Games Like Depths of Ascension

Depths of Ascension is a Traditional Roguelike set in a fantasy world inspired by ancient Mesopotamia and the Early Bronze Age cultures, with magic, active gods, and demihuman races. In this turn-based, tile-based, dungeon-delving RPG with permadeath and procedural generation, you explore the dungeons, corridors, and caves of the twisted and ever-changing Mazes of Madness.

A pair of human generations ago, a powerful cabal of mages descended into those mazes to use the highly concentrated mana of the place to create a mechanism that allows mortals to become gods. That so-called Mechanism of Ascension was used by the group’s leader to ascend to godhood, and then stopped to function. It was abandoned, but now it started working again, sending some hummings through the magical weaves. All sorts of organizations took notice of it, and are now trying to get to the mechanism. All factions want to use the mechanism for their own ends, and are sending their best adventurers to secure it before the others. You’ll create and customize your character, choose the faction that sent you into the dungeon, and your backstory. Those things will affect how the NPCs see the player and interact with them, creating situations that call for diplomatic solutions, rather than combat solutions. The Mazes of Madness are a place where the telluric magic energy is so strong that it is constantly distorting reality, changing the layout of the natural caves and the dungeons that were built in it. Some sentient species learned to live in that environment, calling it home and building their own Lairs in there. Those Lairs are social groups whose main focus is to just survive the harsh environment, and they are a bit overwhelmed and stressed with the wave of pesky adventurers.