Single-player games like Ascent
Below are 12 single-player Steam games similar to Ascent, ranked by player overlap. Every pick carries Steam's Single-player category, so multiplayer-only titles or always-online games don't sneak in. imho.run pulls the category data from Steam directly — Single-player here matches what the store labels.
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Ranked picks
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LAETUS.
Single-player alternative to Ascent — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Ascent.
LAETUS. is a precise 2D-Platformer that will challenge your mental fortitude and physical abilites. With simple design and gameplay mechanics, exploiting your colour-changing and movement abilites will bring you success. The developer didn't hold back on these levels... Now with a level editor!
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There is No Stairs
Single-player alternative to Ascent — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Thousands of rocket jump accidents are reported worldwide every year. Unfortunately, a bald inventor here also lost legs trying to get up to the second floor. But he wasn't frustrated. Now he is designing an unprecedented new invention, dreaming of a world without rocket jumps... It's the stairs.
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Shoot For The Stars
Single-player alternative to Ascent — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
A rage platformer but you are a gun trying to ascend to the stars!
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Before Time Runs Out
Single-player alternative to Ascent — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Ascent.
In this momentum based Platformer, make your way through numerous obstacles such as spikes, saws, laser beams, and explosives to reach the goal at the end of each level. Each level has a limited amount of time to complete. So speed is key, or else it's game over.
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BOXNIGMA
Single-player alternative to Ascent — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Ascent.
Move the boxes from each level correctly and simultaneously to move to the next challenge in this minimalist and retro 2D puzzle game!
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Ploc
Single-player alternative to Ascent — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
This is Ploc, brave, agile, fast, and with a super special power, controlling gravity! Walk on the floor, ceiling, or wall and help Ploc get through all the dangers in this frantic and challenging platform puzzle.
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Enso
Single-player alternative to Ascent — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Slingshot your way to the top of a beautiful minimalist landscape. A deceptively tricky platformer where a single slip could lead to a long fall back down!
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Bean Climb
Single-player alternative to Ascent — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Bean Climb - A hard torture during a dark night. Face all the hard obstacles, and make it to the top. It's not going to be easy, but jump by jump, you're hopefully going to make it. Just don't fall down...
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Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy
Single-player alternative to Ascent — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
A game I made for a certain kind of person. To hurt them.
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F.I.S.H.
Single-player alternative to Ascent — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
A very intense rhythm game where you enforce road safety on unsuspecting fish
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Oatmeal
Single-player alternative to Ascent — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
A game about oatmeal
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KELVIN
Single-player alternative to Ascent — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Escape a distant planet before it is swallowed by a black hole