Games like Guacamelee! 2
If Guacamelee! 2 is your kind of game, the closest matches are Guacamelee! Super Turbo Championship Edition, Abyss Odyssey and Guacamelee! Gold Edition — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its combat has satisfying weight, atmospheric and challenging. 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 →Guacamelee! 2 is a 2018 action-adventure platformer from Drinkbox Studios set across a colorful Mexican-themed world. Players use grappling mechanics, wall-grip traversal, and puzzle-platforming to navigate hand-crafted levels filled with challenging combat encounters. The luchador combat system features satisfying weight, and the chicken-transformation ability unlocks infinite flight for both exploration and combat sequences. Reviewers highlight the boss fights as fun and varied, while players describe the overall experience as whimsical and atmospheric with stylish art and elaborate setpieces. The challenging metroidvania structure supports local co-op and includes outfit cosmetics across its medium-length campaign. The game holds a 92% positive rating from over 1,200 Steam reviews and runs verified on Steam Deck.
About Guacamelee! 2: Head back to the Mexiverse in this long-awaited sequel to the smash hit Guacamelee! Uppercut your way to victory across stunning new hand-crafted levels. Featuring a dense and colorful world, new luchador moves, sassy new bosses, twice the enemies, and 300% more chickens!
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Guacamelee! Super Turbo Championship Edition
WHY THIS
Shares a funny mood with Guacamelee! 2.
Top pick for Guacamelee! 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Guacamelee! 2.
The definitive version of the smash-hit Metroidvania-style action-platformer, Guacamelee! STCE adds new levels, powers, challenges, and refinements to the sprawling, ridiculous, Mexican-inspired adventure of the original Guacamelee! Gold Edition.
Abyss Odyssey
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Guacamelee! 2.
Second-strongest match for Guacamelee! 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Guacamelee! 2.
From indie Chilean developer ACE Team comes a new side-scrolling action adventure game featuring a complex fighting engine in procedurally generated levels that destines its three warriors to battle a different abyss each time! Choose your hero and also learn to possess your enemies in the abyss…
Guacamelee! Gold Edition
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Guacamelee! 2.
Third-strongest match for Guacamelee! 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Guacamelee! 2.
Guacamelee! is a Metroidvania-style action-platformer set in a magical Mexican-inspired world. The game draws its inspiration from traditional Mexican culture and folklore, and features many interesting and unique characters.
Unruly Heroes
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Guacamelee! 2.
Ranked #4 for Guacamelee! 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Guacamelee! 2.
LET'S KUNG FU THEM ALL! Play solo or co-op and take control of four unlikely heroes that battle a diverse lineup of enemies, show off your Kung-Fu skills and journey west across stunning different environments in order to hunt for the scattered remnants of the Sacred Scroll.
Castle Crashers®
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Guacamelee! 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Guacamelee! 2.
Hack, slash, and smash your way to victory in this award winning 2D arcade adventure from The Behemoth!
You are Peter Shorts
WHY THIS
Shares a funny mood with Guacamelee! 2.
Ranked #6 for Guacamelee! 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Guacamelee! 2.
You are PETER SHORTS! You have been captured and taken to a secret cloning facility. Can you escape with your newly-cloned brethren?
Shing!
WHY THIS
Shares a funny mood with Guacamelee! 2.
Ranked #7 for Guacamelee! 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Guacamelee! 2.
Experience the most exciting and immersive beat-em-up combat system ever – become a kickass ninja and slice some demons in style!
Wulverblade
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Guacamelee! 2.
Ranked #8 for Guacamelee! 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Guacamelee! 2.
Defeat the Ninth Legion of the Roman army in this side-scrolling, arcade-inspired beat 'em up set in Roman-era Britain.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Guacamelee! 2
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SteamWorld Dig
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Guacamelee! 2.
Reviewers of Guacamelee! 2 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Guacamelee! 2.
SteamWorld Dig is an action-adventure puzzler with strong Metroidvanian influences set in the SteamWorld Universe. You’ll need to dig deep into the earth, gather resources to upgrade your tools and abilities, take on enemies, solve challenging puzzles and uncover the secrets to save a dying town.
Hollow Knight
WHY THIS
Shares boss rush and an atmospheric mood with Guacamelee! 2.
Reviewers of Guacamelee! 2 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Guacamelee! 2.
Forge your own path in Hollow Knight! An epic action adventure through a vast ruined kingdom of insects and heroes. Explore twisting caverns, battle tainted creatures and befriend bizarre bugs, all in a classic, hand-drawn 2D style.
Castle Crashers®
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Guacamelee! 2 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Guacamelee! 2.
Hack, slash, and smash your way to victory in this award winning 2D arcade adventure from The Behemoth!
Blasphemous
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Guacamelee! 2.
Reviewers of Guacamelee! 2 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Guacamelee! 2.
Blasphemous is a brutal action-platformer with skilled hack’n slash combat set in the nightmare world of Cvstodia. Explore, upgrade your abilities, and perform savage executions on the hordes of enemies that stand between you and your quest to break eternal damnation.
SteamWorld Dig 2
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Guacamelee! 2.
Reviewers of Guacamelee! 2 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Guacamelee! 2.
SteamWorld Dig is back! Dig deep, gain riches and unearth the terrors of the underworld in this platform mining adventure influenced by classic Metroidvania style games.
Dead Cells
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Guacamelee! 2.
Reviewers of Guacamelee! 2 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Guacamelee! 2.
Dead Cells is a roguelite, metroidvania inspired, action-platformer. You'll explore a sprawling, ever-changing castle... assuming you’re able to fight your way past its keepers in 2D souls-lite combat. No checkpoints. Kill, die, learn, repeat.
