Single-player games like Ascendant
Below are 13 single-player Steam games similar to Ascendant, ranked by player overlap. Every pick carries Steam's Single-player category, so multiplayer-only titles or always-online games don't sneak in. imho.run pulls the category data from Steam directly — Single-player here matches what the store labels.
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Ranked picks
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Rampage Knights
Single-player alternative to Ascendant — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Ascendant.
Rampage Knights is a cooperative beat 'em up game mixed up with randomized dungeon crawling and exploration, which you can play alone or with a friend online.
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Lost Castle 2
Single-player alternative to Ascendant — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Ascendant.
"Lost Castle 2" is a 2D Beat'em up Rogue-Lite game. Explore abundant treasures and items to enhance yourself, master various weapons to showcase your skills, and challenge powerful monsters to demonstrate your strength. A new adventure is calling for treasure hunters!
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Vertical Drop Heroes HD
Single-player alternative to Ascendant — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and RPG with Ascendant.
Vertical Drop Heroes is a procedural platformer RPG hybrid with roguelike elements, where your hero adventures through randomly generated stages. Armed with a variety of skills and traits, you must use your cunning and reflexes to survive the dangers of each stage.
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TowerClimb
Single-player alternative to Ascendant — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Ascendant.
TowerClimb is a difficult and rewarding procedurally generated platformer with roguelike elements. Enormous and mysterious towers of ancient unknown origin stand above humanity, extending to the heavens. Struggle forward as a weak human, driven by an iron will to reach the top.
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Dungeon Souls
Single-player alternative to Ascendant — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Ascendant.
Dungeon Souls is an action-adventure roguelike dungeon crawler which draws heavy inspiration from Nuclear Throne, Risk of Rain, and Overture. Explore vast procedurally generated dungeons, collect loot, and slay hordes of challenging enemies!
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Risk of Rain (2013)
Single-player alternative to Ascendant — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Ascendant.
Risk of Rain is an action platformer with roguelike elements. With permanent death as a primary feature, players will have to play their best to get as far as possible. Fight on a mysterious planet with randomly spawning enemies and bosses, either alone or with 3 friends in online co-op.
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Our Darker Purpose
Single-player alternative to Ascendant — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Ascendant.
Journey to the dark heart of the Edgewood Home for Lost Children in this fiendishly difficult action RPG!When her teacher stepped out of the classroom a month ago, Cordy never imagined he would be gone for good. Now her fellow students have turned on each other as the school descends into chaos.
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Vagante
Single-player alternative to Ascendant — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Ascendant.
Vagante is an action-packed platformer that features permanent death and procedurally generated levels. Play cooperatively with friends both locally and online, or adventure solo in this challenging roguelike-inspired game.
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The Binding of Isaac
Single-player alternative to Ascendant — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Ascendant.
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Rogue Legacy
Single-player alternative to Ascendant — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Ascendant.
Rogue Legacy is a genealogical rogue-"LITE" where anyone can be a hero. Each time you die, your child will succeed you. Every child is unique. One child might be colorblind, another might be a dwarf with vertigo. But that's OK, because no one is perfect, and you don't have to be to succeed.
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Dust: An Elysian Tail
Single-player alternative to Ascendant — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Ascendant.
Immerse yourself in a gorgeous hand-painted world on a search for your true identity. As the mysterious warrior, Dust, your action-packed journey will take you from peaceful glades to snowy mountaintops and beyond.
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Valdis Story: Abyssal City
Single-player alternative to Ascendant — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Ascendant.
Assume the role of Wyatt in this Action/Exploration Platformer as you explore the ruins of a holy city that was lost many years ago. Battle various types of demons, angels, and a new threat known only as the “Ferals”, using swordsmanship, martial arts, and sorcery.
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Risk of Rain 2
Single-player alternative to Ascendant — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Ascendant.
Escape a chaotic alien planet by fighting through hordes of frenzied monsters – with your friends, or on your own. Combine loot in surprising ways and master each character until you become the havoc you feared upon your first crash landing.