Games like Ascension: Deckbuilding Game
If Ascension: Deckbuilding Game is your kind of game, the closest matches are Star Realms, Dominion and Duelyst — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its tactical positioning matters, challenging and competitive. 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 Ascension: Deckbuilding Game: Ascension: Deckbuilding Game is now available for your PC and Mac, complete with 9 full expansion decks! Play alone or with friends to battle against the Fallen One for honor and victory. Conceived and designed by Justin Gary, Ascension will provide hours of engaging and strategic game play for enthusiasts and experienced gamers alike.
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Star Realms
WHY THIS
Shares deck building and a competitive mood with Ascension: Deckbuilding Game.
Top pick for Ascension: Deckbuilding Game fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Ascension: Deckbuilding Game.
Star Realms is a hugely popular space combat deckbuilding game. Download and play today (note: base set is required to play online) to find out why Star Realms is the winner of SXSW 2014 Board Game of the Year, 7 Golden Geek Awards from BoardGameGeek, and 2 Dice Tower awards!
Dominion
WHY THIS
Shares deck building and a competitive mood with Ascension: Deckbuilding Game.
Second-strongest match for Ascension: Deckbuilding Game fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Ascension: Deckbuilding Game.
Expand a small kingdom to a mighty Dominion! Play the Spiel des Jahres winning boardgame beloved by millions around the world. Discover the game that defined a genre, Dominion was first to popularize deck-building and remains a staple of tabletop. This is the officially licensed implementation.
Duelyst
WHY THIS
Shares a competitive mood with Ascension: Deckbuilding Game.
Third-strongest match for Ascension: Deckbuilding Game fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Ascension: Deckbuilding Game.
The depth of CCG meets the strategy of tabletop gaming in Duelyst! Every choice matters, from your General and deck to positioning on the 9x5 battleboard. Competitive head-to-head turn-based battles at its best!
Concordia: Digital Edition
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Ascension: Deckbuilding Game.
Ranked #4 for Ascension: Deckbuilding Game fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Casual with Ascension: Deckbuilding Game.
Concordia is a strategic, Euro-style board game. 🏺 Players take the roles of powerful Roman merchants and follow the Roman expansion with their trade routes, franchises, and production houses. 🏛️
Space Food Truck
WHY THIS
Shares deck building and a challenging mood with Ascension: Deckbuilding Game.
Ranked #5 for Ascension: Deckbuilding Game fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Ascension: Deckbuilding Game.
Space Food Truck is a cooperative, culinary scifi adventure. 1-4 players take on unique roles aboard the Galaxy Gourmet. Their mission: explore a vast, procedurally-generated galaxy in search of exotic ingredients, craft delicious recipes, and withstand the untold dangers of deep space.
Small World
WHY THIS
Shares deck building and a challenging mood with Ascension: Deckbuilding Game.
Ranked #6 for Ascension: Deckbuilding Game fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Casual with Ascension: Deckbuilding Game.
CONTROL FANTASY RACES, SET OFF TO CONQUER NEW LANDS, OVERTHROW YOUR ENEMIES AND CLAIM THE VICTORY! In this digital adaptation of the legendary board game, dive into a world inhabited by whimsical fantasy races.
Mystic Vale
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Ascension: Deckbuilding Game fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Ascension: Deckbuilding Game.
Are you ready to lead your druidic clan and cleanse the Valley of Life? Mystic Vale is a stunning digital version of the Origins award-winning AEG card game. Debuting the unique Card Crafting System, players take turns building powerful combos in order to stop the curse. Play online or local hotseat.
Twilight Struggle
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Ranked #8 for Ascension: Deckbuilding Game fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Ascension: Deckbuilding Game.
Twilight Struggle is a two-player game where players play as either the US or USSR during the Cold War. Using actual events from history, players must plan out their strategies in order to obtain world dominance. Play Twilight Struggle and change the course of history.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Ascension: Deckbuilding Game at current Steam store prices.
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Ascension: Deckbuilding Game on Steam right now.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Blood and Bacon
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Ascension: Deckbuilding Game on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Ascension: Deckbuilding Game.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
Placid Plastic Duck Simulator
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Ascension: Deckbuilding Game on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Ascension: Deckbuilding Game.
The ultimate high-tech rubber duck simulation, Placid Plastic Duck brings you dangerous levels of relaxation. With chill music, dreamy 3D graphics, and many different happy ducks, your only priority is to float around. Zero Ducks given.
