Games like Shantae: Risky's Revenge - Director's Cut
If Shantae: Risky's Revenge - Director's Cut is your kind of game, the closest matches are Shantae and the Pirate's Curse, Shantae: Half-Genie Hero and Mystik Belle — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its cozy, nostalgic and retro. 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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Shantae and the Pirate's Curse
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Top pick for Shantae: Risky's Revenge - Director's Cut fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Shantae: Risky's Revenge - Director's Cut.
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: Half-Genie Hero
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Shares a nostalgic mood with Shantae: Risky's Revenge - Director's Cut.
Second-strongest match for Shantae: Risky's Revenge - Director's Cut fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Shantae: Risky's Revenge - Director's Cut.
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!
Mystik Belle
WHY THIS
Shares a nostalgic mood with Shantae: Risky's Revenge - Director's Cut.
Third-strongest match for Shantae: Risky's Revenge - Director's Cut fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Shantae: Risky's Revenge - Director's Cut.
A colorful pixel-art metroidvania/point-and-click adventure hybrid about magic, cute witches and joys of vandalism.
Piko Piko
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Shares a whimsical mood with Shantae: Risky's Revenge - Director's Cut.
Ranked #4 for Shantae: Risky's Revenge - Director's Cut fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Shantae: Risky's Revenge - Director's Cut.
Take control of Piko, our hammer wielding heroine, as you bash things up with a big hammer in this cute Anime-styled 2D metroidvania-inspired adventure! Uncover mysteries! Beat the bad guys who do naughty things! Explore the Piko Piko world with her floof fox friend!
Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon
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Ranked #5 for Shantae: Risky's Revenge - Director's Cut fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Shantae: Risky's Revenge - Director's Cut.
Battle with swords and whips in this retro-style action game brought to you by game creator Koji Igarashi and Inti Creates! Play as Zangetsu, a demon slayer bearing a deep grudge, who must travel through perilous lands to defeat a powerful demon lurking in a dark castle.
Momodora: Reverie Under The Moonlight
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Ranked #6 for Shantae: Risky's Revenge - Director's Cut fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Shantae: Risky's Revenge - Director's Cut.
Momodora: Reverie Under The Moonlight is the fourth installment in the beloved Momodora series of 2D platformers. Unleash ravaging combos against a variety of formidable monsters and deftly dodge your way through a cursed land to seek audience with the Queen and dispel the evil that threatens all life.
Shantae and the Seven Sirens
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Shares a whimsical mood with Shantae: Risky's Revenge - Director's Cut.
Ranked #7 for Shantae: Risky's Revenge - Director's Cut fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Shantae: Risky's Revenge - Director's Cut.
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!
Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon 2
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Shantae: Risky's Revenge - Director's Cut fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Shantae: Risky's Revenge - Director's Cut.
Koji Igarashi and Inti Creates are back with more retro sword-and-whip action! Curse of the Moon 2 brings classic 2D action and a dark, 8-bit aesthetic together with modern playability.
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Shantae and the Pirate's Curse
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Shantae: Risky's Revenge - Director's Cut cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Shantae: Risky's Revenge - Director's Cut.
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: Half-Genie Hero
WHY THIS
Shares a nostalgic mood with Shantae: Risky's Revenge - Director's Cut.
Reviewers of Shantae: Risky's Revenge - Director's Cut cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Shantae: Risky's Revenge - Director's Cut.
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!
Shantae Advance: Risky Revolution
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Shares a retro mood with Shantae: Risky's Revenge - Director's Cut.
Reviewers of Shantae: Risky's Revenge - Director's Cut cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Shantae: Risky's Revenge - Director's Cut.
Shantae's adventure comes full circle in this long-lost sequel!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Shantae: Risky's Revenge - Director's Cut at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~50% under Shantae: Risky's Revenge - Director's Cut on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Shantae: Risky's Revenge - Director's Cut.
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 ~50% under Shantae: Risky's Revenge - Director's Cut on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Shantae: Risky's Revenge - Director's Cut.
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
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Priced ~55% under Shantae: Risky's Revenge - Director's Cut on Steam right now. Shares Action with Shantae: Risky's Revenge - Director's Cut.
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.
Cookie Clicker
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Priced ~50% under Shantae: Risky's Revenge - Director's Cut on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Shantae: Risky's Revenge - Director's Cut.
