Games like River City Girls Zero
If River City Girls Zero is your kind of game, the closest matches are Brawler, The friends of Ringo Ishikawa and River City Girls — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its chunky tactile combat satisfaction, challenging and nostalgic. 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 River City Girls Zero: Join Kunio, Riki, Misako, and Kyoko for bone-crunching, 16-bit, co-op beat-'em-up action - newly translated and released outside of Japan after 28 years! The original 1994 graphics, soundtrack, and gameplay are augmented with new motion-comic cutscenes, a new animated intro, and new music!
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The friends of Ringo Ishikawa
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for River City Girls Zero fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with River City Girls Zero.
A highschool gang leader Ringo Ishikawa trying to live through his last autumn before graduation. With his best friends.
River City Girls
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for River City Girls Zero fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with River City Girls Zero.
There's trouble once again in River City, and this time only the girls can save the day! Using a variety of attacks, weapons, and items, these hot-blooded heroines are ready to teach the city’s lowlifes a lesson - either solo or in 2-player co-op! It’s an old-school rumble for a new generation!
Streets of Fear
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for River City Girls Zero fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with River City Girls Zero.
Streets of Fear is a gritty side scrolling beat 'em up where you play as Phobia, a chaotic force tearing through a corrupt city. The police aren’t heroes, they are terrified targets.
The Legend of Yan Loong 1+2
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for River City Girls Zero fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with River City Girls Zero.
A nostalgic collections of the chapter 1 and 2 of “Yan Loong Legend” series. Pick up your sword again, transform into Yan Loong, Zhi Loong or Shui Yan with your friends to have a battle of light and darkness with the final boss Bai Loong and regain the occupied Green Hill Lake.
Road Redemption
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with River City Girls Zero.
Ranked #6 for River City Girls Zero fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with River City Girls Zero.
Road Redemption lets you lead a biker gang on an epic journey across the country in this driving combat road rage adventure. Huge campaign, dozens of weapons, full 4-player co-op splitscreen.
Yakuza 0 Director's Cut
WHY THIS
Shares a nostalgic mood with River City Girls Zero.
Ranked #7 for River City Girls Zero fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with River City Girls Zero.
Discover the decadence and danger of 1980's Japan as you fight like hell through its neon-lit entertainment districts in the definitive edition of the action-adventure crime drama that created yakuza legends.
Raging Justice
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with River City Girls Zero.
Ranked #8 for River City Girls Zero fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with River City Girls Zero.
The city is in chaos! With crime and corruption around every corner, it’s all down to a team of hard-hitting justice seeking mavericks, to clean up the streets with some tough justice! Raging Justice is a classic beat ‘em up, dragged kicking and screaming into the 21st century.
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Streets of Rage 4
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with River City Girls Zero.
Reviewers of River City Girls Zero cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with River City Girls Zero.
Amongst the best beat’em up series ever created, jammin’ ‘90s beats and over the top street fighting, the iconic series Streets of Rage comes back with a masterful tribute to and revitalization of the classic action fans adore.
River City Girls
WHY THIS
Reviewers of River City Girls Zero cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with River City Girls Zero.
There's trouble once again in River City, and this time only the girls can save the day! Using a variety of attacks, weapons, and items, these hot-blooded heroines are ready to teach the city’s lowlifes a lesson - either solo or in 2-player co-op! It’s an old-school rumble for a new generation!
River City Girls 2
WHY THIS
Shares a nostalgic mood with River City Girls Zero.
Reviewers of River City Girls Zero cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with River City Girls Zero.
The River City Girls are back! Misako, Kyoko, Kunio, and Riki - joined by newcomers Marian and Provie - hit the streets for an all-new beat-'em-up adventure! Team up for local or online co-op and explore a massive world packed with new abilities, enemies, locations, and more!
River City Ransom: Underground
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with River City Girls Zero.
Reviewers of River City Girls Zero cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with River City Girls Zero.
Alex and Ryan must take to the streets to help a new crop of fighters. You'll earn money, unlock moves, and upgrade your skills in a sprawling city. This modern take on an old classic features over 500 unique street fighting moves, dozens of weapons, and fun online multiplayer modes.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutants Unleashed
WHY THIS
Shares a nostalgic mood with River City Girls Zero.
Reviewers of River City Girls Zero cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with River City Girls Zero.
Join the Turtle brothers straight from the sewers and slide into this new adventure of shell-shocking proportions!
Final Night
WHY THIS
Reviewers of River City Girls Zero cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with River City Girls Zero.
A nightmarish descent into your worst memories awaits. In "Final Night," you're forced to relive your darkest traumas - now twisted into monstrous, living horrors that hunt you relentlessly. Every shadow hides a piece of your broken past, eager to drag you into the abyss.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below River City Girls Zero at current Steam store prices.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under River City Girls Zero on Steam right now. Shares Action with River City Girls Zero.
