Games like Ascent - The Space Game
If Ascent - The Space Game is your kind of game, the closest matches are Starfighter General, Elite Dangerous and BadLads — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its cooperative jump gate construction, atmospheric and contemplative. 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 - The Space Game: Ascent is a PVE sandbox space MMO with 270 BILLION star systems and an emphasis on strong Sci Fi. It encourages Exploration, Colonization, Research, Asteroid mining, Farming, Trading, and Combat. Outside the tutorial sector, everything in-game has been built by players.
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Steam players who put hours into Ascent - The Space Game 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.
Starfighter General
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Top pick for Ascent - The Space Game fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Ascent - The Space Game.
Space ACTION-MMO. Control & upgrade more than one ship. Build a fleet! Turn a rag tag team into an armada. Aliens build relationships. Crew/attributes/skills/mastery/magic(legendary/unilegendary/unique)items. WORLD FIRST: Multicore MMO & INFINITE PLAYERS! Soon: Conquer star systems & Tax Players.
Elite Dangerous
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Ascent - The Space Game.
Second-strongest match for Ascent - The Space Game fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Ascent - The Space Game.
Take control of your own starship and blaze your trail in an ever-changing galaxy. Master the arts of combat, mining and trade or venture out into the unknown across a 1:1 scale universe.
BadLads
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Ascent - The Space Game.
Third-strongest match for Ascent - The Space Game fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Ascent - The Space Game.
BadLads is a neo-noir multiplayer roleplay game centered around each player having their own job. Cities are ruled by President. Civilians are assaulted by Gangs and protected by Police. Adventure, collect, craft, base build, gamble, socialize, overthrow, customize yourself and your belongings.
Pixel Starships
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Ranked #4 for Ascent - The Space Game fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Ascent - The Space Game.
Pixel Starships is an FTL-style online sci-fi strategy builder and management game with a competitive PVP tournament. Set in the retro galaxy, your role is to explore space, meet aliens, and develop your ship, crew and AI. The game contains deep strategic and 4x elements. PSS is community-driven.
Gods and Idols
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Ascent - The Space Game.
Ranked #5 for Ascent - The Space Game fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Ascent - The Space Game.
Take the role of a newly ascended deity in Gods and Idols. Carve your place among the stars in an open, dynamic, and massive MMORTS universe. Command the powers of the cosmos, form alliances, and use your worshipers as instruments to further your goals.
Gates of Horizon
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Shares an immersive mood with Ascent - The Space Game.
Ranked #6 for Ascent - The Space Game fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Ascent - The Space Game.
Gates of Horizon is a space conquest online game.During your space journey you will gain power over the universe leading fleets, improving and managing crew and assets, taking control of entire sectors with your corporation and fighting the alien menace that threatens the human race.
Starbase
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Shares procedural generation and an immersive mood with Ascent - The Space Game.
Ranked #7 for Ascent - The Space Game fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation and Massively Multiplayer with Ascent - The Space Game.
Starbase is a hybrid voxel/vertex-based space MMO with a fully destructible and infinitely expanding universe, with a focus on building and designing spaceships and stations, exploration, resource gathering, crafting, trading, and combat.
Kerbal Space Program
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Shares an immersive mood with Ascent - The Space Game.
Ranked #8 for Ascent - The Space Game fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Ascent - The Space Game.
In Kerbal Space Program, take charge of the space program for the alien race known as the Kerbals. You have access to an array of parts to assemble fully-functional spacecraft that flies (or doesn’t) based on realistic aerodynamic and orbital physics.
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EVE Online
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Shares an immersive mood with Ascent - The Space Game.
Reviewers of Ascent - The Space Game cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Massively Multiplayer with Ascent - The Space Game.
Over 20 years of legendary space battles! Explore a massive living universe of danger and opportunity in a challenging and highly rewarding space adventure. Fight, trade, build, and connect with a universe driven and shaped directly by players.
Starpoint Gemini
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Ascent - The Space Game.
