle game
neutral · AI labelView post →There’s a reason regardless of being able to play as Legally Distinct Noi Dorohedoro in a game I did not finish River City Girls 2
negative · AI labelView post →This beat-em-up brawler is really good for at least the first half and has some neat secrets and a lot of collectibles, but after a certain boss "A" becomes a bit tedious - Too many locked fight screens, the same enemies from the first half of the game but now with more hp, enemies that block and counter you mid combo, enemies that you cannot block or parry in the middle of their combos, ground stomp is the same button as heavy attack so expect lots of weird misses with that. It was fun in the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I've been searching for animation sprites to use them as references for my game. and I noticed that River City Girls has 16 frames just for a idle animation. 😱
neutral · AI labelView post →This game is pretty but the gameplay is quite average. The feedback when you attack is almost non existent, it feels you hit nothing. There's a lot of jankiness in the controls: there's no buffer, juggles are possible but they need surgical precision, you'll keep doing things you don't want like pcking up items, grabbing enemies, etc... Enemies variety is absolutely abismal in this game, there's 12 differents enemies for the whole game (not including bosses). They have different colors of…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Game 028: River City Girls A spin-off of the River City Ranson franchise, this game is a very fun and funny story-driven beat em up, featuring expressive animations, creative boss fights and a whole lot of style and attitude. One of the best modern beat em ups out there.
positive · AI labelView post →New year, new thread… ✌🏾 1. River City Girls 2 I did not love this game as much as I did the first, which is sad because it does A LOT of things right. Plays well, funny, graphics, music, lots of “member berries.” But shit, there’s a TON of backtracking. And the load times on Switch were a bear.
neutral · AI labelView post →Get the Freedom Planet and River City Girls series plus more in the 2D Rewind Collection Bundle https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/get-the-freedom-planet-and-river-city-girls-series-plus-more-in-the-2d-rewind-collection-bundle/ #GameBundle #Gaming #PCGaming #FreedomPlanet #RiverCityGirls
neutral · AI labelView post →There's no way to remap controls. Hard pass.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →GOG: Edge of Eternity discounted again, and River City Girls possibly at risk. GOG: Edge of Eternity discounted again, and River City Girls possibly at risk Source: https://www.gog.com/forum/general/games_at_risk_of_being_removed_from_gogs_catalog_tracking_thread/post959 #GOG #GameDelistings
neutral · AI labelView post →I think this is more like a 'bad RPG' than a beat 'em up, in short... So the silly vibe, all the art style, is 100% fine, the problem is that the game direction is bad. You have to farm XP, buy healing items ((stamina here???) and also you have to go back to other levels (thank God there’s fast travel)... Yeah, you have to buy skills, but more to make the game easier than to create combos, because there are no combos or combo streaks, which I think is 'essential' for a beat 'em up. Music is…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →River City Girls Fun Coop Game with a very neat Pixel Artstyle
positive · AI labelView post →The Neo Geo Metal Slug games were extremely fun to play side by side with a friend. Just note Metal Slug 2 has lag problems due to the engine used, but it was later ported to MS3's engine as Metal Slug X. Also, most versions of the games on PC come with the ROMs, if you'd rather use your own emulator. Another set of games we also enjoyed a lot were the River City Girls games. Just had to use health cheats on the SNES game repurposed because it was getting too hard for the time we had. "<.<
neutral · AI labelView post →YOOO!!! Until the 17th of April! River City Girls on the Epic Games Store is FREE and you GET TO KEEP IT! I tried this game myself and it's fucking awesome. Go check it out! #RiverCityGirls #BeatEmUps #Deals #EpicGames
positive · AI labelView post →Share some of your favourite game OSTs 🎶 ✨ River City Girls ✨ Persona 4 Golden ✨ Sonic Mania ✨ Crash Twinsanity
neutral · AI labelView post →[Humble] 2D Rewind Collection ($6, $9, $12). $6 for 4 games - Samorost 3 - Not Tonight - Freedom Planet - CHUCHEL $9 for 3 games + above - NORCO - Luck Be a Landlord - Karate Survivor $12 for 6 games + above - River City Girls - River City Girls 2 - Rainbow Legends - Nova Drift - Freedom Planet 2 - Folklands
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