Games like ASCIILL
If ASCIILL is your kind of game, the closest matches are Underkeep, Hunt the Muglump and Slay the Spire — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its daily challenges add replayability, atmospheric and challenging. 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 ASCIILL: Retro dungeon crawler with the crazy minimalist style. Take part in fast-paced encounters with inhabitants of the huge alien temple and pay special attention to numbers to solve puzzles and avoid traps.
Players who liked ASCIILL also play
Steam players who put hours into ASCIILL 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.
Underkeep
WHY THIS
Top pick for ASCIILL fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with ASCIILL.
Explore a dangerous fantasy world in this role-playing dungeon crawler with tactical, turn-based combat. Assemble a party of adventurers, upgrade your gear and descend into the depths of the Underkeep to uncover what lies hidden below.
Hunt the Muglump
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for ASCIILL fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with ASCIILL.
Retro-inspired dungeon crawling adventure/puzzle
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with ASCIILL.
Third-strongest match for ASCIILL fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with ASCIILL.
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!
Legends of Amberland II: The Song of Trees
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with ASCIILL.
Ranked #4 for ASCIILL fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
Legends of Amberland II: The Song of Trees is a classic western RPG inspired by great 90s era games such as Might & Magic, Wizardry, Ultima, the Gold Box series. Light, fairy tale, epic, heroic, slightly humorous adventure.
Legends of Amberland: The Forgotten Crown
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with ASCIILL.
Ranked #5 for ASCIILL fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
Legends of Amberland: The Forgotten Crown is a classic western RPG inspired by the games from the 90s. Basically, it’s the kind of game I personally find missing nowadays. Light, fairy tale, epic, heroic, slightly humorous and without the need of endless grind to progress.
Wizardry: The Five Ordeals
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with ASCIILL.
Ranked #6 for ASCIILL fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
Welcome to the world of dungeon crawling! The classic dungeon crawler released back in 2006, returns to Steam with improved UI and more.
Desktop Dungeons: Rewind
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with ASCIILL.
Ranked #7 for ASCIILL fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Adventure with ASCIILL.
Desktop Dungeons: Rewind bestows bites of tactical roguelike action, which will quickly fester into a deep, lingering, and strategic obsession. Bargain with gods, equip your spoon and pick your battles, before retreating into the healing darkness. But beware… there are still many monsters to face!
WazHack
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with ASCIILL.
Ranked #8 for ASCIILL fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with ASCIILL.
Time moves forward only when you do in the dungeons of WazHack. Think your way out of problems instead of just spamming 'attack' and 'drink healing potion'.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below ASCIILL at current Steam store prices.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under ASCIILL on Steam right now. Shares Action with ASCIILL.
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 ~50% under ASCIILL on Steam right now. Shares Action with ASCIILL.
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.
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under ASCIILL on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with ASCIILL.
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.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~89% under ASCIILL on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with ASCIILL.
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?
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under ASCIILL on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with ASCIILL.
Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under ASCIILL on Steam right now. Shares Action with ASCIILL.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under ASCIILL on Steam right now. Shares Action with ASCIILL.
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 ~44% under ASCIILL on Steam right now. Shares Action and Strategy with ASCIILL.
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.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with ASCIILL.
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 ASCIILL.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Iron Snout
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with ASCIILL.
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
Star Fetchers
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with ASCIILL.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
Disfigure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with ASCIILL.
Disfigure is a grim-dark action rogue-like where you battle relentless hordes of monsters lurking in the shadows. Unlock powerful weapons, craft god-like builds with hundreds of upgrades, slay colossal bosses, and push your limits in intense 20–30 minute survival runs!
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!
Narrow it down
Head-to-head comparisons
Frequently asked about ASCIILL
- How much does ASCIILL cost?
- ASCIILL is listed on Steam at 8.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to ASCIILL?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside ASCIILL are Underkeep, Hunt the Muglump, Slay the Spire.
- Who developed ASCIILL?
- ASCIILL was developed by Andrei Fomin.
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 ASCIILL.
For library-aware picks tuned to your specific taste, sign in with Steam on the home page.