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River City Girls Zero

River City Girls Zero

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!

Released Sep 21, 2022 Developer WayForward Publisher WayForward, Arc System Works Platforms Windows Beat 'em upMotorbikeArcadeRetro2D
View on Steam ↗ $14.99 (US · as of 2026-05-14)

What players say

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66.8%positive235 reviews
Recommended · 0 found this helpful

“A cool, spin-off game from the series. Not great as the mainline due to simplified arts and history, but given the short time to beat (you can do in a single day), it's fair. For instance, it's imo the best first game to any steam user to plat. 7/10.”

— a player, Steam review · 8 hrs played
Not recommended · 0 found this helpful

“Cool vibes, bad game. River City Girls Zero is a side-scrolling beat em up with none of the rpg elements from River City Ransom. The gameplay is basically kill 3 waves of enemies then move on to the next area, with the occasional motorcycle level which are their own kind of bad.…”

— a player, Steam review · 2 hrs played
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Player activity

Monthly average concurrent players. Live count fetched 2026-08-02 22:36 UTC · history via SteamCharts.

0playing at last check
124-hour peak
22all-time peak
0 5 10 7 avg · Sep 2022

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Facts & details

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GenresAction, Adventure
Player tagsBeat 'em up · Motorbike · Arcade · Retro · 2D · Controller · Linear · Anime · Music · Multiplayer · Female Protagonist · Pixel Graphics (SteamSpy community voting)
FeaturesSingle-player · Multi-player · Co-op · Shared/Split Screen Co-op · Shared/Split Screen · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Steam Cloud
LanguagesEnglish * , French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese * , Korean, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese *
ControllerFull support
Achievements19
Estimated owners20,000 – 50,000 (SteamSpy)
Minimum system requirements (PC)

Minimum: OS: Windows 10 64-Bit Processor: Intel Core i3-4160 Memory: 4 GB RAM DirectX: Version 9.0 Storage: 2 GB available space Sound Card: DirectX 9 compatible