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 43.3%, PvP 21.6%, Multiplayer 21.4%, Action 9.4%, Indie 4.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its fast first-person duels use playable cards to hand out wild modifiers and counters, making each match feel like a build-driven escalation.

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

Why similar: 2D Fighter 25.5%, Card Battler 21.1%, Deckbuilding 15.5%, Card Game 14.3%, PvP 11.6%

Why You'll Like It: This is another intense head-to-head action game where deck construction and quick reactions combine to create highly personalized combat builds.

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 29.7% ★, 2D Fighter 24.7%, PvP 8.8%, Multiplayer 8.3%, Roguelite 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: Its compact competitive fights and roguelite-style ability choices capture the appeal of adapting a build to outplay a specific opponent.

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 39.5%, Local Multiplayer 18.8%, Multiplayer 18.6%, PvP 8.2%, Physics 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: It delivers the same easy-to-learn but wildly chaotic 2D PvP energy, with absurd powers that dramatically change each round.

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 32.1% ★, 2D Fighter 18.5%, Multiplayer 16.4%, Local Multiplayer 14.8%, PvP 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: Quick rounds, physics-heavy weapons, destructible arenas, and instant rematches make it an excellent party-focused alternative to ROUNDS.

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 28% ★, 2D Fighter 23.6%, Local Multiplayer 17.9%, Physics 10.1%, PvP 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: Chaotic platforming movement, improvised weapons, and lethal physics create the same hilarious high-stakes multiplayer volatility.

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 33%, Fighting 32.5% ★, Local Multiplayer 12.1%, Multiplayer 9.2%, PvP 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: This is built around short, approachable 2D bouts where unusual character abilities and tight arenas keep rematches fresh.

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

Why similar: Multiplayer 40.3%, PvP 33%, Arcade 19.8%, Action 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: Its arena shooter matches revolve around choosing upgrades between rounds, directly echoing ROUNDS' escalating counter-build structure.

Superfighters Deluxe is a unique action game that combines brawling, shooting and platforming in dynamic sandboxy 2D levels. Lots of weapons and fun gameplay systems interlock to create absurd action-movie chaos.

Why similar: Multiplayer 24.5%, Local Multiplayer 24.3%, Physics 12.6%, Platformer 12.2%, Action 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its 2D arena gunfights emphasize movement, environmental destruction, weapon scrambling, and frantic competitive duels.

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 18.5%, Card Battler 16.7%, PvP 14.3%, Multiplayer 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: Its PvP matches add roguelite build decisions and item synergies to arena combat, appealing to the upgrade-combination side of ROUNDS.

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 31% ★, 2D Fighter 25.3%, Local Multiplayer 16.1%, PvP 8.6%, Physics 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: This local arena shooter turns aerial movement and gunplay into compact competitive matches with a similarly playful physics-driven feel.

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 39.3%, Multiplayer 34.7%, Platformer 11.3%, Action 6%, 2D 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: Rapid-fire rounds built around weapon pickups, platforming, and instant deaths make every duel feel as unpredictable as a fresh ROUNDS build.

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 33.6%, Local Multiplayer 26.1%, Fighting 8.9% ★, Multiplayer 7.2%, Platformer 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: Competitive archery duels, power-up arrows, dangerous arenas, and strong comeback potential make it a classic couch-versus counterpart.

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 35.7% ★, 2D Fighter 30.9%, Local Multiplayer 15.7%, Multiplayer 7%, Action 3.9%

Why You'll Like It: Although built around a ball rather than guns, its escalating projectile speed and extreme mind games provide a similarly intense competitive rhythm.

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 30.9% ★, 2D Fighter 27%, Local Multiplayer 20.3%, PvP 11.8%, Arcade 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: This retro-styled local brawler offers short rounds, varied fighters, and accessible arcade competition for the same pick-up-and-play audience.

Lock in! Samurai GUNN 2 is a bloody and brutally fast platform fighter for players who like short rounds and intense action. Free Edition out now!

Why similar: 2D Fighter 27.5%, Fighting 22.1% ★, Local Multiplayer 14.5%, PvP 12.4%, Multiplayer 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its ultrafast one-hit duels reward reads, movement, and clever use of a very limited ammunition resource.

Battle a friend in this fast paced 1v1 class-based first-person shooter. Chess takes a back-seat to FPS as you win duel after duel and capture the opponent's pieces until you've beaten their king and won the game.

