

This 360-degree shooter/platformer hybrid lets you choreograph a ‘dance of destruction’ in insanely spectacular battles and set-pieces. RIVE feels like the explosive games of yore, pumping megapixels in true 21st century style.
Each input wears a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The color is the direction: green raises the score, red lowers it, grey sits neutral. ▼ marks a dock, ? a missing input. The exact weights stay secret. These are the inputs and the direction each pushes.
Most players never reach the end. Steam global achievements
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Skip · Shooter · 2016
SKIP IT.
Skip it at $14.99. The value isn't there.
$14.99
Better value than 54% of Shooter games
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RIVE scores 42/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steamBANGERS.com/game/278100/riveThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It rates value, not taste. Whether it is for you is on you. How the score is computed → Data · updated 7h ago.
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Daily peak concurrent players.Player counts via SteamSpy.
Low $0.89High $14.99Now $14.99
PricePrice history via IsThereAnyDeal.
The lowest price on record is $0.89, set in February 2025. It has been discounted 77 times in the 10 years tracked here, typically at 90 percent off, with about 5 weeks between sales.
On value it sits in the top 46 percent of its genre. The games it most resembles do better on the same math: Toki Tori 2+ ($1.04, scores 68) and EDGE ($0.83, scores 72) both outscore it.
Steam's global achievement data says about 1 percent of players ever finish it.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).