Games Like Rivalry

Nidhogg is the epic award-winning game of fencing tug-of-war complete with flying giant worms.

Why similar: Local Multiplayer 87.4%, Indie 12.6%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the intense, high-stakes swordplay and local multiplayer rivalry that makes the core of the seed game so engaging.

Toribash is an innovative free-to-play online turn-based fighting game where you’re able to design your own moves. Complete control over character's body, hundreds of game mods and bloody mess with full body dismemberment - you've never been able to annihilate your enemies like that before!

Why similar: Strategy 52.9%, Simulation 30.7%, Indie 16.4%

Why You'll Like It: This is the definitive turn-based, physics-driven fighting game where you control every joint of your character to execute complex maneuvers.

Havocado is ragdoll physics based fighting, with guns, crazy vehicles, weird creatures and more, where mistakes have real consequences. Will you beat the other fighters and become the next champion?

Why similar: Local Multiplayer 69%, Indie 31%

Why You'll Like It: This game leans heavily into the chaotic, physics-based ragdoll combat that defines the endgame of Rivalry.

Goofy Ragdolls and Physics Simulated duels that will challenge your tactics. Customise & Upgrade your Gladiator, dismember opponents in the arena and climb the Leaderboard. All for free!

Why similar: Simulation 58.7%, Strategy 41.3%

Why You'll Like It: A physics-based gladiator simulator that captures the brutal yet comical nature of arena combat.

Stick Fight is a physics-based couch/online fighting game where you battle it out as the iconic stick figures from the golden age of the internet.

Why similar: Local Multiplayer 75.6%, Casual 9.8%, Strategy 8.3%, Indie 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: It offers fast-paced, physics-driven combat that frequently devolves into the same kind of chaotic, funny scenarios found in Rivalry.

Swordy is a local party brawler with chaotic physics-based action. Master the weapons of war, using momentum and timing to fight for your life in a world built on the bones of a ruined empire.

Why similar: Local Multiplayer 74.1%, Casual 14.3%, Indie 11.6%

Why You'll Like It: A physics-based combat game that focuses on the weight and momentum of weapons, mirroring the swordplay mechanics of the seed game.

The rules are simple. Reach the other side and kill anyone that stands in your way. Deftly parry and rend their throats, riddle their bowels with arrows, or squish their brains between your toes. The wurm cares not for chivalry.

Why similar: Local Multiplayer 78.5%, Indie 10.8%, Casual 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: The sequel expands on the original's swordplay with more variety and the same high-tension local multiplayer focus.

Experience the extreme simulated sporting sensation that's sweeping our digital nation! Mount Your Friends is a fiercely competitive sporting event for you to play with your friends in the contextual security of your own home, assuming that your home is not composed of sexual innuendo.

Why similar: Local Multiplayer 65.8%, Simulation 18%, Indie 11.9%, Casual 4.2%

Why You'll Like It: It features the same limb-based control mechanics and absurd physics that make simple movements feel both strategic and hilarious.

Floppy Heroes is a ragdoll physics brawler with dismemberment, a wide range of weapons and armor, very simple controls, and custom battles playable with up to 6 local players.

Why similar: Local Multiplayer 59.8%, Casual 23.3%, Indie 16.9%

Why You'll Like It: This ragdoll-based fighter focuses on limb-specific damage and chaotic combat, closely matching the mechanics of the seed game.

Griefhelm is an award-winning party game with lethal medieval weaponry. Skewer your friends, deflect their blows, and push your advantage in local and online multiplayer. Find some friends and cut off their heads!

Why similar: Local Multiplayer 75.8%, Casual 13.7%, Indie 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: This game emphasizes tactical, skill-based swordplay in a way that rewards careful positioning and timing.

Minimalistic ragdoll fighting game created in 7 days. Only play this game if you're curious where Drunken Wrestlers 2 came from, or feeling nostalgic.

Why similar: Local Multiplayer 60.3%, Simulation 19%, Casual 12%, Indie 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: It utilizes physics-based movement to create a challenging and often humorous wrestling experience perfect for local play.

Gang Beasts is a silly multiplayer party game with surly gelatinous characters, brutal slapstick fight sequences, and absurd hazardous environments, set in the mean streets of Beef City.

Why similar: Local Multiplayer 78.8%, Casual 14%, Indie 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: This title is the gold standard for physics-based local multiplayer brawling where the movement itself is the primary challenge.

