Games like Ascending Madness
If Ascending Madness is your kind of game, the closest matches are Warix, Starship Kepler and NIDUS — 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 Ascending Madness: Ascending Madness is a hardcore, psychedelic, twin-stick shooter adventure. Assassinate a renegade scientist who appears to have gone completely insane.
Players who liked Ascending Madness also play
Steam players who put hours into Ascending Madness 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.
Warix
WHY THIS
Top pick for Ascending Madness fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Ascending Madness.
Warix is a fast-paced 1v1 territory capture fighting game set in a dark, microscopic world. Control a glowing cybernetic nanobot, draw trails to claim turf, and destroy your rival in high-speed combat. Parry bullets, steal boost, and outsmart players online or battle a relentless solo AI.
Starship Kepler
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Ascending Madness fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Ascending Madness.
Starship Kepler is an intense arcade shooter that encourages movement and variety. Traverse open space, explore anomalies, face-off against bosses. Race a dying clock through an endless maze of procedurally generated corridors. Survive an evolving arcade arena.
NIDUS
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Ascending Madness fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Ascending Madness.
A symbiotic Flower and Wasp struggle to complete their lifecycle, in a challengingly twisted arcade experience. Control both characters at once in mind-bending Single Player, or team up with a friend in hectic Local Co-Op. Master the symbiotic duet, devour the swarm, and ascend the leaderboard.
NeverAwake FLASHBACK
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Ascending Madness fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Ascending Madness.
The side story to the nightmare shooter NeverAwake is here! Why is this young girl being tormented by nightmares once again? Dive into a roguelite reimagination of the original with all-new features!
LONE RUIN
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Ascending Madness fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Ascending Madness.
Venture into an old, magical ruin to seek an ancient power in this highly replayable roguelike twin-stick shooter. Optimise spells and build ultimate combos to defeat twisted monstrosities and delve deeper into the Lone Ruin.
NeverAwake
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Ascending Madness fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Ascending Madness.
A girl who never wakes up. She has been fighting monsters in her dreams... "NeverAwake" is a nightmarish twin-stick shooter with a unique worldview and original game rules.
AMID EVIL
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Ascending Madness fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Ascending Madness.
A retro FPS for the ages! Once branded a HERETIC. Now YOU have been chosen as our champion! Reclaim our sacred weapons. Take back our ancient lands. If you can stand... AMID EVIL.
Waves
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Ascending Madness fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Ascending Madness.
Waves is an Arcade Twin-Stick Shooter that's all about High Scores. Build your combo and drop bombs in pursuit of Leaderboard dominance over seven game-modes!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Ascending Madness at current Steam store prices.
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Ascending Madness on Steam right now. Shares Action with Ascending Madness.
Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~88% under Ascending Madness on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Ascending Madness.
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 ~63% under Ascending Madness on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Ascending Madness.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
GRIS
WHY THIS
Priced ~53% under Ascending Madness on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Ascending Madness.
Gris is a hopeful young girl lost in her own world, dealing with a painful experience in her life. Her journey through sorrow is manifested in her dress, which grants new abilities to better navigate her faded reality.
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Ascending Madness on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Ascending Madness.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
WHY THIS
Priced ~81% under Ascending Madness on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Ascending Madness.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
WHY THIS
Priced ~88% under Ascending Madness on Steam right now. Shares Action with Ascending Madness.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
Crypt of the NecroDancer
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under Ascending Madness on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Ascending Madness.
Crypt of the NecroDancer is an award winning hardcore roguelike rhythm game. Move to the music and deliver beatdowns to the beat! Groove to the epic Danny Baranowsky soundtrack, or select songs from your own MP3 collection!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Ascending Madness.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Ascending Madness.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Ascending Madness.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Ascending Madness.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Ascending Madness.
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 Action and Indie with Ascending Madness.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Ascending Madness.
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.
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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.
NeverAwake
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Ascending Madness.
A girl who never wakes up. She has been fighting monsters in her dreams... "NeverAwake" is a nightmarish twin-stick shooter with a unique worldview and original game rules.
AMID EVIL
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Ascending Madness.
A retro FPS for the ages! Once branded a HERETIC. Now YOU have been chosen as our champion! Reclaim our sacred weapons. Take back our ancient lands. If you can stand... AMID EVIL.
Waves
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Ascending Madness.
Waves is an Arcade Twin-Stick Shooter that's all about High Scores. Build your combo and drop bombs in pursuit of Leaderboard dominance over seven game-modes!
Frequently asked about Ascending Madness
- How much does Ascending Madness cost?
- Ascending Madness is listed on Steam at 7.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Ascending Madness?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Ascending Madness are Warix, Starship Kepler, NIDUS.
- Who developed Ascending Madness?
- Ascending Madness was developed by Moxie Game Studio.
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 Ascending Madness.
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