Reviewers of Ascent - The Space Game cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with Ascent - The Space Game.
Gemini is a dangerous place with riches waiting to be claimed by the more daring and capable captain.
Elite Dangerous
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Ascent - The Space Game.
Reviewers of Ascent - The Space Game cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Ascent - The Space Game.
Take control of your own starship and blaze your trail in an ever-changing galaxy. Master the arts of combat, mining and trade or venture out into the unknown across a 1:1 scale universe.
Wurm Unlimited
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Ascent - The Space Game.
Reviewers of Ascent - The Space Game cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Ascent - The Space Game.
Wurm Unlimited is the standalone version of the fantasy sandbox world Wurm Online, the MMORPG where the players are in charge! A pioneer in the ideas of player influence, crafting and adventure, it is now one of the most deep and feature packed true sandbox experiences available.
Privateer Escape
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Reviewers of Ascent - The Space Game cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Ascent - The Space Game.
Play as a Privateer, sailing the seas and hunting for treasure while being hunted by Pirates! Prove your worth as you avoid dangerous obstacles, face fearsome foes, take on the terrors of the seas, and show how long you can last!
Universe X
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Reviewers of Ascent - The Space Game cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Ascent - The Space Game.
A sci-fi RPG strategy game where you build fleet, attack, trade and explore space. You can fight yourself, have others help you and upgrade your ship or buy plethora of ships for your space garage.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Ascent - The Space Game at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~75% under Ascent - The Space Game on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Ascent - The Space Game.
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.
Lethal Company
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Priced ~50% under Ascent - The Space Game on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Ascent - The Space Game.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
People Playground
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Priced ~50% under Ascent - The Space Game on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Ascent - The Space Game.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Vampire Survivors
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Priced ~75% under Ascent - The Space Game on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Ascent - The Space Game.
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!
PEAK
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Priced ~60% under Ascent - The Space Game on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Ascent - The Space Game.
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 ~63% under Ascent - The Space Game on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Ascent - The Space Game.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
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 - The Space Game.
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 - The Space Game.
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.
Totally Accurate Battlegrounds
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Ascent - The Space Game.
Grab your balloon crossbow and trusty inflatable hammer, because things are about to get wobbly! Be the last weirdo standing in the world-leading physics-based Battle Royale game.
PlanetSide 2
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Massively Multiplayer with Ascent - The Space Game.
PlanetSide 2 is an all-out planetary war, where thousands of players battle as one across enormous continents. Utilize infantry, ground and air vehicles, and teamwork to destroy your enemies in this revolutionary first-person shooter on a massive scale.
Cell to Singularity - Evolution Never Ends
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Ascent - The Space Game.
The epic story of evolution, technology, humanity, and dinosaurs is yours to tap.
Moonbase Alpha
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Ascent - The Space Game.
NASA has once again landed on the lunar surface with the goal of colonization, research, and further exploration. Shortly after the return to the Moon, NASA has established a small outpost on the south pole of the moon called Moonbase Alpha.
MechWarrior Online™ Legends
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Ascent - The Space Game.
MechWarrior Online™ Legends is a tactical, 'Mech-based online shooter set in the vast BattleTech Universe. Assume the role of an elite MechWarrior, piloting powerful BattleMechs, fighting for supremacy over the Inner Sphere.
Darwin Project
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Ascent - The Space Game.
In Darwin Project, ten inmates must survive the elements, track each other, fight, craft tools, and use their social skills to be the last one standing. It's a unique take on battle royale with a Show Director to influence the match and Spectator Interactions to create a one-of-a-kind game show.
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Frequently asked about Ascent - The Space Game
- How much does Ascent - The Space Game cost?
- Ascent - The Space Game is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Ascent - The Space Game have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Ascent - The Space Game supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player).
- What games are most similar to Ascent - The Space Game?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Ascent - The Space Game are Starfighter General, Elite Dangerous, BadLads.
- Who developed Ascent - The Space Game?
- Ascent - The Space Game was developed by Fluffy Kitten Studios.
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