Games like RICO
If RICO is your kind of game, the closest matches are Sci-Fantasy Defence, Bomb Dolls and DreamCell: Lost in Nightmares — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its challenging, cinematic and contemplative. 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 RICO: Two cops, one case and only 24 hours to bust the bad guys! Become a loose cannon police detective and face off with criminal gangs in this procedurally-generated action movie FPS. Join forces with a friend and take down those crooks, buddy-cop style!
Players who liked RICO also play
Steam players who put hours into RICO 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.
Sci-Fantasy Defence
WHY THIS
Top pick for RICO fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with RICO.
Combine physics-based traps, weapons and magic to defend against horde of thousands enemies in this roguelike tower defense with procedurally generated levels and switching between building/combat. Do it solo in VR or with up to 4 players in one PC through local co-op.
Bomb Dolls
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for RICO fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with RICO.
an endless gay road trip through an apocalyptic wasteland! 3-player co-op! eat burgers, pop pills, slam soda, inhale donuts! collect lost souls and trade them for cute outfits! kiss your girlfriends to share life energy! fend off enemies, navigate minefields, outrun the storm, try not to explode!
DreamCell: Lost in Nightmares
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for RICO fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with RICO.
DreamCell : Lost in Nightmares is a randomly generated action with rogue-like elements. Conquer your nightmares and find a way out of your dark dreams in single player or co-op mode!
Destropolis
WHY THIS
Shares weapon upgrades and an intense mood with RICO.
Ranked #4 for RICO fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with RICO.
Destropolis is a top-down shooter game with a fully destructible environment, hundreds of enemies and nuclear explosions. Fight a countless swarm of enemies. Tear them to pieces with bullets, lasers and explosions. Destroy as many of them as you can before they overwhelm you...
A Robot Named Fight!
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with RICO.
Ranked #5 for RICO fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with RICO.
A Robot Named Fight is a Metroidvania roguelike focused on exploration and item collection. Explore a different, procedurally-generated labyrinth each time you play and discover randomized power-ups to traverse obstacles, find secrets and explode meat beasts.
Streets of Rogue
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with RICO.
Ranked #6 for RICO fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with RICO.
Fight, sneak, and hack your way through randomly generated cities. It's like Nuclear Throne meets Deus Ex, mixed with the anarchy of GTA. Rogue-lite meets immersive sim, and goes completely insane.
Kill to Collect
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with RICO.
Ranked #7 for RICO fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with RICO.
Welcome to the last city on Earth. Earn your keep and die trying in Pieces Interactive’s cyberpunk action rogue-like, featuring 1-4 player co-op. Travel down the sleepless cesspool of murderous vagrants and cybernetic freaks, as you slice and dice your way to the lower levels of Geoshelter Alpha.
30XX
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with RICO.
Ranked #8 for RICO fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with RICO.
Jump, shoot, and slash your way through 30XX, the roguelike action platformer you can play with a friend! Explore lush, ever-changing worlds that mix precise platforming with fevered combat. Destroy fearsome Guardians. Master unique Powers. Rediscover the thousand years we've lost.
Reviewers mention these as similar to RICO
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Max Payne
WHY THIS
Reviewers of RICO cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with RICO.
Max Payne is a man with nothing to lose in the violent, cold urban night. A fugitive undercover cop framed for murder, hunted by cops and the mob, Max is a man with his back against the wall, fighting a battle he cannot hope to win. Prepare for pain…
Hotline Miami
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with RICO.
Reviewers of RICO cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with RICO.
Hotline Miami is a high-octane action game overflowing with raw brutality, hard-boiled gunplay and skull crushing close combat.
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with RICO.
Reviewers of RICO cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with RICO.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
XIII
WHY THIS
Reviewers of RICO cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with RICO.
You play as “XIII”, a man without an identity, in a solo campaign with numerous twists and turns. Inspired by the eponymous graphic novel, the game features a completely reinvented and unique cel-shading design. In XIII, players can also take part in fierce multi-player fights.
Call of Duty®
WHY THIS
Reviewers of RICO cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with RICO.
The Call of Duty® experience supports Call of Duty®: Black Ops 7, Call of Duty®: Black Ops 6, and Call of Duty®: Warzone™.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below RICO at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under RICO on Steam right now. Shares Indie with RICO.
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 RICO on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with RICO.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Left 4 Dead 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under RICO on Steam right now. Shares Action with RICO.
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 RICO on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with RICO.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Fallout: New Vegas
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under RICO on Steam right now. Shares Action with RICO.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
SCP: Secret Laboratory
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with RICO.
Deep within a secure underground facility, a sudden containment breach allows many of the secured anomalies to escape from their chambers. Assist the Foundation in re-securing the facility, help the Insurgency in their goal to capture it, or wreak havoc as an SCP in a frantic bid to escape.
Splitgate
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with RICO.
Splitgate is a free-to-play, fast-paced multiplayer shooter that features player-controlled portals. This sci-fi shooter takes the FPS genre to a new dimension with its portal mechanics, delivering high-flying, multi-dimensional combat.
