Games like Waves 2
Closest overall match: Waves (★ 3.5). Highest rated: Bit Blaster XL at ★ 2.6. Quickest to finish: Waves at about 1 hours.
We compared Waves 2 against every game in our catalog on shared tags, genre, rating, playtime and release era, and these 10 came closest. What ties them together most: Shoot 'Em Up, Bullet Hell and Full controller support.
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71%
1. Waves
Shares Score Attack, Arena Shooter, Twin Stick Shooter, Bullet Hell and Shoot 'Em Up and 4 more tags; same developer; rated 2.0 higher.
- Year
- 2011
- Rating
- ★ 3.5
- Metacritic
- 82
- Playtime
- 1h
- Shared genres
- 4, Casual, Indie
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65%
2. Bit Blaster XL
Shares Score Attack, Bullet Hell, Shoot 'Em Up, Steam Leaderboards and Full controller support and 1 more tags; rated 1.1 higher; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2016
- Rating
- ★ 2.6
- Playtime
- 3h
- Finish rate
- 34%
- Shared genres
- 4, Casual, Indie
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64%
3. Echoes+
Shares Twin Stick Shooter, Bullet Hell, Shoot 'Em Up, Full controller support and Singleplayer; rated 0.6 higher; same release year.
- Year
- 2015
- Rating
- ★ 2.1
- Playtime
- 1h
- Shared genres
- 4, Indie
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64%
4. Canyon Capers
Shares stats, Steam Leaderboards, Full controller support, Steam Cloud and Singleplayer; rated 0.3 higher; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2014
- Rating
- ★ 1.8
- Playtime
- 3h
- Finish rate
- 18%
- Shared genres
- 4, Casual, Indie
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64%
5. Borealis
Shares Score Attack, Bullet Hell and Singleplayer; rated 0.3 higher; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2014
- Rating
- ★ 1.8
- Playtime
- 1h
- Shared genres
- 4, Casual, Indie
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63%
6. ShipLord
Shares Bullet Hell, Shoot 'Em Up, stats, Steam Leaderboards and Steam Cloud and 1 more tags; rated 0.5 higher; same release year.
- Year
- 2015
- Rating
- ★ 2.0
- Playtime
- 5h
- Shared genres
- 4, Casual, Indie
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63%
7. Planes, Bullets and Vodka
Shares Shoot 'Em Up, Full controller support, Steam Cloud and Singleplayer; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2016
- Rating
- ★ 1.7
- Playtime
- 5h
- Shared genres
- 4, Casual, Indie
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62%
8. Stellar 2D
Shares Shoot 'Em Up and Singleplayer; same release year.
- Year
- 2015
- Rating
- ★ 1.5
- Playtime
- 4h
- Shared genres
- 4, Casual, Indie
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62%
9. Asteroid Bounty Hunter
Shares Bullet Hell, Shoot 'Em Up, stats, Steam Leaderboards and Full controller support and 2 more tags; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2016
- Rating
- ★ 1.7
- Playtime
- 4h
- Shared genres
- 4, Casual, Indie
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62%
10. Heckabomb
Shares Twin Stick Shooter, Shoot 'Em Up, Full controller support, Steam Cloud and Singleplayer; same release year.
- Year
- 2015
- Rating
- ★ 1.5
- Playtime
- 4h
- Shared genres
- 4, Indie
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Questions people ask
What is the best game like Waves 2?
On our similarity model, Waves is the closest match to Waves 2 — shares Score Attack, Arena Shooter, Twin Stick Shooter, Bullet Hell and Shoot 'Em Up and 4 more tags; same developer; rated 2.0 higher.
Which game like Waves 2 is rated highest?
Bit Blaster XL holds the highest player rating in this list at 2.6/5 from 68 players.
How this list is built
Every game in our catalog is scored against Waves 2 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.