Games like As We Descend
If As We Descend is your kind of game, the closest matches are Kingdom of Ashes - Fallen Era, Forge the Fates and AI Apocalypse — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, contemplative and immersive. 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 As We Descend: The apocalyptic roguelike deckbuilder with squad sculpting and deep tactics. Recruit the right units and outmaneuver titanic foes on dangerous expeditions. Build up allies and resources in the feudal Vault-City. Can you survive all the perils that await the last bastion of humanity?
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Steam players who put hours into As We Descend 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.
Kingdom of Ashes - Fallen Era
WHY THIS
Top pick for As We Descend fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with As We Descend.
A single-player roguelike deck-builder set in a fallen kingdom. Draft cards, chain elemental resonances, fight through procedural maps of battles, shrines, and bosses. Spend Ash at the Forge for permanent upgrades. Eight heroes, brutal Ascension tiers.
Forge the Fates
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for As We Descend fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with As We Descend.
Take deckbuilding to the next level. Transform your hand of cards into a tactical grid of runes. Plan, shift, and strike to unleash powerful combos and chain match-3 bonuses. Choose your hero, master their deck, and fight through deadly dungeons to face a mysterious dark overlord.
AI Apocalypse
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for As We Descend fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with As We Descend.
A cyberpunk roguelike deckbuilder. Fight the AI apocalypse with melee, magic, or rifle — 3 weapon classes, 9 build paths, 120+ cards. Every run is a new tactical puzzle of stance, distance, and deck synergy.
Abjure
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for As We Descend fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with As We Descend.
Win by emptying your hand. Abjure is a roguelike deckbuilder where the 2 of Spades reigns supreme — draft cards, stack relics, and outplay every opponent in a strategic twist on the Big 2 card game.
SpellRogue
WHY THIS
Shares deck building and a contemplative mood with As We Descend.
Ranked #5 for As We Descend fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with As We Descend.
SpellRogue is the ultimate tactical turn-based roguelike! Draft from over 350 powerful spells to assemble the perfect combination and crush your enemies in 70+ unique encounters. Face brutal choices, adapt to impossible odds, and strike back at the horrors that destroyed the world.
Slay the Spire 2
WHY THIS
Shares deck building and an immersive mood with As We Descend.
Ranked #6 for As We Descend fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with As We Descend.
The iconic roguelike deckbuilder returns. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, and discover relics of immense power in Slay the Spire 2!
Hunter's Moon: A Sovereign Syndicate Adventure
WHY THIS
Shares deck building and an atmospheric mood with As We Descend.
Ranked #7 for As We Descend fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with As We Descend.
A Victorian Steampunk Roguelite Deckbuilder. Choose from four characters with unique cards and abilities. Customize your deck and character as you investigate a mysterious plague. Battle corrupted beasts and bosses in turn-based combat to unlock powerful relics and enchanted tarot cards.
Dice & Fold
WHY THIS
Shares deck building and a tense mood with As We Descend.
Ranked #8 for As We Descend fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with As We Descend.
A turn-based dungeon crawler where your only way of attacking the enemy is by rolling dice. Roll dice to damage enemy cards to FOLD. Inspired by classic Solitaire, in a top-down table and enemies made out of cards, try to beat the dungeon with 35 unique classes. Build your deck, kill monsters.
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Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Shares deck building and an immersive mood with As We Descend.
Reviewers of As We Descend cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with As We Descend.
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!
Monster Train
WHY THIS
Shares deck building with As We Descend.
Reviewers of As We Descend cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with As We Descend.
Monster Train is a strategic roguelike deck building game with a twist. Set on a train to hell, you’ll use tactical decision making to defend multiple vertical battlegrounds. With real time competitive multiplayer and endless replayability, Monster Train is always on time.
Magic: The Gathering - Duels of the Planeswalkers 2013
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with As We Descend.
Reviewers of As We Descend cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with As We Descend.
Play with friends or AI as you travel across fantastic planes to take on new encounters & opponents. Magic 2013 features ten customizable decks, individual records, new items & more!
Frostpunk
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with As We Descend.
Reviewers of As We Descend cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with As We Descend.