Cry of Fear
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with RICO.
Cry of Fear is a psychological single-player and co-op horror game set in a deserted town filled with horrific creatures and nightmarish delusions. You play as a young man desperately searching for answers in the cold Scandinavian night, finding his way through the city as he slowly descends into madness.
Realm of the Mad God Exalt
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with RICO.
Embark on an exhilarating journey into the pixelated Realm of the Mad God! Join, an action-packed, free-to-play MMO bullet hell game. Discover a world with danger, challenges, and hidden treasures as you battle through waves of enemies. Team up with players and conquer dungeons to become a legend!
No More Room in Hell
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with RICO.
The chances of you surviving this all out war of society and the undead are slim to none. Already, there are millions of the walking dead shambling about, searching for food to eat. There's no known cure. One bite can possibly end it all for you. However, you aren't alone in this nightmare.
Blackwake
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with RICO.
Blackwake is a multiplayer naval FPS focused on teamwork and cooperation. Fire the cannons, sink enemy ships or board them with firearms and steel.
Goose Goose Duck
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with RICO.
Goose Goose Duck is a game of social deduction for up to 16 players. Players are separated into different groups that are each assigned a different objective. Complete your team’s objective to win!
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More from Ground Shatter
Other recommendable Steam games by Ground Shatter, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Fights in Tight Spaces
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with RICO.
Another title from Ground Shatter, the studio behind RICO. Shares Action with RICO.
A stylish blend of deck-building, turn-based tactics, and thrilling animated fight sequences in classic action-movie settings. Learn to balance your hand, momentum, and positioning to overcome the odds to defeat your adversaries. Build your deck, control the space and live to fight another day.
Knights in Tight Spaces
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with RICO.
Another title from Ground Shatter, the studio behind RICO. Shares Action with RICO.
Control your environment, gather your party, and build your best deck to overcome outlaws and supernatural forces, across a rich fantasy world. Watch as your tactical choices and deckbuilding prowess play out through stylish fight sequences.
SkyScrappers
WHY THIS
Another title from Ground Shatter, the studio behind RICO. Shares Action and Indie with RICO.
CO-OP ARCADE FIGHTER-CLIMBER. Run, jump, and fight your way to the top of a collapsing building. Compete with up to three of your friends in this 90s style competitive platform brawler.
RICO: London
WHY THIS
Another title from Ground Shatter, the studio behind RICO. Shares Action with RICO.
RICO London is a gang-busting, name-taking, explosive co-op shooter. Battle your way up the high-rise tower stacked with East End gangsters solo or with a partner. Crash through doors, dodge bullets and turn the weapons of the fallen into your personal arsenal. Do whatever it takes reach the top.
Fights in Tight Spaces (Prologue)
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with RICO.
Another title from Ground Shatter, the studio behind RICO. Shares Action with RICO.
Play the first mission of Fights in Tight Spaces for free! A stylish blend of deck-building, turn-based tactics, and thrilling fight sequences in action-movie settings. Learn to balance your hand, momentum, and positioning to overcome the odds to defeat your adversaries. Full game OUT NOW.
2 Fights in 2 Tight Spaces
WHY THIS
Another title from Ground Shatter, the studio behind RICO. Shares Action with RICO.
Agent 11 is back. The iconic tactical deck-builder returns, with new tricks up its impeccably tailored sleeves… and this time it’s with friends. Improvise within the space, adapt your deck to the challenges ahead, and overcome a roster of new enemies in stylish, animated, fight sequences.
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Destropolis
WHY THIS
Shares weapon upgrades and an intense mood with RICO.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with RICO.
Destropolis is a top-down shooter game with a fully destructible environment, hundreds of enemies and nuclear explosions. Fight a countless swarm of enemies. Tear them to pieces with bullets, lasers and explosions. Destroy as many of them as you can before they overwhelm you...
A Robot Named Fight!
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with RICO.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with RICO.
A Robot Named Fight is a Metroidvania roguelike focused on exploration and item collection. Explore a different, procedurally-generated labyrinth each time you play and discover randomized power-ups to traverse obstacles, find secrets and explode meat beasts.
Kill to Collect
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with RICO.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with RICO.
Welcome to the last city on Earth. Earn your keep and die trying in Pieces Interactive’s cyberpunk action rogue-like, featuring 1-4 player co-op. Travel down the sleepless cesspool of murderous vagrants and cybernetic freaks, as you slice and dice your way to the lower levels of Geoshelter Alpha.
Frequently asked about RICO
- Does RICO work on Steam Deck?
- RICO is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
- How much does RICO cost?
- RICO is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does RICO have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — RICO 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 RICO?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside RICO are Sci-Fantasy Defence, Bomb Dolls, DreamCell: Lost in Nightmares.
- Who developed RICO?
- RICO was developed by Ground Shatter and published by Rising Star Games.
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 RICO.
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