Games Like Jet Set Radio
Quick Answer
The closest games to Jet Set Radio are Bomb Rush Cyberfunk, Jet Set Radio Future, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1 + 2, Sunset Overdrive and Hi-Fi Rush. Below are 9 picks with the reason for each — what carries over from Jet Set Radio, and what does not.
What Made Jet Set Radio Work
Jet Set Radio is a style game — cel-shading, a soundtrack that defines the whole thing, and skating routes through a city where the tagging is a rhythm. The controls are of their time. What people want is that specific attitude, and a small group of modern games chase it directly.
Jet Set Radio is Smilebit's 2000 Dreamcast game, released as Jet Grind Radio in North America. You lead the Rudies, a gang of inline skaters, through the city of Tokyo-to, spraying graffiti over rival tags while police chase you, with pirate radio host Professor K introducing each stage. Its cel-shaded look and Hideki Naganuma's soundtrack defined it. Players usually want that same attitude and flowing, grind-heavy movement.
9 Games Like Jet Set Radio
1.Bomb Rush Cyberfunk
Made explicitly to be Jet Set Radio again, and it succeeds.
Why it fits: Team Reptile's 2023 game for PC and Switch is an openly inspired successor: skate, bike or rollerblade through a city, tag walls and outrun police, with music including tracks by Jet Set Radio composer Hideki Naganuma.
What is different: Bigger, more open levels and a longer story; graffiti is drawn with a quick pattern, not traced.
Where to play it: PC and Switch, later PlayStation and Xbox.
More about this game →2.Jet Set Radio Future
The Xbox sequel, smoother and arguably better.
Why it fits: Smilebit's 2002 Xbox sequel takes the series into a larger, more connected Tokyo-to with more momentum-based movement and less emphasis on timed tagging.
What is different: Big tags no longer need stick motions and there is far less time pressure, which some fans of the original miss.
Where to play it: The original Xbox.
Games like this →3.Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1 + 2
If the trick lines rather than the graffiti were the appeal.
Why it fits: Vicarious Visions' 2020 remake of the first two Tony Hawk games is built around combos of grinds, manuals and tricks, the same trick-line thinking.
What is different: Real skateboarders and real skateparks, with no police chases and no graffiti.
Where to play it: PS4, Xbox One and PC, later PS5, Xbox Series X|S and Switch.
More about this game →4.Sunset Overdrive
Grinding a colourful city with the same loud personality.
Why it fits: Insomniac Games' 2014 Xbox One open-world shooter rewards grinding on rails and wires across a city, with loud punk visuals and humour.
What is different: A shooter first: grinding is how you move between fights, and there is no tagging.
Where to play it: Xbox One and PC.
Games like this →5.Hi-Fi Rush
Style, colour and a soundtrack driving the whole design.
Why it fits: Tango Gameworks' 2023 rhythm action game syncs every attack and movement to the soundtrack, with a bright cel-shaded look.
What is different: A rhythm action brawler with linear stages; no skating and no open city.
Where to play it: Xbox Series X|S, PC and PS5.
More about this game →6.SSX Tricky
Same era, same arcade trick-line thinking.
Why it fits: EA Canada's 2001 snowboarding game shares Jet Set Radio's era and attitude, rewarding flashy trick lines and style over realism.
What is different: Snowboard races down mountains, not a city to tag, but the same loud, arcade attitude.
Where to play it: PS2, GameCube, Xbox and Game Boy Advance.
Games like this →7.Rollerdrome
Skating and shooting, with a stunning stylised look.
Why it fits: Roll7's 2022 game combines inline skating tricks with third-person shooting in a stylised, comic-book-inspired look, published by Private Division.
What is different: Every level is an arena fight with guns and slow motion; there is no city to explore.
Where to play it: PS4, PS5 and PC.
More about this game →8.Crazy Taxi
The other Dreamcast game built on attitude and a soundtrack.
Why it fits: Hitmaker's 1999 arcade game, released on Dreamcast in 2000, is a Sega classic built on speed, attitude and a punk-rock soundtrack.
What is different: Driving fares across a city against a clock; no tricks and no graffiti.
Where to play it: Dreamcast, later PS2, GameCube, PC and mobile.
More about this game →9.Splatoon 3
Painting a city as a competitive sport, with the same graphic style.
Why it fits: Nintendo EPD's 2022 Switch shooter has teams cover the arena in ink; you can swim through your own ink to move, making painting the environment the core mechanic.
What is different: Online team shooting where ink is ammunition; the single-player campaign is the smaller part.
Where to play it: Switch.
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Where to Start
Bomb Rush Cyberfunk is the first stop — it is a deliberate modern successor and even features music from Hideki Naganuma. If you want the actual sequel, Jet Set Radio Future plays more freely. Sunset Overdrive is the pick if you want the grinding with guns attached.
How We Picked These Games
We looked first for games that share Jet Set Radio's movement — grinding, skating and trick lines through a city — and then for games with the same combination of bold art style and music at the core. Picks had to be available on a current or recent platform, except where the Dreamcast connection is the point.
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How These Picks Match Jet Set Radio
Jet Set Radio is catalogued here as an action-adventure and art-led game on the Sega Dreamcast. All nine picks share at least one of its genre tags — five action games, five sports games and five arcade games among them.
Going by the "where to play it" notes, six can be played on PC, six can be played on a PlayStation, five can be played on a Nintendo system and six can be played on an Xbox. Bomb Rush Cyberfunk and Rollerdrome are from small or self-published studios. Splatoon 3 is the one a child and an adult can play together.
| Game | Genre | Shares with Jet Set Radio | Where to play |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bomb Rush Cyberfunk | Action, Sports, Indie | Action, Sports | PC and Switch, later PlayStation and Xbox. |
| Jet Set Radio Future | Action, Sports, Arcade | Action, Sports, Arcade | The original Xbox. |
| Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1 + 2 | Sports, Arcade | Sports, Arcade | PS4, Xbox One and PC, later PS5, Xbox Series X|S and Switch. |
| Sunset Overdrive | Action, Shooter, Platformer | Action | Xbox One and PC. |
| Hi-Fi Rush | Action, Fighting, Arcade | Action, Arcade | Xbox Series X|S, PC and PS5. |
| SSX Tricky | Sports, Arcade | Sports, Arcade | PS2, GameCube, Xbox and Game Boy Advance. |
| Rollerdrome | Shooter, Sports, Indie | Sports | PS4, PS5 and PC. |
| Crazy Taxi | Racing, Arcade, Casual | Arcade | Dreamcast, later PS2, GameCube, PC and mobile. |
| Splatoon 3 | Shooter, Family, Action | Action | Switch. |
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