Frostpunk is the first society survival game. As the ruler of the last city on Earth, it is your duty to manage both its citizens and infrastructure. What decisions will you make to ensure your society's survival? What will you do when pushed to breaking point? Who will you become in the process?
Darkest Dungeon® II
WHY THIS
Reviewers of As We Descend cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with As We Descend.
Darkest Dungeon II is a roguelike road trip of the damned. Form a party, equip your stagecoach, and set off across the decaying landscape on a last gasp quest to avert the apocalypse. The greatest dangers you face, however, may come from within...
StarVaders
WHY THIS
Shares deck building and an atmospheric mood with As We Descend.
Reviewers of As We Descend cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with As We Descend.
Pilot a powerful mech to fight off the alien invasion in this ULTIMATE fusion of deckbuilding and grid-based tactics. Discover game-breaking combos, rewind time to alter your fate, and protect the future of humanity in this endlessly replayable roguelike.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below As We Descend at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under As We Descend on Steam right now. Shares Indie with As We Descend.
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 ~63% under As We Descend on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with As We Descend.
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!
R.E.P.O.
WHY THIS
Priced ~48% under As We Descend on Steam right now. Shares Early Access with As We Descend.
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.
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~40% under As We Descend on Steam right now. Shares Indie with As We Descend.
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?
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under As We Descend on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with As We Descend.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Shares deck building and an immersive mood with As We Descend.
Priced ~53% under As We Descend on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with As We Descend.
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 ~40% under As We Descend on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with As We Descend.
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 ~63% under As We Descend on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with As We Descend.
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.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Cinderella Phenomenon - Otome/Visual Novel
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with As We Descend.
The Fairytale Curse was only the beginning...
Landfall Archives
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with As We Descend.
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!
one night, hot springs
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with As We Descend.
Haru is invited by her old friend Manami to spend a night at the hot springs. All Haru wants to do is enjoy the hot springs like everyone else, but she doesn't want to cause any trouble...
Die in the Dungeon: Origins
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with As We Descend.
Fight your way through a mysterious dungeon in this deck-building, turn-based roguelike game where you don't use cards, but DICE! Deal with enemies by combining dice on your board, boost their effects with magical relics, and discover the story behind Die in the Dungeon!
Jigsaw Puzzle Dreams
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with As We Descend.
Beautiful Multiplayer Jigsaw Puzzle game where you can design the room you play in!
The Last Sovereign
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with As We Descend.
Explore a world torn between armies of lust and purity in which everything is more complex than it seems, deciding the fate of nations through might, politics, and finance. Every decision matters in an intricate saga that tracks thousands of variables.
Shape of Dreams: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with As We Descend.
《Shape of Dreams: Prologue》is a unique game that blends action roguelite with MOBA-style gameplay. Edit your character's Memories to create your own champion. Face all challenges alone or play with friends in up to 4-player co-op.
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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.
SpellRogue
WHY THIS
Shares deck building and a contemplative mood with As We Descend.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with As We Descend.
SpellRogue is the ultimate tactical turn-based roguelike! Draft from over 350 powerful spells to assemble the perfect combination and crush your enemies in 70+ unique encounters. Face brutal choices, adapt to impossible odds, and strike back at the horrors that destroyed the world.
Slay the Spire 2
WHY THIS
Shares deck building and an immersive mood with As We Descend.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with As We Descend.
The iconic roguelike deckbuilder returns. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, and discover relics of immense power in Slay the Spire 2!
Dice & Fold
WHY THIS
Shares deck building and a tense mood with As We Descend.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with As We Descend.
A turn-based dungeon crawler where your only way of attacking the enemy is by rolling dice. Roll dice to damage enemy cards to FOLD. Inspired by classic Solitaire, in a top-down table and enemies made out of cards, try to beat the dungeon with 35 unique classes. Build your deck, kill monsters.
Frequently asked about As We Descend
- Does As We Descend run on Steam Deck?
- As We Descend is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does As We Descend cost?
- As We Descend is listed on Steam at 13.39 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to As We Descend?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside As We Descend are Kingdom of Ashes - Fallen Era, Forge the Fates, AI Apocalypse.
- Who developed As We Descend?
- As We Descend was developed by Box Dragon and published by Coffee Stain Publishing.
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 As We Descend.
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