Games like Ascender
If Ascender is your kind of game, the closest matches are Outpost Delta, Smelted Kin and MIO: Memories in Orbit — 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 Ascender: Ascender is a 2D explorative puzzle metroidvania. The game is set in the open world of GOA's districts, and the player will face many unique puzzles to solve. Warning!! This game will truly challenge your puzzle and platforming skill :D
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Steam players who put hours into Ascender 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.
Outpost Delta
WHY THIS
Top pick for Ascender fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ascender.
Outpost Delta is a single player, 2-D side-scrolling sci-fi shooter for PC. Take on the role of Delta, the outpost’s emergency defense, who along with her AI companion must defend the space station against alien intruders.
Smelted Kin
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Ascender fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ascender.
Science fiction 2D shooter with platformer and metroidvania elements. Players will have to explore a huge research complex consisting of nonlinear levels, which is crowded with robots
MIO: Memories in Orbit
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Ascender fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ascender.
Play as android MIO in this mesmerizing metroidvania where you explore the Vessel, an enormous technological ark overgrown with machines gone rogue. Uncover its secrets, enhance MIO's abilities, and save the spaceship and its residents from oblivion.
Super Roboy
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Ascender fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ascender.
Delve into the world of Super Roboy, a hand-drawn Metroidvania in a post-apocalyptic setting! Learn enemy skills, explore an interconnected world, battle mutants and robots, and uncover the emotional story of a young robot searching for his father.
Blocks That Matter
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Ascender fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ascender.
When indie game developers Alexey and Markus are in trouble, their only hope comes from their creation.
Ultros
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Ascender fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ascender.
ULTROS is a psychedelic metroidvania where you wake up stranded on The Sarcophagus — a cosmic uterus holding an ancient, demonic being. Trapped in the loop of a black hole, you will have to explore The Sarcophagus and meet its inhabitants to understand the part you play...
Leap Year
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Ascender fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ascender.
Leap Year is a clumsy platformer about knowledge and discovery. Explore a compact, hand drawn world filled with hidden paths. Understand the game’s secrets to reach new areas and collect all the pages of your calendar.
Greak: Memories of Azur
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Ascender fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ascender.
Greak: Memories of Azur is a single-player puzzle platformer adventure. Azur is under threat from an enemy attack who have control of strange creatures infecting the land. Take on the role of three siblings: Greak, Adara and Raydel and utilize their unique abilities to escape the invasion together.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Ascender at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Ascender on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Ascender.
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.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Ascender on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Ascender.
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!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Ascender on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Ascender.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Ascender on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Ascender.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~89% under Ascender on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ascender.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Ascender on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Ascender.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Ascender on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Ascender.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Your Only Move Is HUSTLE
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Ascender on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Ascender.
Master your technique, execute flashy combos, and outsmart opponents across the world, frame-by-frame. Slow down the clock to fine-tune your fighting style in this innovative, turn-based combat simulator. Pulverize your friends and choreograph spectacular fight scenes. No training mode required.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ascender.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ascender.
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 Ascender.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Travellin Cats in Paris
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Ascender.
Find 100 cats hidden in Paris, France in this cute hand-drawn hidden object game by Travellin Cats - the original viral hidden cat game creator!
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ascender.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Iron Snout
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Ascender.
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ascender.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
![UNBEATABLE [white label] — Steam game cover](https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/1290490/header.jpg?t=1736770503)
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More from GameChanger Studio
Other recommendable Steam games by GameChanger Studio, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
My Lovely Daughter
WHY THIS
Another title from GameChanger Studio, the studio behind Ascender. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ascender.
My Lovely Daughter is an alchemist simulator that explores the depth of a father’s grief and how far he will go to resurrect his daughter. Contains dark and disturbing subject matters, might not be suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
My Lovely Wife
WHY THIS
Another title from GameChanger Studio, the studio behind Ascender. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ascender.
My Lovely Wife delves into the depths of a man’s grief after the sudden death of his beloved wife. Explore the notions of one’s willingness to do anything for love and the importance of letting go in this mix of dating, management, and alchemy simulators.
1998: The Toll Keeper Story
WHY THIS
Another title from GameChanger Studio, the studio behind Ascender. Shares Indie with Ascender.
A narrative simulation game where you play as a mother-to-be working as a toll keeper in the fictional country of Janapa, a nation on the brink of chaos. Navigate daily challenges and make difficult moral choices to survive—all for the sake of your unborn child.
My Lovely Empress
WHY THIS
Another title from GameChanger Studio, the studio behind Ascender. Shares Indie with Ascender.
My Lovely Empress is an empire management sim inspired by Asian mythology. As the Emperor of the Crimson Empire, you will build relations with neighboring rulers, balance internal factions, and ensure the prosperity of your people, all before you reap their souls to resurrect your beloved empress.
NSFW ~ Not a Simulator For Working
WHY THIS
Another title from GameChanger Studio, the studio behind Ascender. Shares Indie with Ascender.
NSFW or Not a Simulator For Working is a casual simulator game where you try not to work anytime you can. Be careful of your snitching co-worker and strict boss. If you get caught, you will get FIRED !!!
GoBlock's Impossible Medley
WHY THIS
Another title from GameChanger Studio, the studio behind Ascender. Shares Indie with Ascender.
GoBlock's Impossible Medley is the most impossible and frustrating yet addictive game that you ever play. The game combines three challenging gameplay in one impossible game. You will jump, fly and roll in a loop throughout the game.
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
MIO: Memories in Orbit
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ascender.
Play as android MIO in this mesmerizing metroidvania where you explore the Vessel, an enormous technological ark overgrown with machines gone rogue. Uncover its secrets, enhance MIO's abilities, and save the spaceship and its residents from oblivion.
Super Roboy
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ascender.
Delve into the world of Super Roboy, a hand-drawn Metroidvania in a post-apocalyptic setting! Learn enemy skills, explore an interconnected world, battle mutants and robots, and uncover the emotional story of a young robot searching for his father.
Ultros
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ascender.
ULTROS is a psychedelic metroidvania where you wake up stranded on The Sarcophagus — a cosmic uterus holding an ancient, demonic being. Trapped in the loop of a black hole, you will have to explore The Sarcophagus and meet its inhabitants to understand the part you play...
Leap Year
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Ascender.
Leap Year is a clumsy platformer about knowledge and discovery. Explore a compact, hand drawn world filled with hidden paths. Understand the game’s secrets to reach new areas and collect all the pages of your calendar.
Frequently asked about Ascender
- Is Ascender verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Ascender is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does Ascender cost?
- Ascender is listed on Steam at 8.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Ascender?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Ascender are Outpost Delta, Smelted Kin, MIO: Memories in Orbit.
- Who developed Ascender?
- Ascender was developed by GameChanger Studio.
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