If there?s one thing that most gamers can agree on (and there?s certainly not much!), it?s that there aren?t enough four-player couch co-op games to choose from these days. Developer Cococucumber thinks they have the right idea with their upcoming co-op dungeon crawler, Riverbond. We were able to go hands-on with the game at last weekend?s PlayStation Experience 2017 in Anaheim, California, and it left quite the impression.
Pleasing Presentation
Riverbond has an art style that is familiar, yet distinct. Unity is the game engine driving the graphics, but with some custom voxel plugins to enhance the visual style of the game, and allow for things like destructible environments. Comparisons will no doubt be made with Minecraft, and while there is some similarity between the two, part of Riverbond?s uniqueness comes from its character design. Combat plays a much more central role in Riverbond, and as such characters? weapons are larger-than-life. Cococucumber has really gone overboard with their character designs, but in a good way. Riverbond?s pixel art style lends itself well to creating silly characters, since the blocky aesthetic isn?t too dissimilar from building with LEGO blocks. Regular knights might be a valid player option, but then again so will doughnuts. Why choose the regular, boring human when you could be a yummy slice of bacon instead" It?s too funny to pass up, really.

Easy Pickup
Playing Riverbond is very easy to grasp. The left stick moves, X jumps, sq...