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!
R.E.P.O.
WHY THIS
Priced ~53% under River City Girls Zero on Steam right now. Shares Action with River City Girls Zero.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under River City Girls Zero on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with River City Girls Zero.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under River City Girls Zero on Steam right now. Shares Action with River City Girls Zero.
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.
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under River City Girls Zero on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with River City Girls Zero.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Noita
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under River City Girls Zero on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with River City Girls Zero.
Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~93% under River City Girls Zero on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with River City Girls Zero.
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 ~80% under River City Girls Zero on Steam right now. Shares Action with River City Girls Zero.
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 River City Girls Zero.
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.).
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with River City Girls Zero.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with River City Girls Zero.
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 with River City Girls Zero.
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.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with River City Girls Zero.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
Star Fetchers
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with River City Girls Zero.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
Eternal Senia
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with River City Girls Zero.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
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More from WayForward
Other recommendable Steam games by WayForward, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
DuckTales: Remastered
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with River City Girls Zero.
Another title from WayForward, the studio behind River City Girls Zero. Shares Action and Adventure with River City Girls Zero.
DuckTales: Remastered is a beautiful hand-crafted reimagining of one of the most cherished 8-bit titles of all time. Go back to one of the golden ages of gaming, now refined with a level of detail that will please the most hardened devoted Disney or retro Capcom fan alike.
River City Girls
WHY THIS
Another title from WayForward, the studio behind River City Girls Zero. Shares Action with River City Girls Zero.
There's trouble once again in River City, and this time only the girls can save the day! Using a variety of attacks, weapons, and items, these hot-blooded heroines are ready to teach the city’s lowlifes a lesson - either solo or in 2-player co-op! It’s an old-school rumble for a new generation!
Shantae: Half-Genie Hero
WHY THIS
Shares a nostalgic mood with River City Girls Zero.
Another title from WayForward, the studio behind River City Girls Zero. Shares Action and Adventure with River City Girls Zero.
Shantae embarks on her first full HD adventure! When a mysterious crime wave sweeps Sequin Land, it’s up to Half-Genie Hero Shantae to save the day! Use Shantae’s devastating Hair-Whip Attack to send monsters flying, or Belly Dance to transform her into more powerful forms!
Double Dragon: Neon
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with River City Girls Zero.
Another title from WayForward, the studio behind River City Girls Zero. Shares Action with River City Girls Zero.
BRO-TACULAR! Legendary martial artists, Billy and Jimmy Lee return in this creative re-imagining of the classic beat ‘em up, Double Dragon Neon. Fight your way through countless henchmen including Linda and Abobo on your way to rescue the love of your life, Marian!
Shantae and the Pirate's Curse
WHY THIS
Another title from WayForward, the studio behind River City Girls Zero. Shares Action and Adventure with River City Girls Zero.
Embark on an all-new adventure with Shantae, the hair-whipping belly dancing genie. After losing her magic, Shantae teams up with the nefarious pirate Risky Boots in order to save Sequin Land from a curse.
Shantae and the Seven Sirens
WHY THIS
Another title from WayForward, the studio behind River City Girls Zero. Shares Adventure with River City Girls Zero.
Shantae is back in an all-new tropical adventure! In her fifth outing, the Half-Genie hero gains new Fusion Magic abilities to explore a vast sunken city, makes new Half-Genie friends, and battles the Seven Sirens in her biggest, most thrilling quest yet!
River City Girls 2
WHY THIS
Shares a nostalgic mood with River City Girls Zero.
Another title from WayForward, the studio behind River City Girls Zero. Shares Action and Adventure with River City Girls Zero.
The River City Girls are back! Misako, Kyoko, Kunio, and Riki - joined by newcomers Marian and Provie - hit the streets for an all-new beat-'em-up adventure! Team up for local or online co-op and explore a massive world packed with new abilities, enemies, locations, and more!
Shantae: Risky's Revenge - Director's Cut
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with River City Girls Zero.
Another title from WayForward, the studio behind River City Girls Zero. Shares Action and Adventure with River City Girls Zero.
Shantae: Risky’s Revenge – Director’s Cut brings hair-whipping, belly-dancing to your PC! Play one of the most critically acclaimed handheld series of all time, now with brand new features!
Frequently asked about River City Girls Zero
- Does River City Girls Zero run on Steam Deck?
- River City Girls Zero is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does River City Girls Zero cost?
- River City Girls Zero is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does River City Girls Zero have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — River City Girls Zero supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Shared/Split Screen Co-op, Co-op).
- What games are most similar to River City Girls Zero?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside River City Girls Zero are Brawler, The friends of Ringo Ishikawa, River City Girls.
- Who developed River City Girls Zero?
- River City Girls Zero was developed by WayForward and published by WayForward, Arc System Works.
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