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
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Priced ~50% under Shantae: Risky's Revenge - Director's Cut on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Shantae: Risky's Revenge - Director's Cut.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Shantae: Risky's Revenge - Director's Cut on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Shantae: Risky's Revenge - Director's Cut.
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 Shantae: Risky's Revenge - Director's Cut on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Shantae: Risky's Revenge - Director's Cut.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
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Priced ~50% under Shantae: Risky's Revenge - Director's Cut on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Shantae: Risky's Revenge - Director's Cut.
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.
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 Shantae: Risky's Revenge - Director's Cut.
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 Shantae: Risky's Revenge - Director's Cut.
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 Shantae: Risky's Revenge - Director's Cut.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Shantae: Risky's Revenge - Director's Cut.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Shantae: Risky's Revenge - Director's Cut.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Shantae: Risky's Revenge - Director's Cut.
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 Shantae: Risky's Revenge - Director's Cut.
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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More from WayForward
Other recommendable Steam games by WayForward, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
DuckTales: Remastered
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Shares a retro mood with Shantae: Risky's Revenge - Director's Cut.
Another title from WayForward, the studio behind Shantae: Risky's Revenge - Director's Cut. Shares Action and Adventure with Shantae: Risky's Revenge - Director's Cut.
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 Shantae: Risky's Revenge - Director's Cut. Shares Action with Shantae: Risky's Revenge - Director's Cut.
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 Shantae: Risky's Revenge - Director's Cut.
Another title from WayForward, the studio behind Shantae: Risky's Revenge - Director's Cut. Shares Action and Indie with Shantae: Risky's Revenge - Director's Cut.
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 Shantae: Risky's Revenge - Director's Cut.
Another title from WayForward, the studio behind Shantae: Risky's Revenge - Director's Cut. Shares Action and Indie with Shantae: Risky's Revenge - Director's Cut.
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 Shantae: Risky's Revenge - Director's Cut. Shares Action and Indie with Shantae: Risky's Revenge - Director's Cut.
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
Shares a whimsical mood with Shantae: Risky's Revenge - Director's Cut.
Another title from WayForward, the studio behind Shantae: Risky's Revenge - Director's Cut. Shares Adventure with Shantae: Risky's Revenge - Director's Cut.
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 Shantae: Risky's Revenge - Director's Cut.
Another title from WayForward, the studio behind Shantae: Risky's Revenge - Director's Cut. Shares Action and Adventure with Shantae: Risky's Revenge - Director's Cut.
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: Half-Genie Hero Ultimate Edition
WHY THIS
Shares a nostalgic mood with Shantae: Risky's Revenge - Director's Cut.
Another title from WayForward, the studio behind Shantae: Risky's Revenge - Director's Cut. Shares Action and Indie with Shantae: Risky's Revenge - Director's Cut.
The ultimate edition of Shantae: Half-Genie Hero comes with all of the previously released DLC, Modes, and Costumes in one epic collection! Includes an exclusive Blue Bathing Suit for use in Beach Mode!
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Shantae and the Pirate's Curse
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Shantae: Risky's Revenge - Director's Cut.
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: Half-Genie Hero
WHY THIS
Shares a nostalgic mood with Shantae: Risky's Revenge - Director's Cut.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Shantae: Risky's Revenge - Director's Cut.
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!
Shantae and the Seven Sirens
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Shantae: Risky's Revenge - Director's Cut.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with Shantae: Risky's Revenge - Director's Cut.
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!
Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon 2
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with Shantae: Risky's Revenge - Director's Cut.
Koji Igarashi and Inti Creates are back with more retro sword-and-whip action! Curse of the Moon 2 brings classic 2D action and a dark, 8-bit aesthetic together with modern playability.
Frequently asked about Shantae: Risky's Revenge - Director's Cut
- Is Shantae: Risky's Revenge - Director's Cut verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Shantae: Risky's Revenge - Director's Cut 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 Shantae: Risky's Revenge - Director's Cut cost?
- Shantae: Risky's Revenge - Director's Cut is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Shantae: Risky's Revenge - Director's Cut?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Shantae: Risky's Revenge - Director's Cut are Shantae and the Pirate's Curse, Shantae: Half-Genie Hero, Mystik Belle.
- Who developed Shantae: Risky's Revenge - Director's Cut?
- Shantae: Risky's Revenge - Director's Cut was developed by WayForward.
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