Games like Project: Ascent
If Project: Ascent is your kind of game, the closest matches are Chthonic, INFINITE CHUMP and Gunstoppable — 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 Project: Ascent: Become an unstoppable force of destruction as you climb an endless tower of darkness. Project: Ascent is a fast-paced boomer shooter roguelite with retro graphics, insane power-up synergies, and an evolving arsenal of weapons.
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Steam players who put hours into Project: Ascent 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.
Chthonic
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Top pick for Project: Ascent fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Project: Ascent.
Descend through nine ever-changing levels of a living nightmare, master a weapon that grows with you, and face colossal demons to a soundtrack that comes alive as you play.
INFINITE CHUMP
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Project: Ascent fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Project: Ascent.
INFINITE CHUMP is an ultra-fast, boomer shooter roguelite tripfest where you graft spell-casting arms to your body. Put rings on your new fingers to create spells on the fly. Inspired by 90's FPS games with a trippy twist.
Gunstoppable
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Project: Ascent fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Project: Ascent.
A momentum-fueled Roguelite FPS where speed is damage. Dual-wield overpowered weapon combos and bend time to obliterate robot hordes and overthrow billionaire bosses!
Seth
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Ranked #4 for Project: Ascent fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Project: Ascent.
Become Seth, god of storms, and crush Apophis’s legions in a fast-paced roguelite FPS blending Egyptian mythology with science fiction. Fast combat, random challenges, and divine power in every run.
Steel Judgment
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Ranked #5 for Project: Ascent fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Project: Ascent.
Steel Judgment is an ultra-fast roguelite FPS that blends game-breaking roguelike chaos with stylish spectacle fighter combat. Wipe out hordes of enemies with ruthless efficiency while collecting powerful items to grow even stronger!
EXUVIA
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Ranked #6 for Project: Ascent fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Project: Ascent.
EXUVIA is a surreal, fast-paced, FPS action roguelite set in the center of a dimension left forgotten. Clear rooms of enemies, obtain unique items, and break out of the exuvium.
CRYPTSHOOTER
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Ranked #7 for Project: Ascent fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Project: Ascent.
A horror roguelike FPS where you descend through 20 procedurally generated levels of a desecrated crypt, fighting biomechanical monsters, choosing weapons and perks between each wave, and dying over and over while an omniscient narrator watches.
ODDCORE
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Ranked #8 for Project: Ascent fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Project: Ascent.
You have only 5 minutes to stylishly explode your way through the hordes of corrupted entities in a retro FPS, roguelike liminal-nightmare... and Timmee is here to help!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Project: Ascent.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Project: Ascent.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Project: 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.
STRAFTAT
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Project: Ascent.
STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Project: Ascent.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
Star Fetchers
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Project: Ascent.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Project: Ascent.
Face unspeakable horrors. Succumb to madness. Welcome to a free daemonic narrative experience inspired by H. P. Lovecraft.
Disfigure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Project: Ascent.
Disfigure is a grim-dark action rogue-like where you battle relentless hordes of monsters lurking in the shadows. Unlock powerful weapons, craft god-like builds with hundreds of upgrades, slay colossal bosses, and push your limits in intense 20–30 minute survival runs!
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Frequently asked about Project: Ascent
- What games are most similar to Project: Ascent?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Project: Ascent are Chthonic, INFINITE CHUMP, Gunstoppable.
- Who developed Project: Ascent?
- Project: Ascent was developed by ArDev.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on Project: Ascent.
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