Games like River City: Rival Showdown
If River City: Rival Showdown is your kind of game, the closest matches are Salt and Sacrifice, Abyss Odyssey and NIPH — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its challenging, contemplative 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.
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Salt and Sacrifice
WHY THIS
Top pick for River City: Rival Showdown fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and RPG with River City: Rival Showdown.
Join your fellow Marked Inquisitors in this online coop successor to award-winning 2016 Soulslike Salt and Sanctuary.
Abyss Odyssey
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with River City: Rival Showdown.
Second-strongest match for River City: Rival Showdown fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with River City: Rival Showdown.
From indie Chilean developer ACE Team comes a new side-scrolling action adventure game featuring a complex fighting engine in procedurally generated levels that destines its three warriors to battle a different abyss each time! Choose your hero and also learn to possess your enemies in the abyss…
NIPH
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for River City: Rival Showdown fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with River City: Rival Showdown.
NIPH is a stylish roguelite platformer with risky and intense combat. Slash, shoot, and learn and cast spells with more varied items as you explore a vast and diverse fantasy world!
You are Peter Shorts
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with River City: Rival Showdown.
Ranked #4 for River City: Rival Showdown fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with River City: Rival Showdown.
You are PETER SHORTS! You have been captured and taken to a secret cloning facility. Can you escape with your newly-cloned brethren?
Lost Castle / 失落城堡
WHY THIS
Shares a nostalgic mood with River City: Rival Showdown.
Ranked #5 for River City: Rival Showdown fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with River City: Rival Showdown.
Lost Castle is an action RPG beat'em up with roguelike elements and randomized dungeons for up to four players online and local!
Phantom Breaker: Battle Grounds Classic
WHY THIS
Shares a nostalgic mood with River City: Rival Showdown.
Ranked #6 for River City: Rival Showdown fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with River City: Rival Showdown.
Phantom Breaker: Battle Grounds! Enjoy fast and frantic arcade-style beat 'em up gameplay with cute characters. Beat up hordes of weird enemies with awesome special attacks. Local co-op and PVP supported for up to 4 players!
Barbarians & Beasts
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for River City: Rival Showdown fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with River City: Rival Showdown.
Choose your barbarian character to hack and slash many beasts. Swords and magic will fight alongside you against the beasts to free the kingdom.
Okinawa Rush
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with River City: Rival Showdown.
Ranked #8 for River City: Rival Showdown fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with River City: Rival Showdown.
Take on the role of the martial arts master Hiro, Meilin, or Shin as they face off in a desperate fight for their lives against the Black Mantis clan. DOUBLE THE MAYHEM: Bring a friend and battle against ninjas, demons, and more in the 2-player local co-op mode of this action-adventure platformer.
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River City Ransom: Underground
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Shares a retro mood with River City: Rival Showdown.
Reviewers of River City: Rival Showdown cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and RPG with River City: Rival Showdown.
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.
Tomb Rumble
WHY THIS
Reviewers of River City: Rival Showdown cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with River City: Rival Showdown.
Tomb Rumble is a pixel art MMO platformer, where adventurers compete to retreive ancient treasures in lost temples, cursed ruins and more. Push other players into deadly traps to be the first to escape !... or be the one to fall in a lava pit.
Romance of the Three Kingdoms XIII
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with River City: Rival Showdown.
Reviewers of River City: Rival Showdown cross-mention this title as a similar play.
"The ultimate depiction of the Three Kingdom. A heroic drama of a gathering of Legends. "With this as the concept behind Romance of the Three Kingdoms 13, we have compiled an experience that will immerse you even deeper into the world of the Three Kingdoms, with "human drama," seen through the interactions of the...
Yakuza 0
WHY THIS
Reviewers of River City: Rival Showdown cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with River City: Rival Showdown.
SEGA’s legendary Japanese series finally comes to PC. Fight like hell through Tokyo and Osaka as junior yakuza Kiryu and Majima. Take a front row seat to 1980s life in Japan in an experience unlike anything else in video gaming, with uncapped framerates and 4K resolutions. A legend is born.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below River City: Rival Showdown at current Steam store prices.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under River City: Rival Showdown on Steam right now. Shares Action and RPG with River City: Rival Showdown.
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 ~44% under River City: Rival Showdown on Steam right now. Shares Action with River City: Rival Showdown.
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.
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~64% under River City: Rival Showdown on Steam right now. Shares Action with River City: Rival Showdown.
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.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~92% under River City: Rival Showdown on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with River City: Rival Showdown.
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 ~76% under River City: Rival Showdown on Steam right now. Shares Action with River City: Rival Showdown.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
OneShot
WHY THIS
Priced ~52% under River City: Rival Showdown on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with River City: Rival Showdown.