Celeste
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Guacamelee! 2.
Reviewers of Guacamelee! 2 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Guacamelee! 2.
Help Madeline survive her inner demons on her journey to the top of Celeste Mountain, in this super-tight platformer from the creators of TowerFall. Brave hundreds of hand-crafted challenges, uncover devious secrets, and piece together the mystery of the mountain.
Guacamelee! Gold Edition
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Guacamelee! 2.
Reviewers of Guacamelee! 2 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Guacamelee! 2.
Guacamelee! is a Metroidvania-style action-platformer set in a magical Mexican-inspired world. The game draws its inspiration from traditional Mexican culture and folklore, and features many interesting and unique characters.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Guacamelee! 2 at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Guacamelee! 2 on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Guacamelee! 2.
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.
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Guacamelee! 2 on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Guacamelee! 2.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Left 4 Dead 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Guacamelee! 2 on Steam right now. Shares Action with Guacamelee! 2.
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 ~50% under Guacamelee! 2 on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Guacamelee! 2.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Fallout: New Vegas
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Guacamelee! 2 on Steam right now. Shares Action with Guacamelee! 2.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
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 and Adventure with Guacamelee! 2.
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 Guacamelee! 2.
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 Guacamelee! 2.
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 Guacamelee! 2.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
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 Guacamelee! 2.
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. Shares Indie with Guacamelee! 2.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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More from Drinkbox Studios
Other recommendable Steam games by Drinkbox Studios, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Nobody Saves the World
WHY THIS
Shares a funny mood with Guacamelee! 2.
Another title from Drinkbox Studios, the studio behind Guacamelee! 2. Shares Action and Indie with Guacamelee! 2.
Transform from a featureless nobody into a SLUG, a GHOST and a DRAGON in this new take on Action RPGs from the creators of Guacamelee! Discover 15+ distinct Forms, mix-and-match their abilities, clear evolving dungeons and... SAVE THE WORLD!?
Guacamelee! Gold Edition
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Guacamelee! 2.
Another title from Drinkbox Studios, the studio behind Guacamelee! 2. Shares Action and Indie with Guacamelee! 2.
Guacamelee! is a Metroidvania-style action-platformer set in a magical Mexican-inspired world. The game draws its inspiration from traditional Mexican culture and folklore, and features many interesting and unique characters.
Guacamelee! Super Turbo Championship Edition
WHY THIS
Shares a funny mood with Guacamelee! 2.
Another title from Drinkbox Studios, the studio behind Guacamelee! 2. Shares Action and Indie with Guacamelee! 2.
The definitive version of the smash-hit Metroidvania-style action-platformer, Guacamelee! STCE adds new levels, powers, challenges, and refinements to the sprawling, ridiculous, Mexican-inspired adventure of the original Guacamelee! Gold Edition.
Tales From Space: Mutant Blobs Attack
WHY THIS
Shares a funny mood with Guacamelee! 2.
Another title from Drinkbox Studios, the studio behind Guacamelee! 2. Shares Action and Indie with Guacamelee! 2.
A sci-fi puzzle-platformer of cataclysmic proportions! Evolve from a tiny captive into a world-eating giant. Use your mutant blob powers to devour the pathetic humans and all of civilization!
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Guacamelee! Super Turbo Championship Edition
WHY THIS
Shares a funny mood with Guacamelee! 2.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Guacamelee! 2.
The definitive version of the smash-hit Metroidvania-style action-platformer, Guacamelee! STCE adds new levels, powers, challenges, and refinements to the sprawling, ridiculous, Mexican-inspired adventure of the original Guacamelee! Gold Edition.
Abyss Odyssey
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Guacamelee! 2.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Guacamelee! 2.
From indie Chilean developer ACE Team comes a new side-scrolling action adventure game featuring a complex fighting engine in procedurally generated levels that destines its three warriors to battle a different abyss each time! Choose your hero and also learn to possess your enemies in the abyss…
Guacamelee! Gold Edition
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Guacamelee! 2.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Guacamelee! 2.
Guacamelee! is a Metroidvania-style action-platformer set in a magical Mexican-inspired world. The game draws its inspiration from traditional Mexican culture and folklore, and features many interesting and unique characters.
Unruly Heroes
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Guacamelee! 2.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Guacamelee! 2.
LET'S KUNG FU THEM ALL! Play solo or co-op and take control of four unlikely heroes that battle a diverse lineup of enemies, show off your Kung-Fu skills and journey west across stunning different environments in order to hunt for the scattered remnants of the Sacred Scroll.
Castle Crashers®
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Guacamelee! 2.
Hack, slash, and smash your way to victory in this award winning 2D arcade adventure from The Behemoth!
Shing!
WHY THIS
Shares a funny mood with Guacamelee! 2.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Guacamelee! 2.
Experience the most exciting and immersive beat-em-up combat system ever – become a kickass ninja and slice some demons in style!
Frequently asked about Guacamelee! 2
- Is Guacamelee! 2 verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Guacamelee! 2 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 Guacamelee! 2 cost?
- Guacamelee! 2 is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Guacamelee! 2 have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Guacamelee! 2 supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Shared/Split Screen Co-op, Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Guacamelee! 2?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Guacamelee! 2 are Guacamelee! Super Turbo Championship Edition, Abyss Odyssey, Guacamelee! Gold Edition.
- Who developed Guacamelee! 2?
- Guacamelee! 2 was developed by Drinkbox Studios and published by Drinkbox Studios, Kepler Ghost.
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