Games like WAVE RIDER
If WAVE RIDER is your kind of game, the closest matches are Neon Highways, Radiant Rush and Jet Car Stunts — picked from the ranked list below. 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 →About WAVE RIDER: WAVE RIDER is a fast racing game where gravity-defying machines meet at the finish line to return control to a virtual world. Race through many bending roads, make waves with your machine to gain power, and boost to the end before the timer reaches zero.
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Steam players who put hours into WAVE RIDER 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.
Neon Highways
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Top pick for WAVE RIDER fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Racing with WAVE RIDER.
Welcome to a retro-futuristic '80s world of supercars, neon-lit cities, and synthwave beats. Neon Highways is a minimalist casual arcade racer where you cruise through vibrant cityscapes and endless highways, all set to an iconic synthwave soundtrack.
Radiant Rush
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Second-strongest match for WAVE RIDER fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Racing with WAVE RIDER.
Master a unique physics system where speed dictates your steering. Drift through shifting retro-futuristic worlds that evolve in perfect sync with the music, creating a seamless cinematic journey where gameplay, visuals, and sound fuse into one.
Jet Car Stunts
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Third-strongest match for WAVE RIDER fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Racing with WAVE RIDER.
Master difficult stunts, set the fastest times and let your Jet Car Stunts skills shine.
Formula Legends
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Ranked #4 for WAVE RIDER fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with WAVE RIDER.
From the golden age to the modern era, race through time in Formula Legends. Master reimagined circuits, command legendary cars, and chase glory across decades of motorsport history. A love letter to Formula racing, where speed, skill, and strategy define the champion.
DIRT 5
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Ranked #5 for WAVE RIDER fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with WAVE RIDER.
DIRT 5 is a fun, amplified, off-road arcade racing experience created by Codemasters. Blaze a trail on routes across the world, covering gravel, ice, snow and sand, with a roster of cars ranging from rally icons to trucks, to GT heroes.
Absolute Drift
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Ranked #6 for WAVE RIDER fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with WAVE RIDER.
Absolute Drift is a racing game about becoming a master at the art of drifting.
art of rally
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Ranked #7 for WAVE RIDER fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with WAVE RIDER.
Race in the golden era of rally. Drive iconic cars from the 60s to Group B on challenging stages through stylized environments inspired by real worldwide locations. Will you master the art of rally?
Need for Speed™ Rivals
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Ranked #8 for WAVE RIDER fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Racing with WAVE RIDER.
Erase the line between single player and multiplayer in this street-racing rivalry between Cops and Racers. Seamlessly join a world where your friends are already racing and chasing
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below WAVE RIDER at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~75% under WAVE RIDER on Steam right now. Shares Action with WAVE RIDER.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Blood and Bacon
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Priced ~75% under WAVE RIDER on Steam right now. Shares Action with WAVE RIDER.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad
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Priced ~75% under WAVE RIDER on Steam right now. Shares Action with WAVE RIDER.
"Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad?" is a fast paced shower-simulation where you shower with your 8-bit dad.It's good, clean fun!
Bit Blaster XL
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Priced ~75% under WAVE RIDER on Steam right now. Shares Action with WAVE RIDER.
Bit Blaster XL is a fast-paced, retro arcade shoot 'em up (shmup) inspired by the classic quarter-munchers of the ‘80s. Easy to pick up, hard to put down, boost, dodge, shoot, and chase high scores in this addictive, old-school action game!
TYRONE vs COPS
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Priced ~75% under WAVE RIDER on Steam right now. Shares Action with WAVE RIDER.
Awaken the latent power of your melanin and kill cops in this thought-provoking game on police brutality in America.
Orbt XL
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Priced ~75% under WAVE RIDER on Steam right now. Shares Action with WAVE RIDER.
Defy gravity in Orbt XL! A fast-paced, addictive, 'just-one-more-round' arcade score chaser. Stay in orbit, dodge obstacles, and rack up points, the closer you are to the black hole, the higher your score! Easy to learn, tough to master, and perfect for quick play sessions while waiting in queue.
Toree 2
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Priced ~75% under WAVE RIDER on Steam right now. Shares Action with WAVE RIDER.
A bite-sized 3D Platformer sequel with more focus on the things people enjoyed in the first game like fast gameplay, flow focused levels and cute costumes (two this time).
UBERMOSH Vol.5
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Priced ~75% under WAVE RIDER on Steam right now. Shares Action with WAVE RIDER.
The fifth volume of the arcade series UBERMOSH.
Free alternatives
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ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Looker
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with WAVE RIDER.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
DORONKO WANKO
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with WAVE RIDER.
『DORONKO WANKO』 is a DORONKO Action Game. In this game, You can become a cute, innocent Pomeranian, make your master's home messy and dirty. "Will the master be angry with me?" Don't worry. Because you are a sweet doggie.
Hello Neighbor Alpha 2
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to Alpha 2 of Hello Neighbor. Play against an advanced, self-learning AI in what eventually became Act 1 of Hello Neighbor - the stealth horror home invasion sim.
Control, I'm Not Coming Back
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Control, I'm Not Coming Back is a short and emotional narrative game about a lost astronaut searching for a reason to keep going forward while facing the emptiness of space. Inspired by the Hopecore aesthetic, it’s a story about positivism, friendship and our human connection with Voyager 1.
Samorost 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Explore the beginnings of the Samorost series in the space gnome’s original bite-sized adventure, formerly released in 2003. Now with remastered sounds, enhanced graphics, and new music by Floex.
Lily's Well
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
It is a rainy night in the Spring of 2005. Lily is left home alone after her Papa put her to bed. She is awoken by a cry for help outside her window. It is coming from the well. Help Lily gather rope to go down the well and save the poor soul trapped down there.
![UNBEATABLE [white label] — Steam game cover](https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/1290490/header.jpg?t=1736770503)
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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.
DIRT 5
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with WAVE RIDER.
DIRT 5 is a fun, amplified, off-road arcade racing experience created by Codemasters. Blaze a trail on routes across the world, covering gravel, ice, snow and sand, with a roster of cars ranging from rally icons to trucks, to GT heroes.
Absolute Drift
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with WAVE RIDER.
Absolute Drift is a racing game about becoming a master at the art of drifting.
art of rally
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with WAVE RIDER.
Race in the golden era of rally. Drive iconic cars from the 60s to Group B on challenging stages through stylized environments inspired by real worldwide locations. Will you master the art of rally?
Frequently asked about WAVE RIDER
- How much does WAVE RIDER cost?
- WAVE RIDER is listed on Steam at 3.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to WAVE RIDER?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside WAVE RIDER are Neon Highways, Radiant Rush, Jet Car Stunts.
- Who developed WAVE RIDER?
- WAVE RIDER was developed by Startreming Games, tirsod and published by Startreming Games.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on WAVE RIDER.
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