Games like RIVE
If RIVE is your kind of game, the closest matches are Assault Android Cactus+, Ultratron and Rise & Shine — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its environmental hazards add variety, challenging and intense. 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 RIVE: This 360-degree shooter/platformer hybrid lets you choreograph a ‘dance of destruction’ in insanely spectacular battles and set-pieces. RIVE feels like the explosive games of yore, pumping megapixels in true 21st century style.
Players who liked RIVE also play
Steam players who put hours into RIVE 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.
Assault Android Cactus+
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with RIVE.
Top pick for RIVE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with RIVE.
Assault Android Cactus is an intense arcade style twin stick shooter - pick from one of nine unique synthetic heroines and blast your way through overwhelming robots hordes to save the ship from its own workforce. Supports single player and local co-op game modes.
Ultratron
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with RIVE.
Second-strongest match for RIVE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with RIVE.
Experience the addictive gameplay of old-school arcade favourites, updated and improved for the 21st century! Unique retro-futuristic sound and graphics, player responsive difficulty, and a subtle system of tactics combined with classic gameplay make Ultratron a fun and hypnotic arcade blast.
Rise & Shine
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with RIVE.
Third-strongest match for RIVE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with RIVE.
Welcome to Gamearth, a once peaceful planet now threatened by the warmongering Space grunts of Nexgen. In the aftermath of their devastating first strike a child named Rise is forced to take on the sacred gun Shine - and with it the fate of his world.
Super Time Force Ultra
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for RIVE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with RIVE.
Super Time Force Ultra is an insane platformer filled with robots and dinosaurs and fun and time travel... sometimes all at the same time!
Syder Arcade
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with RIVE.
Ranked #5 for RIVE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with RIVE.
Killing zombies never gets old, but sometimes you just need a break. Get back to some serious old-school gaming with Syder Arcade! Syder Arcade is a love letter to Amiga games of the ‘90s, no coins, no upgrade grinding, just your tenacity and a motherload of alien invaders.
Stardust Galaxy Warriors: Stellar Climax
WHY THIS
Shares upgrade system and a challenging mood with RIVE.
Ranked #6 for RIVE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with RIVE.
Stardust Galaxy Warriors: Stellar Climax is a fast-paced couch co-op action shooter with SHMUP/Brawler gameplay and RPG elements. Choose your mechs, weapons & upgrades then soar through space, defeat evil & save the future... from itself!
Warhammer 40,000: Shootas, Blood & Teef
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for RIVE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with RIVE.
From the developers of the Guns, Gore and Cannoli franchise comes a new 2D run & gun platformer: Warhammer 40,000: Shootas, Blood & TEEF! Spearhead an Ork invasion, destroy the hive city and kill your warboss! ‘Ere we go!
Good Robot
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for RIVE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with RIVE.
Good Robot is a fast-paced roguelike shoot-em-up that pits you against thousands of robots out to violate your warranty. Explore a procedurally generated sci-fi metropolis and the depths of corporate depravity, but never stop shooting...unless, of course, you're a Bad Robot. You're not, are you?
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below RIVE at current Steam store prices.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under RIVE on Steam right now. Shares Action with RIVE.
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 RIVE on Steam right now. Shares Action with RIVE.
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 RIVE on Steam right now. Shares Action with RIVE.
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 RIVE on Steam right now. Shares Action with RIVE.
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.
Noita
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under RIVE on Steam right now. Shares Action with RIVE.
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 RIVE on Steam right now. Shares Action with RIVE.
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 RIVE on Steam right now. Shares Action with RIVE.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under RIVE on Steam right now. Shares Action with RIVE.
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.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with RIVE.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with RIVE.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Steam Engine Simulator
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
The Steam Engine Simulator shown on AngeTheGreat's YouTube channel.
Iron Snout
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with RIVE.
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 with RIVE.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
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Head-to-head comparisons
More from Two Tribes
Other recommendable Steam games by Two Tribes, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
EDGE
WHY THIS
Another title from Two Tribes, the studio behind RIVE. Shares Action with RIVE.
EDGE, the award winning retro-styled platform game has been extended! Now with over 40 brand new levels, additional music and all-new races against the notorious Dark Cube!
Toki Tori
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with RIVE.
Another title from Two Tribes, the studio behind RIVE.
The gameplay in Toki Tori is a blend of two genres. While it looks like a platform game, it's a puzzle game at heart. To progress through the game, the player must pick up each egg in a level using a set number of tools.
RUSH
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with RIVE.
Another title from Two Tribes, the studio behind RIVE.
From the twisted puzzle minds behind the award winning Toki Tori comes a new game, simply called RUSH. Fortunately for fans of high quality puzzle games, RUSH is anything but simple. In the game's fully three dimensional levels, players need to guide cubes to color coded exit points using Conveyor belts, Warps, Stops Signs, Splits and...
Toki Tori 2+
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with RIVE.
Another title from Two Tribes, the studio behind RIVE.
Toki Tori 2+ may look cute, but it’s a challenging puzzle adventure game. Whistle and stomp are the only moves you need to solve increasingly complex puzzles, as you go anywhere, anytime on a lush forest island.
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Assault Android Cactus+
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with RIVE.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with RIVE.
Assault Android Cactus is an intense arcade style twin stick shooter - pick from one of nine unique synthetic heroines and blast your way through overwhelming robots hordes to save the ship from its own workforce. Supports single player and local co-op game modes.
Super Time Force Ultra
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with RIVE.
Super Time Force Ultra is an insane platformer filled with robots and dinosaurs and fun and time travel... sometimes all at the same time!
Stardust Galaxy Warriors: Stellar Climax
WHY THIS
Shares upgrade system and a challenging mood with RIVE.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with RIVE.
Stardust Galaxy Warriors: Stellar Climax is a fast-paced couch co-op action shooter with SHMUP/Brawler gameplay and RPG elements. Choose your mechs, weapons & upgrades then soar through space, defeat evil & save the future... from itself!
Warhammer 40,000: Shootas, Blood & Teef
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with RIVE.
From the developers of the Guns, Gore and Cannoli franchise comes a new 2D run & gun platformer: Warhammer 40,000: Shootas, Blood & TEEF! Spearhead an Ork invasion, destroy the hive city and kill your warboss! ‘Ere we go!
Frequently asked about RIVE
- Does RIVE run on Steam Deck?
- RIVE 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 RIVE cost?
- RIVE is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to RIVE?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside RIVE are Assault Android Cactus+, Ultratron, Rise & Shine.
- Who developed RIVE?
- RIVE was developed by Two Tribes and published by Two Tribes Publishing.
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