Games like Shantae Advance: Risky Revolution
If Shantae Advance: Risky Revolution is your kind of game, the closest matches are Shovel Pirate, Shantae and the Seven Sirens and Shantae and the Pirate's Curse — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its foreground background layer switching, challenging and funny. 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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Shovel Pirate
WHY THIS
Top pick for Shantae Advance: Risky Revolution fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Shantae Advance: Risky Revolution.
X marks the spot! Follow the map and find hidden treasures.
Shantae and the Seven Sirens
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Shantae Advance: Risky Revolution.
Second-strongest match for Shantae Advance: Risky Revolution fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Shantae Advance: Risky Revolution.
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!
Shantae and the Pirate's Curse
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Shantae Advance: Risky Revolution fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Shantae Advance: Risky Revolution.
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 Advance: Risky Revolution.
Ranked #4 for Shantae Advance: Risky Revolution fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Shantae Advance: Risky Revolution.
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!
Makis Adventure
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Shantae Advance: Risky Revolution fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Shantae Advance: Risky Revolution.
Fight, dash, swim and bite your way through 3 different dungeons. Let the inner shark out! Face many different opponents and defeat powerful bosses. Makis Adventure is an Action-Platformer with a bite!
Nyaruru Fishy Fight
WHY THIS
Shares multiple endings and a whimsical mood with Shantae Advance: Risky Revolution.
Ranked #6 for Shantae Advance: Risky Revolution fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Shantae Advance: Risky Revolution.
This game is a Metroidvania game with intense battle. Explore the world and collection power-ups with your cute cat girl! When magic curse suddenly occurred in a small town and all the residents grew cat ears, the real cat girl Nyaruru started her way to uncover the truth...
Alwa's Legacy
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with Shantae Advance: Risky Revolution.
Ranked #7 for Shantae Advance: Risky Revolution fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Shantae Advance: Risky Revolution.
Alwa’s Legacy is a modern retro game full of dangerous dungeons, mystic items and ancient secrets. Upgrade your magic and choose your own path in this non-linear adventure game brimming with exploration.
Rain World
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Shantae Advance: Risky Revolution fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Shantae Advance: Risky Revolution.
You are a nomadic slugcat, both predator and prey in a broken ecosystem. Grab your spear and brave the industrial wastes, hunting enough food to survive, but be wary— other, bigger creatures have the same plan... and slugcats look delicious.
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Shantae and the Seven Sirens
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Shantae Advance: Risky Revolution.
Reviewers of Shantae Advance: Risky Revolution cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Shantae Advance: Risky Revolution.
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!
Shantae and the Pirate's Curse
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Shantae Advance: Risky Revolution cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Shantae Advance: Risky Revolution.
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: Risky's Revenge - Director's Cut
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with Shantae Advance: Risky Revolution.
Reviewers of Shantae Advance: Risky Revolution cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Shantae Advance: Risky Revolution.
Shantae: Risky’s Revenge – Director’s Cut brings hair-whipping, belly-dancing to your PC! Play one of the most critically acclaimed handheld series of all time, now with brand new features!
Metroidvania Maker
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Shantae Advance: Risky Revolution cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Shantae Advance: Risky Revolution.
Create, play, and share custom Metroidvania worlds with a built-in world editor, co-op play, and player-made adventures.
METAL SLUG
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with Shantae Advance: Risky Revolution.
Reviewers of Shantae Advance: Risky Revolution cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Shantae Advance: Risky Revolution.
“METAL SLUG ”, the very first title in SNK’s legendary 2D run & gun action shooting game series where all began, returns to the missions on the Steam gaming platform!
Shantae: Half-Genie Hero
WHY THIS
Shares a nostalgic mood with Shantae Advance: Risky Revolution.
Reviewers of Shantae Advance: Risky Revolution cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Shantae Advance: Risky Revolution.
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!
Curse of Pirates
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Shantae Advance: Risky Revolution cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Shantae Advance: Risky Revolution.
Ahoy, matey! How about slicing up some sea beasts and sending a couple of rivals to feed the kraken? Curse of Pirates be a true action roguelike, inspired by Vampire Survivors and Hades! Set sail upon the high seas, gather ye brave crew, and stand firm against the relentless tides of foes!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Shantae Advance: Risky Revolution at current Steam store prices.
Terraria
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Shantae Advance: Risky Revolution on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Shantae Advance: Risky Revolution.
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Shantae Advance: Risky Revolution on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Shantae Advance: Risky Revolution.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Left 4 Dead 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Shantae Advance: Risky Revolution on Steam right now. Shares Action with Shantae Advance: Risky Revolution.
Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Shantae Advance: Risky Revolution on Steam right now. Shares Action with Shantae Advance: Risky Revolution.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Portal 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Shantae Advance: Risky Revolution on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Shantae Advance: Risky Revolution.
The "Perpetual Testing Initiative" has been expanded to allow you to design co-op puzzles for you and your friends!
Fallout: New Vegas
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Shantae Advance: Risky Revolution on Steam right now. Shares Action with Shantae Advance: Risky Revolution.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Shantae Advance: Risky Revolution on Steam right now. Shares Action with Shantae Advance: Risky Revolution.
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 ~72% under Shantae Advance: Risky Revolution on Steam right now. Shares Action with Shantae Advance: Risky Revolution.
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.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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 Adventure with Shantae Advance: Risky Revolution.
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.
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 Adventure with Shantae Advance: Risky Revolution.
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.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Shantae Advance: Risky Revolution.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
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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
WHY THIS
Shares exploration, puzzle solving and a retro mood with Shantae Advance: Risky Revolution.
Another title from WayForward, the studio behind Shantae Advance: Risky Revolution. Shares Action and Adventure with Shantae Advance: Risky Revolution.
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
Shares a lighthearted mood with Shantae Advance: Risky Revolution.
Another title from WayForward, the studio behind Shantae Advance: Risky Revolution. Shares Action with Shantae Advance: Risky Revolution.
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 Advance: Risky Revolution.
Another title from WayForward, the studio behind Shantae Advance: Risky Revolution. Shares Action and Adventure with Shantae Advance: Risky Revolution.
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 Advance: Risky Revolution.
Another title from WayForward, the studio behind Shantae Advance: Risky Revolution. Shares Action with Shantae Advance: Risky Revolution.
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 Advance: Risky Revolution. Shares Action and Adventure with Shantae Advance: Risky Revolution.
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 Advance: Risky Revolution.
Another title from WayForward, the studio behind Shantae Advance: Risky Revolution. Shares Adventure with Shantae Advance: Risky Revolution.
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 funny mood with Shantae Advance: Risky Revolution.
Another title from WayForward, the studio behind Shantae Advance: Risky Revolution. Shares Action and Adventure with Shantae Advance: Risky Revolution.
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: Risky's Revenge - Director's Cut
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with Shantae Advance: Risky Revolution.
Another title from WayForward, the studio behind Shantae Advance: Risky Revolution. Shares Action and Adventure with Shantae Advance: Risky Revolution.
Shantae: Risky’s Revenge – Director’s Cut brings hair-whipping, belly-dancing to your PC! Play one of the most critically acclaimed handheld series of all time, now with brand new features!
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 Seven Sirens
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Shantae Advance: Risky Revolution.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with Shantae Advance: Risky Revolution.
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!
Shantae and the Pirate's Curse
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Shantae Advance: Risky Revolution.
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 Advance: Risky Revolution.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Shantae Advance: Risky Revolution.
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!
Nyaruru Fishy Fight
WHY THIS
Shares multiple endings and a whimsical mood with Shantae Advance: Risky Revolution.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Shantae Advance: Risky Revolution.
This game is a Metroidvania game with intense battle. Explore the world and collection power-ups with your cute cat girl! When magic curse suddenly occurred in a small town and all the residents grew cat ears, the real cat girl Nyaruru started her way to uncover the truth...
Alwa's Legacy
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with Shantae Advance: Risky Revolution.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Shantae Advance: Risky Revolution.
Alwa’s Legacy is a modern retro game full of dangerous dungeons, mystic items and ancient secrets. Upgrade your magic and choose your own path in this non-linear adventure game brimming with exploration.
Frequently asked about Shantae Advance: Risky Revolution
- Is Shantae Advance: Risky Revolution verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Shantae Advance: Risky Revolution 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 Advance: Risky Revolution cost?
- Shantae Advance: Risky Revolution is listed on Steam at 24.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Shantae Advance: Risky Revolution have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Shantae Advance: Risky Revolution supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Shared/Split Screen PvP, PvP).
- What games are most similar to Shantae Advance: Risky Revolution?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Shantae Advance: Risky Revolution are Shovel Pirate, Shantae and the Seven Sirens, Shantae and the Pirate's Curse.
- Who developed Shantae Advance: Risky Revolution?
- Shantae Advance: Risky Revolution was developed by WayForward, Limited Run Games and published by WayForward.
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