Games like Ascendant
Closest overall match: Dungeon Souls (★ 3.1). Highest rated: Hand of Fate at ★ 3.7. Quickest to finish: Dungeon Punks at about 2 hours.
We compared Ascendant against every game in our catalog on shared tags, genre, rating, playtime and release era, and these 12 came closest. The strongest common threads are Dungeon Crawler, Roguelike and Roguelite.
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63%
1. Dungeon Souls
Shares Perma Death, Bullet Hell, Procedural Generation, Dungeon Crawler and Roguelite and 8 more tags; rated 1.0 higher; released within 2 years.
- Year
- 2016
- Rating
- ★ 3.1
- Metacritic
- 67
- Playtime
- 5h
- Finish rate
- 50%
- Shared genres
- 3, 4, RPG, Indie
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62%
2. Starward Rogue
Shares Bullet Hell, Dungeon Crawler, Roguelite, Roguelike and 2D and 5 more tags; released within 2 years.
- Year
- 2016
- Playtime
- 3h
- Shared genres
- 3, 4, RPG, Indie
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62%
3. Necropolis
Shares Perma Death, Procedural Generation, Dungeon Crawler, Roguelite and Roguelike and 6 more tags; rated 1.1 higher; released within 2 years.
- Year
- 2016
- Rating
- ★ 3.2
- Playtime
- 4h
- Finish rate
- 35%
- Shared genres
- 3, 4, RPG, Indie
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61%
4. bit Dungeon II
Shares Perma Death, Dungeon Crawler, Roguelite, Roguelike and Pixel Graphics and 6 more tags; rated 1.0 higher; same release year.
- Year
- 2014
- Rating
- ★ 3.1
- Playtime
- 3h
- Finish rate
- 52%
- Shared genres
- 3, 4, RPG, Indie
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60%
5. Hand of Fate
Shares Beat 'em up, Dungeon Crawler, Roguelite, controller support and Roguelike and 6 more tags; rated 1.6 higher; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2015
- Rating
- ★ 3.7
- Metacritic
- 78
- Playtime
- 4h
- Finish rate
- 50%
- Shared genres
- 3, 4, RPG, Indie
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60%
6. Apotheon
Shares controller support, 2D, Full controller support, steam-trading-cards and Steam Cloud and 2 more tags; rated 1.1 higher; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2015
- Rating
- ★ 3.2
- Metacritic
- 78
- Playtime
- 4h
- Finish rate
- 36%
- Shared genres
- 3, 4, RPG, Indie
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60%
7. Dungeon Punks
Shares Beat 'em up, Split Screen, Partial Controller Support, steam-trading-cards and Steam Cloud and 2 more tags; released within 2 years.
- Year
- 2016
- Rating
- ★ 2.0
- Metacritic
- 71
- Playtime
- 2h
- Finish rate
- 17%
- Shared genres
- 3, 4, RPG, Indie
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59%
8. Lost Castle
Shares Beat 'em up, Dungeon Crawler, Roguelite, Roguelike and 2D and 5 more tags; rated 1.1 higher; released within 2 years.
- Year
- 2016
- Rating
- ★ 3.2
- Playtime
- 4h
- Finish rate
- 41%
- Shared genres
- 3, 4, RPG, Indie
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59%
9. Gauntlet Slayer Edition
Shares Dungeon Crawler, Top-Down, Roguelike, stats and Split Screen and 6 more tags; rated 1.4 higher; same release year.
- Year
- 2014
- Rating
- ★ 3.5
- Metacritic
- 70
- Playtime
- 4h
- Finish rate
- 56%
- Shared genres
- 3, 4, RPG
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59%
10. The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing II
Shares Dungeon Crawler, Dark Fantasy, stats, Fantasy and Full controller support and 4 more tags; rated 1.4 higher; same release year.
- Year
- 2014
- Rating
- ★ 3.5
- Metacritic
- 77
- Playtime
- 3h
- Finish rate
- 75%
- Shared genres
- 3, 4, RPG, Indie
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58%
11. Abyss Odyssey
Shares Procedural Generation, Beat 'em up, Roguelite, Roguelike and Split Screen and 7 more tags; rated 0.7 higher; same release year.
- Year
- 2014
- Rating
- ★ 2.8
- Metacritic
- 69
- Playtime
- 5h
- Finish rate
- 39%
- Shared genres
- 3, 4, Indie
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58%
12. Hammerwatch
Shares Dungeon Crawler, Top-Down, Roguelike, Split Screen and Pixel Graphics and 6 more tags; rated 1.3 higher; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2013
- Rating
- ★ 3.4
- Metacritic
- 72
- Playtime
- 3h
- Finish rate
- 37%
- Shared genres
- 3, 4, RPG, Indie
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Questions people ask
What is the best game like Ascendant?
On our similarity model, Dungeon Souls is the closest match to Ascendant — shares Perma Death, Bullet Hell, Procedural Generation, Dungeon Crawler and Roguelite and 8 more tags; rated 1.0 higher; released within 2 years.
Which game like Ascendant is rated highest?
Hand of Fate holds the highest player rating in this list at 3.7/5 from 320 players.
How this list is built
Every game in our catalog is scored against Ascendant on five signals: weighted tag overlap (rare tags count more), genre overlap, platform family overlap, rating and playtime proximity, and release era. The list is recomputed nightly as ratings and new releases change.
Base game data via RAWG.