Games Like Super Smash Bros Ultimate
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The closest games to Super Smash Bros Ultimate are Super Smash Bros, Super Smash Bros Melee, Rivals of Aether II, Kirby Fighters 2 and Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl 2. Below are 12 picks with the reason for each — what carries over from Super Smash Bros Ultimate, and what does not.
What Made Super Smash Bros Ultimate Work
Ultimate is every character in the series' history in one box, and that completeness is the point. Underneath it is a platform fighter: percentage instead of health, ring-outs instead of knockouts, and items you can turn off when the arguments start. It works at a family party and at a tournament, which almost nothing else manages.
12 Games Like Super Smash Bros Ultimate
2.Super Smash Bros Melee
The competitive one — faster, more technical, and a scene twenty-odd years deep.
More about this game →3.Rivals of Aether II
The best current alternative, built by people who learned from Melee.
More about this game →4.Kirby Fighters 2
A small Nintendo brawler for when the Ultimate roster is too much for the people you are playing with.
More about this game →5.Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl 2
The most solid non-Nintendo platform fighter, and it plays properly.
More about this game →7.Power Stone 2
The 3D arena cousin, where the stage and the furniture are the weapons.
Games like this →8.TowerFall Ascension
Four players, one arrow each, and the fastest local matches there are.
More about this game →9.Street Fighter 6
If Smash was your on-ramp and you now want the genre proper, with a mode that teaches it.
More about this game →11.Ultimate Chicken Horse
Party chaos where everyone builds the level that kills them.
More about this game →12.Guardian Heroes
Six-player versus in a Saturn brawler, and far deeper than it looks.
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How These Picks Match Super Smash Bros Ultimate
Super Smash Bros Ultimate is catalogued here as a fighting game and party game on the Nintendo Switch. Eleven of the twelve picks share at least one of its genre tags — eleven fighting games and six arcade games among them. The other one — Ultimate Chicken Horse — is a different genre and is on the list for one specific thing Super Smash Bros Ultimate did, so read the reason before ruling it out.
Three of the picks have their own list on this site, catalogued under the Nintendo 64, the Sega Dreamcast and the Sega Saturn. Rivals of Aether II, TowerFall Ascension, Gang Beasts and Ultimate Chicken Horse are from small or self-published studios. Super Smash Bros, Super Smash Bros Melee, Kirby Fighters 2, Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl 2, Brawlhalla and Power Stone 2 are, like Super Smash Bros Ultimate, games a child and an adult can play together.
| Game | Genre | Shares with Super Smash Bros Ultimate | Where to play |
|---|---|---|---|
| Super Smash Bros | Fighting, Family, Arcade | Fighting, Arcade | Nintendo 64 (catalogued) |
| Super Smash Bros Melee | Fighting, Family, Arcade | Fighting, Arcade | — |
| Rivals of Aether II | Fighting, Indie, Casual | Fighting | — |
| Kirby Fighters 2 | Fighting, Casual, Family | Fighting | — |
| Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl 2 | Fighting, Family, Casual | Fighting | — |
| Brawlhalla | Fighting, Casual, Family | Fighting | — |
| Power Stone 2 | Fighting, Arcade, Family | Fighting, Arcade | Sega Dreamcast (catalogued) |
| TowerFall Ascension | Fighting, Arcade, Indie | Fighting, Arcade | — |
| Street Fighter 6 | Fighting, Arcade | Fighting, Arcade | — |
| Gang Beasts | Fighting, Casual, Indie | Fighting | — |
| Ultimate Chicken Horse | Platformer, Casual, Indie | Different genre — see the reason above | — |
| Guardian Heroes | Fighting, Arcade, RPG | Fighting, Arcade | Sega Saturn (catalogued) |
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