A Hilarious Insult-‘em up in which players must verbally take-out their friends and family in different game modes. Assemble witty insults using different word strings, and employ combos, criticals, continuations and more to battle your opponents both offline and online across multiple devices.

Why similar: Local Multiplayer 55.6%, Simulation 22.6%, Indie 12.6%, Strategy 5.7%, Casual 3.4%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the same absurdist, Pythonesque humor that makes the endgame of Rivalry so entertaining.

Hold onto your head with Headsnatchers, a stupidly hectic up-to-4-player local and online multiplayer party-game where you snatch your friends’ heads to come out victorious. Because, let’s face it, you’ll do anything to win.

Why similar: Local Multiplayer 72.9%, Casual 15.6%, Indie 11.5%

Why You'll Like It: A chaotic local multiplayer game that uses physics and absurd objectives to create memorable, funny moments.

In this rogue-lite turn-based RPG, you create a bloodline of gladiators, fight online with or against your friends in the arena, decide the fate of your fallen rivals, and bring honor, wealth, and the spoils of war to improve your legacy.

Why similar: Strategy 60.8%, Casual 26.7%, Indie 12.5%

Why You'll Like It: A turn-based gladiator game that incorporates humor and strategic combat choices in an arena setting.

In Granny Simulator there are two players, a feeble old grandmother and her lovely grandson. The grandmothers objective is to complete her every day routine while the grandson utilizes uncanny violence and pure brutality to stop her.

Why similar: Simulation 39.6%, Local Multiplayer 25.8%, Casual 20%, Indie 14.6%

Why You'll Like It: An absurd, physics-based multiplayer game that thrives on the same chaotic energy as Rivalry.

Rubber Bandits is a criminally fun multiplayer party game for up to 4 players. With 8 action-packed game modes, players steal, brawl, and dash to the finish line with the most loot to win!

Why similar: Local Multiplayer 82.4%, Casual 17.6%

Why You'll Like It: A physics-based party game where the environment and ragdoll mechanics create unpredictable, hilarious combat scenarios.

Fight your friends as puppies, kittens and other fuzzy creatures in PARTY ANIMALS! Paw it out with your friends remotely, or huddle together for chaotic fun on the same screen. Interact with the world under our realistic physics engine. Did I mention PUPPIES?

Why similar: Local Multiplayer 66%, Casual 25.7%, Indie 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: This physics-based brawler offers a polished take on the chaotic, limb-flailing combat style found in the seed game.

Feud is a turn-based strategy game. Swap pieces on a four-by-four grid to isolate your opponent's pieces, or go straight for their King. Hone your skills against three AI characters with distinct play-styles, then challenge your friends online or on the same screen.

Why similar: Local Multiplayer 61.5%, Strategy 27%, Indie 11.5%

Why You'll Like It: A turn-based tactical game that emphasizes careful planning and abstract strategy in a competitive environment.

A fancy party brawler for proper scoundrels! Sling traps, swing bats, and fire cannons in destructible arenas as you scramble for absurd perks and weapons. Outlast your so-called peers by any gentlemanly means necessary - all in the name of good sport, of course.

Why similar: Strategy 45.3%, Casual 29.9%, Local Multiplayer 24.8%

Why You'll Like It: A humorous local multiplayer game that focuses on absurd combat scenarios between gentlemen.

Dead Drop is a tense two-player game of espionage and deception, where one player has to blend into a crowd and mimic AI movement to avoid detection from the other player.

Why similar: Local Multiplayer 48.8%, Strategy 27.5%, Casual 13.5%, Indie 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: A local multiplayer strategy game that focuses on tactical positioning and quick decision-making.

A fighting game where the action only moves when you do. Plan your next move, then strike, evade and punish! Knock 'em down and press the advantage! Fight colorful hand-drawn characters, and challenge your friends to an epic battle of wits!

Why similar: Local Multiplayer 69.7%, Strategy 30.3%

Why You'll Like It: A turn-based fighting game that focuses on tactical decision-making rather than just button-mashing.

A fast-paced tug-of-war game.

Why similar: Strategy 44.8%, Simulation 36.1%, Indie 19.1%

Why You'll Like It: A physics-based strategy game that offers a similar blend of simulation and multiplayer competition.

Casual Pro Wrestling is a professional wrestling game with an emphasis on fun. Wrestle your dream match and enjoy the ragdoll physics for additional drama and whiplash. Play couch or online multiplayer with your friends and get creative with a plethora of possibilities for wrestler creation.

