Games Like ROUNDS

A frantic, online PvP shooter that combines combat and deck building. Choose a character, customize your card-based loadout, and get ready for the fights of your life!

Why similar: Card Game 44.4%, PvP 21.3%, Multiplayer 21%, Action 8.9%, Indie 4.4%

Why You'll Like It: Another duel-focused shooter where cards drastically alter each round, capturing ROUNDS’s improvisational counterbuilding more directly than almost anything else.

Build a deck and battle online in real-time action with rollback netcode!

Why similar: 2D Fighter 24.9%, Card Battler 19.6%, Fighting 12.3% ★, Deckbuilding 11.2%, Card Game 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its one-on-one real-time spell fights and deck construction mirror the read-adapt-counter loop that makes ROUNDS so replayable.

Face your friends in UpGun! Use each round to accumulate skills and overtake your opponents in this crazy deathmatch!

Why similar: Multiplayer 40.1%, PvP 33.3%, Arcade 20%, Action 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: Like ROUNDS in first person, it is a fast PvP shooter where players draft upgrades between rounds and build toward ridiculous combos.

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: Fighting 31.1% ★, 2D Fighter 18.5%, Multiplayer 16.7%, Local Multiplayer 14.9%, PvP 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: Minimal controls, physics-heavy arenas, and instant-death duels give it the same easy-to-learn, wildly swingy party-fighter feel.

A couch/online game where you battle your friends with unique and wild abilities. There are many choices such as a shrink ray, creating black holes, stopping time and attaching a rocket engine to the stage to send it flying. Choose a combination that synergizes well to win the round!

Why similar: 2D Fighter 39%, Multiplayer 18.8%, Local Multiplayer 18.8%, PvP 8.1%, Physics 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: It turns compact arena fights into chaos through stackable abilities and emergent interactions, scratching the same broken-build itch.

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: Fighting 27% ★, 2D Fighter 23.6%, Local Multiplayer 18%, Physics 10.5%, PvP 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: Another compact physics-driven arena battler where movement and weapon chaos create hilarious clutch reversals.

Battle 1-3 friends in the fast-paced & frantic arenas of Zero-G Gunfight. Pickup different guns that change how you move & fight. Dodge enemy bullets & avoid unique hazards as you strive to be the last one standing!

Why similar: Fighting 30% ★, 2D Fighter 25.3%, Local Multiplayer 16.2%, PvP 8.8%, Physics 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: This is a clean 2D multiplayer shooter built around short arena firefights, keeping the same snappy duel-first appeal.

TowerFall Ascension is the definitive version of the hit archery combat game. Inspired by classics from the golden age of couch multiplayer, it's a 4-player local party game centering around hilarious, intense versus matches. The core mechanics are simple and accessible, but hard to master and combat is fierce.

Why similar: 2D Fighter 33.2%, Local Multiplayer 25.9%, Fighting 8.5% ★, Multiplayer 7.2%, Platformer 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: Though it lacks upgrades, its tiny arenas, lethal movement-based duels, and constant rematch energy make it a natural fit.

Battle it out local and online in this neon-soaked arena brawler full of lethal weapons, stackable perks, furious combat and a killer synthwave soundtrack.

Why similar: Fighting 30% ★, Local Multiplayer 18.6%, Twin Stick Shooter 16.5%, Multiplayer 13.7%, PvP 13.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its neon arena brawls are broken up by between-round perk drafting, making momentum swings and build synergies feel very ROUNDS-like.

Samurai GUNN 2 is a fighting game with Samurai and Gunns. Best your foes online or locally in this cutting edge sequel featuring Rollback Netcode and Ranked Matchmaking. Free Edition out now!

Why similar: 2D Fighter 27.9%, Fighting 20.7% ★, Local Multiplayer 13.8%, PvP 13.5%, Multiplayer 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: Lightning-fast one-hit duels and movement-heavy arena design make it a great match if you love ROUNDS’s compact competitive intensity.

Banging beats and mad style, Lethal League Blaze is the most intense ball game you can play online with up to 4 players.

Why similar: Fighting 34.8% ★, 2D Fighter 31.4%, Local Multiplayer 15.7%, Multiplayer 7.2%, Action 3.9%

Why You'll Like It: The projectile mindgames, tight arena spacing, and escalating competitive pressure feel very close even without card upgrades.

