Games like TowerFall Ascension
If TowerFall Ascension is your kind of game, the closest matches are Shield Shock, Rivals of Aether and Samurai GUNN — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its fast paced gameplay, high skill ceiling and tactical positioning matters. 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 →TowerFall Ascension is a 2D action-indie archery combat game released in 2014. Designed for 2 to 4 local players, the game features versus matches and time trials across a single screen, with mechanics built around skill-based combat and tactical positioning. Reviewers highlight the fast-paced gameplay and high skill ceiling as defining characteristics, while players describe matches as competitive and intense sessions. The game carries a hard difficulty rating with medium-length content structured around short-burst play sessions. Currently priced at 14.99 USD, it holds a 95% positive rating from 1738 Steam reviews and is marked as playable on Steam Deck.
About TowerFall Ascension: TowerFall Ascension is the definitive version of the hit archery combat game. Inspired by classics from the golden age of couch multiplayer, it's a 4-player local party game centering around hilarious, intense versus matches. The core mechanics are simple and accessible, but hard to master and combat is fierce.
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Steam players who put hours into TowerFall Ascension 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.
Shield Shock
WHY THIS
Top pick for TowerFall Ascension fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with TowerFall Ascension.
Shield Shock is a 2D Platform Fighter Game all about blocking! Use your shield to block projectiles and release mighty attacks right back! This 4-Player Party Fighting Game will have you playing with friends to defeat the onslaught of Blockers or face off against each-other to see who comes out on top!
Rivals of Aether
WHY THIS
Shares a competitive mood with TowerFall Ascension.
Second-strongest match for TowerFall Ascension fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with TowerFall Ascension.
RIVALS OF AETHER is an indie fighting game where warring civilizations summon the power of Fire, Water, Air, and Earth. Play with up to four players either locally or online.
Samurai GUNN
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with TowerFall Ascension.
Third-strongest match for TowerFall Ascension fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with TowerFall Ascension.
Samurai GUNN is a lightning-fast Bushido brawler for 2 to 4 players. Each samurai is armed with a sword and gunn, with only 3 bullets to a life. Strategy and quick reflexes are the key to deflecting bullets and sending your opponents’ heads rolling.
Go All Out
WHY THIS
Shares a competitive mood with TowerFall Ascension.
Ranked #4 for TowerFall Ascension fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with TowerFall Ascension.
Yandere-Chan, Teslakid, Cole Black, Breakbone and more crossover characters in one fighting game! Be the last man standing in this intense and action packed platform fighter.
Wishmere
WHY THIS
Shares versus mode and a competitive mood with TowerFall Ascension.
Ranked #5 for TowerFall Ascension fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with TowerFall Ascension.
Wishmere is a brawler-fighting game that gives you the power and creativity to fight your battles your way. Play with friends in local matches, discover the story of Wishmere or survive and conquer over 30+ challenge maps!
Slap City
WHY THIS
Shares tactical positioning and a competitive mood with TowerFall Ascension.
Ranked #6 for TowerFall Ascension fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with TowerFall Ascension.
Slap City is a Seriously Fun platform fighter with a perfect mix of characters from the Ludosity universe. Play Locally or Online. Slap it hard in Ranked or fast and loose in Slap Ball game mode. We are the original inventors of Clutch Technology.
Brawlout
WHY THIS
Shares a competitive mood with TowerFall Ascension.
Ranked #7 for TowerFall Ascension fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with TowerFall Ascension.
Brawlout is the platform fighting game, designed for couch play, online ranked matches and competitive tournaments. Now at 2.0!
A Few Quick Matches
WHY THIS
Shares a competitive mood with TowerFall Ascension.
Ranked #8 for TowerFall Ascension fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with TowerFall Ascension.
A FEW QUICK MATCHES is a fast-paced, 1-4 player platform fighter that lets you bring old-school stick battles to life! play with your friends locally, or challenge players online in this flash-inspired spectacle!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below TowerFall Ascension at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~67% under TowerFall Ascension on Steam right now. Shares Indie with TowerFall Ascension.
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 ~67% under TowerFall Ascension on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with TowerFall Ascension.
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 ~53% under TowerFall Ascension on Steam right now. Shares Action with TowerFall Ascension.
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 ~47% under TowerFall Ascension on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with TowerFall Ascension.
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?
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under TowerFall Ascension on Steam right now. Shares Action with TowerFall Ascension.
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.
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under TowerFall Ascension on Steam right now. Shares Indie with TowerFall Ascension.
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 ~47% under TowerFall Ascension on Steam right now. Shares Indie with TowerFall Ascension.
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 ~67% under TowerFall Ascension on Steam right now. Shares Indie with TowerFall Ascension.
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.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with TowerFall Ascension.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with TowerFall Ascension.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with TowerFall Ascension.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
STRAFTAT
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with TowerFall Ascension.
STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with TowerFall Ascension.
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 Indie with TowerFall Ascension.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
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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.
Rivals of Aether
WHY THIS
Shares a competitive mood with TowerFall Ascension.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie with TowerFall Ascension.
RIVALS OF AETHER is an indie fighting game where warring civilizations summon the power of Fire, Water, Air, and Earth. Play with up to four players either locally or online.
Samurai GUNN
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with TowerFall Ascension.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with TowerFall Ascension.
Samurai GUNN is a lightning-fast Bushido brawler for 2 to 4 players. Each samurai is armed with a sword and gunn, with only 3 bullets to a life. Strategy and quick reflexes are the key to deflecting bullets and sending your opponents’ heads rolling.
Brawlout
WHY THIS
Shares a competitive mood with TowerFall Ascension.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with TowerFall Ascension.
Brawlout is the platform fighting game, designed for couch play, online ranked matches and competitive tournaments. Now at 2.0!
Frequently asked about TowerFall Ascension
- Does TowerFall Ascension run on Steam Deck?
- TowerFall Ascension 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 TowerFall Ascension cost?
- TowerFall Ascension is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does TowerFall Ascension have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — TowerFall Ascension supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Shared/Split Screen PvP, Shared/Split Screen Co-op).
- What games are most similar to TowerFall Ascension?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside TowerFall Ascension are Shield Shock, Rivals of Aether, Samurai GUNN.
- Who developed TowerFall Ascension?
- TowerFall Ascension was developed by Maddy Makes Games Inc., Extremely OK Games, Ltd. and published by Maddy Makes Games Inc..
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