Why similar: Local Multiplayer 80.5%, Casual 11.2%, Indie 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: It uses physics-based wrestling mechanics to create a fun, character-driven experience.

Ultimate Chicken Horse is a party platformer game where you build the level as you play, placing traps and hazards to screw your friends over, but trying not to screw yourself.

Why similar: Local Multiplayer 86.8%, Casual 13.2%

Why You'll Like It: While a platformer, it shares the strategic, turn-based planning and chaotic local multiplayer spirit of Rivalry.

Cause mayhem in multiplayer arcade battles of Sumo Tatami 🎮🏃‍♂️🏁 Run, roll, rocketjump straight in many game modes. Only agility, ingenuity and a little luck can make you a yokozuna!

Why similar: Casual 100%

Why You'll Like It: A physics-based local multiplayer game that focuses on the weight and balance of characters to achieve victory.

Easy to pickup, hard hitting, fully customizable arcade football is back with Sunday Rivals! Battle high-octane offenses and bone crushing tacklers in the harshest weather conditions to bring home championship glory!

Why similar: Local Multiplayer 58.4%, Simulation 32.8%, Indie 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: A physics-based sports game that captures the same 'simulation-meets-comedy' feel of the seed game.

Gladio Mori is a physics-driven multiplayer gladiator combat game featuring dismemberment, organ-specific damage, and a fully customizable move editor. Craft your own fighting style or use community created movesets to fight your way to glory.

Why similar: Local Multiplayer 75.6%, Simulation 24.4%

Knight Squad is an insane 1 to 8 players chaotic arena friendship destroyer. Take on current friends and future frenemies in any of the incredibly fun game modes, ranging from Last Man Standing to Medieval soccer. All of that using only weapons from the Middle Ages… and laser guns… and miniguns.

Why similar: Local Multiplayer 76.2%, Casual 13.5%, Indie 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: A chaotic local multiplayer arena game that features a variety of weapons and fast-paced, strategic combat.

No Time to Relax is a life simulation game where up to 4 players online or locally compete against each other in the ultimate game of life.

Why similar: Local Multiplayer 47.6%, Strategy 19.2%, Simulation 15.6%, Casual 10.6%, Indie 7%

Why You'll Like It: A board-game style multiplayer experience that captures the competitive, funny, and strategic nature of local play.

Gamble your fingers against the devil and his bloodthirsty saw in this turn-based strategy game. Outsmart your opponent with special abilities, or test your luck as you defy the odds to escape eternal damnation!

Why similar: Local Multiplayer 60.9%, Strategy 39.1%

Khan VS Kahn is a turn-based strategy game where two races compete over one city by achieving one of the 5 victory types Find out how to play and find the secret ending or challenge a friend in a 1v1 Duel. You can use your enemy's building, but be careful, he can use yours!

Why similar: Strategy 38.2%, Local Multiplayer 28.4%, Casual 19%, Indie 14.5%

Kitchen Wars: Appetiser is the limited first taste of a fast-paced party game with 2-8 players that plunge players into the chaos of a restaurant, where they must engage in strategic fights and theft while catering to their clients.

Why similar: Local Multiplayer 81%, Casual 19%

Beast Battle Simulator is a physics based battle-simulation sandbox game featuring dinosaurs, animals, and humans. Kamikaze Zebras VS. T-Rex with laser guns, Lions VS. medieval knights; anything is possible! Watch as the beasts dismember and rip each other apart in gory detail!

Why similar: Simulation 45.6%, Strategy 40.1%, Indie 8.6%, Casual 5.6%

Competitive mall simulation. 1-8 players open stores in the same mall, fight for customers, crush rivals. Team up or go solo. Fair play or dirty tricks? Your call. Procedural maps, employee system,mall cops, smugglers and physical mechanics.

Why similar: Simulation 100%

Swordplay and freerun through the internet and on a couch against your friends in a team brawl. Throw bombs, use smokescreens and climb your way to the enemy base. Choose your side as a Pirate or an Assassin and feed the Artifact with souls of your enemies.

Why similar: Local Multiplayer 63%, Casual 21.6%, Indie 15.4%

A physics-based, realistic 3D sword-fighting game. Immerse yourself in a cinematic adventure, utilizing real sword-fighting martial arts and a variety of historically accurate weapons to survive brutal duels in 17th century Poland. Featuring single-player modes and a LOCAL 2-player mode.

