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WayForward · 2016 · Windows

Steam: 90 % positive of 2,392 reviews, as of Oct 18

Shantae embarks on her first full HD adventure! When a mysterious crime wave sweeps Sequin Land, it’s up to Half-Genie Hero Shantae to save the day! Use Shantae’s devastating Hair-Whip Attack to send monsters flying, or Belly Dance to transform her into more powerful forms!

24 games that play like Shantae: Half-Genie Hero and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: Shantae: Half-Genie Hero Ultimate Edition, Shantae and the Seven Sirens and Shantae and the Pirate's Curse.

Player tags

  • Female Protagonist
  • Platformer
  • Metroidvania
  • Cute
  • Action
  • Singleplayer
  • Side Scroller
  • Anime
Map region: Metroidvania Caves
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Plays and looks like Shantae: Half-Genie Hero

These games are close to it by gameplay and by look, so they appear in both lists below.

By gameplay

Plays like Shantae: Half-Genie Hero

Matched from Steam descriptions and player tags. The tags under each game are the ones both games share.

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  1. Pseudoregalia97 % positive of 15,027Shared: Female Protagonist · Platformer · Metroidvania
  2. Khimera: Destroy All Monster Girls95 % positive of 1,374Shared: Female Protagonist · Platformer · Anime
  3. Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night93 % positive of 39,485Shared: Female Protagonist · Platformer · Metroidvania
  4. Super Panda Adventures93 % positive of 938Shared: Platformer · Metroidvania · Cute
  5. Arzette: The Jewel of Faramore97 % positive of 860Shared: Female Protagonist · Platformer · Metroidvania
  6. Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom89 % positive of 2,455Shared: Platformer · Metroidvania · Side Scroller
  7. Berserk Boy86 % positive of 348Shared: Female Protagonist · Platformer · Metroidvania
  8. TOMOMI97 % positive of 187Shared: Female Protagonist · Metroidvania · Side Scroller
  9. Kitsune Tails96 % positive of 794Shared: Female Protagonist · Platformer · Side Scroller
  10. Super Mombo Quest97 % positive of 726Shared: Platformer · Metroidvania · Fantasy
  11. ICEY90 % positive of 26,926Shared: Female Protagonist · Platformer · Metroidvania
  12. Frontier Hunter: Erza’s Wheel of Fortune84 % positive of 1,724Shared: Female Protagonist · Platformer · Metroidvania

By look

Looks like Shantae: Half-Genie Hero

Matched from screenshots. Each card shows the screenshot closest to the look of this game.

More matches

  1. Moonlight Pulse95 % positive of 165
  2. Juicy Realm87 % positive of 3,620
  3. Chariot81 % positive of 441
  4. Rayman® Legends89 % positive of 10,043
  5. Super Mombo Quest97 % positive of 726
  6. Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair82 % positive of 1,269
  7. ITORAH75 % positive of 750
  8. The Adventure Pals92 % positive of 1,869
  9. TY the Tasmanian Tiger 478 % positive of 276
  10. YOHANE THE PARHELION -BLAZE in the DEEPBLUE-93 % positive of 902
  11. Hell Yeah! Wrath of the Dead Rabbit85 % positive of 3,675
  12. Freedom Planet 296 % positive of 1,572

At a glance

What games like Shantae: Half-Genie Hero have in common

  • The tags they share most often with Shantae: Half-Genie Hero: Platformer (23 of 24), Metroidvania (22) and Female Protagonist (19).
  • They came out between 2013 and 2024, 16 of them after Shantae: Half-Genie Hero (2016).
  • Best rated by Steam players: Pseudoregalia (97 % positive of 15,027).

How these matches work

Matches come from embeddings of Steam descriptions, player tags and screenshots, computed offline. “Plays like” compares what the games are about and how players tag them; “Looks like” compares their screenshots. The share of positive reviews is based on Steam user reviews.

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