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Games like Guild of Ascension

If Guild of Ascension is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Last Spell, Lost Eidolons and Pathway — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging and contemplative. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.

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About Guild of Ascension: Guild of Ascension is a Tactical-Action-RPG with rogue-lite elements, mixing turn-based combat with real-time action combo system. Craft weapons, learn skills, befriend critters, encounter bizarre creatures, and fight giant Bosses in your Ascension of the Tower!

2021ActionStrategyIndieAdventureRPG14.99 USDWindowsby WhileOne Productions
Guild of Ascension — Steam game cover
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Chaotic but satisfying chain reactions in combatEnvironmental hazards can be weaponized against enemiesFlexible fighting systems with multiple weapon typesAtmosphericChallengingContemplative

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Steam players who put hours into Guild of Ascension also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.

  1. The Last Spell

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Guild of Ascension.

    Top pick for Guild of Ascension fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Guild of Ascension.

    Defend the last bastion of humanity with your squad of heroes! Exterminate fiendish monsters with magic and brute force by night and re-build your battered city defenses by day in this tactical RPG with rogue-lite mechanics.

    2023ActionStrategyIndie24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Lost Eidolons

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Guild of Ascension.

    Second-strongest match for Guild of Ascension fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Guild of Ascension.

    Lost Eidolons is a turn-based tactical RPG with a gripping cinematic narrative, set in a waning empire riven by civil war. Take on the role of a charming mercenary captain, Eden, and lead his band of allies through epic encounters on a classic turn-based battlefield.

    2022StrategyIndieRPG34.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Pathway

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Guild of Ascension.

    Third-strongest match for Guild of Ascension fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Guild of Ascension.

    Explore the strange unknown with Pathway, a strategy adventure set in the 1930s great wilderness. Unravel long-forgotten mysteries of the occult, raid ancient tombs and outwit your foes in turn-based squad combat!

    2019StrategyIndieAdventure15.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark

    WHY THIS

    Shares an intense mood with Guild of Ascension.

    Ranked #4 for Guild of Ascension fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Guild of Ascension.

    Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark is a turn-based tactical RPG with a focus on storytelling and strategic battles. Unfold a mature story as you progress through hand-crafted scenarios, controlling your own group of Arbiters, with each character customizable from a wide selection of classes and abilities!

    2019StrategyIndieRPG4.49 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Jagged Alliance 3

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Guild of Ascension.

    Ranked #5 for Guild of Ascension fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Guild of Ascension.

    The country of Grand Chien is thrown into chaos when the elected president goes missing and the paramilitary force known as “the Legion” seizes control. Hire mercs, meet interesting characters, and fight in tactically deep turn-based combat in this true successor to a beloved franchise.

    2023ActionStrategy13.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Crowntakers

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Guild of Ascension.

    Ranked #6 for Guild of Ascension fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Guild of Ascension.

    Crowntakers combines turn-based strategy with RPG elements and takes you at the behest of the crown into a medieval fantasy world full of challenging encounters and epic adventures. With its randomly generated world, Crowntakers offers a varied gaming experience every time you set out to fight evil.

    2014StrategyIndieRPG9.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. Tactical Breach Wizards

    WHY THIS

    Shares a contemplative mood with Guild of Ascension.

    Ranked #7 for Guild of Ascension fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Guild of Ascension.

    In Tactical Breach Wizards, you lead a team of renegade wizards in kevlar through turn-based battles to unravel a modern conspiracy plot. Combine their unique spells in clever ways, or rewind time to try every crazy plan you can think of to punch a Traffic Warlock through a 4th story window.

    2024StrategyIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. MASSIVE CHALICE

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Guild of Ascension.

    Ranked #8 for Guild of Ascension fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Guild of Ascension.

    MASSIVE CHALICE is a tactical strategy game set on an epic timeline from Double Fine Productions. As the Immortal Ruler of the nation, you'll take command of its heroes, forge heroic marriages to strengthen your Bloodlines, and battle a mysterious enemy known as the Cadence in a 300 year war.

    2015StrategyIndie19.99 USDSteam ↗

Reviewers mention these as similar to Guild of Ascension

Surfaced from review text: when other players write 'if you liked X, try Y', we catch the name and resolve it back to a Steam game.

  1. Hand of Fate

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Guild of Ascension.

    Reviewers of Guild of Ascension cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Guild of Ascension.

    Deckbuilding comes to life in Hand of Fate! An infinitely replayable series of quests - earn new cards, build your deck, then try to defeat it! In a cabin at the end of the world, the game of life and death is played. Draw your cards, play your hand, and discover your fate.

