Games like Defiant Ascent
If Defiant Ascent is your kind of game, the closest matches are Impious, Deadland 4000 and 30 days to survive — 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 climb 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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Impious
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Top pick for Defiant Ascent fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Defiant Ascent.
You have been brought here for your sins. A dark turn-based RPG with roguelite elements inside an underground indoctrination center. Loot, craft and equip with a Diablo-style itemization system. Fight by managing your impulses and find your way out while making decisions and building your character.
Deadland 4000
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Second-strongest match for Defiant Ascent fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Defiant Ascent.
A turn-based post-apocalyptic roguelike set on a straight line. Scavenge food, sneak past enemies, find loot, and survive by any means necessary in the year 4000.
30 days to survive
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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.
"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.
Shaft 29
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Ranked #4 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...
Bleeding Abyss
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Ranked #5 for Defiant Ascent fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Defiant Ascent.
Bleeding Abyss is a chaotic, fast paced, overwhelming bullet hell game. Plan and manage your survival by investing your hard earned rewards into resources and unravel the secrets that lie in the underground. Do you have what it takes to escape?
Into the Dead: Our Darkest Days
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Ranked #6 for Defiant Ascent fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Defiant Ascent.
Texas, 1980. Walton City has fallen to a zombie outbreak. Lead a band of desperate survivors from refuge to refuge by scavenging, crafting, and fighting in a relentless struggle for survival. Plan wisely, stick together, and — above all — keep moving if you want to make it out alive.
Cataclysm: The Last Generation
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Ranked #7 for Defiant Ascent fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Defiant Ascent.
A post-apocalyptic roguelike set in modern-day New England. Scavenge tools to craft an arsenal capable of dealing with the ever-evolving hordes of zombies, mutants, aliens, and robots in one of the deepest survival sims around.
March of the Living
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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.
Roguelike-like inspired by FTL and popular zombie fiction. Guide a group of survivors to a rumoured safe haven.
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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 Impious, Deadland 4000, 30 days to survive.
- Who developed Defiant Ascent?
- Defiant Ascent was developed by Mentis Interactive.
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