Games like Retro Wave
If Retro Wave is your kind of game, the closest matches are Radical Road, Interstate Drifter 1999 and Quible Sphere — picked from the ranked list below. 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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Players who liked Retro Wave also play
Steam players who put hours into Retro Wave 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.
Radical Road
WHY THIS
Top pick for Retro Wave fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Retro Wave.
A casual, one button, arcade game about getting a car to go as far as it can on an infinite procedurally generated road, while collecting coins.
Interstate Drifter 1999
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Retro Wave fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Retro Wave.
Drift between the states, collect bits, beat rivals and get a high score.
Quible Sphere
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Retro Wave fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Retro Wave.
Roll through 40 different levels that increase in difficulty, avoiding several obstacles and using powerups in order to get to the end of each level!
OutWave: Retro chase
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Retro Wave fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Retro Wave.
Endless car chase is a fast retro style paced game in which you must collect money and avoid the cops! The game supports Windows, Mac, Linux. Use keyboard or gamepad. Buy and control a cars or motorbikes. Listen to retro music and don't get caught by the cops! The game looks like a gif!
Astral Tracks
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Retro Wave fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Retro Wave.
Astral Tracks is a precise and competitive 3D platforming speedrunner where you run, dash, slide, swing and wall run your way to victory. Compete against friends locally or online and refine your runs to top the leaderboards for each procedurally generated track!
Outmode
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Retro Wave fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Retro Wave.
A Synthwave themed arcade racer featuring a retro-futuristic neon aesthetic of the beaches, cities and highways of the 1980s - do battle against legendary cars and let the good times roll.
Neon Bricks
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Retro Wave fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Retro Wave.
Neon Bricks is a arcade style game where you can't drop the ball. To reach your goal you need to destroy all the bricks.
Neon Blast
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Retro Wave fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Retro Wave.
Neon Blast - A head-scratching puzzle game
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Retro Wave at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Retro Wave on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Retro Wave.
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?
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Retro Wave on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Retro Wave.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Retro Wave on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Retro Wave.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Retro Wave on Steam right now. Shares Action and Casual with Retro Wave.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
Placid Plastic Duck Simulator
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Retro Wave on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Retro Wave.
The ultimate high-tech rubber duck simulation, Placid Plastic Duck brings you dangerous levels of relaxation. With chill music, dreamy 3D graphics, and many different happy ducks, your only priority is to float around. Zero Ducks given.
Peggle Deluxe
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Retro Wave on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Retro Wave.
Take your best shot with energizing arcade fun! Aim, shoot, clear the orange pegs, then sit back and cheer as 10 whimsical teachers guide you to Peggle greatness.
STAR WARS™ Republic Commando™
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Retro Wave on Steam right now. Shares Action with Retro Wave.
You are the leader of an elite squad of Republic Commandos, your mission is to infiltrate, dominate, and ultimately, annihilate the enemy. Your squad will follow your orders and your lead, working together as a team - instinctively, intelligently, instantly. You are their leader. They are your weapon.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Retro Wave on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Retro Wave.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Retro Wave.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Retro Wave.
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 Retro Wave.
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?
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Retro Wave.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Retro Wave.
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.
STRAFTAT
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Retro Wave.
STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Retro Wave.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
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Frequently asked about Retro Wave
- How much does Retro Wave cost?
- Retro Wave is listed on Steam at 4.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Retro Wave?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Retro Wave are Radical Road, Interstate Drifter 1999, Quible Sphere.
- Who developed Retro Wave?
- Retro Wave was developed by QrowTech.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on Retro Wave.
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