    2015ActionIndieRPG19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. MANOS: The Hands of Fate ~ Director's Cut

    WHY THIS

    Reviewers of Guild of Ascension cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Guild of Ascension.

    Retro platforming action in this adaptation of a terrible movie.

    2015ActionIndieAdventure3.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Into the Breach

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Guild of Ascension.

    Reviewers of Guild of Ascension cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Guild of Ascension.

    Control powerful mechs from the future to defeat an alien threat. Each attempt to save the world presents a new randomly generated challenge in this turn-based strategy game.

    2018StrategyIndieSimulation14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Guild of Ascension at current Steam store prices.

  1. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Guild of Ascension on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Guild of Ascension.

    Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.

    2006IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Guild of Ascension on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Guild of Ascension.

    Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!

    2022ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. R.E.P.O.

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~53% under Guild of Ascension on Steam right now. Shares Action with Guild of Ascension.

    An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.

    2025ActionEarly Access6.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. PEAK

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under Guild of Ascension on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Guild of Ascension.

    PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?

    2025ActionIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Titanfall® 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~70% under Guild of Ascension on Steam right now. Shares Action with Guild of Ascension.

    Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.

    2020Action4.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Sid Meier's Civilization® V

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Guild of Ascension on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Guild of Ascension.

    Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!

    2010Strategy7.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Slay the Spire

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~58% under Guild of Ascension on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Guild of Ascension.

    We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!

    2019StrategyIndie6.24 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Inscryption

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under Guild of Ascension on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Guild of Ascension.

    Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...

    2021StrategyIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Guild of Ascension.

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  2. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Guild of Ascension.

    Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Awaria

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Guild of Ascension.

    Awaria is a short game about working in haunted maintenance tunnels.

    2024ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Grimm's Hollow

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Guild of Ascension.

    A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.

    2019IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Iron Snout

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Guild of Ascension.

    Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.

    2016ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Eternal Senia

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Guild of Ascension.

    Thoughts and expectations ARPG

    2015ActionIndieRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Landfall Archives

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Strategy with Guild of Ascension.

    Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!

    2023ActionStrategyIndieFreeSteam ↗
  8. Princess Remedy in a World of Hurt

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Guild of Ascension.

    Remedy, a recent graduate from the Saturnian healing school, must descend to Hurtland and use her powers to heal everyone from stray ducks to dark lords, and finally cure the ailing Prince Hingst. It's a short, whimsical adventure with plenty of heart(s).

    2016ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Plays great on Steam Deck

Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.

  1. The Last Spell

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Guild of Ascension.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Strategy with Guild of Ascension.

    Defend the last bastion of humanity with your squad of heroes! Exterminate fiendish monsters with magic and brute force by night and re-build your battered city defenses by day in this tactical RPG with rogue-lite mechanics.

    2023ActionStrategyIndie24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Lost Eidolons

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Guild of Ascension.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Guild of Ascension.

    Lost Eidolons is a turn-based tactical RPG with a gripping cinematic narrative, set in a waning empire riven by civil war. Take on the role of a charming mercenary captain, Eden, and lead his band of allies through epic encounters on a classic turn-based battlefield.

    2022StrategyIndieRPG34.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark

    WHY THIS

    Shares an intense mood with Guild of Ascension.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Guild of Ascension.

    Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark is a turn-based tactical RPG with a focus on storytelling and strategic battles. Unfold a mature story as you progress through hand-crafted scenarios, controlling your own group of Arbiters, with each character customizable from a wide selection of classes and abilities!

    2019StrategyIndieRPG4.49 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Tactical Breach Wizards

    WHY THIS

    Shares a contemplative mood with Guild of Ascension.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Guild of Ascension.

    In Tactical Breach Wizards, you lead a team of renegade wizards in kevlar through turn-based battles to unravel a modern conspiracy plot. Combine their unique spells in clever ways, or rewind time to try every crazy plan you can think of to punch a Traffic Warlock through a 4th story window.

    2024StrategyIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Guild of Ascension

Does Guild of Ascension work on Steam Deck?
Guild of Ascension is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
How much does Guild of Ascension cost?
Guild of Ascension is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Guild of Ascension?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Guild of Ascension are The Last Spell, Lost Eidolons, Pathway.
Who developed Guild of Ascension?
Guild of Ascension was developed by WhileOne Productions and published by PID Games, Dear Villagers.

imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on Guild of Ascension.

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