Games like Ikaruga — Co-op
Closest overall match: Crimsonland (★ 4.0). Highest rated: Enter the Gungeon at ★ 4.1. Quickest to finish: Serious Sam: The First Encounter at about 1 hours.
These 10 games score highest on our similarity model for Ikaruga — weighted by shared tags, genre overlap, rating proximity and release era. The strongest common threads are Split Screen, cooperative and Local Multiplayer.
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60%
1. Crimsonland
Shares Shoot 'Em Up, Local Multiplayer, Split Screen, Steam Leaderboards and cooperative and 6 more tags; about 6h longer; released within 2 years.
- Year
- 2003
- Rating
- ★ 4.0
- Metacritic
- 68
- Playtime
- 7h
- Finish rate
- 72%
- Shared genres
- 2, 4, Indie
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58%
2. Serious Sam: The First Encounter
Shares Split Screen, cooperative, Great Soundtrack and Singleplayer; same release year.
- Year
- 2001
- Rating
- ★ 4.0
- Metacritic
- 87
- Playtime
- 1h
- Finish rate
- 81%
- Shared genres
- 2, 4, Indie
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57%
3. Crimzon Clover: World Ignition
Shares Bullet Hell, Shoot 'Em Up, Split Screen, Steam Leaderboards and Great Soundtrack and 6 more tags; rated 0.5 lower.
- Year
- 2014
- Rating
- ★ 3.6
- Metacritic
- 85
- Playtime
- 3h
- Shared genres
- 2, 4, Indie
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56%
4. Castle Crashers
Shares Controller, Local Multiplayer, Split Screen, Steam Leaderboards and cooperative and 7 more tags.
- Year
- 2008
- Rating
- ★ 3.9
- Metacritic
- 84
- Playtime
- 4h
- Finish rate
- 61%
- Shared genres
- 4, Indie
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56%
5. Geometry Wars 3: Dimensions Evolved
Shares Bullet Hell, Shoot 'Em Up, Local Multiplayer, Split Screen and Steam Leaderboards and 5 more tags.
- Year
- 2014
- Rating
- ★ 3.8
- Playtime
- 2h
- Finish rate
- 38%
- Shared genres
- 2, 4
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56%
6. Serious Sam: The Second Encounter
Shares Split Screen, cooperative, Great Soundtrack and Singleplayer; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2002
- Rating
- ★ 4.0
- Metacritic
- 85
- Playtime
- 1h
- Finish rate
- 81%
- Shared genres
- 2, 4, Indie
-
55%
7. Screencheat
Shares Controller, Local Multiplayer, Split Screen, Full controller support and steam-trading-cards and 3 more tags; rated 0.4 lower.
- Year
- 2014
- Rating
- ★ 3.6
- Metacritic
- 71
- Playtime
- 3h
- Finish rate
- 31%
- Shared genres
- 2, 4, Indie
-
55%
8. Serious Sam 3: BFE
Shares Local Multiplayer, Split Screen, Steam Leaderboards, cooperative and Full controller support and 4 more tags; rated 0.6 lower.
- Year
- 2011
- Rating
- ★ 3.5
- Metacritic
- 72
- Playtime
- 4h
- Finish rate
- 67%
- Shared genres
- 2, 4, Indie
-
55%
9. Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime
Shares Shoot 'Em Up, Local Multiplayer, Split Screen, cooperative and Great Soundtrack and 6 more tags; rated 0.5 lower.
- Year
- 2015
- Rating
- ★ 3.6
- Metacritic
- 80
- Playtime
- 3h
- Finish rate
- 31%
- Shared genres
- 2, 4, Indie
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54%
10. Enter the Gungeon
Shares Bullet Hell, Shoot 'Em Up, Split Screen, cooperative and Great Soundtrack and 4 more tags; about 5h longer.
- Year
- 2016
- Rating
- ★ 4.1
- Metacritic
- 84
- Playtime
- 6h
- Finish rate
- 33%
- Shared genres
- 2, 4, Indie
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Questions people ask
What is the best game like Ikaruga?
On our similarity model, Crimsonland is the closest match to Ikaruga — shares Shoot 'Em Up, Local Multiplayer, Split Screen, Steam Leaderboards and cooperative and 6 more tags; about 6h longer; released within 2 years.
Which game like Ikaruga is rated highest?
Enter the Gungeon holds the highest player rating in this list at 4.1/5 from 1,075 players.
How this list is built
Every game in our catalog is scored against Ikaruga 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.
Base game data via RAWG.