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Squid In A Box Ltd · 2015 · 92 % positive of 311

24 games that play like Waves 2: Notorious and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: Waves, X Invader and SWARMRIDERS.

Player tags

  • Early Access
  • Action Roguelike
  • Arena Shooter
  • Bullet Hell
  • Shoot 'Em Up
  • Top-Down Shooter
  • Twin Stick Shooter
  • Shooter

At a glance

What games like Waves 2: Notorious have in common

  • The tags they share most often with Waves 2: Notorious: Bullet Hell (18 of 24), Action Roguelike (14) and Shoot 'Em Up (11).
  • They came out between 2011 and 2025, 22 of them after Waves 2: Notorious (2015).
  • Best rated by Steam players: Waves (95 % positive of 1,510).
  • 4 games both play and look like Waves 2: Notorious, among them Waves, Breakpoint and Retrograde Arena.

By gameplay

Plays like Waves 2: Notorious

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

More matches

  1. Breakpoint96 % positive of 231Shared: Shoot 'Em Up · Top-Down Shooter · Twin Stick Shooter
  2. Retrograde Arena94 % positive of 515Shared: Bullet Hell · Shoot 'Em Up · Top-Down Shooter
  3. Go Mecha Ball87 % positive of 409Shared: Action Roguelike · Arena Shooter · Bullet Hell
  4. Neon Chrome91 % positive of 1,155Shared: Action Roguelike · Top-Down Shooter · Twin Stick Shooter
  5. NIMRODS85 % positive of 1,266Shared: Action Roguelike · Bullet Hell · Shoot 'Em Up
  6. Cyberhunt83 % positive of 1,946Shared: Bullet Hell · Shoot 'Em Up · Top-Down Shooter
  7. CyberCorp82 % positive of 322Shared: Arena Shooter · Top-Down Shooter · Twin Stick Shooter
  8. Entropy Survivors83 % positive of 327Shared: Action Roguelike · Bullet Hell · Twin Stick Shooter
  9. UBERMOSH89 % positive of 2,840Shared: Bullet Hell · Top-Down Shooter · Twin Stick Shooter
  10. SYNTHETIK 283 % positive of 2,396Shared: Action Roguelike · Top-Down Shooter · Twin Stick Shooter
  11. Shape Shifter: Formations91 % positive of 218Shared: Action Roguelike · Arena Shooter · Bullet Hell
  12. Voids Vigil96 % positive of 306Shared: Action Roguelike · Arena Shooter · Bullet Hell

By look

Looks like Waves 2: Notorious

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

More matches

  1. PARTICLE MACE87 % positive of 1,371
  2. Nova Drift95 % positive of 13,985
  3. Death Ray Manta SE73 % positive of 214
  4. REVOLVER360 RE:ACTOR91 % positive of 378
  5. Lowglow90 % positive of 466
  6. Frozen Synapse 265 % positive of 238
  7. Retrograde Arena94 % positive of 515
  8. Beat Invaders95 % positive of 191
  9. Star Survivor69 % positive of 539
  10. Ellipsis94 % positive of 240
  11. Reassembly94 % positive of 3,960
  12. DubWars77 % positive of 294

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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