The Ascent is a solo and co-op Action-shooter RPG set in a cyberpunk world. The mega corporation that owns you and everyone, The Ascent Group, has just collapsed. Can you survive without it?
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Every market we collect.
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Every price cut of more than 20% we have observed, in each market that quoted one, with this game's chart position on either side of it. These are episodes, not a model: a sale is one event, and one event cannot tell you what the next one will do.
Reviews, worldwide (the counter carries no country): 4.44/day in the week to Aug 4 → 31.43/day in the week after.
For scale, across Steam · Top Sellers · Brazil over the last 30 days: the 23 chart moves that followed a price cut of more than 20% went a median of 14 places towards #1, and the 2,420 moves with no price cut behind them went 2 away. One store, one chart, one country — it is the only place we have enough observations to say even that.
Prices outside the United States have been collected since 6 August 2026 and chart positions since 19 July 2026, so a cut older than that has no market to compare and a market that joined later has no history yet. Nothing here is converted between currencies.
About
The Ascent is a solo and co-op Action-shooter RPG, set on Veles, a packed cyberpunk world.
Welcome to The Ascent Group arcology, a corporate-run metropolis stretching high into the sky and filled with creatures from all over the galaxy. You play as a worker, enslaved by the company that owns you and everyone else in your district. One day, you are suddenly caught in a vortex of catastrophic events: The Ascent Group shuts down for unknown reasons and the survival of your district is threatened. You must take up arms and embark on a new mission to find out what started it all.
You belong to the corporation. Can you survive without it?
Play the entire game alone or work together with up to three friends in local or online co-op.
Aim low or high, switch weapons and equip lethal gadgets, take cover and use the destructible environments at your advantage and keep adjusting your tactic as you face new enemies.
Customize your character with cyberware that suits your playstyle. Allocate new skill points as you level-up and try various augmentations to take down your enemies in new creative ways.
Meet new allies and enemies and find loot as you explore the brimming world of The Ascent and its wide range of districts, from the deep slums to the higher luxury spheres.
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Each DLC is estimated with the same model as a game, then summed — a modeled figure, not reported DLC sales.
Sums Steam only; Xbox, PlayStation publish no volume signal, so the true total is higher by an unknown amount.
| Store | Price | Audience | Score | Chart | Est. revenue |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
SteamYou are here | $29.99 | 25Kreviews | 74% | — | $14M |
| $29.99 | 13.6Kratings | 66% | — | not modelled | |
Updates
Build ids and update times come straight from Steam's PICS — the same source SteamDB reads. Patch history grows as we record new builds.
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Reviews
Themes across 1035 recent reviews and how positive each mention is. A keyword signal, not full sentiment analysis.
Reviews
Fun, great graphics, good mechanics, cool atmosphere, but becomes quickly very shallow and bland after finishing. I completed the main story + all side missions I could find within around 30h. + graphics / details + mainly clean + easy mechanics + atmosphere + cutscenes + possible Coop + augmentations + weapons arsenal + story and missions o navigation o no skill tree or character dependencies (everyone can do or be everything) o weapons skins kinda useless since hard to see o partly unbalanced enemies o money is kinda useless / no scaling in costs - especially in second half of the game o reward for every headhunt is 1000 uCreds o repetetive o no world changing interactions possible - so much walking (no real run/sprint option) - loot is boring, everything is the same - dying has no consequence: no losts, even main enemies keep dead - killing civilians has no consequence - map + navigation - fast travel - partly unbalanced, side missions needed to progress or unlock equipment - some achievements impossible to reach (DLC needed?) - no endgame options / missions - feels unfinished / missed potential - no replay value What I would have loved during playthrough: - remapping / customing controls (controller) - easier fast travel - map discovery / history + POI filters - seeing other players in elevators and metro TL;DR Buy on sale if you like twin stick shooters, cyberpunk action genre or want to play casually (with a friend)
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Stats
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Languages: English*, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Korean*languages with full audio support
| $29.99 |
| 5.8Kratings |
| 79% |
| — |
| not modelled |
Matched by title — a reused name can pair the wrong games. * is a critic aggregate. Prices and positions are each store's United States storefront; Epic charts worldwide. Audience and Score too, except Steam's, which is worldwide.
Hours played at review time, across 1K reviews with recorded playtime.
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This game is really good ! The setting and the gunplay are awesome but 3 crashs in 2 hours + a softlock with a door that do not open like wtf ?! This game's been out for 5 years !!! It's so fustrating because I WANT to play it but I cannot !
Great environment and aesthetics. Unfortunately, 5 years later, game is still unstable and crashes.
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This game was exactly what i was looking for. it performs better in single player unfortunately. my brother in law and i are playing it together and i started a solo playthrough for when he isnt able to play. and i caught up to where we were together by myself in one sitting because i didnt have the game crash or freeze on me every single hour of play. dont get me wrong you can still do it with another person but it will crash and freeze OFTEN. Luckily rejoining your friends is really fast and easy. i do wish it didnt crash like it does but outside of that its really good.
10/10 game, but unfortunately it crashes a couple times a day... Pretty annoying.
Diablo with guns.
Keep crashing every 1 hour :(((
Great game loving it
Active players
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