Why similar: PvP 36.3%, Multiplayer 33.9%, Local Multiplayer 23%, Action 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: It combines a familiar turn-based duel framework with sudden first-person shootouts, creating an inventive competitive game full of surprise reversals.

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 31.9% ★, 2D Fighter 22.7%, Local Multiplayer 14.6%, Multiplayer 9.7%, PvP 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: This polished platform fighter provides precise movement, expressive character kits, and competitive 1v1 depth for players who enjoy ROUNDS' duel format.

Forget everything you’ve learned about combat. Cobalt’s slo-mo mechanic lets you perform moves that other games can’t comprehend. Discover the secrets of a distant colony in a cosmic campaign, take on challenges and rule the leaderboards, or face off against others in local and online multiplayer.

Why similar: Local Multiplayer 26.9%, Multiplayer 23%, Platformer 18.9%, Action 11.1%, 2D 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: This acrobatic platform shooter centers on dodging, bouncing shots, and outmaneuvering opponents in kinetic 2D arenas.

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 32.7% ★, Party Game 21.9%, Local Multiplayer 20.5%, PvP 10.2%, Physics 9%

Why You'll Like It: Simple controls, instant eliminations, weapon power-ups, and expressive physics make it a great lightweight local-versus option.

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 32.9% ★, Local Multiplayer 24.3%, 2D Fighter 12.8%, Multiplayer 9.3%, Party Game 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: Its focused one-on-one fights are built around momentum swings, reads, and rapid rematches, even though its combat is melee-based.

ROCKETS fire ROCKETS at ROCKETS in this action-arcade, arena-combat, gorgeous festival-of-fireworks! It's dogfighting meets figure-skating in space with local multiplayer and single-player fast-paced action modes plus a ZEN MODE where ROCKETS learn to LOVE.

Why similar: Local Multiplayer 48.1%, Multiplayer 18.7%, Arcade 11.6%, Action 10.6%, Indie 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: Its twitchy local arena combat combines jetpack-like movement, explosive weapons, and destructible levels for gleefully messy duels.

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 57.4%, Physics 14.3%, 2D 13.6%, Action 10.5%, Indie 4.1%

Why You'll Like It: Its turn-based tank battles emphasize weapon variety, terrain manipulation, and persistent upgrades for players who enjoy tactical build advantages.

An arcade action game about shooting a ball into a goal. It's cyberpunk volleyball with guns.

Why similar: Local Multiplayer 54.5%, PvP 21.3%, Arcade 12.5%, 2D 6.1%, Action 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: Competitive shooting is reframed as a frantic team sport, with ricocheting projectiles and sharp positional play that reward repeated matches.

Stick it to the Stickman is a rogue-lite physics brawler where you brutally displace your way up the corporate ladder. Assemble devastating combat portfolios, unlocking new workers and game modes as you increase shareholder value.

Why similar: 2D Fighter 48.1%, Multiplayer 20.4%, Platformer 9.6%, 2D Platformer 8%, Action 7.7%

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 38.2%, Multiplayer 20.3%, Arcade 14.2%, Local Multiplayer 12.1%, PvP 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: It offers accessible arena combat with abundant weapon pickups, changing objectives, and a strong local multiplayer party-game feel.

Crawl is the local multiplayer dungeon crawler where your friends control the monsters! Battle through dungeons and power up your hero - if a friend kills you they take your place and it’s their turn to crawl. It's a race to gain enough XP and loot to take on the hulking final boss!

Why similar: Local Multiplayer 62.4%, Multiplayer 19.6%, Action 5.6%, Indie 4.9%, 2D 3.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its asymmetrical local multiplayer lets players evolve their combat options between encounters, making matches feel dynamic and strategically personal.

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 56.3%, Multiplayer 34.4%, Action 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: This split-screen shooter turns arena knowledge and frantic gunplay into silly, highly replayable local multiplayer matches.

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 34.8%, Roguelite 14.7%, Local Multiplayer 13.5%, Arcade 12.4%, Multiplayer 8.1%

The best flying disc game of all time is back, with amazing hand-drawn graphics, crazy new moves, gameplay mechanics and awesome characters and stages! New update brings new playable characters, new training mode, full crossplay support and more.

Why similar: PvP 32.1%, Multiplayer 31.1%, Arcade 19.4%, Local Multiplayer 13.5%, 2D 2.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its one-on-one projectile exchanges are fast, reactive, and packed with feints, counters, and momentum changes despite the sports presentation.

