River City Saga: Journey to the West
River City Saga: Journey to the West is a roguelike action brawler that reimagines the classic Chinese novel with River City characters, casting Kunio as Sun Wukong and other familiar faces as legendary…
River City Saga: Journey to the West is a hack and slash/beat 'em up developed by UnitePlus, released 4 June 2026 on PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What River City Saga: Journey to the West is
River City Saga: Journey to the West is a hack and slash/beat 'em up game developed by UnitePlus and released in 2026. It was published by Arc System Works. It is available on PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
The Kunio-kun (くにおくん) series is a video game series started by Technōs Japan. The series is now handled by Arc System Works who purchased all of the intellectual property rights from Technōs' successor, Million Corp. The first game in the series is fully titled Nekketsu Kōha Kunio-kun (熱血硬派くにおくん), which roughly translates to "Hot Blood Tough Guy Kunio", with Nekketsu being the name of the series' title character Kunio's high school. The kun suffix after his name is an informal Japanese honorific usually applied to young males. The series originated in arcades, before appearing on the Famicom console. Kunio later became Technōs Japan's main mascot, appearing on the company's logo in several…
How it plays
Its themes are action and comedy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 62 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
River City Saga: Journey to the West holds a critic score of 75 out of 100. That places it above 57% of the 1,125 rated hack and slash/beat 'em up games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2026 averaged 78, so it scored 3 points below the year average.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel® Core™ i5-2300, 4 GB RAM and NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 1050. At 4GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 8GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
River City Saga: Journey to the West launched on 4 June 2026, within three weeks of 007 First Light, Forza Horizon 6, LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight and Mina the Hollower. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 6 years into the PlayStation 5's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: 007 First Light, Forza Horizon 6, LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight, Mina the Hollower.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for River City Saga: Journey to the West yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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