Twin Stick ShooterShoot 'Em Up
13 games that share both with RIVE
Warhammer 40,000: Shootas, Blood & Teef
RIVE, but PvP
Geometry Wars 3: Dimensions Evolved
RIVE, but couch co-op, and harder
Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved
RIVE, but a third of the hours
Loved · 91%Games like Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved
Shoot 'Em UpSide Scroller
4 games that share both with RIVE
Contra Anniversary Collection
RIVE, but couch co-op, and half the hours
Mixed · 76%Games like Contra Anniversary Collection
Shoot 'Em UpArcade
9 games that share both with RIVE
And more like RIVE
Each with the kinds it shares, under its name.
Savant - Ascent
RIVE, but faster, and half the hours
Loved · 92%Shoot 'Em Up · Score AttackGames like Savant - Ascent
Exit the Gungeon
RIVE, but an action roguelike, and pixel art
Mixed · 74%Arcade · 2D PlatformerGames like Exit the Gungeon
Planes, Bullets and Vodka
RIVE, but top-down
Liked · 85%Shoot 'Em Up · DestructionGames like Planes, Bullets and Vodka
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How this list is made
A game is here when it shares the strongest of RIVE's Steam community tags, Steam genres and IGDB themes, each shared tag counting for more the fewer games carry it: two metroidvanias are alike, two action games barely. Games of RIVE's own series that play like it stand apart, above the list, and take no place on it. A similar typical length breaks near-ties, and a game sold twice is shown once. A game Steam marks adult-only is listed only for a game that is one too. Games that share the same kinds with RIVE stand together, under those kinds. Up to 30 games are shown, and the list stops where they grow much less alike. Where to start: the closest; the best loved of the closest fifteen with 10,000 reviews or more; the shortest of the ones 80% or more recommend; and a hidden gem, 90% or more but under 10,000 reviews.
Under each name, how it differs from RIVE: a kind of game it is that RIVE is not, a feature its strongest Steam tags carry that RIVE's barely do, how many hours people play it beside RIVE, and how its reviewers feel beside RIVE's.
The sticker on a case is the hours its own page leads with: half of the game's Steam reviewers had played that long or less when they gave their verdict. It is not a time to beat. Under a name, the share of its Steam reviewers who recommend it: loved at 90% or more, liked at 80%, mixed at 65%.