Indiana Jones and the Great Circle
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle
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STAY COOL, KOBAYASHI-SAN!: A RIVER CITY RANSOM STORY
Developer Arc System Works
Kunio-kun's infamous rival that all River City Series fans will recognize, The head of the Reiho High School Big Four: Kobayashi gets his own game!! From the Steam store page
23 reactions from 1 source (Steam reviews) · newest Aug 22, 2026 · last updated Oct 8, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
30
Rotten
7 positive · 16 negative
95% range 16–51%
| Source | + | − | = |
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| Steam reviews | 7 | 16 | 0 |
Steam's own rating
Mostly Negative
24 of 62 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What people are saying
Summary pending — the reactions are listed below.
Reactions
23 of 23 · most liked firstIf this is the best the River City team can do, then maybe they should stick to outsourcing their franchise. Stay Cool, Kobayashi-san! is a spinoff of River City Ransom without anything that made RCR compelling. It keeps all the bits of random people talking to you and spouting two lines of incomprehensible nonsense every three screens and it tries to have an open world of brawling River City style but beyond that everything is awful. Combos are one button, that's it. Nothing to cancel, no…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This feels like maybe 25% of a complete game. It may be "built for quick replay" but you can beat the original River City Ransom in about half an hour anyway and it actually has "fun & interesting gameplay features" instead of just a load of dang nonsense. The general beat em up combat feels aaalright but suffers for the fact that you never learn any new moves. The "world map" has no real reason to exist since you basically get random encounters on every screen transition regardless of…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →As other reviews have pointed out, this is a spin-off of the "Kunio-kun" series, and as a fan of that series I am glad they are still releasing these in the west and on PC (Please keep them coming in the future). You can tell the scope of this project isn't trying to compete with the best of the "beat 'em up" genre. From a design standpoint there isn't a lot that's new. The story is typical for a Japanese oriented spin-off (time-travel plot of weirdness) and the game is kind of short. So why…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Got it on sale and still felt like I was taken advantaged of.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Stay Cool Kobayashi-san is the latest in the River City Series, the game itself has different gameplay to that of River City Girls and River City Ransom Underground so it might seem a little clanky at first. The trick is to press the jump button after finishing a combo, and to press the attack button right when being attacked to block an attack. Some people will dislike it because of the lack of leveling and stat enhancements as previous titles but its meant to be a quick game with…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Some series don't get the credit they deserve, and for a long time Yoshihisa Kishimoto's Kunio Kun franchise was one of them. Despite inventing the multi-directional street beat-em-up, the series has stayed relatively unknown, up until 2019, when Wayforward's River City Girls became a hit and got far more people's attention. The time was ripe to make more Kunio games, and better yet, ARC managed to re-enlist the aid of series creator Yoshihisa Kishimoto. This game could and should have been…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game feels confused, twisted, and really unfinished. I'm all for story in brawlers if done right but this game has way too much dialogue. It would be really cool to get a Kunio/River City game that wasn't a dumb departure from the formula. You can run around freely but there's no stores and enemies don't drop money; in the amount of time I played I didn't even see how you get upgrades and stat boosts. You start out doing an average for 10 Damage on normal hits but special attacks {which…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Game's very very simple with just one button attack and the jump button as a finisher (you can also do infinite combo as Mizoguchi with this button). The interesting thing in this game is you can do a lot of things with these buttons. If you mash the jump button when you got knocked down, you'll do a reversal attack, if you attack as your enemy about to land a hit, you can parry it. This is also the simplest kunio-kun game I've ever played with no RPG elements in it, so it can be played quite…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I LOVE River City Ransom games. The best are probably River City Ransom from the Gameboy Advance, and the recent "River City Girls". Both of those are awesome! This... was clearly made by someone who just borrowed the name and slapped it on a Japanese beat'm up. It could be worse... but it would have to work really hard at it. :(
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is a good hot-blooded tough guy punching game with a strong focus and very little clutter. There's an ingame timer there encouraging you to speedrun it and the game says "Good" "Great" etc. when you do the difficult stuff, so it's a bit like Viewtiful Joe in that it drives you towards a specific playstyle, but it's not nearly as strict as that game. The fighting system is simple but there are lots of little details to learn: there aren't lots of types of characters and enemies, but…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →$13 Well Spent. A great Beat em Up. Recommend it fully
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →One of the best games I've played with negative reviews on here. It's short, repetitive and has too much dialogue (which can be skipped for fairly minimal impact, thankfully), and the base price is a little too high, BUT if it's on sale for <$10, I'd say it's worth it. I suspect a big reason for many of the negative reviews is that people didn't know about the "chase" mechanic: basically, when you put an enemy into a "knockdown" state, but before they actually hit the ground, you can press the…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I wanted to give this game a fair shot but it really, really sucks to play.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →No controller support. It's shocking that someone would release a beat-em-up in 2020 with ZERO controller support. Thankfully you can use Steam Input to bind keyboard keys to your gamepad to get around this, but it's very clunky. The combat is extremely basic and fairly unsatisfying. The game gives you no instructions and no indication where to go so you just run around randomly trying to get something to happen until a blue flying boss kills you. You get infinite lives but that's not…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Combat mechanics is very simple (no grabs!), avoid it at all costs if you like good beat'em ups.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Ita very rare for me not to finish a game, and this is my first negative review But this game isn't very fun. Going back and forth between levels with no progression just to beat up x number of guys until a boss shows up isn't fun. When you're caught in a juggle, sucks that i can't get out of it. The story is a mess. The pro is that I like the teleport kicks when you airborne the enemies...
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Absolutely abysmal... they should be ashamed for even making such a p.o.s. tied to the River City Ransom franchise but that seems to be where Arc System Works is taking this franchise... right down the toilet. You have to literally muck around with the windowed version of the game just to get your controller to work properly, on top of that the button mapping is terrible. If you're using an Xbox controller the A and X buttons are reversed in the menu, so if you hit X it changes the value to A…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →No real instructions on what to do in this game. If you do something out of order you can find yourself in a glitch where there is no possible ending. Very poorly designed game. No walkthroughs or guides and very little online at all if you can sit through it for over an hour. I’ve been a huge fan of the Kunio series. I love the old Kunio games and the new ones. This one seems to be purposely bad. It’s unfortunate. I’ve played plenty of worse games in my lifetime so I am going to be…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game is very fun. The format to get boss fight is horrible. Overall very bad design
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The worst game I have ever played in my life.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I've played a lot of brawlers and RCR games but... what the !$#% am I even playing here? Between picking random items to care about and define my character (that had a default name of Catherine even before picking the gender), to crossing dimensional rifts, to flying and fighting alien saucers, to cat saves, to fighting hovering rocket launchers, to a boss that is a pufferfish teddy bear face looking thing...I believe the developers are just trolling us. The brawling isn't really bad, but…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's a classic in the type of belt scroller game play. You can go in and out of the foreground and run around. I didn't play much to find out what colors to get rid of first since it's a puzzle with this series. It's something to enjoy here and there.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Great sprites. Some of the worst gameplay in the Kunio franchise.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →
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