Games like Death: The Ascension
If Death: The Ascension is your kind of game, the closest matches are Cardboard Town, Sultan's Game and Terracards — picked from the ranked list below. 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 Death: The Ascension: “Sacrifice love to get more money, or do the reverse. You can't have it all. Sacrifices need to be made.” Unique turn-based card game with controllable chance. Play cards that have different outcome. Use the spilled blood to change fate and yourself. And avoid the eyes of law.
Players who liked Death: The Ascension also play
Steam players who put hours into Death: The 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.
Cardboard Town
WHY THIS
Top pick for Death: The Ascension fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Death: The Ascension.
Cardboard Town is a city-building card game. Manage your resources, obtain upgrades, draw your cards and thrive! Random events, quest cards, and game modes make each run different.
Sultan's Game
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Death: The Ascension fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Death: The Ascension.
Survive a mad Sultan's reign in this brutal resource management RPG. Draw a card every seven days and complete its challenge. Make dreadful choices to stay alive: will you die a loyal servant, become a kingslayer, or call down the gods' judgement?
Terracards
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Death: The Ascension fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Death: The Ascension.
Farm, sell, learn, repeat. Terracards is a tactical roguelike-deckbuilder where you manage your own farm, You'll utilize animals, crops, and structures through cards, transforming them into valuable resources and wealth with each turn. But beware - deplete your funds, and it's game over.
Luck be a Landlord
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Death: The Ascension fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Death: The Ascension.
Luck be a Landlord is a roguelike deckbuilder about using a slot machine to earn rent money and defeat capitalism. This game does not contain any real-world currency gambling or microtransactions.
Master of Piece
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Death: The Ascension fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Death: The Ascension.
Recruit mercenaries, combine their traits, and forge endless synergies. Venture through the mysterious medieval realm, facing powerful foes and mighty bosses. Simple turn-based rules hide deep strategic depth—build your ultimate team, master the pieces, and uncover the secrets of the Black fog.
Rentlord
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Death: The Ascension fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Death: The Ascension.
Rentlord is a combo-making roguelike real estate game where you buy properties, manage your income, and overcome unique weekly challenges. Strategic property upgrades and plugins with high combo potential, each run offers new opportunities to maximize rent, while avoiding taxes!
Game Studio Simulator（我要做游戏）
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Death: The Ascension fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Death: The Ascension.
Make a Game Company for your self！Get it work，Run for Rich！
WTF Do You Know?
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Death: The Ascension fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Death: The Ascension.
We just have one question for you... "WTF Do You Know?" I think it might be time for us to find out...
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Death: The Ascension at current Steam store prices.
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Death: The Ascension on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Death: The Ascension.
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?
Placid Plastic Duck Simulator
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Death: The Ascension on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Death: The Ascension.
The ultimate high-tech rubber duck simulation, Placid Plastic Duck brings you dangerous levels of relaxation. With chill music, dreamy 3D graphics, and many different happy ducks, your only priority is to float around. Zero Ducks given.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Death: The Ascension on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Death: The Ascension.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
The Test: Hypothesis Rising
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Death: The Ascension on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Death: The Ascension.
The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?
The Test: Final Revelation
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Death: The Ascension on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Death: The Ascension.
The third chapter in The Test Trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover who you really are as a person. The Final Revelation is upon us... but are you sure you TRULY want the answers you seek?
Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Death: The Ascension on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Death: The Ascension.
"Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad?" is a fast paced shower-simulation where you shower with your 8-bit dad.It's good, clean fun!
Bejeweled® 3
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Death: The Ascension on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Death: The Ascension.
The biggest, brightest Bejeweled ever! Discover all-new ways to play the world’s #1 puzzle game. Find your perfect match with 8 breathtaking game modes that meet all your moods.
Kill It With Fire
WHY THIS
Priced ~48% under Death: The Ascension on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Death: The Ascension.
Kill It With Fire is a first-person action game about hunting spiders and causing collateral damage.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Death: The Ascension.
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.
The Lab
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
Saihate Station
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
An exploration/horror/adventure game about the codependent, love-hate relationship between two men.
Landfall Archives
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Death: The 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!
The Children of Clay
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Death: The Ascension.
The Children of Clay is a short stop motion archeology horror game, where you have to study an ancient artefact and discover its dark secret.
Narrow it down
Head-to-head comparisons
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Sultan's Game
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Death: The Ascension.
Survive a mad Sultan's reign in this brutal resource management RPG. Draw a card every seven days and complete its challenge. Make dreadful choices to stay alive: will you die a loyal servant, become a kingslayer, or call down the gods' judgement?
Luck be a Landlord
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Death: The Ascension.
Luck be a Landlord is a roguelike deckbuilder about using a slot machine to earn rent money and defeat capitalism. This game does not contain any real-world currency gambling or microtransactions.
Master of Piece
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy with Death: The Ascension.
Recruit mercenaries, combine their traits, and forge endless synergies. Venture through the mysterious medieval realm, facing powerful foes and mighty bosses. Simple turn-based rules hide deep strategic depth—build your ultimate team, master the pieces, and uncover the secrets of the Black fog.
Frequently asked about Death: The Ascension
- How much does Death: The Ascension cost?
- Death: The Ascension is listed on Steam at 4.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Death: The Ascension?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Death: The Ascension are Cardboard Town, Sultan's Game, Terracards.
- Who developed Death: The Ascension?
- Death: The Ascension was developed by Dystopian Ruler.
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 Death: The Ascension.
For library-aware picks tuned to your specific taste, sign in with Steam on the home page.