Games like You Have to Win the Game
Closest overall match: The Expendabros (★ 3.5). Highest rated: TowerFall Ascension at ★ 3.9. Quickest to finish: The Expendabros at about 1 hours.
These 12 games score highest on our similarity model for You Have to Win the Game — weighted by shared tags, genre overlap, rating proximity and release era. What ties them together most: 2D, Side Scroller and Great Soundtrack.
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67%
1. The Expendabros
Shares Side Scroller, Controller, Pixel Graphics, Open World and 2D and 2 more tags; rated 0.6 higher; same release year.
- Year
- 2014
- Rating
- ★ 3.5
- Playtime
- 1h
- Finish rate
- 67%
- Shared genres
- 4, Indie, 83
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62%
2. Xeodrifter
Shares Metroidvania, Pixel Graphics, Exploration, 2D and Steam Cloud and 2 more tags; same release year.
- Year
- 2014
- Rating
- ★ 3.0
- Playtime
- 1h
- Finish rate
- 46%
- Shared genres
- 4, Indie, 83
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60%
3. Super Time Force Ultra
Shares Side Scroller, Pixel Graphics, Great Soundtrack, 2D and Full controller support and 2 more tags; same release year.
- Year
- 2014
- Rating
- ★ 3.1
- Metacritic
- 80
- Playtime
- 2h
- Finish rate
- 34%
- Shared genres
- 4, Indie, 83
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58%
4. Intrusion 2
Shares Side Scroller, Great Soundtrack, 2D, Steam Cloud and Steam Achievements and 1 more tags; released within 2 years.
- Year
- 2012
- Rating
- ★ 3.1
- Metacritic
- 80
- Playtime
- 1h
- Finish rate
- 46%
- Shared genres
- 4, Indie
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57%
5. Deadlight
Shares Side Scroller, Controller, Great Soundtrack, 2D and Full controller support and 3 more tags; rated 0.7 higher; released within 2 years.
- Year
- 2012
- Rating
- ★ 3.6
- Metacritic
- 78
- Playtime
- 4h
- Finish rate
- 76%
- Shared genres
- 4, Indie, 83
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57%
6. TowerFall Ascension
Shares Controller, stats, Pixel Graphics, Great Soundtrack and 2D and 4 more tags; rated 1.0 higher; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2013
- Rating
- ★ 3.9
- Metacritic
- 87
- Playtime
- 3h
- Finish rate
- 48%
- Shared genres
- 4, Indie, 83
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57%
7. Valdis Story: Abyssal City
Shares Metroidvania, Side Scroller, Exploration, Great Soundtrack and 2D and 3 more tags; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2013
- Rating
- ★ 3.1
- Metacritic
- 83
- Playtime
- 3h
- Finish rate
- 31%
- Shared genres
- 4, Indie, 83
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57%
8. Electronic Super Joy
Shares Side Scroller, Pixel Graphics, Great Soundtrack, 2D and Full controller support and 3 more tags; rated 0.5 higher; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2013
- Rating
- ★ 3.5
- Metacritic
- 78
- Playtime
- 2h
- Finish rate
- 46%
- Shared genres
- 4, Indie, 83
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57%
9. Strike Suit Infinity
Shares Controller, Great Soundtrack, Full controller support, Steam Cloud and Steam Achievements and 1 more tags; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2013
- Rating
- ★ 2.7
- Metacritic
- 66
- Playtime
- 2h
- Shared genres
- 4, Indie
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57%
10. Freedom Planet
Shares Side Scroller, Pixel Graphics, Great Soundtrack, 2D and Full controller support and 3 more tags; rated 0.9 higher; same release year.
- Year
- 2014
- Rating
- ★ 3.9
- Metacritic
- 81
- Playtime
- 4h
- Finish rate
- 65%
- Shared genres
- 4, Indie, 83
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57%
11. Humanity Asset
Shares Metroidvania, Side Scroller, stats, 2D and Steam Achievements and 1 more tags; rated 1.6 lower; same release year.
- Year
- 2014
- Rating
- ★ 1.4
- Playtime
- 4h
- Shared genres
- 4, Indie
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56%
12. They Bleed Pixels
Shares Side Scroller, Pixel Graphics, Great Soundtrack, 2D and Full controller support and 3 more tags; rated 0.4 higher; released within 2 years.
- Year
- 2012
- Rating
- ★ 3.4
- Metacritic
- 74
- Playtime
- 3h
- Finish rate
- 37%
- Shared genres
- 4, Indie
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Questions people ask
What is the best game like You Have to Win the Game?
On our similarity model, The Expendabros is the closest match to You Have to Win the Game — shares Side Scroller, Controller, Pixel Graphics, Open World and 2D and 2 more tags; rated 0.6 higher; same release year.
Which game like You Have to Win the Game is rated highest?
TowerFall Ascension holds the highest player rating in this list at 3.9/5 from 290 players.
How this list is built
Every game in our catalog is scored against You Have to Win the Game 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.