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Games like Ascent of Ashes
Vivid Storm Interactive · 2025 · Windows
Steam: 68 % positive of 273 reviews, as of Oct 28
A colony sim set in a post-apocalyptic dystopia. Build and defend your base. Manage your survivors. Engage raiders, aliens, Remnant soldiers and other factions in real-time-with-pause combat. Or use stealth to outwit them. Explore the massive world. Survive at all costs
24 games that play like Ascent of Ashes and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: Surviving the Aftermath, RimWorld and Post-Apo Builder: Prologue.
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Plays and looks like Ascent of Ashes
These games are close to it by gameplay and by look, so they appear in both lists below.
By gameplay
Plays like Ascent of Ashes
Matched from Steam descriptions and player tags. The tags under each game are the ones both games share.
Surviving the Aftermath
71 % positive of 3,157
Shared: Strategy · Colony Sim · Base-Building
RimWorld
97 % positive of 210,869
Shared: Strategy · Colony Sim · Base-Building
Post-Apo Builder: Prologue
68 % positive of 439
Shared: Strategy · Colony Sim · Base-Building
Stranded: Alien Dawn
83 % positive of 9,786
Shared: Strategy · Colony Sim · Base-Building
After the Collapse
77 % positive of 201
Shared: Strategy · Colony Sim · Base-Building
Endzone - A World Apart
76 % positive of 8,350
Shared: Strategy · Colony Sim · Base-Building
They Are Billions
84 % positive of 46,365
Shared: Strategy · Colony Sim · Base-Building
Survivalist: Invisible Strain
87 % positive of 4,073
Shared: Colony Sim · Base-Building · Survival
Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
80 % positive of 2,112
Shared: Strategy · Colony Sim · Base-Building
The Wandering Village
90 % positive of 7,806
Shared: Strategy · Colony Sim · Base-Building
New Cycle
79 % positive of 2,615
Shared: Strategy · Colony Sim · Base-Building
Going Medieval
87 % positive of 17,138
Shared: Strategy · Colony Sim · Base-Building
More matches
- Endzone 265 % positive of 909Shared: Strategy · Colony Sim · Base-Building
- Infection Free Zone80 % positive of 16,741Shared: Strategy · Colony Sim · Base-Building
- VEIN86 % positive of 12,198
- Rebuild 3: Gangs of Deadsville86 % positive of 1,487Shared: Strategy · Colony Sim · Base-Building
- From Glory To Goo96 % positive of 1,852Shared: Strategy · Colony Sim · Base-Building
- Colony Survival91 % positive of 8,286Shared: Strategy · Colony Sim · Base-Building
- Survivalist79 % positive of 2,158Shared: Strategy · Base-Building · Survival
- Against the Storm94 % positive of 33,589Shared: Strategy · Colony Sim · Base-Building
- Stonehearth76 % positive of 10,664Shared: Strategy · Colony Sim · Survival
- IXION76 % positive of 15,437Shared: Strategy · Colony Sim · Base-Building
- Ash & Adam's Existential Treads92 % positive of 352Shared: Strategy · Base-Building · Survival
- CryoFall78 % positive of 4,910Shared: Colony Sim · Base-Building · Survival
By look
Looks like Ascent of Ashes
Matched from screenshots. Each card shows the screenshot closest to the look of this game.
RimWorld
97 % positive of 210,869
Dungeon of the ENDLESS™
86 % positive of 9,428
The Spotter: Dig or Die
84 % positive of 1,850
Keplerth
83 % positive of 3,706
The Escapists 2
90 % positive of 26,575
Crashlands
89 % positive of 5,569
NEO Scavenger
88 % positive of 4,453
Ash & Adam's Existential Treads
92 % positive of 352
RUNNING WITH RIFLES
87 % positive of 14,708
TaleSpire
88 % positive of 4,415
UnderRail
86 % positive of 6,430
Terminus: Zombie Survivors
94 % positive of 4,355
More matches
- Intravenous 3: Borderline94 % positive of 435
- Quasimorph81 % positive of 7,570
- Nearly Dead - Live and Let Die73 % positive of 116
- Scrapnaut: Prologue86 % positive of 702
- Shadowrun: Dragonfall - Director's Cut88 % positive of 5,484
- From Glory To Goo96 % positive of 1,852
- ZED ZONE80 % positive of 3,599
- Intravenous 2: Mercenarism93 % positive of 2,712
- Stellar Tactics76 % positive of 1,691
- Last Group Out80 % positive of 593
- Zombie Builder Defense 284 % positive of 209
- Bad 2 Bad: Apocalypse78 % positive of 919
At a glance
What games like Ascent of Ashes have in common
- The tags they share most often with Ascent of Ashes: Base-Building (22 of 24), Strategy (21) and Colony Sim (21).
- They came out between 2015 and 2026, 2 of them after Ascent of Ashes (2025).
- Best rated by Steam players: RimWorld (97 % positive of 210,869).
How these matches work
Matches come from embeddings of Steam descriptions, player tags and screenshots, computed offline. “Plays like” compares what the games are about and how players tag them; “Looks like” compares their screenshots. The share of positive reviews is based on Steam user reviews.