Peggle Deluxe
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Ascension: Deckbuilding Game on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Ascension: Deckbuilding Game.
Take your best shot with energizing arcade fun! Aim, shoot, clear the orange pegs, then sit back and cheer as 10 whimsical teachers guide you to Peggle greatness.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Ascension: Deckbuilding Game on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Casual with Ascension: Deckbuilding Game.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
The Test: Hypothesis Rising
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Ascension: Deckbuilding Game on Steam right now.
The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Insaniquarium Deluxe
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Ascension: Deckbuilding Game on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Ascension: Deckbuilding Game.
The craziest aquarium game ever! Tend to your fish, keep them happy and they'll reward you with coins and jewels. Buy tank upgrades or egg parts which hatch different in-tank pets. These pets can help you feed your fish, collect coins, or even protect against the aliens that will invade your tank.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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?
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Casual with Ascension: Deckbuilding Game.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
Coloring Pixels
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Casual with Ascension: Deckbuilding Game.
A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.
Eternal Senia
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
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Twilight Struggle
WHY THIS
Another title from Playdek, Inc., the studio behind Ascension: Deckbuilding Game. Shares Strategy with Ascension: Deckbuilding Game.
Twilight Struggle is a two-player game where players play as either the US or USSR during the Cold War. Using actual events from history, players must plan out their strategies in order to obtain world dominance. Play Twilight Struggle and change the course of history.
D&D Lords of Waterdeep
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Ascension: Deckbuilding Game.
Another title from Playdek, Inc., the studio behind Ascension: Deckbuilding Game. Shares Strategy with Ascension: Deckbuilding Game.
Lords of Waterdeep is an award winning strategy board game, set in the Dungeons & Dragons world of Waterdeep. Play as one of the masked Lords of the City of Splendor. Intrigue abounds as you recruit adventurers, via your agents, to quest on your behalf and spread your influence.
Labyrinth: The War on Terror
WHY THIS
Another title from Playdek, Inc., the studio behind Ascension: Deckbuilding Game. Shares Strategy with Ascension: Deckbuilding Game.
Face the global war on terror in this engaging 2 player strategy game. Set against recent world events, Labyrinth portrays the U.S. efforts to counter extremists’ use of terrorist tactics, as well as the wider ideological struggle – guerrilla warfare, fundamentalist rule, regime change and more.
Agricola Revised Edition
WHY THIS
Shares a competitive mood with Ascension: Deckbuilding Game.
Another title from Playdek, Inc., the studio behind Ascension: Deckbuilding Game. Shares Strategy and Casual with Ascension: Deckbuilding Game.
Enter the life of medieval farmers! Enhance your farms to stone houses, breed your animals and stack food before the cold winters! So prepare yourself to plow, till and harvest your fields in the official digital adaptation of the acclaimed board game!
Fort Sumter: The Secession Crisis
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Ascension: Deckbuilding Game.
Another title from Playdek, Inc., the studio behind Ascension: Deckbuilding Game. Shares Strategy with Ascension: Deckbuilding Game.
Can you drive the Secessionist into the Fort Sumter trap that gave Lincoln his historic victory? Can you successfully use the issue of States Rights to divide Northern opinion? Fort Sumter let’s you explore this seminal moment in American history in a fast-playing, easy-to-learn card driven game.
Twilight Struggle: Red Sea
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Ascension: Deckbuilding Game.
Another title from Playdek, Inc., the studio behind Ascension: Deckbuilding Game. Shares Strategy with Ascension: Deckbuilding Game.
Answer the summons of the trumpets and bear the burden of the Twilight Struggle. Set during the ideological tension of the Cold War, Twilight Struggle: Red Sea places the United States and the Soviet Union at odds in the Horn of Africa. Every choice you make will impact the balance of power.
Frequently asked about Ascension: Deckbuilding Game
- Does Ascension: Deckbuilding Game run on Steam Deck?
- Ascension: Deckbuilding Game 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 Ascension: Deckbuilding Game cost?
- Ascension: Deckbuilding Game is listed on Steam at 4.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Ascension: Deckbuilding Game have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Ascension: Deckbuilding Game supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Cross-Platform Multiplayer).
- What games are most similar to Ascension: Deckbuilding Game?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Ascension: Deckbuilding Game are Star Realms, Dominion, Duelyst.
- Who developed Ascension: Deckbuilding Game?
- Ascension: Deckbuilding Game was developed by Playdek, Inc..
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