Computed from player tags · Not ranked by quality
24 games like Risk of Rain 2 (2026)
Every game below overlaps with Risk of Rain 2 on things players said about it rather than on our opinion of what feels alike. Each entry shows what it matched on, so you can throw out the ones matching on the part you did not care about.
The short version
- Closest match: Risk of Rain (2013), which made by the same studio, Hopoo Games.
- Risk of Rain 2 is tagged Third-Person Shooter, Action Roguelike, Multiplayer, Co-op, Action, Rogue-lite, Rogue-like, Looter Shooter by Steam players. Those tags are what the matching runs on.
- 24 games qualify, each with at least fifty player reviews behind its sentiment figure.
- 2 are free to download, so you can test the resemblance yourself at no cost.
- 1 are from the same studio: Risk of Rain (2013).
How these were matched
Steam tags carry the most weight, because players apply them and they describe how a game feels rather than how it was filed. Souls-like, Atmospheric and Cozy exist as tags and as nothing else, which is exactly the vocabulary this question needs. Formal genres count for less, themes and a shared studio for more.
Tags carried by more than a third of the catalogue are thrown out before matching. Nearly everything is tagged Singleplayer, so matching on it is matching on nothing. That cutoff is computed from the catalogue rather than fixed, so it moves as the catalogue grows.
All 24, closest first
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Risk of Rain (2013)
Why it matched: made by the same studio, Hopoo Games; both survival and difficult; shares 8 player tags including Action Roguelike, Rogue-like and Indie.
Risk of Rain is an action platformer with roguelike elements. With permanent death as a primary feature, players will have to play their best to get as far as possible. Fight on a mysterious planet with randomly spawning enemies and bosses, either alone or with 3 friends in online co-op.
Risk of Rain (2013) at a glance Released 2013 Studio Hopoo Games Player sentiment 93% positive of 29,833 Price $1.99 Action RoguelikeRogue-likeIndieGreat SoundtrackOnline Co-OpDifficultRogue-liteSurvival
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EVERSPACE
Why it matched: both survival and difficult; shares 8 player tags including Action Roguelike, Indie and Rogue-lite; released around the same time (2017).
EVERSPACE™ combines fast-paced combat with roguelike elements, great visuals and a captivating story. It takes you on a challenging journey through an ever-changing, beautifully crafted universe full of surprises. Shoot, craft and loot your way to victory while the odds are stacked against you.
EVERSPACE at a glance Released 2017 Studio ROCKFISH Games Player sentiment 78% positive of 11,465 Price $19.99 Action RoguelikeIndieRogue-liteShooterRogue-likeSurvivalDifficultGreat Soundtrack
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SYNTHETIK: Legion Rising
Why it matched: both difficult; shares 9 player tags including Rogue-lite, Indie and Action Roguelike; released around the same time (2018).
SYNTHETIK is an unforgiving tactical shooter rogue-lite where freedom and experimentation is key. Fight in a world overrun by the Machine Legion and their Gods. Experience the next level in gun-play and dive into unparalleled build options and Android upgrades. Can you defeat the Heart of Armageddon?
SYNTHETIK: Legion Rising at a glance Released 2018 Studio Flow Fire Games Player sentiment 94% positive of 13,093 Price $19.99 Rogue-liteIndieAction RoguelikeOnline Co-OpDifficultShooterRogue-likeBullet Hell
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The Binding of Isaac
Why it matched: both survival and difficult; shares 8 player tags including Action Roguelike, Rogue-like and Indie.
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The Binding of Isaac at a glance Released 2011 Studio Edmund McMillen Player sentiment 95% positive of 62,842 Price $4.99 Action RoguelikeRogue-likeIndieDifficultGreat SoundtrackRogue-liteSurvivalBullet Hell
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Never Split the Party
Why it matched: both survival and difficult; shares 7 player tags including Action Roguelike, Rogue-like and Indie; released around the same time (2019).
