Games like Guacamelee! Gold Edition
If Guacamelee! Gold Edition is your kind of game, the closest matches are Guacamelee! Super Turbo Championship Edition, Guacamelee! 2 and Wiener Wars — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its challenging, combat combo systems and dimension shift gimmick. 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 →Guacamelee! Gold Edition is a 2013 action-adventure game by Drinkbox Studios set in a Mexican-inspired world, combining metroidvania exploration with luchador-style combat and a dimension-shifting mechanic. Players navigate interconnected regions using combat-combo systems and platforming challenges, with local co-op available for two players. Reviewers highlight the game's tight controls and responsive character movement, while players describe clever secrets and exploration rewards throughout the world. The game costs $14.99 USD, runs verified on Steam Deck, and holds a 92% positive rating from over 1800 Steam reviews, offering a challenging but medium-length experience.
About Guacamelee! Gold Edition: Guacamelee! is a Metroidvania-style action-platformer set in a magical Mexican-inspired world. The game draws its inspiration from traditional Mexican culture and folklore, and features many interesting and unique characters.
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Guacamelee! Super Turbo Championship Edition
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Top pick for Guacamelee! Gold Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Guacamelee! Gold Edition.
The definitive version of the smash-hit Metroidvania-style action-platformer, Guacamelee! STCE adds new levels, powers, challenges, and refinements to the sprawling, ridiculous, Mexican-inspired adventure of the original Guacamelee! Gold Edition.
Guacamelee! 2
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Guacamelee! Gold Edition.
Second-strongest match for Guacamelee! Gold Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Guacamelee! Gold Edition.
Head back to the Mexiverse in this long-awaited sequel to the smash hit Guacamelee! Uppercut your way to victory across stunning new hand-crafted levels. Featuring a dense and colorful world, new luchador moves, sassy new bosses, twice the enemies, and 300% more chickens!
Wiener Wars
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Third-strongest match for Guacamelee! Gold Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Guacamelee! Gold Edition.
After a horrific science accident in a secret world war 2 laboratory, all of humanity is ripped through space time only to be reintroduced as sentient wieners. The war still rages. How will we get out of this mess? Who knows? But we can only figure that out once we’re doing killing…
Cardbot
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Ranked #4 for Guacamelee! Gold Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Guacamelee! Gold Edition.
Cardbot is an action-platformer game about traveling through dimensions to restore the world!
Megabyte Punch
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Guacamelee! Gold Edition.
Ranked #5 for Guacamelee! Gold Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Guacamelee! Gold Edition.
Megabyte Punch is a fighting/beat ‘em up game in which you build your own fighter! As you travel through different environments, you battle other creatures to get their parts. Parts have their own powers and bonuses, like gun arms for a shoot ability or powerful hips for a devastating pelvic thrust attack.
Intrepid Izzy
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Ranked #6 for Guacamelee! Gold Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Guacamelee! Gold Edition.
A colourful, imaginative and fun adventure with platformer and beat 'em up elements.
Abyss Odyssey
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Shares a challenging mood with Guacamelee! Gold Edition.
Ranked #7 for Guacamelee! Gold Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Guacamelee! Gold Edition.
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…
Gachi Revenge
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Ranked #8 for Guacamelee! Gold Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Guacamelee! Gold Edition.
The adventure of our beloved hero, in which he has to overcome all the obstacles prepared by the Gachi gang. They stole the most valuable and now pay for it.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Guacamelee! Gold Edition at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~67% under Guacamelee! Gold Edition on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Guacamelee! Gold Edition.
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
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Priced ~67% under Guacamelee! Gold Edition on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Guacamelee! Gold Edition.
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.
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Priced ~53% under Guacamelee! Gold Edition on Steam right now. Shares Action with Guacamelee! Gold Edition.
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
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Priced ~47% under Guacamelee! Gold Edition on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Guacamelee! Gold Edition.
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
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Priced ~70% under Guacamelee! Gold Edition on Steam right now. Shares Action with Guacamelee! Gold Edition.
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.
Slay the Spire
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Priced ~58% under Guacamelee! Gold Edition on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Guacamelee! Gold Edition.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Inscryption
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Priced ~47% under Guacamelee! Gold Edition on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Guacamelee! Gold Edition.
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...
Cookie Clicker
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Priced ~67% under Guacamelee! Gold Edition on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Guacamelee! Gold Edition.
