Games like Desert Child on Nintendo Switch
Closest overall match: Mercenary Kings (★ 2.9). Highest rated: Streets of Rogue at ★ 3.8. Quickest to finish: Regions Of Ruin at about 1 hours.
These 12 games score highest on our similarity model for Desert Child — weighted by shared tags, genre overlap, rating proximity and release era. The strongest common threads are Singleplayer, Local Multiplayer and Split Screen.
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54%
1. Mercenary Kings
Shares Shoot 'Em Up, Local Multiplayer, Split Screen, 2D and Full controller support and 1 more tags; rated 0.4 higher.
- Year
- 2014
- Rating
- ★ 2.9
- Metacritic
- 76
- Playtime
- 3h
- Finish rate
- 25%
- Shared genres
- 4, RPG, Indie
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54%
2. Regions Of Ruin
Shares role-playing, 2D and Singleplayer; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2018
- Rating
- ★ 2.5
- Playtime
- 1h
- Finish rate
- 22%
- Shared genres
- 4, RPG, 14, Indie
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54%
3. Hellpoint
Shares role-playing, Local Multiplayer, Split Screen and Singleplayer.
- Year
- 2020
- Rating
- ★ 2.7
- Metacritic
- 61
- Playtime
- 3h
- Finish rate
- 27%
- Shared genres
- 4, RPG, Indie
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54%
4. Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime
Shares Shoot 'Em Up, Local Multiplayer, Split Screen, 2D and Full controller support and 1 more tags; rated 1.0 higher; released within 2 years.
- Year
- 2015
- Rating
- ★ 3.6
- Metacritic
- 80
- Playtime
- 3h
- Finish rate
- 31%
- Shared genres
- 4, 14, Indie
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54%
5. The Long Journey Home
Shares 2D, Full controller support and Singleplayer; same release year.
- Year
- 2017
- Rating
- ★ 2.5
- Metacritic
- 68
- Playtime
- 3h
- Shared genres
- 4, RPG, 14, Indie
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54%
6. Monster Slayers
Shares role-playing, 2D and Singleplayer; rated 0.7 higher; same release year.
- Year
- 2017
- Rating
- ★ 3.2
- Metacritic
- 86
- Playtime
- 3h
- Shared genres
- 4, RPG, Indie
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53%
7. GRIP: Combat Racing
Shares Local Multiplayer, Split Screen and Singleplayer; rated 0.4 higher; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2018
- Rating
- ★ 3.0
- Metacritic
- 68
- Playtime
- 2h
- Finish rate
- 17%
- Shared genres
- 1, 4, Indie
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53%
8. RIOT - Civil Unrest
Shares Local Multiplayer, Split Screen, 2D, Full controller support and Singleplayer; released within 2 years.
- Year
- 2019
- Rating
- ★ 2.8
- Playtime
- 1h
- Finish rate
- 15%
- Shared genres
- 4, 14, Indie
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53%
9. Streets of Rogue
Shares role-playing, Local Multiplayer, Split Screen, Full controller support and Singleplayer; rated 1.3 higher; same release year.
- Year
- 2017
- Rating
- ★ 3.8
- Playtime
- 4h
- Finish rate
- 43%
- Shared genres
- 4, RPG, Indie
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53%
10. Fight'N Rage
Shares Local Multiplayer, Split Screen, 2D, Full controller support and Singleplayer; rated 0.6 higher; same release year.
- Year
- 2017
- Rating
- ★ 3.2
- Playtime
- 3h
- Finish rate
- 54%
- Shared genres
- 4, Indie
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53%
11. Colt Canyon
Shares Shoot 'Em Up, Local Multiplayer, 2D and Singleplayer; rated 0.7 higher.
- Year
- 2020
- Rating
- ★ 3.2
- Playtime
- 4h
- Shared genres
- 4, Indie
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53%
12. Coffin Dodgers
Shares Local Multiplayer, Split Screen, Full controller support and Singleplayer; released within 2 years.
- Year
- 2015
- Rating
- ★ 2.3
- Playtime
- 3h
- Shared genres
- 1, 4, Indie
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Questions people ask
What is the best game like Desert Child on Nintendo Switch?
On our similarity model, Mercenary Kings is the closest match to Desert Child on Nintendo Switch — shares Shoot 'Em Up, Local Multiplayer, Split Screen, 2D and Full controller support and 1 more tags; rated 0.4 higher.
Which game like Desert Child is rated highest?
Streets of Rogue holds the highest player rating in this list at 3.8/5 from 166 players.
How this list is built
Every game in our catalog is scored against Desert Child on five signals: weighted tag overlap (rare tags count more), genre overlap, platform family overlap, rating and playtime proximity, and release era. The list is recomputed nightly as ratings and new releases change.
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