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: Fighting 31.1% ★, Local Multiplayer 24.5%, 2D Fighter 12.8%, Multiplayer 9.2%, Party Game 8.1% ★

Why You'll Like It: It captures the same 1v1 platform-duel tension, where a tiny positional mistake can instantly flip the entire round.

Enter the futuristic year of 1984, an age where ducks run wild in a frantic battle for glory. Blast your friends with Shotguns, Net Guns, Mind Control Rays, Saxophones, Magnet Guns, and much, much more. This is DUCK GAME. Don't blink.

Why similar: Local Multiplayer 39.1%, Multiplayer 35%, Platformer 11%, 2D 6.2%, Action 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: It delivers the same kind of quick, absurdly lethal weapon-based platform shootouts that are funniest and best in repeated rematches.

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.

Why similar: Fighting 37.6% ★, 2D Fighter 27.6%, Local Multiplayer 13%, Multiplayer 10.1%, Platformer 5%

Why You'll Like It: As a precise platform fighter, it matches ROUNDS’s emphasis on movement, spacing, and explosive comeback potential more than on buildcraft.

Treadnauts launches 4-player tank brawls into the sky. Drive up all the walls! Rocket jump onto the roof! Shoot bullets out of the air! Move with style!!

Why similar: Fighting 26.6% ★, 2D Fighter 22.2%, Local Multiplayer 16.4%, Physics 11.8%, Multiplayer 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: Physics platform tanks, small maps, and high-skill duels make it another excellent simple-rules-huge-mindgames multiplayer pick.

A wizard brawler about spell drafting and beard envy, MageQuit allows up to 10 mages to battle online or locally. Beards grow longer with each kill; the wizard with the longest beard after 9 rounds wins!

Why similar: Party Game 29.3% ★, Local Multiplayer 17.8%, Physics 16.9%, Multiplayer 16%, PvP 16%

Why You'll Like It: Spell-combo arena battles and strong local and online PvP give it a similar mix of accessible controls and surprising emergent builds.

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.

Why similar: Fighting 30.7% ★, 2D Fighter 23.3%, Local Multiplayer 15%, Multiplayer 10.1%, PvP 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a slicker modern take on that same expressive platform-fighting duel style for players who like ROUNDS’s competitive side.

Move or Die is an absurdly fast-paced 4-player local and online party game where the mechanics change every 20 seconds! It's THE friendship-ruining game.

Why similar: Multiplayer 33.5%, Local Multiplayer 32.4%, Party Game 9.3% ★, Platformer 8.8%, 2D 4.7%

Why You'll Like It: Its constant mutation of rules from round to round recreates the escalating, never-the-same-again pace that makes ROUNDS addictive.

Slice and dice your friends with boomerangs in this frantic physics party game. Join a crew of your favorite foods as you grill, chill and spill your enemies. Discover ridiculous power-ups and stack them together in deadly combinations.

Why similar: Fighting 30.3% ★, Party Game 25.6% ★, Local Multiplayer 19.4%, PvP 10.1%, Physics 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: Boomerang ricochets and compact maps give it the same small-sandbox-huge-chaos quality as ROUNDS, especially with friends.

Clone Drone in the Danger Zone is a robot voxel slice-em-up where any part of your body can be sliced off. With your mind downloaded into a robot gladiator, you must survive the sinister trials of the arena.

Why similar: Fighting 63.4% ★, Multiplayer 24.1%, Action 8%, Indie 4.4%

Why You'll Like It: It is much more 3D and melee-focused, yet its fast round-based PvP modes still deliver the same kind of sudden reversals and silly chaos.

Lethal League is a competitive projectile fighting game where you have to hit an anti-gravity ball into the face of your opponent to win. The ball speeds up with every strike, up to explosively extreme velocities. Play intense local matches with friends and foes, challenge yourself in the singleplayer mode or battle it out online.

Why similar: Fighting 37.8% ★, 2D Fighter 24%, Local Multiplayer 19%, Multiplayer 9.7%, Arcade 3%

Why You'll Like It: The original still nails the same tense projectile battles and read-the-bounce dueling that ROUNDS fans often enjoy.

Screencheat is a ridiculous competitive split-screen first-person shooter where everyone is invisible, so players are forced to look at each other’s screens to win. Supporting both local and online multiplayer, combat in Screencheat is fast and furious with a wide variety of one-hit kill weapons.

