Games like Rakuten
If Rakuten is your kind of game, the closest matches are Plucked, Suds and 超级机霸(Super Ship Blaster) — 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 Rakuten: Rakuten is a physics based space shooter where you pilot your own rocketship, shoot down enemy spacecraft, and unlock upgrades to further increase your capabilities and available weaponry.
Players who liked Rakuten also play
Steam players who put hours into Rakuten 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.
Plucked
WHY THIS
Top pick for Rakuten fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Rakuten.
Up to 12 players, one pond. A top-down bullet-heaven roguelite where you merge your guns into increasingly stupid firepower, then find out how much of it one duck can hold. Survive the waves, outlive the swarm, quack responsibly.
Suds
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Rakuten fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Rakuten.
Grab your friends and defend the Suds' village! Fight endless waves of slimes, save infected teammates, and compete for the top spot on the leaderboards. A cute and chaotic adventure awaits!
超级机霸(Super Ship Blaster)
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Rakuten fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Rakuten.
This is a game that combines drifting and shooting. Players control various space ships to challenge incoming enemies. During battles, they collect different bullets and items to enhance themselves. The default basic controls for the game are as follows:
Crazy Foods
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Rakuten fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Rakuten.
Crazy Foods is a massively multiplayer online battle arena game with upcoming crazy modes where foods are going crazy eliminating each other until one winner or team will get the fork throne! Cute shooter with updated new "FOODBALL" - football match mode! :)
Harpoon Arena
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Rakuten fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Rakuten.
A fast-paced top-down team shooter. Direct player contact is limited, so use a harpoon to pull enemies to your side and finish them off with teammates! Accuracy and cold calculation will lead you to victory. Just avoid other harpoons flying from all directions...
Project: ELIOT
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Rakuten fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Rakuten.
Dive into 'Project ELIOT,' a gripping rogue-like with rich story, diverse magical spells, and endless dungeons. Are you ready to confront the darkness?
Blightveil
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Rakuten fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Rakuten.
Blightveil is an Action-MOBA with WASD movement and non-targeting combat. Enter a brutal world where the genre takes a fresh twist. Battle in arenas where two teams of four clash for one goal: destroy the enemy relic and become champions.
Surviv.io - 2D Battle Royale
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Rakuten fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Rakuten.
2D BATTLE ROYALE packed into an intense 3-5 minute experience. No lobbies, no lengthy drop sequences. In surviv.io, you're always in the fight!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Rakuten at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Rakuten on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Rakuten.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Rakuten on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Rakuten.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~55% under Rakuten on Steam right now. Shares Action with Rakuten.
Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.
How to Fish
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Rakuten on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Rakuten.
A 1-4 player physics based fishing simulator. While drinking and boating you suddenly crash into a small island. To work your way back home you have to learn How to Fish.
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Rakuten on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Rakuten.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Rakuten on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Rakuten.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Rakuten on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Rakuten.
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?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Rakuten on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Rakuten.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Rakuten.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Rakuten.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Iron Snout
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Rakuten.
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
Star Fetchers
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Rakuten.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
Disfigure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Rakuten.
Disfigure is a grim-dark action rogue-like where you battle relentless hordes of monsters lurking in the shadows. Unlock powerful weapons, craft god-like builds with hundreds of upgrades, slay colossal bosses, and push your limits in intense 20–30 minute survival runs!
Paper Lily - Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Rakuten.
Paper Lily is an RPG horror game in which you can solve puzzles in different ways. Explore a hidden world, meet strange characters, and guide Lacie as she attempts to find answers about her unusual condition.
The Lab
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
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Frequently asked about Rakuten
- How much does Rakuten cost?
- Rakuten is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Rakuten have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Rakuten supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, Online Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Rakuten?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Rakuten are Plucked, Suds, 超级机霸(Super Ship Blaster).
- Who developed Rakuten?
- Rakuten was developed by TheRealDan.
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 Rakuten.
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