One Strike is a 2d fighting game with fast and furious gameplay, memorable characters, and a retro pixelart aesthetic! Choose between one of six unique fighters, travel to medieval Japan’s beautiful pixelated landscapes and fight to become the greatest warrior in history.

Why similar: Fighting 47.6% ★, 2D Fighter 35.6%, Action 9.7%, Indie 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: Every round is resolved by a single decisive hit, distilling the tense reads and instant rematch appeal of ROUNDS into sword duels.

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 38.3% ★, 2D Fighter 27.8%, Local Multiplayer 12.8%, Multiplayer 9.7%, Platformer 5.1%

The latest title of the party battle games series SUPER BOMBERMAN R! With new adventures and game modes, it has the largest content volume in the series' history!

Why similar: PvP 36.1%, Party Game 25.6%, Action 19.2%, Multiplayer 19.1%

Why You'll Like It: Bomb-based arena rounds feature power-up accumulation, quick eliminations, and escalating map control in a similarly readable competitive format.

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 71%, Side Scroller 16.5%, Action 6.5%, 2D 6%

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 64.4% ★, Multiplayer 23.4%, Action 8%, Indie 4.2%

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 25.4%, Multiplayer 19.9%, Local Multiplayer 19%, PvP 13.1%, Platformer 11.8%

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 66.9%, Action 19.4%, Indie 13.7%

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 21.4%, 2D 7.2%, Deckbuilding 7%, Arcade 4%

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 37.1%, Roguelite 25.2%, Physics 14.5%, Arcade 12.5%, 2D 5.6%

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 79.1%, Action 20.9%

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 30.1%, Roguelite 23.7%, Platformer 20.6%, Arcade 18%, Action 7.5%

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 39.4%, Physics 38.1%, 2D 9%, Action 8.3%, Indie 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 47.7%, Arcade 20.8%, PvP 18.4%, Action 9.8%, Indie 3.3%

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 35.5%, Card Game 24.1%, Roguelite 19.8%, Arcade 9.8%, Action 6.5%

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 30.9% ★, 2D Fighter 24%, Local Multiplayer 14.5%, Multiplayer 8.8%, Platformer 5.3%

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 27.8%, Deckbuilding 26.7%, Card Game 18.4%, Roguelite 16.4%, Action 4.3%

Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!

Why similar: Physics 51.7%, PvP 32.8%, Indie 8.9%, Action 6.6%

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 31.1% ★, Card Battler 27.7%, Card Game 10.5%, Deckbuilding 10.5%, Multiplayer 7.3%

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 42.4%, Multiplayer 40.2%, Action 14.1%, Indie 3.2%

Grab your balloon crossbow and trusty inflatable hammer, because things are about to get wobbly! Be the last weirdo standing in the world-leading physics-based Battle Royale game.

Why similar: Multiplayer 37.8%, Physics 36.5%, PvP 14.3%, Indie 7.3%, Action 4%

Carefully designed, beautifully remastered, and loaded with new ways to play—Risk of Rain is back and better than ever! Dive into the iconic roguelike full of unique loot combinations, enhanced with new Survivors, overhauled multiplayer, fan favorite content from Risk of Rain 2, and more!

Why similar: Multiplayer 50.5%, Arcade 22.6%, 2D 15.4%, Action 11.5%

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 35.9%, Local Multiplayer 30.6%, PvP 12.2%, Arcade 9.1%, 2D 5.4%

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 25%, Local Multiplayer 23.9%, Multiplayer 21.7%, Roguelite 13.8%, Action 9%

A spellslinging dueling game for up to 4 players. Choose among seven cracked mages and use their unique abilities to shoot down your opponent’s magical flask while defending yours! Destroy your friends (and loved ones) in local or online modes!

Why similar: Fighting 26.3% ★, 2D Fighter 22%, Local Multiplayer 14.3%, PvP 9.3%, Multiplayer 8.6%

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 39% ★, 2D Fighter 23.8%, Local Multiplayer 18.6%, Multiplayer 9.4%, Arcade 3%

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 77.3%, Indie 22.7%

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 38.7%, Roguelite 30.7%, Arcade 15.6%, 2D 7.5%, Action 7.5%

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 52.1%, Twin Stick Shooter 35.8%, Action 7.4%, 2D 4.1%, 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 24.3%, Card Battler 21.8%, Deckbuilding 20.6%, PvP 10.5%, Multiplayer 10.4%

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 30.1% ★, 2D Fighter 22.7%, Local Multiplayer 16.4%, Multiplayer 10.5%, Platformer 8.5%