Ascent of Ashes similar games & best alternatives

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Ascent of Ashes

PC (Microsoft Windows) • 2025

Should you play it?

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

What works

  • Strong potential and foundation
  • Active and responsive developers
  • Creative base building and customization
  • Tactical combat with z-levels
  • Affordable price for early access

Things to keep in mind

  • Numerous bugs and performance issues
  • Lack of tutorial and quality of life features
  • Limited content and progression
  • Clunky controls and ui
  • Save/load instability

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Gnomoria

  • Kainga: Seeds of Civilization

  • Viking Frontiers: Prologue

  • Beyond the Map

  • Craft Hero

  • Infection Free Zone

Less violent

Games that feels like Ascent of Ashes but with less combat and destruction

  • Oxygen

  • The Crust

  • Whiskerwood

  • Surviving Mars

  • Solargene

  • Oxygen: First Breath

Less leadership-focused

Games that feels like Ascent of Ashes but with less leadership over others

  • Card Survival: Fantasy Forest

  • CleanFall

  • Breachway

  • Card Survival: Tropical Island

  • Tinkerlands: A Shipwrecked Adventure

  • Quasimorph

Choose your own criteria ->

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  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
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How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

Ascent of Ashes: Broadly representative of its motivational profile, with a few distinct shifts. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Leadership, Survival, Violence, Strategy. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Story, Growth, Competence.

Last update: 10/08/2026