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RUSHING BEAT X: Return Of Brawl Brothers

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62%Game Brain Score
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graphics, stability
77% User Score Based on 31 reviews

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RUSHING BEAT X: Return Of Brawl Brothers is a single player and multiplayer casual platformer game. It was developed by CITY CONNECTION and was released on March 19, 2026. It received mostly positive reviews from players.

RIVAL TURF OR RUSHING BEAT? It's quite possible that you played one or more of the Rushing Beat games in the '90s without even realizing it! This classic 16-bit trilogy was originally released in the West as Rival Turf!, Brawl Brothers, and The Peace Keepers. However, in Japan, the games have always been known as Rushing Beat, Rushing Beat Ran: Fukusei Toshi, and Rushing Beat Shura. Rushing Beat …

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77%
Audience ScoreBased on 31 reviews
story4 positive mentions
graphics3 negative mentions
  • The combo system is deep, sophisticated, and fun, allowing for air juggles, canceling, and creative combos that appeal to both casual and skilled players.
  • The game successfully captures the nostalgic spirit of classic beat 'em ups with colorful, stylized graphics, satisfying combat feedback, and a variety of characters and weapons.
  • Unique mechanics such as the weapon inventory system and the healing food combination system add strategic depth and novelty to the beat 'em up formula.
  • The game suffers from inconsistent hit detection, awkward movement, and janky enemy AI, leading to some frustrating combat moments and unfair difficulty spikes, especially with certain enemies like grapplers and wrestlers.
  • The health and healing systems are unintuitive and cumbersome, with expensive healing meals and no invincibility frames on respawn, making some sections feel unfair and endurance-test-like.
  • Repetitive level and boss design, poor story writing with excessive text boxes, and a lack of polish such as visual glitches, no graphical settings, limited controls rebinding, and missing online or 4-player co-op limit its overall appeal.
  • story
    18 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The story in this beat 'em up game offers nostalgic, silly, and humorous elements that appeal mainly to fans of the genre, though it can be confusing and somewhat repetitive with mixed-quality writing and outdated references. While it introduces intriguing characters and adds context to the gameplay, it lacks strong engagement for newcomers and is often seen as skippable or secondary to the core action. Overall, the story provides some enjoyment but is considered average and not essential to the experience.

    • “Great story and characters, was amazing ride entire way, couldn't put game down until completion and then some.”
    • “Looking at the crazy action, distinct characters, silly story and funny English voice over, it's obvious that the developers wanted to embody the spirit of beat 'em ups from the era.”
    • “It looks like it sticks to the original material and adds more story of the cast.”
    • “The story mode doesn't do very well to captivate its audience, as it relies on outdated references mixed with some new ones, witty humor during certain conversations, and treats new players as if they have played or beaten every single game within its series.”
    • “While many may not be bothered by the story or just see it as fan service for fans of beat 'em ups and rushing beat games, it still doesn't excuse the writing, which contains some rare grammatical errors.”
    • “The story between levels is quite skippable.”
  • gameplay
    13 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The gameplay offers a combo-centric, mechanically rich fighting experience with a variety of characters and smooth, addicting combat that appeals to both skilled and casual players. Despite some rough graphics and minor bugs, the core gameplay is solid, fun, and enhanced by sophisticated mechanics like juggles and cancels, promising even more enjoyment in co-op mode.

    • “The combat in this game is absolutely addicting and superb, with lots of variety in performing combos and learning about the many in-game mechanics that will keep you coming back for more.”
    • “It's very combo centric, with juggles and cancels being essential mechanics.”
    • “Quite a lot of sophisticated mechanics which makes fun to play for people who have good skills, but for a scrub like me it's good too.”
    • “While I originally decided to list all the bugs/glitches I encountered, we are lucky enough where patches are on the way to fix/adjust the gameplay in the coming months.”
    • “It's pretty much the same issue with fighting games, where game designers are really going to have to take more risks in new innovations in gameplay or creating new game modes, or the experience is going to feel somewhat hollow or at worst, shallow within the coming months.”
    • “So there is some limited fighting game combo mechanics.”
  • humor
    5 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The game's humor channels the nostalgic, silly spirit of classic beat 'em ups through quirky characters, a playful story, and amusing English voice acting. However, its reliance on outdated references and insider jokes may alienate new players, and some of the game's janky animations and mechanics unintentionally add a comedic, if occasionally frustrating, charm.

