Games like Ampersat
If Ampersat is your kind of game, the closest matches are Striving for Light, Children of Morta and Minecraft Dungeons — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its play as an ampersand, restore language to villagers and retro ascii inspired aesthetics. 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.
Get personalized picks →About Ampersat: A shooty, slashy, RPG-y game mixing retro and modern sensibilities. A blend of influences from Gauntlet & Smash TV to Zelda & Angband, Ampersat is a handcrafted adventure but with appeal to Roguelite fans. Battle ASCII creatures in colorful areas & free letters to return language to the village!
Players who liked Ampersat also play
Steam players who put hours into Ampersat 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.
Striving for Light
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Ampersat.
Top pick for Ampersat fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Ampersat.
Blending deep Action RPG buildcrafting with roguelite action, Striving for Light lets you shape and customize an infinite skilltree. Hunt for powerful loot, craft and upgrade weapons to legendary power, slay hordes of enemies and challenging bosses in ever-changing dark worlds.
Children of Morta
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Ampersat.
Second-strongest match for Ampersat fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Ampersat.
Children of Morta is a story-driven action RPG game about an extraordinary family of heroes. Lead the Bergsons, with all their flaws and virtues, against the forthcoming Corruption. Will you be able to sacrifice everything to save the ones you care for?
Minecraft Dungeons
WHY THIS
Shares build optimization and a whimsical mood with Ampersat.
Third-strongest match for Ampersat fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Ampersat.
Fight your way through an exciting action-adventure game, inspired by classic dungeon crawlers and set in the Minecraft universe!
Bravery and Greed
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Ampersat.
Ranked #4 for Ampersat fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Ampersat.
Bravery and Greed is a beat 'em up, roguelite, dungeon brawler for up to four players. Choose from four classic fantasy classes, engage in a deep robust combat system, and play a variety of co-operative and competitive game modes with friends via local, online or both. Get rich, or die trying!
Dungeon Souls
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Ampersat.
Ranked #5 for Ampersat fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Ampersat.
Dungeon Souls is an action-adventure roguelike dungeon crawler which draws heavy inspiration from Nuclear Throne, Risk of Rain, and Overture. Explore vast procedurally generated dungeons, collect loot, and slay hordes of challenging enemies!
Ember Knights
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Ampersat.
Ranked #6 for Ampersat fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Ampersat.
Ember Knights is an action rogue-lite for 1-4 players where you play as legendary knights, the last spark of hope against the mad sorcerer Praxis and his hordes of unwavering fiends. Wield weapons & skills, build synergies with game-changing relics and free the universe of Praxis’ corruption.
Chronicon
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Ampersat.
Ranked #7 for Ampersat fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Ampersat.
Use the magical device known as the Chronicon to travel into the souls and memories of fallen heroes to re-live their grand tales! Epic adventures full of loot and monsters await!
Alaloth: Champions of The Four Kingdoms
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Ampersat fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Ampersat.
A hardcore high fantasy isometric action RPG set in a huge sandbox world ruled by magic and monsters. Master deep skill-based combat, forge powerful builds, explore unforgiving lands and dungeons, face brutal boss fights, uncover ancient secrets, and save Plamen from its inevitable doom!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Ampersat at current Steam store prices.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Ampersat on Steam right now. Shares Action and RPG with Ampersat.
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!
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~55% under Ampersat on Steam right now. Shares Action with Ampersat.
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.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Ampersat on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Ampersat.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Ampersat on Steam right now. Shares Action with Ampersat.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Ampersat on Steam right now. Shares Action and RPG with Ampersat.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Your Only Move Is HUSTLE
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Ampersat on Steam right now. Shares Action with Ampersat.
Master your technique, execute flashy combos, and outsmart opponents across the world, frame-by-frame. Slow down the clock to fine-tune your fighting style in this innovative, turn-based combat simulator. Pulverize your friends and choreograph spectacular fight scenes. No training mode required.
GRIS
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under Ampersat on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Ampersat.
Gris is a hopeful young girl lost in her own world, dealing with a painful experience in her life. Her journey through sorrow is manifested in her dress, which grants new abilities to better navigate her faded reality.
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Ampersat on Steam right now. Shares Adventure and RPG with Ampersat.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure and RPG with Ampersat.
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.
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Ampersat.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Star Fetchers
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Ampersat.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares RPG with Ampersat.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
Eternal Senia
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and RPG with Ampersat.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
Tails Noir: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure and RPG with Ampersat.
Tails Noir: Prologue is the first act of a post-noir narrative adventure. Become raccoon private eye Howard Lotor and explore dystopian Vancouver inhabited by animals as you uncover a deeply personal story of change and transformation.
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 Adventure with Ampersat.
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).
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Striving for Light
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Ampersat.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Ampersat.
Blending deep Action RPG buildcrafting with roguelite action, Striving for Light lets you shape and customize an infinite skilltree. Hunt for powerful loot, craft and upgrade weapons to legendary power, slay hordes of enemies and challenging bosses in ever-changing dark worlds.
Children of Morta
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Ampersat.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Ampersat.
Children of Morta is a story-driven action RPG game about an extraordinary family of heroes. Lead the Bergsons, with all their flaws and virtues, against the forthcoming Corruption. Will you be able to sacrifice everything to save the ones you care for?
Ember Knights
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Ampersat.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Ampersat.
Ember Knights is an action rogue-lite for 1-4 players where you play as legendary knights, the last spark of hope against the mad sorcerer Praxis and his hordes of unwavering fiends. Wield weapons & skills, build synergies with game-changing relics and free the universe of Praxis’ corruption.
Alaloth: Champions of The Four Kingdoms
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Ampersat.
A hardcore high fantasy isometric action RPG set in a huge sandbox world ruled by magic and monsters. Master deep skill-based combat, forge powerful builds, explore unforgiving lands and dungeons, face brutal boss fights, uncover ancient secrets, and save Plamen from its inevitable doom!
Frequently asked about Ampersat
- How much does Ampersat cost?
- Ampersat is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Ampersat have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Ampersat supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Shared/Split Screen Co-op, Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Ampersat?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Ampersat are Striving for Light, Children of Morta, Minecraft Dungeons.
- Who developed Ampersat?
- Ampersat was developed by Gaterooze, Ink and published by Gaterooze, Ink, GrabTheGames.
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