Why similar: Local Multiplayer 56.1%, Multiplayer 34.8%, Action 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: A round-based shooter built on clever gimmicks and short rematches, making it a good pick if you want more social, surprise-driven PvP.

Astro Duel 2 is a sci-fi combat game combining top-down space dog fights with up-close platforming action. Whether versus or co-op, battle through space and on foot at the same time! Strike within the fully-destructible arenas or just nuke ‘em from orbit.

Why similar: 2D Fighter 28.1%, Local Multiplayer 20.4%, Side Scroller 11.8%, PvP 11.6%, Platformer 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: This mixes snappy arena-versus combat with arcade immediacy, offering the same easy-entry competitive chaos in a different perspective.

Roof Rage is a Martial Arts Platform Fighter featuring epic rooftop battles. Play with up to 8 players locally or 1vs1 online.

Why similar: Fighting 31.2% ★, 2D Fighter 25%, Local Multiplayer 15.2%, Multiplayer 9.4%, Platformer 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: A compact weapon-based platform fighter with quick rounds and couch-competitive energy that’s easy to pick up and hard to put down.

Ride brooms, cast spells and transform your enemies into chickens in this intense magical sport

Why similar: Fighting 54.2% ★, PvP 22.7%, Arcade 12.3%, 2D 6%, Action 4.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its spell-based arena duels focus on spacing, knockback, and unpredictable item interactions in a way that feels spiritually adjacent.

Knight Squad 2 is a chaotic arcade multiplayer game for up to 8 players. Pick an eccentric knight and fight for glory with wacky weaponry. Triumph over your friends in a ridiculous amount of game modes, both offline and online.

Why similar: Party Game 42.7% ★, Multiplayer 18.9%, Arcade 13.3%, Local Multiplayer 11.1%, PvP 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: Top-down arena battles with tons of modes and local and online support make it a strong choice for short-session multiplayer mayhem.

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

Why similar: Fighting 26.6% ★, Local Multiplayer 22.5%, 2D Fighter 16.2%, Party Game 11.7% ★, Multiplayer 9%

Why You'll Like It: The first Nidhogg is even purer as a stripped-down duel game, emphasizing adaptation and momentum over complexity.

A FEW QUICK MATCHES is a fast-paced, 1-4 player platform fighter that lets you bring old-school stick battles to life! play with your friends locally, or challenge players online in this flash-inspired spectacle!

Why similar: 2D Fighter 32.3%, Fighting 31.5% ★, Local Multiplayer 12.9%, Multiplayer 9.6%, PvP 7.6%

Join BAPBAP, the Roguelike Party game where no two matches are ever the same. Round up your homies, pick a character, and build a giga-unfair build that'll make them hate you - then do it all over again!

Why similar: Deckbuilding 22.4%, Party Game 20.9% ★, Card Battler 16.4%, PvP 13.4%, Multiplayer 9.1%

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: Party Game 25.8% ★, Fighting 25.3% ★, Local Multiplayer 15.6%, Multiplayer 11.1%, PvP 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: This leans further into slapstick physics, but the short elimination rounds and party-brawler energy make it a decent lighter alternative.

The WILDEST ANIME FIGHT. Fly super fast, smash your friends through skyscrapers and break the planet with one punch! Up to 4 players local & 2 online. Now with workshop for INFINITE CHARACTERS!

Why similar: Fighting 29.2% ★, 2D Fighter 23.3%, Local Multiplayer 16.6%, Multiplayer 10.7%, PvP 9%

Why You'll Like It: Its over-the-top arena duels are louder and wilder than ROUNDS, but the quick resets and duel focus hit a similar note.

Counterpick Labs is a free platform fighter where you mix and match gear to build your perfect loadout. Featuring a single player story mode, a roguelike PvP mode where you earn powerful upgrades as you fight, and a classic no-frills PvP mode.

Why similar: Fighting 28.6% ★, 2D Fighter 24.6%, PvP 9.1%, Multiplayer 8.4%, Roguelite 7.8%

Windowkill is a twin-stick shooter, but the game window itself is constantly closing in on you. Shoot the window edges to push it around your screen as you fight and dodge enemies and bosses in their own windows.

