Games like Knockout City™
If Knockout City™ is your kind of game, the closest matches are Divine Knockout (DKO), Rocket League® and KungFu Kickball — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its strong community vibe, competitive and funny. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →Knockout City is a free-to-play team-based arena brawler developed by Velan Studios, released in 2021. The game centers on competitive multiplayer dodgeball matches where players throw, catch, pass, dodge, and tackle opponents across various team-based modes. A shrinking playzone adds tactical pressure to encounters while special ball randomization introduces strategic variety, as different ball types drastically alter gameplay approaches. The teammate-throwing mechanic enables coordinated plays and chaotic moments that reviewers highlight as a distinctive feature. Players describe the experience as competitive yet lighthearted and fun, with a nostalgic quality drawing from classic playground sports. The game received a 90% positive rating from over 3,700 Steam reviews, supports online co-op play, and is rated as playable on Steam Deck with a chill difficulty setting suited for short burst sessions.
About Knockout City™: Team up and duke it out with rival Crews in Knockout City™, where EPIC DODGEBALL BATTLES settle the score in team-based multiplayer matches. Throw, catch, pass, dodge, and tackle your way to dodgeball dominance!
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Steam players who put hours into Knockout City™ also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
Divine Knockout (DKO)
WHY THIS
Shares a competitive mood with Knockout City™.
Top pick for Knockout City™ fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Knockout City™.
KO the gods in the world’s only 3rd-person platform fighter! Become a small-but-mighty god of myth, brawl in all three dimensions, and knock your friends off the map to reign supreme.
Rocket League®
WHY THIS
Shares a competitive mood with Knockout City™.
Second-strongest match for Knockout City™ fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Sports with Knockout City™.
Rocket League is a high-powered hybrid of arcade-style soccer and vehicular mayhem with easy-to-understand controls and fluid, physics-driven competition. Rocket League includes casual and competitive Online Matches, a fully-featured offline Season Mode, special “Mutators” that let you change the rules entirely, hockey and...
KungFu Kickball
WHY THIS
Shares a funny mood with Knockout City™.
Third-strongest match for Knockout City™ fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Sports with Knockout City™.
KungFu Kickball is the fighting-sports game where the best ball kicker wins! Punch, kick, and headbutt your way across the field to smash the ball into your opponents' bell and rack up points!
Bleeding Edge
WHY THIS
Shares a competitive mood with Knockout City™.
Ranked #4 for Knockout City™ fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Knockout City™.
Grab your team and tear it up in Bleeding Edge, an electrifying online brawler where every fighter comes mechanically enhanced for mayhem!
Rogue Company
WHY THIS
Shares a competitive mood with Knockout City™.
Ranked #5 for Knockout City™ fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Free To Play with Knockout City™.
Join 20+ million players in Rogue Company, the ultimate third-person tactical action shooter! Become an agent of Rogue Company and wield powerful weapons, high-tech gadgets, and game-changing abilities. Accept the mission and jump into a variety of 4v4 and 6v6 game modes. Play FREE today!
Soccer Online: Ball 3D
WHY THIS
Shares a competitive mood with Knockout City™.
Ranked #6 for Knockout City™ fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports with Knockout City™.
Multiplayer soccer simulator. Control one player. Play online or with bots.
Nidhogg
WHY THIS
Shares a competitive mood with Knockout City™.
Ranked #7 for Knockout City™ fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Sports with Knockout City™.
Nidhogg is the epic award-winning game of fencing tug-of-war complete with flying giant worms.
Splitgate
WHY THIS
Shares a competitive mood with Knockout City™.
Ranked #8 for Knockout City™ fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Knockout City™.
Splitgate is a free-to-play, fast-paced multiplayer shooter that features player-controlled portals. This sci-fi shooter takes the FPS genre to a new dimension with its portal mechanics, delivering high-flying, multi-dimensional combat.
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Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Free To Play with Knockout City™.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Knockout City™.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Knockout City™.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Free To Play with Knockout City™.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Knockout City™.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
STRAFTAT
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Knockout City™.
STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Free To Play with Knockout City™.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Rocket League®
WHY THIS
Shares a competitive mood with Knockout City™.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Sports with Knockout City™.
Rocket League is a high-powered hybrid of arcade-style soccer and vehicular mayhem with easy-to-understand controls and fluid, physics-driven competition. Rocket League includes casual and competitive Online Matches, a fully-featured offline Season Mode, special “Mutators” that let you change the rules entirely, hockey and...
KungFu Kickball
WHY THIS
Shares a funny mood with Knockout City™.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Sports with Knockout City™.
KungFu Kickball is the fighting-sports game where the best ball kicker wins! Punch, kick, and headbutt your way across the field to smash the ball into your opponents' bell and rack up points!
Nidhogg
WHY THIS
Shares a competitive mood with Knockout City™.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Sports with Knockout City™.
Nidhogg is the epic award-winning game of fencing tug-of-war complete with flying giant worms.
Frequently asked about Knockout City™
- Does Knockout City™ run on Steam Deck?
- Knockout City™ is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- Does Knockout City™ have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Knockout City™ supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Cross-Platform Multiplayer, Online PvP).
- What games are most similar to Knockout City™?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Knockout City™ are Divine Knockout (DKO), Rocket League®, KungFu Kickball.
- Who developed Knockout City™?
- Knockout City™ was developed by Velan Studios.
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