Choose Icons: Legacy Edition
Choose Icons: Legacy Edition if you want a Strategy experience. On Steam, it's free to play, so the barrier to trying it is zero. Icons: Legacy Edition launched in 2018.
Icons: Legacy Edition vs Slap City
Icons: Legacy Edition and Slap City both land in Action, Indie on Steam, which is why they keep getting compared. The comparison below is built from each game's Steam metadata — release year, genres, categories, Steam Deck status, price, and review score — refreshed daily by imho.run's scraper. Headline differences: Both share Action, Indie on Steam. Icons: Legacy Edition (2018) is 2 years older than Slap City (2020). Slap City scores higher on Steam reviews (95.8% positive) than Icons: Legacy Edition (41.4% positive). No login or purchase needed — scroll for the full table, the verdict FAQ, and links to ranked similar games for both titles.
Which should you pick?
Choose Slap City
Choose Slap City if you want the Shared/Split Screen and Shared/Split Screen Co-op side of the pairing. On Steam, it carries the stronger Steam consensus at 95.8% positive across 2,217 reviews.
Both Icons: Legacy Edition and Slap City sit in Action and Indie on Steam and both list Multi-player, Online PvP, and Shared/Split Screen PvP, so either pick lands in the same broad neighborhood. Use the side-by-side table for the feature view, or follow the "Games like" links below to see ranked alternatives for either title.
Side-by-side comparison
 Icons: Legacy Edition |  Slap City | |
|---|---|---|
| Released | 2018 | 2020 |
| Genres | Action, Strategy, Indie | Action, Indie |
| Platforms | Windows | Windows |
| Steam Deck | Unrated | Deck Unsupported |
| Price | Free to play | 19.99 USD |
| Steam reviews | 41.4% positive (931 reviews) | 95.8% positive (2,217 reviews) |
| Multiplayer | Multi-player, Online Co-op, Co-op | Multi-player, Cross-Platform Multiplayer, Online Co-op |
| Developers | Wavedash Games, Vortex Games | Ludosity |
Side by side
- Both share Action, Indie on Steam.
- Icons: Legacy Edition (2018) is 2 years older than Slap City (2020).
- Slap City scores higher on Steam reviews (95.8% positive) than Icons: Legacy Edition (41.4% positive).
- Icons: Legacy Edition is free; Slap City is paid (19.99 USD).
- Both support cooperative play.
- Slap City is Deck Unsupported on Steam Deck; Icons: Legacy Edition has no Deck rating yet.
Icons: Legacy Edition vs Slap City — FAQ
- Which is better, Icons: Legacy Edition or Slap City?
- On Steam reviews Slap City scores higher (95.8% positive) than Icons: Legacy Edition (41.4% positive). Both have enough reviews to trust the signal, so for players using reviews alone, Slap City is the safer pick. Genre fit still matters — check the side-by-side table for the categories each game lands in.
- Should I play Icons: Legacy Edition or Slap City first?
- If you want chronology, Icons: Legacy Edition (2018) came out before Slap City (2020). If neither is a sequel to the other, order doesn't really matter — start with whichever fits your current mood, since both share enough on Steam to make either a reasonable opener.
- Are Icons: Legacy Edition and Slap City similar?
- They overlap on Action, Indie on Steam, so the catalogue groups them together — but "similar" depends on the specific mechanics. Use the genre + category rows above to decide whether the overlap matches what drew you to the one you've already played.
- Do both Icons: Legacy Edition and Slap City have co-op?
- Yes — both list a co-op category on Steam. Specifics differ: Icons: Legacy Edition ships Online Co-op, Co-op; Slap City ships Online Co-op, Shared/Split Screen Co-op.
- Is Icons: Legacy Edition free?
- Yes — Icons: Legacy Edition is a free-to-play Steam title. Slap City is paid (19.99 USD).