The Ascent

Overall Rating: 5.5/10 The Ascent is a decent game at its core, but significant technical issues and frustrating design choices keep it from reaching its full potential. Technical Performance & Optimization Crashes: The game crashed 3 times during my 15-hour playthrough, requiring a full restart each time. Stuttering: Frequent micro-lags occur during gameplay, which severely disrupts the flow and negatively impacts combat. Thermals: The default settings place a heavy load on system hardware, causing noticeable overheating issues. I strongly recommend dropping the graphics settings to Medium and capping the frame rate at 60 FPS to maintain manageable temperatures. Story & Gameplay Silent Protagonist: The main character does not speak a single line throughout the entire game. This complete lack of voice acting makes it difficult to connect emotionally with the character or feel invested in their struggles. Frustrating Backtracking: The relentless backtracking was by far my biggest grievance. The game desperately needs weapon upgrade checkpoints mid-mission—having to backtrack massive distances just to upgrade gear ruins the pacing. Exploration vs. Padding: Some players might argue that backtracking encourages map exploration, but side quests and loot box hunting already fulfill that role naturally. Forcing players to re-traverse empty areas feels more like unnecessary padding than genuine exploration.

8/10分，线性叙事刷子游戏，优化差几年前破电脑没法玩，最近发现还有这个就玩了下。能联机。 优点：场景建模比较精致，像微缩版的赛博朋克小镇，武器虽然种类不多但是都有对应的射击特效以及子弹掉落效果，随身装备有数值但太丑就评价了，任务为线性任务找不到路有指引，系统自动存档间隔短死了之后基本不用跑很远就可以重新开始任务，音效包括枪械和技能音效还行，有些场景物品可以互动。同类型还有《红至日》系列。 缺点：棒子国游戏，有些场景部分区域偏暗，同时打怪的时候枪械火光有的时候又很亮，很暗和很亮在怪多的时候有几秒基本上看不清场景，要是这个时候被精英怪集火就容易被秒。场景里面很多东西素材复用，复用可以理解，但是你那个那么丑的人像图为什么要搞得到处都看的见？地图传送点做的一般，乘车动画长又没法跳过，很多地方传送点和任务点相隔很远，来回跑强制性赶路。人物视角虽然是RTS视角，但是你为什么又要在一些地方强制场景转向（此时玩家视角和朝向还是鼠标朝向，过渡不自然）？ 希望续作可以改善优化问题，当然这么久工作室被绝地求生发行商收购后就没有后续了。

10/10

The only thing good about this game is the arts and scene design. The mini map navigation is the worst I have ever seen in games, its almost like they use block out grey models for the mini map, it is impossible to find where you are. The game is also full of game breaking bugs, I died once and the game revived me behind a restricted gate, with no way to return to the quest area, and by this time the subway system was not unlocked so I was totally stuck. Its already 5 years since its release and its still bad, very disappointing.

I did find some enjoyment in this game, but the rating is whether or not I recommend it, so I must choose thumbs down. The good part is the cyberpunk vibe. Great visuals, good music inclusion, reasonably good writing. And mostly bug free and polished. The bad part is, the combat loop got pretty boring fast. Not much in it but keep moving and keep shooting. Most of the game is walking from place to place, which takes forever with no sprint function. There's fast travel, but you still have to walk to the other side of the district from where it drops you off. The world is beautiful during that walk, but the third time you walk through Cluster 13, you get kind of annoyed with it. Overall, I felt like I spent twice as much time in game as there was game to be in.

Amazing graphics and neon cyberpunk world.

I'm sad I spent money on this. Its really bad. No sprint feature, so moving takes forever unless your spamming the dodge button. The map is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ terrible. There's a fast travel feature, but you cant read the map to save your life which ends up with you jumping around the area to figure out where you need to go. Enemies are the same rinse and repeat kind just leveled up as you go. The weapons are lame. Overall the game is a slog, a solid 5/10 at best. Don't buy

a nice cyberpunk game