Why similar: Twin Stick Shooter 33.9%, Roguelite 15.5%, Local Multiplayer 13.4%, Arcade 12.4%, Multiplayer 8.1%

SNKRX is an arcade shooter roguelite where you control a snake of heroes that automatically attack nearby enemies. Combine different heroes to unlock class bonuses and create unique builds, and steer your unstoppable party as they ravage through endless waves of enemies.

Why similar: Deckbuilding 37.8%, Roguelite 25.4%, Physics 14.4%, Arcade 12.1%, 2D 5.6%

The local multi-player space narwhal fighting game that has rocked the internet is finally ready for its big debut in a fully loaded release! Flop it out with 1-4 players in a retro, epic narwhal battle in space! The heart-piercing action is furious and unrelenting. STARWHAL will change your life.

Why similar: Local Multiplayer 41%, Multiplayer 16.2%, Fighting 14.4% ★, Party Game 11.2% ★, Arcade 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: A minimalist local duel game with instant lethality and weird spacing battles that will appeal if you mainly love ROUNDS for couch competition.

Create insane builds and break the game in all possible ways to get your name into the leaderboards! Every round you get stronger, but so does the enemies...

Why similar: Roguelike Deckbuilder 57.4% ★, Roguelite 21.6%, 2D 7.1%, Deckbuilding 7.1%, Arcade 3.9%

Master your technique, execute flashy combos, and outsmart opponents across the world, frame-by-frame. Slow down the clock to fine-tune your fighting style in this innovative, turn-based combat simulator. Pulverize your friends and choreograph spectacular fight scenes. No training mode required.

Why similar: 2D Fighter 70.6%, Side Scroller 16.6%, Action 6.5%, 2D 6.3%

STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.

Why similar: PvP 43.3%, Multiplayer 39.7%, Action 14.2%, Indie 2.9%

Unleash your creativity and strategic prowess in Forts, the exhilarating physics-based RTS! Design, construct, and customize imposing fortresses, bristling with devastating firepower, and blast your opponent’s buildings to rubble!

Why similar: Multiplayer 38.8%, Physics 38.8%, 2D 9.1%, Action 8%, Indie 5.2%

Pummel Paladins is a 1v1 brawler with a creative twist. Don't be mistaken, just because the knights lost their weapons doesn't mean they are going to stop their destined duel. Push, parry, utilize the environment and items to outplay your opponent in this retro, dungeon arena!

Why similar: Fighting 30% ★, 2D Fighter 27.1%, Local Multiplayer 20.5%, PvP 12.2%, Arcade 7.5%

Deckbuilding empowers this challenging bullet hell adventure! Each character is a unique experience: Choose a deck of unlockable cards to boost you in new ways every battle - "My whirlwind shoots fireballs!?". Battle hordes of brutal foes to become a superstar in C-SAR’s ever-changing game show.

Why similar: Deckbuilding 35.9%, Card Game 24.4%, Roguelite 19.9%, Arcade 9.6%, Action 6%

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: Party Game 29.2% ★, Multiplayer 19.1%, Local Multiplayer 17.9%, PvP 12.7%, Platformer 10.9%

Demolish your friends with hundreds of upgradable weapons shot from your customizable tank in this action-packed online multiplayer tanks game. Earn XP to level up and unlock new tanks, weapons, and gear. Fight against or alongside your friends for strategic team or free-for-all matches.

Why similar: Multiplayer 57.2%, Physics 14.5%, 2D 14%, Action 10.1%, Indie 4.1%

A unique take on the popular genre of battle royales. Multiple fast pace rounds that rewards kills just as much as being the last alive. Team up, take revenge, and be the last bean standing.

Why similar: Multiplayer 67.5%, Action 18.6%, Indie 13.9%

Haxity is a cyberpunk, PvP, action deck-builder. Draft your deck, modify your fighter and outsmart your opponent in intense Head-to-Head battles. Fight online, challenge your friends or terminate the AI. Slot, hack and execute, welcome to Haxity!

Why similar: Roguelike Deckbuilder 31.2% ★, Card Battler 27.8%, Deckbuilding 10.7%, Card Game 10.6%, Multiplayer 7%

A co-op PvP experience about using your voice to cast spells in the Mage Arena to settle an ages-old feud between sorcerers and warlocks.

Why similar: PvP 79.7%, Action 20.3%

Build a powerful deck, cast spells on the fly, battle evolving enemies, find game-changing artifacts, make friends or make enemies, just make it to Eden.

