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Within the “Nintendo Switch” category, the closest game to No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle is No More Heroes — scoring 95/100 on our similarity scale. Maneater and Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice follow close behind.
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Handpicked by our similarity algorithm, these are the titles with the highest gameplay match to No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle. Each one has been evaluated across 11 real attributes — from combat style and progression mechanics to world structure and visual perspective — so every recommendation is based on how the game actually plays, not just its genre label.
✓ Fits the third-person Action RPGs cluster, with deep RPG systems, action RPG combat and adventure storytelling
≠ Where it differs: brings sandbox freedom, sandbox world and open world exploration
Same studio: Grasshopper Manufacture.
✓ Both are third-person Action RPGs — sharing deep RPG systems, action RPG combat and adventure storytelling
≠ Its own twist: deep simulation, open world exploration and exploration and discovery, while skipping fighting mechanics
You play the shark. Eat fish, wildlife and swimmers to evolve, upgrade your bite and hunt the hunters back, all narrated as a straight-faced wildlife documentary. The B-movie tone is the appeal and it commits to it. The recurring complaint is technical rather than creative: crashes, stutter and startup failures on modern Windows come up constantly, even from players who finished it.
Released 10 years after No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle.
✓ Fits the third-person Action RPGs cluster, with deep RPG systems, action RPG combat and adventure storytelling
≠ Its own twist: deep simulation, horror tension and setting mythology, while skipping fighting mechanics
Where it drifts furthest from No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle: setting.
Released 7 years after No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle.
✓ Same family of third-person Action RPGs: deep RPG systems, action RPG combat and adventure storytelling
≠ Its own twist: shooter, third-person shooting and horror tension, while skipping fighting mechanics
Where it drifts furthest from No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle: setting.
Released 9 years after No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle.
✓ Both are third-person Action RPGs — sharing deep RPG systems, action RPG combat and adventure storytelling
≠ Where it differs: brings shooter, third-person shooting and fantasy world, while skipping fighting mechanics
The largest of the three by scale: kaiju summons fight alongside you and levels open up considerably. Core combat is as sharp as ever when the game lets you use it. That is the issue — demon sequences, side characters and setpiece variety cut into the moment-to-moment fighting, and the story is the weakest of the series.
Where it drifts furthest from No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle: setting.
Released 12 years after No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle.
✓ Fits the third-person Action RPGs cluster, with deep RPG systems, adventure storytelling and strong narrative focus
≠ Stands apart with deep simulation, open world exploration and setting cyberpunk, while skipping action RPG combat
Where it drifts furthest from No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle: setting.
Released 10 years after No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle.