Games like Defiant Ascent
If Defiant Ascent is your kind of game, the closest matches are Violent Nature, 30 days to survive and Drowned Station — picked from the ranked list below. 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 Defiant Ascent: The only known immune survivor has one last chance to reach the surface. Every floor hides new dangers as you ascend through a zombie-infested military bunker in this survival roguelike, where tense turn-based combat could mean the difference between life and death. The only way out is up.
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Violent Nature
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Top pick for Defiant Ascent fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Defiant Ascent.
Violent Nature is an open world survival game set in a small town after an interdimensional invasion. Manage your status and limited resources as you fight weaponized creatures and push back the spread of cracks to the other side.
30 days to survive
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Second-strongest match for Defiant Ascent fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Defiant Ascent.
"30 days to survive" - the game is going day, in a world where there is a zombie Apocalypse! The protagonist has to survive 30 days on a randomly generated map full of dead.
Drowned Station
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Third-strongest match for Defiant Ascent fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Defiant Ascent.
Drowned Station is a post-apocalyptic underground fishing adventure. Descend into the radioactive tunnel system. Scavenge through abandoned stations and rotten ruins. Follow the trail of your missing son, and discover what lurks beneath.
DET-33
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Ranked #4 for Defiant Ascent fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Defiant Ascent.
A bullet-heaven roguelite in the ruins of new London. Take contracts from four warring factions, build a gun that breaks the game, and reach the evac before the city closes over you. 700+ weapons, interlocking build engines, and a fresh map every run.
Blimblau: Kill Them All!
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Ranked #5 for Defiant Ascent fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Defiant Ascent.
BLIMBLAU: KILL THEM ALL! is a fast-paced retro FPS where hordes of modified humans stand in your way. Shoot, destroy, and kill them all without mercy.
Prospect
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Ranked #6 for Defiant Ascent fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Defiant Ascent.
Prospect is a mining roguelike where you carve through the depths of the mines on a perilous journey towards the world above. Vanquish your foes, find mythical artifacts, and forge your own path with your trusty pickaxe. Will you be the first dwarf to ever reach the surface?
Shaft 29
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Ranked #7 for Defiant Ascent fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Defiant Ascent.
You are alone in Shaft 29...Descend into old, pitch-black, and hazardous labyrinth to restore the failing power grid. Scavenge the dark for scrap, repair components in safe room, and brave anomalies hiding in the depths. Keep the lights on, and keep moving down...
Last Breath 最后的气息
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Ranked #8 for Defiant Ascent fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Defiant Ascent.
Last Breath is a tense side-scrolling shooter in a fungal-ravaged world, where humanity has become “Spore Zombies.” As the older sister Guan Jin, fight through the ruins to find your lost sibling. Scavenge, adapt, survive. But what awaits: redemption or a deeper nightmare?
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Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Defiant Ascent.
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.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Defiant Ascent.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Defiant Ascent.
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.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Defiant Ascent.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
NGU IDLE
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Defiant Ascent.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
Grimm's Hollow
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Defiant Ascent.
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 Lab
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
Cube Escape: Paradox
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Defiant Ascent.
The tenth Cube Escape follows the story of detective Dale Vandermeer who finds himself trapped in two different universes and needs to escape. Cube Escape: Paradox will be released together with the accompanying Paradox: A Rusty Lake Film.
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Frequently asked about Defiant Ascent
- What games are most similar to Defiant Ascent?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Defiant Ascent are Violent Nature, 30 days to survive, Drowned Station.
- Who developed Defiant Ascent?
- Defiant Ascent was developed by Mentis Interactive.
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