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Games like Ascendant — Co-op

Closest overall match: Dungeon Souls (★ 3.1). Highest rated: Gauntlet Slayer Edition at ★ 3.5. 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 6 came closest. The strongest common threads are Dungeon Crawler, Split Screen and Roguelike.

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  1. Dungeon Souls

    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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  2. Dungeon Punks

    2. 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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  3. Lost Castle

    3. 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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  4. Gauntlet Slayer Edition

    4. 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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  5. Abyss Odyssey

    5. 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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  6. Hammerwatch

    6. 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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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?

Gauntlet Slayer Edition holds the highest player rating in this list at 3.5/5 from 143 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.

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