Games like TowerFall Ascension
Closest overall match: Risk of Rain (★ 3.9). Highest rated: Shovel Knight at ★ 4.3. Quickest to finish: 1001 Spikes at about 1 hours.
We compared TowerFall Ascension 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 Pixel Graphics, 2D and Split Screen.
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67%
1. Risk of Rain
Shares Split Screen, Pixel Graphics, cooperative, Great Soundtrack and 2D and 3 more tags; same release year.
- Year
- 2013
- Rating
- ★ 3.9
- Metacritic
- 77
- Playtime
- 4h
- Finish rate
- 48%
- Shared genres
- 4, Indie, 83
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66%
2. 1001 Spikes
Shares 4 Player Local, Local Multiplayer, Split Screen, Pixel Graphics and cooperative and 5 more tags; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2014
- Rating
- ★ 3.7
- Metacritic
- 80
- Playtime
- 1h
- Finish rate
- 29%
- Shared genres
- 4, Indie
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66%
3. Electronic Super Joy
Shares Pixel Graphics, Great Soundtrack, 2D, Full controller support and steam-trading-cards and 3 more tags; rated 0.5 lower; same release year.
- Year
- 2013
- Rating
- ★ 3.5
- Metacritic
- 78
- Playtime
- 2h
- Finish rate
- 46%
- Shared genres
- 4, Indie, 83
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65%
4. Broforce
Shares Local Multiplayer, Split Screen, Pixel Graphics, cooperative and 2D and 2 more tags; released within 2 years.
- Year
- 2015
- Rating
- ★ 4.0
- Metacritic
- 83
- Playtime
- 6h
- Finish rate
- 64%
- Shared genres
- 4, Indie, 83
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64%
5. Oniken: Unstoppable Edition
Shares Pixel Graphics, Great Soundtrack, 2D, steam-trading-cards and Steam Cloud and 2 more tags; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2014
- Rating
- ★ 3.7
- Playtime
- 3h
- Finish rate
- 52%
- Shared genres
- 4, Indie, 83
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64%
6. BUTCHER
Shares Pixel Graphics, Great Soundtrack, 2D, Full controller support and steam-trading-cards and 3 more tags; rated 0.9 lower.
- Year
- 2016
- Rating
- ★ 3.0
- Metacritic
- 70
- Playtime
- 2h
- Finish rate
- 35%
- Shared genres
- 4, Indie, 83
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64%
7. Pikuniku
Shares stats, Local Multiplayer, Split Screen, cooperative and 2D and 5 more tags.
- Year
- 2019
- Rating
- ★ 3.9
- Metacritic
- 75
- Playtime
- 3h
- Finish rate
- 78%
- Shared genres
- 4, Indie, 83
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64%
8. Freedom Planet
Shares Pixel Graphics, Great Soundtrack, 2D, Full controller support and steam-trading-cards and 3 more tags; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2014
- Rating
- ★ 3.9
- Metacritic
- 81
- Playtime
- 4h
- Finish rate
- 65%
- Shared genres
- 4, Indie, 83
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63%
9. Guacamelee! 2
Shares 4 giocatori divano, 4 Player Local, Controller, Local Multiplayer and Split Screen and 8 more tags.
- Year
- 2018
- Rating
- ★ 4.1
- Metacritic
- 85
- Playtime
- 5h
- Finish rate
- 77%
- Shared genres
- 4, Indie, 83
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63%
10. 20XX
Shares Controller, Local Multiplayer, Split Screen, cooperative and Great Soundtrack and 6 more tags; rated 0.4 lower; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2014
- Rating
- ★ 3.6
- Playtime
- 3h
- Finish rate
- 47%
- Shared genres
- 4, Indie
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63%
11. Rayman Legends
Shares 4 giocatori divano, 4 Player Local, Controller, Local Multiplayer and Split Screen and 4 more tags; same release year.
- Year
- 2013
- Rating
- ★ 4.2
- Metacritic
- 89
- Playtime
- 5h
- Finish rate
- 61%
- Shared genres
- 83
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63%
12. Shovel Knight
Shares Controller, Pixel Graphics, Great Soundtrack, 2D and Full controller support and 4 more tags; rated 0.4 higher; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2014
- Rating
- ★ 4.3
- Metacritic
- 85
- Playtime
- 5h
- Finish rate
- 69%
- Shared genres
- 4, Indie, 83
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Questions people ask
What is the best game like TowerFall Ascension?
On our similarity model, Risk of Rain is the closest match to TowerFall Ascension — shares Split Screen, Pixel Graphics, cooperative, Great Soundtrack and 2D and 3 more tags; same release year.
Which game like TowerFall Ascension is rated highest?
Shovel Knight holds the highest player rating in this list at 4.3/5 from 480 players.
Are there games like TowerFall Ascension on Nintendo Switch?
Yes — we found 12 games like TowerFall Ascension on Nintendo Switch. See the dedicated list.
How this list is built
Every game in our catalog is scored against TowerFall Ascension 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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