River City Girls Zero
Skip · Multiplayer · 2022
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 14, under the fair line, at $14.99.
- Length
- 3.5h 4h to 100%
- Value
- $4.28/hr
- Reviews
- 64% of 303 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in 4 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
About the game
Join Kunio, Riki, Misako, and Kyoko for bone-crunching, 16-bit, co-op beat-'em-up action - newly translated and released outside of Japan after 28 years! The original 1994 graphics, soundtrack, and gameplay are augmented with new motion-comic cutscenes, a new animated intro, and new music!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
Across all 15 discounts in the 4 years tracked, the median cut is 50 percent, about 12 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
It is pricier than 73 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 79 percent. Scott Pilgrim vs. The World™: The Game – Complete Edition ($14.99, scores 30) outscores it, and so does Rivals of Aether ($29.99, scores 54). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
The drop-off
76% start to 19% finishA game like this has no single ending, so its score does not use the finish rate. The curve shows where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
- Players online
- 1 when we last checked, on Oct 5, 13:55 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
If you somehow really want to play Kunio-tachi no Banka, one of the worst beat-em-ups on the Super Famicom/SNES, you'd be better off simply using a free emulator. River City Girls Zero is nothing more than a horrible emulator+rom+wrapper package that suffers from audio crackling, stutter, input lag, and bugs like no audio at all if you load a save state too quickly after making it. If you're a fan of the River City...
2 more reviews, 2 not recommended
For a lack of a Neutral choice. This game is... bad. Not gonna lie to you here, it is bad. The story suxx, some stages are bad. you cannot attack and control the bike at the same time, even with two players. (and the bike stages are annoying and a waste of time) There is a glitch with the ending. i forgot what caused it exactly but it's language related. in one of the languages, the ending will crash the game...
Honestly I wish Steam has a "middle" option (aside from yes or no) for game recommendations. I know it's a very old game so don't expect much from visuals. My negative view on this game is the gameplay. If you expect another city-exploring, stat-building beat-em up you'll be sorely disappointed. This game is very linear. Enter an area, beat up the baddies, enter next area, repeat until boss battle, then enter next...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
River City Girls Zero scores 14/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1851020/river-city-girls-zeroReviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 27, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.