Games like Ascendum
If Ascendum is your kind of game, the closest matches are Kinduo 2 - Frostbite, Degrees of Separation and Trine 2: Complete Story — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its challenging, contemplative and cozy. 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 Ascendum: Help 2 twin vessels on their journey through the afterlife! Overcome platforming and mind-bending puzzle challenges, and defeat scary enemies and bosses while controlling both characters at the same time or working together with another player in local Co-op.
Players who liked Ascendum also play
Steam players who put hours into Ascendum 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.
Kinduo 2 - Frostbite
WHY THIS
Top pick for Ascendum fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ascendum.
Kinduo 2 is a local co-op game where two elemental friends with unique abilities need to help each other to overcome obstacles! Create blocks of ice, burn or melt things, and combine your skills to create plants!
Degrees of Separation
WHY THIS
Shares puzzle platforming and a cozy mood with Ascendum.
Second-strongest match for Ascendum fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ascendum.
Degrees of Separation is a puzzle platformer where cooperation is built into every move. Two contrasting souls, Ember and Rime, fall in love, but are separated by an enigmatic force, and must use their powers to progress through a spectacular world of fantasy and adventure.
Trine 2: Complete Story
WHY THIS
Shares a cozy mood with Ascendum.
Third-strongest match for Ascendum fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ascendum.
Three Heroes make their way through dangers untold in a fairytale world, featuring physics-based puzzles, beautiful sights and online co-op.
Frincess&Cnight
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Ascendum.
Ranked #4 for Ascendum fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ascendum.
Frincess&Cnight is a single-screen puzzle-platformer game about struggle and love between Frog princess and Cat knight.
Trine 5: A Clockwork Conspiracy
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Ascendum fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ascendum.
The Trine series is back with its biggest adventure! In their fifth outing, the Heroes of Trine are pitted against dastardly and duplicitous villains, who will stop at nothing to seize control of the kingdom. The clock is ticking to save the world of Trine!
Pets at Work
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Ascendum fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ascendum.
Some pets got lost from their owners in an office and now need to work together, using boxes, mats, buttons, climb on shelves and tables or just make a mess trying to find them in this colorful local co-op game!
Ynglet
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Ascendum.
Ranked #7 for Ascendum fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ascendum.
In Ynglet, you jump, dash, slide, bounce and float your way through an abstract, effervescent sky. Melt into the reactive, dynamic soundtrack, while beautiful colors make every moment a visual treat.
KarmaZoo
WHY THIS
Shares a cozy mood with Ascendum.
Ranked #8 for Ascendum fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Casual with Ascendum.
Share the love and die trying! KarmaZoo is a joyful, altruistic, cooperative platformer where up to 10 random players help each other with the unique abilities of 50 different characters - all for the sake of good Karma.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Ascendum at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~64% under Ascendum on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Ascendum.
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.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~64% under Ascendum on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Ascendum.
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!
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~43% under Ascendum on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ascendum.
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?
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~55% under Ascendum on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Ascendum.
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!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~43% under Ascendum on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ascendum.
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...
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~64% under Ascendum on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Ascendum.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~64% under Ascendum on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Ascendum.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
Noita
WHY THIS
Priced ~43% under Ascendum on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ascendum.
Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Ascendum.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Ascendum.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ascendum.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Ascendum.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ascendum.
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.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Ascendum.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Travellin Cats in Paris
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Ascendum.
Find 100 cats hidden in Paris, France in this cute hand-drawn hidden object game by Travellin Cats - the original viral hidden cat game creator!
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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.
Degrees of Separation
WHY THIS
Shares puzzle platforming and a cozy mood with Ascendum.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ascendum.
Degrees of Separation is a puzzle platformer where cooperation is built into every move. Two contrasting souls, Ember and Rime, fall in love, but are separated by an enigmatic force, and must use their powers to progress through a spectacular world of fantasy and adventure.
Frincess&Cnight
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Ascendum.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ascendum.
Frincess&Cnight is a single-screen puzzle-platformer game about struggle and love between Frog princess and Cat knight.
Pets at Work
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ascendum.
Some pets got lost from their owners in an office and now need to work together, using boxes, mats, buttons, climb on shelves and tables or just make a mess trying to find them in this colorful local co-op game!
Ynglet
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Ascendum.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ascendum.
In Ynglet, you jump, dash, slide, bounce and float your way through an abstract, effervescent sky. Melt into the reactive, dynamic soundtrack, while beautiful colors make every moment a visual treat.
KarmaZoo
WHY THIS
Shares a cozy mood with Ascendum.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Casual with Ascendum.
Share the love and die trying! KarmaZoo is a joyful, altruistic, cooperative platformer where up to 10 random players help each other with the unique abilities of 50 different characters - all for the sake of good Karma.
Frequently asked about Ascendum
- How much does Ascendum cost?
- Ascendum is listed on Steam at 13.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Ascendum have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Ascendum 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 Ascendum?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Ascendum are Kinduo 2 - Frostbite, Degrees of Separation, Trine 2: Complete Story.
- Who developed Ascendum?
- Ascendum was developed by The Caecus and published by Team Caecus.
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