Samurai Riot

A promising attempt to make a good beat 'em up game that never moves past the attempt stage.

While Samurai Riot has decent gameplay and an interesting choose-your-own-path mechanic, I cannot recommend anyone buy Samurai Riot for the Switch right now due to the save erasing bug.

Samurai Riot has a number of novel ideas, but the repetitive levels and wonky engine undo any good will. Those who are looking for the next coming of the beat-em-up will likely be disappointed with this title.

Samurai Riot is a new beat-‘em-up style arcade game developed for PC by Wako Factory. Arcade style games have a special place in my heart, as it’s one of the earliest forms of gaming, and I may hold standards too high for arcade style games. It isn’t easy to find a genuinely good beat-‘em-up arcade game these days, and Samurai Riot attempts to combine this style with a unique storyline that is flexible with player choice.

Samurai Riot aims to deliver a fun, new beat-em up game set in Japan’s age of ninja and samurai. Story I haven’t gotten too far into the story (for reasons I’ll explain later), but it’s pretty standard for these beat-em-up games. You are Tsurumaru (a samurai) or Sukane (a ninja) trying to subdue