Never Split the Party is an ultra social rogue-like! You're one of four adventurers joining together to explore a procedurally generated dungeon, amass powerful upgrades, and cooperate with your fellow adventures to conquer and crush the evil dungeon champions!
Never Split the Party at a glance Released 2019 Studio Legend Studio Player sentiment 76% positive of 4,400 Price Free Action RoguelikeRogue-likeIndieDifficultRogue-liteOnline Co-OpSurvival
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PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS
Why it matched: both survival and difficult; shares 7 player tags including Survival, Shooter and Third-Person Shooter; released around the same time (2017).
PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS, the high-stakes winner-take-all shooter that started the Battle Royale craze, is free-to-play! Drop into diverse maps, loot unique weapons and supplies, and survive in an ever-shrinking zone where every turn could be your last.
PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS at a glance Released 2017 Studio PUBG Corporation Player sentiment 61% positive of 2,748,446 Price Free SurvivalShooterThird-Person ShooterOnline Co-OpEarly AccessThird PersonDifficult
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Crab Champions
Why it matched: both difficult; shares 8 player tags including Early Access, Action Roguelike and Soundtrack; released around the same time (2023).
Claw your way across exotic islands combining fluid movement with fast paced combat to become a Crab Champion in this third person roguelike shooter.
Crab Champions at a glance Released 2023 Studio Noisestorm Player sentiment 98% positive of 31,067 Price $9.99 Early AccessAction RoguelikeSoundtrackLooter ShooterRogue-likeThird-Person ShooterBullet HellShooter
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Returnal
Why it matched: both difficult; shares 8 player tags including Bullet Hell, Rogue-like and Online Co-Op; released around the same time (2023).
BREAK THE CYCLE Fight to survive as this award-winning third-person shooter brings Selene’s story to PC. Take on roguelike challenges. Engage enemies in bullet hell-fuelled clashes. Share your journey through Returnal™ with another player.
Returnal at a glance Released 2023 Studio Housemarque Player sentiment 81% positive of 11,035 Price $59.99 Bullet HellRogue-likeOnline Co-OpAction RoguelikeThird-Person ShooterShooterDifficultRogue-lite
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Yet Another Zombie Survivors
Why it matched: both survival and difficult; shares 7 player tags including Early Access, Action Roguelike and Bullet Hell.
The Horde is coming, but you're ready to fight it! Assemble your squad, choose their upgrades, and build powerful synergies against thousands of undead. Survive. Then evolve. Then break every limit in this deceptively simple but addictive bullet heaven game.
Yet Another Zombie Survivors at a glance Released 2026 Studio Awesome Games Studio Player sentiment 91% positive of 14,837 Price $9.74 Early AccessAction RoguelikeBullet HellIndieRogue-liteRogue-likeSurvival
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Magicite
Why it matched: both survival and difficult; shares 7 player tags including Indie, Rogue-like and Action Roguelike.
Explore, craft, and survive in this Multiplayer RPG Platformer with permanent death! Featuring many Rogue-like elements, Magicite randomly generates each underground dungeon for you and your friends to delve deep into.
Magicite at a glance Released 2014 Studio Sean Young Player sentiment 85% positive of 7,585 Price $9.99 IndieRogue-likeAction RoguelikeSurvivalDifficultOnline Co-OpRogue-lite
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Clone Drone in the Danger Zone
Why it matched: both survival and difficult; shares 6 player tags including Indie, Rogue-like and Online Co-Op; released around the same time (2021).
Clone Drone in the Danger Zone is a robot voxel slice-em-up where any part of your body can be sliced off. With your mind downloaded into a robot gladiator, you must survive the sinister trials of the arena.
Clone Drone in the Danger Zone at a glance Released 2021 Studio Doborog Games Player sentiment 96% positive of 39,400 Price $6.99 IndieRogue-likeOnline Co-OpThird PersonDifficultSurvival
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Valheim
Why it matched: both survival and difficult; shares 6 player tags including Survival, Online Co-Op and Difficult; released around the same time (2021).
A brutal exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally-generated purgatory inspired by viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!
