Single-player games like Ascend The Well
Below are 13 single-player Steam games similar to Ascend The Well, 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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Kitten Lost Her Box
Single-player alternative to Ascend The Well — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ascend The Well.
Help tiny Kitten get back her favorite paper box only with her agile actions. In this tight platformer kitten brave hand-crafted challenges, meet cute creatures and finally fight with her old enemy!
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Voltorometer Recharged +
Single-player alternative to Ascend The Well — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with Ascend The Well.
A remake of a Flash game you've never heard of! Escape from the factories that want to harvest your electrical energy and platform your way through over 30 levels across many worlds. Unlock new modes, challenges and more in this remade version of the original.
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Silicon Path
Single-player alternative to Ascend The Well — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ascend The Well.
Play as a silicon atom inside a carbon-based lifeform in a 2D precision platformer. The demo covers the approachable first chapter, while the full game builds toward tougher movement challenges.
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Chickens Don't Fly
Single-player alternative to Ascend The Well — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ascend The Well.
A tough-as-nails 2D physics platformer where you swing to freedom as a plunger-wielding rooster named 'Cluck Norris'. One wrong move sends you straight back to the pit. Cluck up, and it’s a long way down.
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Soul Climb
Single-player alternative to Ascend The Well — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ascend The Well.
Easy to learn, hard to master. Overcome your limits in this tight precision platformer with quick respawns. Jump from walls, avoid deadly traps and time your movements perfectly so you can climb out of the deep cave you fell into. It’s all about not giving up!
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One Neck Ahead
Single-player alternative to Ascend The Well — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ascend The Well.
A gimmick-based precision platformer where you carry your own ground. Place platforms mid-jump and combine them with a wide variety of movement-bending gimmicks.
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The Walk of Karl
Single-player alternative to Ascend The Well — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ascend The Well.
Precise, unforgiving platforming that pushes speed and precision to their limit. Karl is a cat plus a car, stranded on an unfamiliar planet.
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GravNewton
Single-player alternative to Ascend The Well — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Ascend The Well.
Challenge all your skill and quick thinking ability in this precision platform game, where you are a bitrom who controller over gravity called Newton, who is trying to escape from a deformed creature that relentlessly follows him in subspace.
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Keep on Mining!
Single-player alternative to Ascend The Well — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Ascend The Well.
Keep on Mining! is a short incremental mining game. Mine rocks, gather materials, find artifacts, craft pickaxes and spend your materials on permanent upgrades inside the big skill tree!
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Keep on Mining! - Worlds
Single-player alternative to Ascend The Well — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Ascend The Well.
Keep on Mining! – Worlds is an incremental mining game where you mine rocks, collect resources, and travel through many unique worlds, finding artifacts, crafting pickaxes, and purchasing many permanent upgrades!
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PegIdle
Single-player alternative to Ascend The Well — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Ascend The Well.
PegIdle is a Pachinko idle game! Aim and shoot your balls to clear all the pegs on the board. Recieve gold by hitting the golden pegs or by landing balls into the moving bucket. Purchasing auto ball drop will automaticly drop balls onto the board. Spend your gold on new balls and ball upgrades!
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Clicker Clicker Clicker
Single-player alternative to Ascend The Well — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Ascend The Well.
Click on the cursor to receive clicker gold. Upgrade your clicks with your clicker gold. Click on the falling cursors to receive more clicker gold! Purchase projectiles in the shop that will clean out the falling cursors for you.
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Slime Squisher
Single-player alternative to Ascend The Well — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Ascend The Well.
Slime Squisher is a game where you need to protect a strawberry by squishing slimes with your cursor. Choose upgrades, get more powerful and survive waves of deadly slimes!