Games like Rough Rivals
If Rough Rivals is your kind of game, the closest matches are Mutant Football League 2, Bashing Brutal and Intergalactic Puzzle Touchdown — 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.
Get personalized picks →About Rough Rivals: Experience the perfect blend of American football and bar brawling. Be brutal and cunning, customize your team, upgrade your players, and dominate the field! Challenge your friends in split-screen to relive the joy of couch gaming. May the fiercest one win!
Players who liked Rough Rivals also play
Steam players who put hours into Rough Rivals 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.
Mutant Football League 2
WHY THIS
Top pick for Rough Rivals fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Indie with Rough Rivals.
Mutant Football League 2 is a hard-hitting, arcade-style football game that combines intense gameplay, wisecracking mutants, weapons, deep strategy, and outrageous humor. Prepare yourself for the most insanely brutal football you’ll ever experience.
Bashing Brutal
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Rough Rivals fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Indie with Rough Rivals.
Bashing Brutal is a fully Physics-Based combat game, focusing on melee fighting. Experience the Brutal life of a Gladiator, Bash your opponent's heads in with Maces, Boxing Gloves, Baseball Bats.
Intergalactic Puzzle Touchdown
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Rough Rivals fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Indie with Rough Rivals.
Intergalactic Puzzle Touchdown is a turn-based PvP puzzle game that fuses the familiar mechanics of classic match-3 games with the excitement of gridiron football. Match tiles to earn yards, dodge your opponent's blockers, and create Big Plays to light up the scoreboard!
Mutant Football League
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Rough Rivals fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Indie with Rough Rivals.
Mutants and monsters unleash maniacal carnage on the gridiron in this crazy gore fest of arcade-style football. Packed full of humor, intense online multiplayer action, and strategy.
Sportsday
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Rough Rivals fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Indie with Rough Rivals.
Sportsday is a fun party game where your favourite sports are mixed together - creating new weird sports! Play a tournament with your friends to see who can get the most points, or play in casual mode and try out as many sports as possible!
Sunday Rivals
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Rough Rivals fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Indie with Rough Rivals.
Easy to pickup, hard hitting, fully customizable arcade football is back with Sunday Rivals! Battle high-octane offenses and bone crushing tacklers in the harshest weather conditions to bring home championship glory!
Wild Card Football
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Rough Rivals fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Casual with Rough Rivals.
Wild Card Football is a fun pick-up-and-play arcade-style football game featuring 7v7 team-focused gameplay with the unique Wild Card system that lets you change the course of the action in an instant with special power-ups and rule-breaking abilities.
College Bowl
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Rough Rivals fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Indie with Rough Rivals.
College Bowl is a beautifully pixelated on-field simulation of American Football! Challenge college rivals on your way to winning a National title! Take on various game modes, including a deep Dynasty mode with in-depth recruiting, scouting, stat tracking, ranking, bowl games, yearly goals and more!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Rough Rivals at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~83% under Rough Rivals on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Rough Rivals.
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 ~50% under Rough Rivals on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Rough Rivals.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Rough Rivals on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Rough Rivals.
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 ~75% under Rough Rivals on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Rough Rivals.
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 ~83% under Rough Rivals on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Rough Rivals.
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.
Crypt of the NecroDancer
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Rough Rivals on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Rough Rivals.
Crypt of the NecroDancer is an award winning hardcore roguelike rhythm game. Move to the music and deliver beatdowns to the beat! Groove to the epic Danny Baranowsky soundtrack, or select songs from your own MP3 collection!
Super Hexagon
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Priced ~50% under Rough Rivals on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Rough Rivals.
Super Hexagon is a minimal action game by Terry Cavanagh, with music by Chipzel.
Placid Plastic Duck Simulator
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Rough Rivals on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Rough Rivals.
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.
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 Indie with Rough Rivals.
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 Rough Rivals.
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?
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Rough Rivals.
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.
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 Rough Rivals.
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.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Rough Rivals.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Mutant Football League 2
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Sports and Indie with Rough Rivals.
Mutant Football League 2 is a hard-hitting, arcade-style football game that combines intense gameplay, wisecracking mutants, weapons, deep strategy, and outrageous humor. Prepare yourself for the most insanely brutal football you’ll ever experience.
Mutant Football League
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Sports and Indie with Rough Rivals.
Mutants and monsters unleash maniacal carnage on the gridiron in this crazy gore fest of arcade-style football. Packed full of humor, intense online multiplayer action, and strategy.
Sunday Rivals
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Sports and Indie with Rough Rivals.
Easy to pickup, hard hitting, fully customizable arcade football is back with Sunday Rivals! Battle high-octane offenses and bone crushing tacklers in the harshest weather conditions to bring home championship glory!
Frequently asked about Rough Rivals
- How much does Rough Rivals cost?
- Rough Rivals is listed on Steam at 5.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Rough Rivals have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Rough Rivals supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Shared/Split Screen PvP, PvP).
- What games are most similar to Rough Rivals?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Rough Rivals are Mutant Football League 2, Bashing Brutal, Intergalactic Puzzle Touchdown.
- Who developed Rough Rivals?
- Rough Rivals was developed by Constantin Roussel and published by Coro Studio.
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