Valheim at a glance Released 2021 Studio Iron Gate Studio Player sentiment 94% positive of 540,990 Price $29.99 SurvivalOnline Co-OpDifficultThird PersonEarly AccessIndie
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Gunfire Reborn
Why it matched: shares 9 player tags including Rogue-lite, Rogue-like and Online Co-Op; released around the same time (2021).
Gunfire Reborn is a level-based adventure game featuring FPS, Roguelite and RPG. Players can control heroes with various abilities to experience diverse Build gameplay, use various weapons to explore procedurally-generated levels. You can play the game alone, or join 4-player coop.
Gunfire Reborn at a glance Released 2021 Studio Gunfire Reborn Studio Player sentiment 93% positive of 103,628 Price $19.99 Rogue-liteRogue-likeOnline Co-OpLooter ShooterIndieAction RoguelikeShooterEarly Access
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Nuclear Throne
Why it matched: both difficult; shares 8 player tags including Action Roguelike, Rogue-like and Indie.
Nuclear Throne is a post-apocalyptic roguelike-like top-down shooter. Not 'the final hope of humanity' post-apocalyptic, but 'humanity is extinct and mutants and monsters now roam the world' post-apocalyptic. Can you reach the Nuclear Throne?
Nuclear Throne at a glance Released 2014 Studio Vlambeer Player sentiment 96% positive of 19,779 Price $11.99 Action RoguelikeRogue-likeIndieDifficultBullet HellRogue-liteGreat SoundtrackShooter
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Who's Your Daddy?!
Why it matched: both survival and difficult; shares 6 player tags including Online Co-Op, Indie and Early Access; released around the same time (2016).
Who's Your Daddy is a casual multiplayer game featuring a clueless father attempting to prevent his infant son from certain death. Play with up to 7 of your friends, and test your parenting skills in a competitive setup with wacky physics and over 67 potentially ominous household items.
Who's Your Daddy?! at a glance Released 2016 Studio Evil Tortilla Games Player sentiment 80% positive of 31,936 Price $9.99 Online Co-OpIndieEarly AccessDifficultThird PersonSurvival
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Resident Evil 0
Why it matched: both survival and difficult; shares 6 player tags including Third Person, Survival and Difficult; released around the same time (2016).
Before the mansion, before the destruction of Raccoon City, there was Resident Evil 0. Now remastered with improved visuals and sounds, as well as the all-new Wesker Mode, there's never been a better time to experience the origins of the Resident Evil story.
Resident Evil 0 at a glance Released 2016 Studio CAPCOM Co., Ltd. Player sentiment 80% positive of 19,622 Price $19.99 Third PersonSurvivalDifficultThird-Person ShooterGreat SoundtrackShooter
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Magicraft
Why it matched: both difficult; shares 7 player tags including Action Roguelike, Rogue-lite and Looter Shooter; released around the same time (2024).
"Magicraft" is a Roguelike game that uses a variety of spells to match unimaginable spell effects, and the construction of ultra-high degrees of freedom cannot even be exhausted by developers.
Magicraft at a glance Released 2024 Studio Wave Games Player sentiment 93% positive of 16,795 Price $15.99 Action RoguelikeRogue-liteLooter ShooterBullet HellRogue-likeIndieEarly Access
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Resident Evil
Why it matched: both survival and difficult; shares 6 player tags including Survival, Third Person and Difficult.
The game that defined the survival-horror genre is back! Check out the remastered HD version of Resident Evil.
Resident Evil at a glance Released 1996 Studio Capcom Player sentiment 92% positive of 36,244 Price $19.99 SurvivalThird PersonDifficultShooterGreat SoundtrackThird-Person Shooter
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Resident Evil
Why it matched: both survival and difficult; shares 6 player tags including Survival, Third Person and Difficult.
The game that defined the survival-horror genre is back! Check out the remastered HD version of Resident Evil.