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.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Guacamelee! Gold Edition.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Guacamelee! Gold Edition.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Guacamelee! Gold Edition.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Guacamelee! Gold Edition.
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?
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Guacamelee! Gold Edition.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Guacamelee! Gold Edition.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Guacamelee! Gold Edition.
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.
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Other recommendable Steam games by Drinkbox Studios, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Nobody Saves the World
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Another title from Drinkbox Studios, the studio behind Guacamelee! Gold Edition. Shares Action and Indie with Guacamelee! Gold Edition.
Transform from a featureless nobody into a SLUG, a GHOST and a DRAGON in this new take on Action RPGs from the creators of Guacamelee! Discover 15+ distinct Forms, mix-and-match their abilities, clear evolving dungeons and... SAVE THE WORLD!?
Guacamelee! 2
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Guacamelee! Gold Edition.
Another title from Drinkbox Studios, the studio behind Guacamelee! Gold Edition. Shares Action and Indie with Guacamelee! Gold Edition.
Head back to the Mexiverse in this long-awaited sequel to the smash hit Guacamelee! Uppercut your way to victory across stunning new hand-crafted levels. Featuring a dense and colorful world, new luchador moves, sassy new bosses, twice the enemies, and 300% more chickens!
Guacamelee! Super Turbo Championship Edition
WHY THIS
Another title from Drinkbox Studios, the studio behind Guacamelee! Gold Edition. Shares Action and Indie with Guacamelee! Gold Edition.
The definitive version of the smash-hit Metroidvania-style action-platformer, Guacamelee! STCE adds new levels, powers, challenges, and refinements to the sprawling, ridiculous, Mexican-inspired adventure of the original Guacamelee! Gold Edition.
Tales From Space: Mutant Blobs Attack
WHY THIS
Another title from Drinkbox Studios, the studio behind Guacamelee! Gold Edition. Shares Action and Indie with Guacamelee! Gold Edition.
A sci-fi puzzle-platformer of cataclysmic proportions! Evolve from a tiny captive into a world-eating giant. Use your mutant blob powers to devour the pathetic humans and all of civilization!
Blighted
WHY THIS
Another title from Drinkbox Studios, the studio behind Guacamelee! Gold Edition. Shares Action and Indie with Guacamelee! Gold Edition.
Battle through a psychedelic Western nightmare in this Metroidvania action RPG from the creators of Guacamelee! and Nobody Saves the World.
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Guacamelee! Super Turbo Championship Edition
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Guacamelee! Gold Edition.
The definitive version of the smash-hit Metroidvania-style action-platformer, Guacamelee! STCE adds new levels, powers, challenges, and refinements to the sprawling, ridiculous, Mexican-inspired adventure of the original Guacamelee! Gold Edition.
Guacamelee! 2
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Guacamelee! Gold Edition.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Guacamelee! Gold Edition.
Head back to the Mexiverse in this long-awaited sequel to the smash hit Guacamelee! Uppercut your way to victory across stunning new hand-crafted levels. Featuring a dense and colorful world, new luchador moves, sassy new bosses, twice the enemies, and 300% more chickens!
Megabyte Punch
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Guacamelee! Gold Edition.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Guacamelee! Gold Edition.
Megabyte Punch is a fighting/beat ‘em up game in which you build your own fighter! As you travel through different environments, you battle other creatures to get their parts. Parts have their own powers and bonuses, like gun arms for a shoot ability or powerful hips for a devastating pelvic thrust attack.
Abyss Odyssey
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Guacamelee! Gold Edition.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Guacamelee! Gold Edition.
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…
Frequently asked about Guacamelee! Gold Edition
- Is Guacamelee! Gold Edition verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Guacamelee! Gold Edition 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 Guacamelee! Gold Edition cost?
- Guacamelee! Gold Edition is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Guacamelee! Gold Edition have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Guacamelee! Gold Edition supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player).
- What games are most similar to Guacamelee! Gold Edition?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Guacamelee! Gold Edition are Guacamelee! Super Turbo Championship Edition, Guacamelee! 2, Wiener Wars.
- Who developed Guacamelee! Gold Edition?
- Guacamelee! Gold Edition was developed by Drinkbox Studios and published by Drinkbox Studios, Kepler Ghost.
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