Why similar: Card Battler 28.8%, Deckbuilding 27.8%, Card Game 17.3%, Roguelite 17.2%, Action 4%

Outnumbered is a mass-enemy top-down shooter with rogue-lite elements. You may be greatly outnumbered, but not outpowered. Evolve into the ultimate weapon of destruction!

Why similar: Deckbuilding 36.8%, Roguelite 32.2%, Arcade 14.7%, Action 9.4%, Indie 7%

Fast-paced local multi-player game packed with action. Destroy your friends with all sorts of different weapons and power-ups across multiple game modes!

Why similar: Party Game 40.4% ★, Local Multiplayer 28.1%, PvP 11.4%, Arcade 8.6%, 2D 5.2%

Just Act Natural is a hand-crafted online party game where players must hide among NPC characters to avoid detection from the seeker. Compete against your friends in a variety of game modes over a course of different rounds to be crowned the winner!

Why similar: Multiplayer 47.4%, Arcade 21.1%, PvP 18.7%, Action 9.5%, Indie 3.4%

Double Down is a roguelike FPS for high-octane high rollers. Smash robots and spin slots to win powerful upgrades, and make your way through growing waves of enemies to face The House and take back the casino.

Why similar: Action 76.2%, Indie 23.8%

Claw your way across exotic islands combining fluid movement with fast paced combat to become a Crab Champion in this third person roguelike shooter.

Why similar: Multiplayer 29.9%, Roguelite 24.6%, Platformer 20%, Arcade 18.2%, Action 7.2%

Neon Sundown is an extremely challenging arena-shooter that mixes fast-paced action with roguelite elements. Take on increasingly difficult arenas as you unlock new ships, upgrades, synergies, and more! Think you have what it takes to survive?

Why similar: Deckbuilding 39.5%, Roguelite 31%, Arcade 15.1%, 2D 7.5%, Action 7%

Guns N’ Boxes is a top-down single screen arena-style multiplayer shooter where you shoot boxes, get random weapons and use them to blast everything that moves! Choose your favorite character and duke it out with rifles, hot dog launchers, rail guns, arrows and tons of other weapons.

Why similar: Twin Stick Shooter 24.6%, Local Multiplayer 23.6%, Multiplayer 21.8%, Roguelite 14.5%, Action 8.7%

Fighting Fiends is a top-down fighting game. Play it 1 on 1 for intense matches or with up to 4 players for chaotic fun, both locally and online.

Why similar: Fighting 32.5% ★, 2D Fighter 21.4%, Local Multiplayer 16.5%, Action 11.9%, Multiplayer 11.5%

Stick it to the Stickman is a physics-based brawler where you fight heaps of red stickmen to become the boss. Choose from hundreds of unique moves to construct the perfect combat machine and fight your way to the top of the corporate ladder.

Why similar: 2D Fighter 46.9%, Multiplayer 20.6%, Platformer 9.6%, 2D Platformer 8.4%, Action 7.9%

Fighties is a fast paced 2D platform fighter. Choose from a wide selection of Fighties each with their own unique play style. Beat down your opponents to become the strongest Fightie of them all.

Why similar: Fighting 29.3% ★, 2D Fighter 22.8%, Local Multiplayer 16.6%, Multiplayer 10.8%, Platformer 8.4%

Build your perfect deck and become a Champion.

Why similar: Roguelike Deckbuilder 27.3% ★, Deckbuilding 18.2%, Card Battler 15.8%, Card Game 14.2%, Roguelite 8.7%

Polygunners is a cross between a twin-stick shooter and an RPG. Upgrade abilities, explore dungeons and towns, and fight bosses to progress through the world. Playing with your friends with local co-op cranks the experience up to 11 for satisfying dynamic gameplay.

Why similar: 2D Fighter 51.9%, Twin Stick Shooter 35.9%, Action 7.2%, 2D 4.4%, Indie 0.6%

EndCycle VS is a grid-battle adventure that challenges you to create the ultimate deck. Battle against the oncoming Noise or prove yourself in epic online battles - now with ROLLBACK NETCODE!

Why similar: 2D Fighter 23.4%, Card Battler 22.4%, Deckbuilding 21.4%, PvP 10.4%, Multiplayer 10.2%