    • “Looking at the crazy action, distinct characters, silly story, and funny English voice acting, it's obvious that the developers wanted to embody the spirit of beat 'em ups from the era.”
    • “You do have a parry, but it doesn't seem to work on every attack, and sometimes you might get the parry but the move afterward completely whiffs, which is kinda funny in that janky arcade way.”
    • “The grab animations are fairly wonky, and even if enemies getting stuck in the ground is funny and the increased impact from all the landings is a good touch, the super mode just made the game dumber since only a few characters properly follow up aerial attacks in super mode.”
  • music
    4 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The game's music receives mixed feedback, with some praising its epic and excellent soundtrack that enhances gameplay, while others find it generic and forgettable, which detracts from the beat'em up experience. Overall, the sound and music quality are considered good.

    • “Good gameplay, lots of variety with the characters and excellent music.”
    • “Beating up endless waves of enemies while listening to epic in-game music.”
    • “Sound and music is good as well.”
    • “The game's biggest sin, however, is its soundtrack - it is just completely generic and forgettable, which you can't afford in a beat'em up.”
  • graphics
    4 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The graphics are low poly and lack detail, with noticeable issues like color bleed and a lack of polish, especially in character models and cutscenes. There are also no apparent graphical options for customization. However, some users appreciate the overall look given the game's style and suggest focusing more on the gameplay than the visuals.

    • “The graphics are low poly and low detail, but I like the way the game looks (for what it is).”
    • “The graphics are very rough and unpolished (character outfits and especially in cutscenes have terrible color bleed and look very rushed), but if you can look past that, the gameplay is solid.”
    • “The graphics are very rough and unpolished (character outfits and especially in cutscenes have terrible color bleed and look very rushed) but if you can look past that, the gameplay is solid.”
    • “Oh, another issue is that there are no graphical options, as far as I can tell?”
    • “Just tolerate the could-be-better character models and graphics and focus on the gameplay and you'll enjoy it more.”
  • stability
    3 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    While the game currently has some bugs, glitches, and odd design choices affecting stability, upcoming patches aim to address these issues. Despite these frustrations, the overall experience remains strong enough to earn a high honorable mention among beat 'em ups.

    • “While I originally decided to list all the bugs and glitches I encountered, we are lucky enough that patches are on the way to fix and adjust the gameplay in the coming months.”
    • “Despite some frustrations with bugs, glitches, odd design choices, and the lack of a save state feature, I would still consider this game a high honorable mention among beat 'em ups.”
    • “Those two main reasons consist of looking for oddities in game design and being on the lookout for bugs and glitches.”
  • optimization
    3 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    Optimization is generally smooth for most users, with minimal stuttering reported, though some experience significant lag or stuttering in specific areas like the second level. However, performance issues such as slow movement and low graphical quality resembling a PSP game have been noted by some players.

    • “For some reason the second level had really bad stuttering issues, maybe my computer.”
    • “Stuttering issues, slow movement, and it looks like a PSP game.”
  • grinding
    2 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    Players find the grinding aspect tedious, particularly due to mechanics like enemies slowly returning after being knocked off-screen. They suggest improving the scoring system by adopting a damage-based approach similar to Streets of Rage 4, rather than relying on easily padded combo counts.

    • “Frankly, I think it would be better to just rip off Streets of Rage 4's scoring system, since that game calculates score through the damage done to an enemy, rather than combo count, which can be tediously padded.”
    • “Thank god, but it was tedious to knock enemies off-screen only for them to slowly make their way back.”
  • replayability
    1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    Users feel the game currently lacks sufficient content to encourage replayability and hope for additional content to enhance this aspect.

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RUSHING BEAT X: Return Of Brawl Brothers is a casual platformer game.

RUSHING BEAT X: Return Of Brawl Brothers is available on Xbox Series X|S, PC, Steam Deck, Windows and others.

RUSHING BEAT X: Return Of Brawl Brothers was released on March 19, 2026.

RUSHING BEAT X: Return Of Brawl Brothers was developed by CITY CONNECTION.

RUSHING BEAT X: Return Of Brawl Brothers has received mostly positive reviews from players. Most players liked RUSHING BEAT X: Return Of Brawl Brothers for its story but disliked it for its graphics.

RUSHING BEAT X: Return Of Brawl Brothers is a single player game with multiplayer and local co-op support.

Similar games include Double Dragon Gaiden: Rise Of The Dragons, Final Vendetta, Streets of Rage 4, Espectro The Fighters Focus, Raging Justice and others.