Games like River City Melee : Battle Royal Special
If River City Melee : Battle Royal Special is your kind of game, the closest matches are River City Super Sports Challenge ~All Stars Special~, Sepak U - Sports Fighting Game and Super Powered Battle Friends — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its challenging, nostalgic and retro. 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 River City Melee : Battle Royal Special: This is the most recent installment of the ‘Kunio-Kun’ franchise recreated as a fun and easy fighting game with the fighting aspects taken and upgraded from River City Super Sports Challenge ~All Star Special~.
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River City Super Sports Challenge ~All Stars Special~
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Shares a retro mood with River City Melee : Battle Royal Special.
Top pick for River City Melee : Battle Royal Special fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Sports with River City Melee : Battle Royal Special.
This is the River City sports challenge! The Rule is simple, be the # 1 in 4 events by all means. That's it! Hitting and kicking? Of course! Wooden swords dumbbells and even bombs are available to use. The great sports challenge where anything's possible has just begun!!!
Sepak U - Sports Fighting Game
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for River City Melee : Battle Royal Special fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Sports with River City Melee : Battle Royal Special.
Smash-Like Volleyball - Fighting Game meets Volleyball and Football with 1-4 players, 21 characters, 21 arenas, with over 10 hours of solo/co-op content, minigames, and epic boss battles. Based on Sepak Takraw, a cultural Asian sport.
Super Powered Battle Friends
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Third-strongest match for River City Melee : Battle Royal Special fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with River City Melee : Battle Royal Special.
SUPER POWERED BATTLE FRIENDS is a platform fighter for up to 4 players!
Phantom Breaker: Battle Grounds Classic
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Shares a nostalgic mood with River City Melee : Battle Royal Special.
Ranked #4 for River City Melee : Battle Royal Special fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with River City Melee : Battle Royal Special.
Phantom Breaker: Battle Grounds! Enjoy fast and frantic arcade-style beat 'em up gameplay with cute characters. Beat up hordes of weird enemies with awesome special attacks. Local co-op and PVP supported for up to 4 players!
Miner Ultra Rag Smash
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Ranked #5 for River City Melee : Battle Royal Special fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Sports with River City Melee : Battle Royal Special.
A very fun physics-based combat to play with your friends locally or online with remote play. The matches are never the same and everyone will have a lot of fun. It's a 2 to 4-player local/remote play online party game.
Killer Gin Battle Arcade
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Ranked #6 for River City Melee : Battle Royal Special fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with River City Melee : Battle Royal Special.
Retro-inspired multiplayer platformer for up to 4 players. Battle friends or AI in chaotic arena fights using attacks, powers, and clever tactics. Win by collecting 5 coins or being the last one standing. Skill, timing, and strategy decide the champion.
RetroMania Wrestling
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Shares a retro mood with River City Melee : Battle Royal Special.
Ranked #7 for River City Melee : Battle Royal Special fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Sports with River City Melee : Battle Royal Special.
RetroMania Wrestling is a throwback arcade game inspired by classics of the past, with great 2D action and an eclectic roster of wrestlers past and present!
TEKKEN 7
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Ranked #8 for River City Melee : Battle Royal Special fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Sports with River City Melee : Battle Royal Special.
Discover the epic conclusion of the long-time clan warfare between members of the Mishima family. Powered by Unreal Engine 4, the legendary fighting game franchise fights back with stunning story-driven cinematic battles and intense duels that can be enjoyed with friends and rivals.
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River City Super Sports Challenge ~All Stars Special~
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with River City Melee : Battle Royal Special.
Reviewers of River City Melee : Battle Royal Special cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Sports with River City Melee : Battle Royal Special.
This is the River City sports challenge! The Rule is simple, be the # 1 in 4 events by all means. That's it! Hitting and kicking? Of course! Wooden swords dumbbells and even bombs are available to use. The great sports challenge where anything's possible has just begun!!!