OneShot is a surreal top down Puzzle/Adventure game with unique gameplay capabilities. You are to guide a child through a mysterious world on a mission to restore its long-dead sun. The world knows you exist.
Human Fall Flat
WHY THIS
Priced ~52% under River City: Rival Showdown on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with River City: Rival Showdown.
Human Fall Flat is a hilarious, light-hearted platformer set in floating dreamscapes that can be played solo or with up to 8 players online. Free new levels keep its vibrant community rewarded.
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under River City: Rival Showdown on Steam right now. Shares Action and RPG with River City: Rival Showdown.
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.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with River City: Rival Showdown.
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.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure and RPG with River City: Rival Showdown.
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: Rival Showdown.
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: Rival Showdown.
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: Rival Showdown.
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: Rival Showdown.
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 and RPG with River City: Rival Showdown.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
Z.A.T.O. // I Love the World and Everything In It
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with River City: Rival Showdown.
USSR, 1986. A girl goes missing in the closed city of Vorkuta-5, yet not a soul seems to be concerned. Uncover the mystery behind her disappearance and transmit your signal to the universe.
![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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Other recommendable Steam games by Arc System Works, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
DRAGON BALL FighterZ
WHY THIS
Another title from Arc System Works, the studio behind River City: Rival Showdown. Shares Action with River City: Rival Showdown.
DRAGON BALL FighterZ is born from what makes the DRAGON BALL series so loved and famous: endless spectacular fights with its all-powerful fighters.
GUILTY GEAR -STRIVE-
WHY THIS
Another title from Arc System Works, the studio behind River City: Rival Showdown. Shares Action with River City: Rival Showdown.
The cutting-edge 2D/3D hybrid graphics pioneered in the Guilty Gear series have been raised to the next level in “GUILTY GEAR -STRIVE-“. The new artistic direction and improved character animations will go beyond anything you’ve seen before in a fighting game!
BlazBlue Centralfiction
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with River City: Rival Showdown.
Another title from Arc System Works, the studio behind River City: Rival Showdown. Shares Action with River City: Rival Showdown.
Combining a 2D fighting game with a visual novel, the BlazBlue series continues on with massive fan support! The latest installation, BlazBlue: Centralfiction, serves as the ending to the Azure Saga, revealing the hidden truth of the world!
GUILTY GEAR Xrd REV 2
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with River City: Rival Showdown.
Another title from Arc System Works, the studio behind River City: Rival Showdown. Shares Action with River City: Rival Showdown.
Astonishing 3D cell animations and overwhelming content volume, the next-generation fighting game "GUILTY GEAR Xrd REV 2" is now out on Steam! Total cast of 25 unique characters, and tons of game modes, get ready to ROCK!
Granblue Fantasy: Versus
WHY THIS
Another title from Arc System Works, the studio behind River City: Rival Showdown. Shares Action with River City: Rival Showdown.
A new game in the Granblue Fantasy universe, available on Steam! This fantasy game blends fighting game action and RPG-style adventure. Throw yourself into matches or enjoy powering up your characters!
Granblue Fantasy Versus: Rising
WHY THIS
Another title from Arc System Works, the studio behind River City: Rival Showdown. Shares Action with River City: Rival Showdown.
Rise to the challenge in Granblue Fantasy Versus: Rising! This powered up, revamped sequel to GBVS is more enjoyable and accessible than ever before. With simplified input options, even newcomers can engage in thrilling and strategic matches!
GUILTY GEAR XX ACCENT CORE PLUS R
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with River City: Rival Showdown.
Another title from Arc System Works, the studio behind River City: Rival Showdown. Shares Action with River City: Rival Showdown.
Ultimate battle action, and the epitome of the GUILTY GEAR XX series now on Steam! Bonus soundtracks included!
Persona 4 Arena Ultimax
WHY THIS
Another title from Arc System Works, the studio behind River City: Rival Showdown. Shares Action with River City: Rival Showdown.
A Persona 4 Smackdown!
Frequently asked about River City: Rival Showdown
- Is River City: Rival Showdown verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — River City: Rival Showdown is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does River City: Rival Showdown cost?
- River City: Rival Showdown is listed on Steam at 12.49 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does River City: Rival Showdown have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — River City: Rival Showdown supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, Shared/Split Screen PvP).
- What games are most similar to River City: Rival Showdown?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside River City: Rival Showdown are Salt and Sacrifice, Abyss Odyssey, NIPH.
- Who developed River City: Rival Showdown?
- River City: Rival Showdown was developed by Arc System Works.
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