Games like Verlet Ascend
If Verlet Ascend is your kind of game, the closest matches are Fallback, Blade of the Netherworld and Spiritfall — 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 Verlet Ascend: Verlet Ascend is a physics based, action platformer with roguelike mechanics, a fully destructable procedurally generated environment, and rope swing physics. Fight creatures, loot enemies, upgrade your character, and climb your way up in an endless parkour.
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Steam players who put hours into Verlet Ascend 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.
Fallback
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Top pick for Verlet Ascend fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Verlet Ascend.
Lead the rebellion in an epic rogue-like adventure. Guide your jet-pack equipped post-apocalyptic volunteers through a labyrinthine underground complex by jumping, dodging, and battling against robot minions (and masters) to get to the surface — and bring life back to the scorched Earth.
Blade of the Netherworld
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Verlet Ascend fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Verlet Ascend.
Blade of the Netherworld is a fast-paced 2D Roguelite platformer. Don divine masks as a Yin-Yang Enforcer, slashing through the underworld to defeat gods, demons, and spirits. Combine a variety of items, master combat skills, and create limitless, high-speed carnage with a free-form action system.
Spiritfall
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Third-strongest match for Verlet Ascend fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Verlet Ascend.
Spiritfall is a fast-paced Action Roguelite with combat inspired by Platform Fighters. Slash, smash, launch, and wall-splat a multitude of enemies using an ever-changing arsenal of divine powers.
Anomaly Agent
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Ranked #4 for Verlet Ascend fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Verlet Ascend.
ANOMALY AGENT is a cyberpunk action-adventure featuring fluid combat, a time-bending story, quirky characters and a catchy synthwave soundtrack! Punch or shoot through mobs of enemies, impact the story with your choices and stop the anomalies before the world plunges into chaos!
Dead Cells
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Verlet Ascend fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Verlet Ascend.
Dead Cells is a roguelite, metroidvania inspired, action-platformer. You'll explore a sprawling, ever-changing castle... assuming you’re able to fight your way past its keepers in 2D souls-lite combat. No checkpoints. Kill, die, learn, repeat.
Have a Nice Death
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Verlet Ascend fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Verlet Ascend.
Have a Nice Death is a 2D action roguelike where you play as an overworked Death, whose employees have run rampant, completely throwing off the balance of souls - and his vacation plans. In order to restore order, you'll have to grab your trusty scythe and show your employees who's boss.
Skul: The Hero Slayer
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Ranked #7 for Verlet Ascend fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Verlet Ascend.
Guide 'Skul' on his quest to single-handedly take on the Imperial Army and rescue his King from captivity, in an action-packed rogue-lite 2D platformer for the ages.
I Hate Running Backwards
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Verlet Ascend fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Verlet Ascend.
I Hate Running Backwards is a never-ending adrenaline packed shoot'em down roguelite that puts the emphasis on destruction and fighting never ending waves of enemies while time traveling through procedurally generated worlds!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Verlet Ascend at current Steam store prices.
The Vagrant
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Priced ~43% under Verlet Ascend on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Verlet Ascend.
Guide Vivian the Vagrant, through vibrant and dynamic landscapes while hacking and slashing a path from a quiet coastal village through mysterious forests, haunted castles, and wrecked battlegrounds. When the endless barrage of enemies have been vanquished, what solace will be left for our hero?
Mining Mechs
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Verlet Ascend on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Verlet Ascend.
Unleash your inner miner as you commandeer a high-tech Mining Mech! Mine for valuable resources and upgrade your mech for even bigger hauls as you explore the underground. Fun to play alone or with up to 7 friends in online co-op multiplayer!
Seraph's Last Stand
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Priced ~50% under Verlet Ascend on Steam right now. Shares Action with Verlet Ascend.
Create insane builds and break the game in all possible ways to get your name into the leaderboards! Every round you get stronger, but so does the enemies...
ULTIMATE HARDBASS DEFENCE
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Priced ~58% under Verlet Ascend on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Verlet Ascend.
SHOOT. SURVIVE. DANCE HARDBASS.
Your Mother
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Priced ~47% under Verlet Ascend on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Verlet Ascend.
《Your Mother》is a computer desktop companion. Experience the love and kindness from mothers.
LIZARDS MUST DIE
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Priced ~43% under Verlet Ascend on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Verlet Ascend.
The great exploits of the Ancient Rus in the war with the lizards. Immerse yourself in the world of Hyperborea and defeat hordes of Lizards and other unholy who encroached on holy places Ancestors. Choose a blessed hero and go save the world from the green plague.
Miss Neko
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Priced ~65% under Verlet Ascend on Steam right now. Shares Action with Verlet Ascend.
Together the full picture of all the lovely beast ladies with your own hands, play Yakyuken with them, collect their portraits. Hope you have a relaxing and enjoyable game time:)
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Verlet Ascend.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Verlet Ascend.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
The Expendabros
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Verlet Ascend.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Verlet Ascend.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Verlet Ascend.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
Disfigure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Verlet Ascend.
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
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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!
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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.
Spiritfall
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Verlet Ascend.
Spiritfall is a fast-paced Action Roguelite with combat inspired by Platform Fighters. Slash, smash, launch, and wall-splat a multitude of enemies using an ever-changing arsenal of divine powers.
Anomaly Agent
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Verlet Ascend.
ANOMALY AGENT is a cyberpunk action-adventure featuring fluid combat, a time-bending story, quirky characters and a catchy synthwave soundtrack! Punch or shoot through mobs of enemies, impact the story with your choices and stop the anomalies before the world plunges into chaos!
Dead Cells
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Verlet Ascend.
Dead Cells is a roguelite, metroidvania inspired, action-platformer. You'll explore a sprawling, ever-changing castle... assuming you’re able to fight your way past its keepers in 2D souls-lite combat. No checkpoints. Kill, die, learn, repeat.
Have a Nice Death
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Verlet Ascend.
Have a Nice Death is a 2D action roguelike where you play as an overworked Death, whose employees have run rampant, completely throwing off the balance of souls - and his vacation plans. In order to restore order, you'll have to grab your trusty scythe and show your employees who's boss.
I Hate Running Backwards
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Verlet Ascend.
I Hate Running Backwards is a never-ending adrenaline packed shoot'em down roguelite that puts the emphasis on destruction and fighting never ending waves of enemies while time traveling through procedurally generated worlds!
Frequently asked about Verlet Ascend
- How much does Verlet Ascend cost?
- Verlet Ascend is listed on Steam at 1.39 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Verlet Ascend?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Verlet Ascend are Fallback, Blade of the Netherworld, Spiritfall.
- Who developed Verlet Ascend?
- Verlet Ascend was developed by Sagewind Studio and published by Stratera Games.
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