Games like Ascent of Ashes
If Ascent of Ashes is your kind of game, the closest matches are Corsair Cove, Whiskerwood and Nova Roma — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its limited ammo adds tension, 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 Ascent of Ashes: A colony sim set in a post-apocalyptic dystopia. Build and defend your base. Manage your survivors. Engage raiders, aliens, Remnant soldiers and other factions in real-time-with-pause combat. Or use stealth to outwit them. Explore the massive world. Survive at all costs
Players who liked Ascent of Ashes also play
Steam players who put hours into Ascent of Ashes 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.
Corsair Cove
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Top pick for Ascent of Ashes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Ascent of Ashes.
Build a sprawling pirate haven, raise a fleet to explore the high seas, and take on the Crown to keep the Age of Piracy alive! From ale to flintlock pistols, and from scallywags to swashbucklers, you’ll need to manage complex production chains and govern a rowdy crew to reign supreme over the seas!
Whiskerwood
WHY THIS
Shares base building and an atmospheric mood with Ascent of Ashes.
Second-strongest match for Ascent of Ashes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Ascent of Ashes.
Establish a home for your industrious mice under the oppressive paw of your cat overlords in this city builder featuring complex simulations, intricate production chains, and the age-old rivalry between cat and mouse.
Nova Roma
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Ascent of Ashes.
Third-strongest match for Ascent of Ashes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Ascent of Ashes.
The glory of Rome is at your fingertips in this city-building game where you must appease the gods, enact laws, and develop complex supply chains to meet the needs of your citizens.
Sapiens
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Ranked #4 for Ascent of Ashes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Ascent of Ashes.
Create your own prehistoric civilization and lead your tribe in a world you shape. Start with nothing, build towns and industry, and advance through thousands of years of technological breakthroughs in this intimate yet expansive colony sim.
Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
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Shares base building and an atmospheric mood with Ascent of Ashes.
Ranked #5 for Ascent of Ashes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Ascent of Ashes.
Build, scavenge, craft, and perform occult rituals to survive in a demon-infested, post-apocalyptic colony simulation. Will you survive Judgment day?
Space Haven
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Shares a challenging mood with Ascent of Ashes.
Ranked #6 for Ascent of Ashes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Ascent of Ashes.
Embark on a space voyage with your ragtag crew of civilians in search of a new home. Build spaceships tile by tile, create optimal gas conditions, manage the needs and moods of their crew, encounter other space-faring groups, and explore the universe in this spaceship colony simulation.
Eastern Era
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Shares base building and a challenging mood with Ascent of Ashes.
Ranked #7 for Ascent of Ashes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Ascent of Ashes.
To escape from pursuit, as the leader of your sect, guide your disciples to rise again! Engage in farming and hunting, train in martial arts, and forge weapons and armor. Build your sect's base and fortifications from the ground up to survive in this perilous, ambition-filled martial world!
Colony Survival
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Shares a contemplative mood with Ascent of Ashes.
Ranked #8 for Ascent of Ashes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Ascent of Ashes.
Colony Survival is a unique first-person strategy game developed by a two-man team. Build your own colony in a voxel world. Command guards, farmers, miners and other colonists. Defend your colony against the horde of monsters that attacks every night!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Ascent of Ashes at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~67% under Ascent of Ashes on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Ascent of Ashes.
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
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Priced ~67% under Ascent of Ashes on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Ascent of Ashes.
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.
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Priced ~53% under Ascent of Ashes on Steam right now. Shares Early Access with Ascent of Ashes.
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
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Priced ~47% under Ascent of Ashes on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ascent of Ashes.
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
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Priced ~50% under Ascent of Ashes on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Ascent of Ashes.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
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Priced ~58% under Ascent of Ashes on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Ascent of Ashes.
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
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Priced ~47% under Ascent of Ashes on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Ascent of Ashes.
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...
How to Fish
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Ascent of Ashes on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Ascent of Ashes.
A 1-4 player physics based fishing simulator. While drinking and boating you suddenly crash into a small island. To work your way back home you have to learn How to Fish.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Ascent of Ashes.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
SuchArt: Creative Space
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ascent of Ashes.
Paint on any surfaces with numerous tools in Creative Space — a free sandbox version of SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator. Create masterpieces, complete commissions, and decorate your studio in the most advanced artist sim!
Crime Scene Cleaner: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Ascent of Ashes.
When there’s a call, you are the man to clean up after your client’s dirty job. Siding with the mafia is a dangerous game, but they pay well, and you need money, right? So take your mop and better remove those bloodstains quickly before the police come.
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Ascent of Ashes.
The Riftbreaker: Prologue allows you to experience the events taking place before the story campaign of the main game. Explore an entirely new world. Gather resources. Build up a base. Defend yourself from thousands of alien creatures.
The Last Sovereign
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Ascent of Ashes.
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.
DFHack - Dwarf Fortress Modding Engine
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Ascent of Ashes.
Extensions for Dwarf Fortress, including bugfixes, interface improvements, automation agents, design blueprints, modding building blocks, and other tools.
Nazi Zombies
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Early Access with Ascent of Ashes.
Nazi Zombies is a cooperative survival game where players fend off escalating waves of Nazi zombies, earning points by killing zombies and repairing barriers to buy weapons, upgrades, perks, and unlock new map areas to maximize their survival.
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Frequently asked about Ascent of Ashes
- Does Ascent of Ashes run on Steam Deck?
- Ascent of Ashes 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 Ascent of Ashes cost?
- Ascent of Ashes is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Ascent of Ashes?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Ascent of Ashes are Corsair Cove, Whiskerwood, Nova Roma.
- Who developed Ascent of Ashes?
- Ascent of Ashes was developed by Vivid Storm Interactive.
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