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Games like TowerFall Ascension on PC

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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  1. Risk of Rain

    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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  2. 1001 Spikes

    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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  3. Electronic Super Joy

    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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  4. Broforce

    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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  5. Oniken: Unstoppable Edition

    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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  6. BUTCHER

    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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  7. Pikuniku

    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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  8. Freedom Planet

    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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  9. Guacamelee! 2

    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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  10. 20XX

    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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  11. Rayman Legends

    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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  12. Shovel Knight

    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 PC?

On our similarity model, Risk of Rain is the closest match to TowerFall Ascension on PC — 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.

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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