Games like Vain Ascendance
If Vain Ascendance is your kind of game, the closest matches are Touhou ~Red Empress Devil., Bad Run - Turbo Edition and Conquistador — 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 Vain Ascendance: Vain Ascendance is a fast-paced roguelite platformer where you ascend an ever-changing office tower. Use Valerie's dash attack to steal blood from enemies and take it home to make blood cocktails that upgrade your abilities, or drink it to heal in a pinch!
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Touhou ~Red Empress Devil.
WHY THIS
Top pick for Vain Ascendance fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Vain Ascendance.
"Touhou ~Red Empress Devil." is a bullet-hell shooting roguelike action game. Set in The Scarlet Devil Mansion, the inhabitants of Gensokyo go on a rampage!
Bad Run - Turbo Edition
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Vain Ascendance fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Vain Ascendance.
Bad Run is a spin-off of Bad Pad, featuring a casual action packed, runner metroidvania platformer.
Conquistador
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Vain Ascendance fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Vain Ascendance.
Conquistador is an adventurous roguelike platformer. Navigate hand-crafted and procedurally generated levels as you jump, slash, and maneuver through thick jungles and ancient temples. Collect valuable items, abilities, and precious loot to help you conquer the game's challenging traps and enemies.
They Bleed Pixels
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Vain Ascendance fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Vain Ascendance.
They Bleed Pixels is a fiendishly difficult action platformer inspired by H.P. Lovecraft and classic horror.
Nary
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Ranked #5 for Vain Ascendance fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Vain Ascendance.
Nary is a hardcore pseudo-endless runner about multitasking. If you want to survive, you'll have to both avoid the randomly generated obstacles and defeat your foes by mashing correct button sequences!
TOKOYO: The Tower of Perpetuity
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Vain Ascendance fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Vain Ascendance.
You find yourself trapped in a mysterious tower – one that transforms its very structure every 24 hours, where you must surpass countless poor fallen souls and make your way to the heretofore unseen top!
30XX
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Vain Ascendance fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Vain Ascendance.
Jump, shoot, and slash your way through 30XX, the roguelike action platformer you can play with a friend! Explore lush, ever-changing worlds that mix precise platforming with fevered combat. Destroy fearsome Guardians. Master unique Powers. Rediscover the thousand years we've lost.
Crypt of the NecroDancer
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Ranked #8 for Vain Ascendance fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Vain Ascendance.
Crypt of the NecroDancer is an award winning hardcore roguelike rhythm game. Move to the music and deliver beatdowns to the beat! Groove to the epic Danny Baranowsky soundtrack, or select songs from your own MP3 collection!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Vain Ascendance at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Vain Ascendance on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Vain Ascendance.
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?
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Vain Ascendance on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Vain Ascendance.
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?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
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Priced ~63% under Vain Ascendance on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Vain Ascendance.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Vain Ascendance on Steam right now. Shares Action with Vain Ascendance.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
shapez
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Priced ~75% under Vain Ascendance on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Vain Ascendance.
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 ~50% under Vain Ascendance on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Vain Ascendance.
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 NOexistenceN of you AND me
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Priced ~50% under Vain Ascendance on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Vain Ascendance.
Use "game" as a medium to showcase the world of "you/girl". Explore the truth of "you/girl/world" through the form of a "visual novel".
Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Vain Ascendance on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Vain Ascendance.
"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!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Vain Ascendance.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Vain Ascendance.
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.
Virtual Cottage
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Vain Ascendance.
Virtual Cottage gives you a comfy place to rest and be productive without any distractions. Open the game, set yourself a goal and enjoy the atmosphere.
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Vain Ascendance.
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 and Indie with Vain Ascendance.
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.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Vain Ascendance.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
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Frequently asked about Vain Ascendance
- How much does Vain Ascendance cost?
- Vain Ascendance is listed on Steam at 3.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Vain Ascendance?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Vain Ascendance are Touhou ~Red Empress Devil., Bad Run - Turbo Edition, Conquistador.
- Who developed Vain Ascendance?
- Vain Ascendance was developed by Team Scarlet, Will-o-Works and published by Will-o-Works.
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 Vain Ascendance.
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