Why similar: Local Multiplayer 100%

Inkulinati is a turn-based strategy game straight from medieval manuscripts, where a rabbit’s bum can be deadlier than a dog's sword. Become a master of the Living Ink, build your own bestiary, defeat medieval superstars and collect perks to unleash hidden powers.

Why similar: Local Multiplayer 67.7%, Strategy 32.3%

Endless Knight is an unusual fighting game inspired by the black knight scene from the Python classic 'The Holy Grail'. The game sees you cutting opponents' limbs off in a fight to the death!

Why similar: Local Multiplayer 70%, Indie 30%

Zooicide is a casual team-based multiplayer game featuring animals fighting against humans within a playfully dangerous environment, the zoo.

Why similar: Simulation 46.3%, Casual 32.2%, Indie 21.5%

A Ridiculous local 1v1muliplayer Insult Simulator for two!

Why similar: Local Multiplayer 78.7%, Indie 21.3%

Spiders with laser swords! Duel to the death against your friends or choose to team up and hold back swarms of savage enemies. Swing, stab and shoot with style, effortlessly performing movie-worthy parkour.

Why similar: Local Multiplayer 100%

STAB STAB STAB is a physics-based couch-multiplayer arena stabbing game for up to 8 players. Stab your friends until they pop in versus mode, or team up to defend yourselves against an unending horde of cronenbirds!

Why similar: Local Multiplayer 70.4%, Casual 16.5%, Indie 13.1%

Vanquish your foes with a single strike in 1v1 weapon-based fighter Die by the Blade. Dive into a samuraipunk world and wield a range of traditional Japanese weapons to determine your moveset. Outwit your opponent in intense, tactical battles and master the art of the one-hit kill!

Why similar: Local Multiplayer 100%

minimalism strategy game

Why similar: Strategy 57.2%, Casual 33.1%, Indie 9.7%

Rising Lords is a medieval turn-based strategy game with card and board game elements. Send your serfs to fight and die in your name... or let them prosper, and use them to your advantage!

Why similar: Strategy 54.5%, Simulation 25.8%, Indie 19.7%

A highly customizable virtual stressball and physics sandbox about mutilating ragdolls in various ways using an overwhelming amount of weapons and tools.

Why similar: Simulation 52.9%, Casual 26.2%, Indie 20.9%

Every strike is lethal in this blood-soaked sword fighting game. Slash, clash, parry, dodge and watch limbs fly. Choose your move carefully - the first cut is also the last.

Why similar: Local Multiplayer 100%

The agile multiplayer arcade battle royale experience for soldiers of fortune and strategy experts.

Why similar: Strategy 66%, Casual 34%

A gothic arena brawler combining hazard-filled stages with MOBA-style abilities. Battle as unique misfits in a cursed city teetering on the edge of ruin.

Why similar: Local Multiplayer 82.1%, Casual 17.9%

Do your best to die or save your enemies from death in this frantic team multiplayer game about health issues. Death is in the air.

Why similar: Simulation 35.9%, Casual 35.6%, Indie 28.5%

Rooks Keep is an arena-based, melee combat game. A variety of game-modes, characters, maps and mutators are available. It also has Chess modes, mod support and decapitation!

Why similar: Strategy 70.3%, Indie 29.7%

Multiplayer first person strategy game with lots of destruction. Destroy the house of your neighbor by throwing furniture and build a business by selling weed!

Why similar: Strategy 100%

Soup: The Game is a micro-strategy experience in which you wage war against opposing microorganisms. It features minimalistic, intuitive controls and great depth of unit interaction.

Why similar: Strategy 45.6%, Simulation 36.7%, Indie 17.7%

Lively Chair Simulator is an indie multiplayer game with strange controls. Let’s see if you are suitable to be a chair.

Why similar: Simulation 48.9%, Strategy 37%, Indie 14.1%

Bean There, Won That is a physics driven party game designed to test your skills and your friendships! Engage in a variety of crazy minigames as you shoot, boot and bash your way up to the top of the scoreboard! Online or split-screen, you can crush your friends in your home or worldwide.

Why similar: Casual 100%

Rival Megagun is a competitive split-screen shoot 'em up where you transform into a giant boss ship and battle your rival head-to-head in local or online PVP.

Why similar: Local Multiplayer 71.6%, Indie 28.4%

Besiege castles and raid villages in Chivalry: Medieval Warfare, a fast-paced medieval first person slasher with a focus on multiplayer battles

Why similar: Simulation 52.7%, Indie 47.3%