River City Ransom: Underground
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Shares a retro mood with River City Melee : Battle Royal Special.
Reviewers of River City Melee : Battle Royal Special cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with River City Melee : Battle Royal Special.
Alex and Ryan must take to the streets to help a new crop of fighters. You'll earn money, unlock moves, and upgrade your skills in a sprawling city. This modern take on an old classic features over 500 unique street fighting moves, dozens of weapons, and fun online multiplayer modes.
River City Melee Mach!!
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Shares a retro mood with River City Melee : Battle Royal Special.
Reviewers of River City Melee : Battle Royal Special cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with River City Melee : Battle Royal Special.
The original battle royal game is back and buffed!! No rules, and fights to the finish where anything goes! Over 180 characters and over 250 different special moves!
BlazBlue: Chronophantasma Extend
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Shares a challenging mood with River City Melee : Battle Royal Special.
Reviewers of River City Melee : Battle Royal Special cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with River City Melee : Battle Royal Special.
'BlazBlue: Chronophantasma Extend' is the sixth installment of the BlazBlue series, a combination of 2D fighting action game and visual novel.
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Terraria
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Priced ~50% under River City Melee : Battle Royal Special on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with River City Melee : Battle Royal Special.
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
Lethal Company
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Priced ~50% under River City Melee : Battle Royal Special on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with River City Melee : Battle Royal Special.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Left 4 Dead 2
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Priced ~50% under River City Melee : Battle Royal Special on Steam right now. Shares Action with River City Melee : Battle Royal Special.
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
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Priced ~50% under River City Melee : Battle Royal Special on Steam right now. Shares Action with River City Melee : Battle Royal Special.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Portal 2
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Priced ~50% under River City Melee : Battle Royal Special on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with River City Melee : Battle Royal Special.
The "Perpetual Testing Initiative" has been expanded to allow you to design co-op puzzles for you and your friends!
Fallout: New Vegas
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Priced ~50% under River City Melee : Battle Royal Special on Steam right now. Shares Action with River City Melee : Battle Royal Special.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
Vampire Survivors
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Priced ~75% under River City Melee : Battle Royal Special on Steam right now. Shares Action with River City Melee : Battle Royal Special.
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.
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Priced ~65% under River City Melee : Battle Royal Special on Steam right now. Shares Action with River City Melee : Battle Royal Special.
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.
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UNBEATABLE [white label]
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with River City Melee : Battle Royal Special.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
Princess Remedy in a World of Hurt
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with River City Melee : Battle Royal Special.
Remedy, a recent graduate from the Saturnian healing school, must descend to Hurtland and use her powers to heal everyone from stray ducks to dark lords, and finally cure the ailing Prince Hingst. It's a short, whimsical adventure with plenty of heart(s).
Lily's Well
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with River City Melee : Battle Royal Special.
It is a rainy night in the Spring of 2005. Lily is left home alone after her Papa put her to bed. She is awoken by a cry for help outside her window. It is coming from the well. Help Lily gather rope to go down the well and save the poor soul trapped down there.
Brief Karate Foolish
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with River City Melee : Battle Royal Special.
Here comes a new epic of live action fighting game!! With 60fps smooth action, sexy and deadly guys fly into air and bounces their flab!
Trick & Treat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with River City Melee : Battle Royal Special.
Trick or treating in a vampire's house.Trick & Treat is a light-hearted Halloween adventure. It's about exploring and solving puzzles in a spooky atmosphere. There will be some horror elements, romance, many bad ends and a happy ending of true love.
Khimera: Destroy All Monster Girls
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with River City Melee : Battle Royal Special.
Play as Chelshia the chimera in this platforming beat-em-up adventure into the wonderful world of monster girls!
A Space For The Unbound - Prologue
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with River City Melee : Battle Royal Special.
