Games like Apprentice Ascending
If Apprentice Ascending is your kind of game, the closest matches are BOOK OF HOURS, Sultan's Game and Fatermyth — 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 Apprentice Ascending: Master forbidden magic. Dodge the rent. Survive the Tower. You are an apprentice wizard in a real-time card game brimming with terrible ideas. Pray for coin, study forbidden texts, and climb floor by floor before hunger and the Hunters close in. Seven fates await. Dare to earn the right one.
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Steam players who put hours into Apprentice Ascending 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.
BOOK OF HOURS
WHY THIS
Top pick for Apprentice Ascending fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Apprentice Ascending.
Restore a crumbling occult library by a winter sea. Build the world’s foremost collection of grimoires and arcana. Master the invisible arts. BOOK OF HOURS is a narrative crafting RPG set in a 1930s world of hidden gods and secret histories. What sort of Librarian will you choose to be?
Sultan's Game
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Apprentice Ascending fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Apprentice Ascending.
Survive a mad Sultan's reign in this brutal resource management RPG. Draw a card every seven days and complete its challenge. Make dreadful choices to stay alive: will you die a loyal servant, become a kingslayer, or call down the gods' judgement?
Fatermyth
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Apprentice Ascending fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Apprentice Ascending.
"Fatermyth" is an RPG game that combines tabletop role-playing and adventure. The storylines of seven characters from different eras intertwine, depicting an epic of human heroes. The strategic battles with dice + skills add more challenges to the adventure.
Cardboard Town
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Apprentice Ascending fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Apprentice Ascending.
Cardboard Town is a city-building card game. Manage your resources, obtain upgrades, draw your cards and thrive! Random events, quest cards, and game modes make each run different.
Dune: Imperium
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Apprentice Ascending fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Apprentice Ascending.
The award-winning board game of strategy and intrigue in the iconic universe of Dune. The Spice must flow.
Potionomics
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Apprentice Ascending fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Apprentice Ascending.
You’ve inherited your uncle’s potion shop—and a huge debt. Better get brewing! Customize your store, hire heroes to gather ingredients, befriend (or romance) fellow vendors to learn new haggling strategies, and go head-to-head with competitors in this narrative-driven, deck-building shop simulator.
Cultist Simulator
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Apprentice Ascending fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Apprentice Ascending.
Seize forbidden treasures. Summon alien gods. Feed on your disciples. Cultist Simulator is a game of apocalypse and yearning. Play as a seeker after unholy mysteries, in a 1920s-themed setting of hidden gods and secret histories.
I Was a Teenage Exocolonist
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Apprentice Ascending fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Apprentice Ascending.
Spend your teenage years on an alien planet in this narrative RPG with card-based battles. Explore, grow up, and fall in love. The choices you make and skills you master over ten years will determine the course of your life and the survival of your colony.
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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.
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 Apprentice Ascending.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Apprentice Ascending.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Apprentice Ascending.
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. Shares Indie with Apprentice Ascending.
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.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Apprentice Ascending.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Apprentice Ascending.
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.
missed messages.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Apprentice Ascending.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
BOOK OF HOURS
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Simulation with Apprentice Ascending.
Restore a crumbling occult library by a winter sea. Build the world’s foremost collection of grimoires and arcana. Master the invisible arts. BOOK OF HOURS is a narrative crafting RPG set in a 1930s world of hidden gods and secret histories. What sort of Librarian will you choose to be?
Sultan's Game
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Simulation with Apprentice Ascending.
Survive a mad Sultan's reign in this brutal resource management RPG. Draw a card every seven days and complete its challenge. Make dreadful choices to stay alive: will you die a loyal servant, become a kingslayer, or call down the gods' judgement?
Dune: Imperium
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Simulation with Apprentice Ascending.
The award-winning board game of strategy and intrigue in the iconic universe of Dune. The Spice must flow.
Potionomics
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Simulation with Apprentice Ascending.
You’ve inherited your uncle’s potion shop—and a huge debt. Better get brewing! Customize your store, hire heroes to gather ingredients, befriend (or romance) fellow vendors to learn new haggling strategies, and go head-to-head with competitors in this narrative-driven, deck-building shop simulator.
Cultist Simulator
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Simulation with Apprentice Ascending.
Seize forbidden treasures. Summon alien gods. Feed on your disciples. Cultist Simulator is a game of apocalypse and yearning. Play as a seeker after unholy mysteries, in a 1920s-themed setting of hidden gods and secret histories.
I Was a Teenage Exocolonist
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Simulation with Apprentice Ascending.
Spend your teenage years on an alien planet in this narrative RPG with card-based battles. Explore, grow up, and fall in love. The choices you make and skills you master over ten years will determine the course of your life and the survival of your colony.
Frequently asked about Apprentice Ascending
- What games are most similar to Apprentice Ascending?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Apprentice Ascending are BOOK OF HOURS, Sultan's Game, Fatermyth.
- Who developed Apprentice Ascending?
- Apprentice Ascending was developed by Bluebuck.
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