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Shantae Advance: Risky Revolution

Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch • 2025

Should you play it?

Shantae's adventure comes full circle in this long-lost sequel!

What works

  • Charming pixel art and animations
  • Humorous and lighthearted story
  • Classic shantae gameplay with transformations
  • Interesting terrain-shifting mechanic
  • Solid soundtrack capturing series style

Things to keep in mind

  • Lack of map makes navigation frustrating
  • Reused bosses and enemies reduce novelty
  • Short game length with limited replay value
  • Technical issues including freezes and slowdowns
  • Costumes locked behind expensive deluxe edition

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feel the closest overall

  • SpongeBob SquarePants: The Cosmic Shake

  • Disney Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two

  • Hell Pie

  • Castlevania: Lords of Shadow – Mirror of Fate HD

  • Shantae: Risky's Revenge - Director's Cut

  • Prince of Persia The Lost Crown

  • SpongeBob SquarePants: Titans of the Tide

  • Pumpkin Jack

  • Tomb Raider: Underworld

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Hidden Gems

Less popular games with surprisingly high similarity

  • Shadows of the Damned: Hella Remastered

  • Indiana Jones® and the Infernal Machine™

  • Berserk Boy

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From the same developer

From the same developer, ranked by motivational fit.

  • RWBY: Arrowfell

  • Shantae: Risky's Revenge - Director's Cut

  • Shantae: Half-Genie Hero

  • Shantae and the Seven Sirens

  • Shantae and the Pirate's Curse

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How to use the graph

Similarity map

Each dot is a game. They are arranged from the game’s motivation profile. Closer dots usually mean more similar reasons to play (exploration, competition, relaxation, etc.)—not that one game is “better” than another.

  • Purple star: this page’s game — everything on the map is relative to it.
  • Coloured chips: click to highlight games that mainly differ on that motivation; click again to reset.
  • Dotted line: link between this page’s game and the one selected for comparison.
  • Hover a dot to preview that game in the panel on the right; click to keep that comparison.
  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom out and see more games.

Why don’t the axes read like a score? This view uses t-SNE: it only keeps who is close to whom. The scales are not “good to bad” or hours played—they separate groups on the map. Read distance between dots, not the axis numbers (hidden on purpose).

Shantae Advance: Risky Revolution: Broadly representative of its motivational profile, with a few distinct shifts. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Expression, Fellowship, Cooperation, Leadership. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Expression, Fantasy. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Value.

Last update: 25/07/2026