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Games like Icons: Legacy Edition

If Icons: Legacy Edition is your kind of game, the closest matches are Slap City, Rushdown Revolt and Brawlout — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its responsive dev team, challenging and competitive. 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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About Icons: Legacy Edition: Icons: Legacy Edition is a Community Tribute Release that makes important product updates such as an input-delay-free offline mode and includes hundreds of unique cosmetics such as character skins, taunts, recovery platforms, victory poses and emotes at the modest price of $4.99.

2018ActionStrategyIndieFree to playWindowsby Wavedash Games, Vortex Games
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Steam players who put hours into Icons: Legacy Edition 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.

  1. Slap City

    WHY THIS

    Shares a competitive mood with Icons: Legacy Edition.

    Top pick for Icons: Legacy Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Icons: Legacy Edition.

    Slap City is a Seriously Fun platform fighter with a perfect mix of characters from the Ludosity universe. Play Locally or Online. Slap it hard in Ranked or fast and loose in Slap Ball game mode. We are the original inventors of Clutch Technology.

    2020ActionIndie19.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Rushdown Revolt

    WHY THIS

    Shares a competitive mood with Icons: Legacy Edition.

    Second-strongest match for Icons: Legacy Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Icons: Legacy Edition.

    Rushdown Revolt is a platform fighter featuring 12 dazzlingly unique characters and best-in-the-business rollback netcode.

    2020ActionSportsIndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Brawlout

    WHY THIS

    Shares wavedashing and a competitive mood with Icons: Legacy Edition.

    Third-strongest match for Icons: Legacy Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Icons: Legacy Edition.

    Brawlout is the platform fighting game, designed for couch play, online ranked matches and competitive tournaments. Now at 2.0!

    2018ActionIndieCasual19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Rivals of Aether

    WHY THIS

    Shares a competitive mood with Icons: Legacy Edition.

    Ranked #4 for Icons: Legacy Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Icons: Legacy Edition.

    RIVALS OF AETHER is an indie fighting game where warring civilizations summon the power of Fire, Water, Air, and Earth. Play with up to four players either locally or online.

    2017Indie29.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Rivals of Aether II

    WHY THIS

    Shares a competitive mood with Icons: Legacy Edition.

    Ranked #5 for Icons: Legacy Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Icons: Legacy Edition.

    Rivals of Aether II is the sequel to the hit indie fighting game, Rivals of Aether. Play as both new and returning elemental fighters in the next generation of platform fighters.

    2024ActionIndie29.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Streets of Rage 4

    WHY THIS

    Shares a retro mood with Icons: Legacy Edition.

    Ranked #6 for Icons: Legacy Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Icons: Legacy Edition.

    Amongst the best beat’em up series ever created, jammin’ ‘90s beats and over the top street fighting, the iconic series Streets of Rage comes back with a masterful tribute to and revitalization of the classic action fans adore.

    2020ActionIndie24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Black & White Bushido

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Icons: Legacy Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Icons: Legacy Edition.

    Black & White Bushido is a 1-4 player stealth-em-up arena brawl. Choose between the light and the shadow in three challenging game modes. Hide with camouflage, throw shurikens and drop smoke bombs to beat your friends locally or online.

    2015ActionSteam ↗
  8. 99Vidas

    WHY THIS

    Shares a retro mood with Icons: Legacy Edition.

    Ranked #8 for Icons: Legacy Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Icons: Legacy Edition.

    "99Vidas" is a "beat 'em up" set in a contemporary world that pays tribute to both the new and the classic in gaming industry. Brought to you in all pixelated, 16 bit-esque glory, chockfull of references to not only gaming, but all 80's and 90's pop culture.

    2016ActionIndie12.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Reviewers mention these as similar to Icons: Legacy Edition

Surfaced from review text: when other players write 'if you liked X, try Y', we catch the name and resolve it back to a Steam game.

  1. Rivals of Aether

    WHY THIS

    Shares a competitive mood with Icons: Legacy Edition.

    Reviewers of Icons: Legacy Edition cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Icons: Legacy Edition.

    RIVALS OF AETHER is an indie fighting game where warring civilizations summon the power of Fire, Water, Air, and Earth. Play with up to four players either locally or online.

    2017Indie29.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Slap City

    WHY THIS

    Shares a competitive mood with Icons: Legacy Edition.

    Reviewers of Icons: Legacy Edition cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Icons: Legacy Edition.

    Slap City is a Seriously Fun platform fighter with a perfect mix of characters from the Ludosity universe. Play Locally or Online. Slap it hard in Ranked or fast and loose in Slap Ball game mode. We are the original inventors of Clutch Technology.

    2020ActionIndie19.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Overwatch®

    WHY THIS

    Shares a competitive mood with Icons: Legacy Edition.

    Reviewers of Icons: Legacy Edition cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Icons: Legacy Edition.

    Overwatch®, A FUTURE WORTH FIGHTING FOR! Overwatch® is an always-on and ever-evolving free-to-play, team-based action game set in an optimistic future, where every match is the ultimate 5v5 or 6v6 battlefield brawl.

    2023ActionFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Project V

    WHY THIS

    Reviewers of Icons: Legacy Edition cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Icons: Legacy Edition.

    > Die. Inherit. Evolve. Fight through dungeons, craft gear, brew potions, and collect relics — then die, pass your DNA to the next generation, and push deeper. Something is watching. Every death makes your bloodline stronger — but who benefits? An idle incremental RPG with a dark secret.

    2026StrategyIndieSimulationSteam ↗
  5. Brawlout

    WHY THIS

    Shares wavedashing and a competitive mood with Icons: Legacy Edition.

    Reviewers of Icons: Legacy Edition cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Icons: Legacy Edition.

    Brawlout is the platform fighting game, designed for couch play, online ranked matches and competitive tournaments. Now at 2.0!

    2018ActionIndieCasual19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

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  1. Brawlout

    WHY THIS

    Shares wavedashing and a competitive mood with Icons: Legacy Edition.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Icons: Legacy Edition.

    Brawlout is the platform fighting game, designed for couch play, online ranked matches and competitive tournaments. Now at 2.0!

    2018ActionIndieCasual19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Rivals of Aether

    WHY THIS

    Shares a competitive mood with Icons: Legacy Edition.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie with Icons: Legacy Edition.

    RIVALS OF AETHER is an indie fighting game where warring civilizations summon the power of Fire, Water, Air, and Earth. Play with up to four players either locally or online.

    2017Indie29.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Rivals of Aether II

    WHY THIS

    Shares a competitive mood with Icons: Legacy Edition.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Icons: Legacy Edition.

    Rivals of Aether II is the sequel to the hit indie fighting game, Rivals of Aether. Play as both new and returning elemental fighters in the next generation of platform fighters.

    2024ActionIndie29.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Streets of Rage 4

    WHY THIS

    Shares a retro mood with Icons: Legacy Edition.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Icons: Legacy Edition.

    Amongst the best beat’em up series ever created, jammin’ ‘90s beats and over the top street fighting, the iconic series Streets of Rage comes back with a masterful tribute to and revitalization of the classic action fans adore.

    2020ActionIndie24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Icons: Legacy Edition

Is Icons: Legacy Edition free to play?
Yes — Icons: Legacy Edition is a free-to-play title on Steam. You can install and play it without buying anything, though some games include optional in-app purchases.
Does Icons: Legacy Edition have multiplayer or co-op?
Yes — Icons: Legacy Edition supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, Shared/Split Screen PvP).
What games are most similar to Icons: Legacy Edition?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Icons: Legacy Edition are Slap City, Rushdown Revolt, Brawlout.
Who developed Icons: Legacy Edition?
Icons: Legacy Edition was developed by Wavedash Games, Vortex Games and published by Wavedash Games, Vortex 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 Icons: Legacy Edition.

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