
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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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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Languages: English*, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Korean*languages with full audio support
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Engagement
Hours played at review time, across 65 reviews with recorded playtime.
Reviews
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Reviews
A very good game to play with a friend :)
Positives: The setting is very immersive, really gives off a cyberpunk vibe. The dialog is humorous, as well as some of the side-quests being relatively easy. For a small dev-team it's impressive how good the game looks. Not bad for a single-player experience. Negatives: Multiplayer is absolutely broken. Couch co-op was relatively smooth, but Steam Play Together was lagging and buggy. Internet speed is of no issue. We thought purchasing the game for the other account would fix it, but it's almost impossible to load in (getting stuck in first-person camera and can't move) or the lag would be so bad when I do load in that enemies would be T-posing and my character would have no equipment. Even uninstalling and re-installing the game did not fix it. Buying this game for multiplayer-purposes is not recomended.
[H1]DO NO BUY! GAME IS BROKEN, CONSTANTLY LOCKING UP AFTER ~1 HOUR OF PLAYTIME![/H1] As much fun as the gameplay is, as amazingly beautiful the visuals are... the game in its current state can only be described as utterly broken. It doesn't matter whether you run it in DX11 or DX12 mode, punctual as clockwork, the game [b]will[/b] softlock on you after about an hour of play, every. single. time. When it does, the only way to close it is via Task Manager... ALT+F4 is soundly ignored to boot. If you're lucky, the game did an autosave relatively briefly before it locked up, but if you're unlucky, the game might also just delete all your saves when it locks up... so, again: DO! NOT! BUY!
Better come out with #2 soon!
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i really liked the music and the art style but the game is so hard even on easy it is not well balanced, the enemy can engage you off camera you can't see them but they can and they don't miss for the most part. traversal is complicated. i'm really trying hard to get a handle on this game i've watched videos about the game trying to understand it to manage it i'm at level 18 and most enemies i face are higher level even with missions that have a lower recommended level some fights i die quickly then i come back with the same loadout and everything and i win easily i really don't understand what is going on. also the game usually crashes when i quit to desktop it doesn't ruin my save or my progress it's just annoying. there was one hard crash while playing but i think it is because of the afterburner overly. it is a shame because if the game wasn't so difficult i would definitely recommend it everything about this game is awesome except the difficulty.. i play a few games on high or the highest difficulty but most games i play on normal this i play on easy and it is still so hard.
Divertente in coop
Игра годная визуально выше всяких похвал
Insane atmosphere and sountracks are incredible
The best cyberpunk looking world, the world looks even better better than cyberpunk 2077 not graphicly but the world itself. Good gameplay i would recommend a play through.
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