Prologue chapter of A Space For The Unbound, an upcoming slice-of-life adventure game with beautiful pixelart set in the late 90s rural Indonesia that tells a story about overcoming anxiety, depression, and the relationship between a boy and a girl with supernatural powers
Rec Room
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with River City Melee : Battle Royal Special.
Rec Room is the best place to build and play games together. Party up with friends from all around the world to chat, hang out, explore MILLIONS of player-created rooms, or build something new and amazing to share with us all.
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DRAGON BALL FighterZ
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Another title from Arc System Works, the studio behind River City Melee : Battle Royal Special. Shares Action with River City Melee : Battle Royal Special.
DRAGON BALL FighterZ is born from what makes the DRAGON BALL series so loved and famous: endless spectacular fights with its all-powerful fighters.
GUILTY GEAR -STRIVE-
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Another title from Arc System Works, the studio behind River City Melee : Battle Royal Special. Shares Action with River City Melee : Battle Royal Special.
The cutting-edge 2D/3D hybrid graphics pioneered in the Guilty Gear series have been raised to the next level in “GUILTY GEAR -STRIVE-“. The new artistic direction and improved character animations will go beyond anything you’ve seen before in a fighting game!
BlazBlue Centralfiction
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Shares a challenging mood with River City Melee : Battle Royal Special.
Another title from Arc System Works, the studio behind River City Melee : Battle Royal Special. Shares Action with River City Melee : Battle Royal Special.
Combining a 2D fighting game with a visual novel, the BlazBlue series continues on with massive fan support! The latest installation, BlazBlue: Centralfiction, serves as the ending to the Azure Saga, revealing the hidden truth of the world!
GUILTY GEAR Xrd REV 2
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Another title from Arc System Works, the studio behind River City Melee : Battle Royal Special. Shares Action with River City Melee : Battle Royal Special.
Astonishing 3D cell animations and overwhelming content volume, the next-generation fighting game "GUILTY GEAR Xrd REV 2" is now out on Steam! Total cast of 25 unique characters, and tons of game modes, get ready to ROCK!
Granblue Fantasy: Versus
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Another title from Arc System Works, the studio behind River City Melee : Battle Royal Special. Shares Action with River City Melee : Battle Royal Special.
A new game in the Granblue Fantasy universe, available on Steam! This fantasy game blends fighting game action and RPG-style adventure. Throw yourself into matches or enjoy powering up your characters!
Granblue Fantasy Versus: Rising
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Another title from Arc System Works, the studio behind River City Melee : Battle Royal Special. Shares Action with River City Melee : Battle Royal Special.
Rise to the challenge in Granblue Fantasy Versus: Rising! This powered up, revamped sequel to GBVS is more enjoyable and accessible than ever before. With simplified input options, even newcomers can engage in thrilling and strategic matches!
GUILTY GEAR XX ACCENT CORE PLUS R
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Shares a challenging mood with River City Melee : Battle Royal Special.
Another title from Arc System Works, the studio behind River City Melee : Battle Royal Special. Shares Action with River City Melee : Battle Royal Special.
Ultimate battle action, and the epitome of the GUILTY GEAR XX series now on Steam! Bonus soundtracks included!
Persona 4 Arena Ultimax
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Another title from Arc System Works, the studio behind River City Melee : Battle Royal Special. Shares Action with River City Melee : Battle Royal Special.
A Persona 4 Smackdown!
Frequently asked about River City Melee : Battle Royal Special
- How much does River City Melee : Battle Royal Special cost?
- River City Melee : Battle Royal Special is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does River City Melee : Battle Royal Special have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — River City Melee : Battle Royal Special supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, Shared/Split Screen PvP).
- What games are most similar to River City Melee : Battle Royal Special?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside River City Melee : Battle Royal Special are River City Super Sports Challenge ~All Stars Special~, Sepak U - Sports Fighting Game, Super Powered Battle Friends.
- Who developed River City Melee : Battle Royal Special?
- River City Melee : Battle Royal Special was developed by Arc System Works and published by H2 Interactive Co., Ltd..
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