Resident Evil at a glance Released 2002 Studio Capcom Player sentiment 92% positive of 36,244 Price $19.99 SurvivalThird PersonDifficultShooterGreat SoundtrackThird-Person Shooter
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Sanctum
Why it matched: both survival and difficult; shares 6 player tags including Indie, Online Co-Op and Shooter.
You think Tower Defense games are all about building? You thought wrong. Sanctum is not your average Tower Defense title. When the havoc starts, you get to join the fray! As one of the world’s first First Person Shooter - Tower Defense games, Sanctum has taken the best of both worlds to deliver an epic, one-of-a-kind experience.
Sanctum at a glance Released 2011 Studio Coffee Stain Studios Player sentiment 89% positive of 3,359 Price $1.99 IndieOnline Co-OpShooterGreat SoundtrackSurvivalDifficult
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Dungeon of the ENDLESS
Why it matched: both survival and difficult; shares 6 player tags including Rogue-like, Indie and Difficult.
Dungeon of the ENDLESS™ is a Rogue-Like Dungeon-Defense game, in which the player and their team of heroes must protect the generator of their crashed ship while exploring an ever-expanding dungeon, all while facing waves of monsters and special events as they try to find their way out...
Dungeon of the ENDLESS at a glance Released 2014 Studio AMPLITUDE Studios Player sentiment 85% positive of 14,040 Price $11.99 Rogue-likeIndieDifficultSurvivalRogue-liteGreat Soundtrack
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Desperados III
Why it matched: both survival and difficult; shares 5 player tags including Difficult, Third Person and Indie; released around the same time (2020).
Desperados III is a story-driven, hardcore tactical stealth game, set in a ruthless Wild West scenario. Play smart if you want to succeed. A good plan can make the difference between survival and finding yourself at the business end of a pistol.
Desperados III at a glance Released 2020 Studio Mimimi Games Player sentiment 97% positive of 16,591 Price $39.99 DifficultThird PersonIndieSurvivalGreat Soundtrack
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Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun
Why it matched: both survival and difficult; shares 5 player tags including Indie, Difficult and Third Person; released around the same time (2016).
Shadow Tactics is a hardcore tactical stealth game set in Japan around the Edo period. A new Shogun seizes power over Japan and enforces nationwide peace. In his battle against conspiracy and rebellion, he recruits five specialists with extraordinary skills for assassination, sabotage and espionage.
Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun at a glance Released 2016 Studio Mimimi Games Player sentiment 96% positive of 38,415 Price $3.99 IndieDifficultThird PersonSurvivalGreat Soundtrack
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Brotato
Why it matched: both survival and difficult; shares 5 player tags including Rogue-like, Action Roguelike and Bullet Hell; released around the same time (2023).
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Brotato at a glance Released 2023 Studio Blobfish Player sentiment 96% positive of 118,244 Price $4.99 Rogue-likeAction RoguelikeBullet HellSurvivalRogue-lite
Common questions
What game is most like Risk of Rain 2?
Risk of Rain (2013), on the evidence we have. It made by the same studio, Hopoo Games. That is a statement about overlap, not a promise you will like it as much: two games can share every tag and still feel different to play.
How is "similar to Risk of Rain 2" decided?
By overlap on the tags Steam players applied to each game, the formal genres, the themes both sit in, and whether the same studio made them. Tags carry the most weight because players write them, so they describe how a game feels rather than how it was filed. Tags carried by more than a third of the catalogue are ignored: matching on "Singleplayer" is matching on nothing. Every entry below shows exactly what it matched on.
Are these ranked by quality?
No. They are ordered by how much they overlap with Risk of Rain 2. Where two games overlap equally, the better received one goes first, but that only moves a game a place or two. Each entry shows its own player sentiment so you can weigh that separately.
What else did the makers of Risk of Rain 2 do?
Risk of Rain (2013) is also from Hopoo Games, and appears in the list below for that reason as well as on tag overlap.
Do you get paid for these recommendations?
No. The order is computed from tag and genre overlap and nothing else. No placement here can be bought, and a game appearing high on this page is a statement about resemblance rather than an endorsement.