
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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Each in the currency that store quoted — not converted: the gap between two rows is the publisher's pricing, not an exchange rate.
Every market we collect.
Discounts
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 22 chart moves that followed a price cut of more than 20% went a median of 9 places towards #1, and the 2,513 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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Add-ons
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.
Engagement
Reviews
Themes across 1040 recent reviews and how positive each mention is. A keyword signal, not full sentiment analysis.
Reviews
Awesome top-down local co-op without the split-screen hassle! The cyberpunk aesthetic, soundtrack, and story are fantastic. It’s a great homage to story-rich arcade games. Get it—you won’t regret playing this with a friend or significant other.
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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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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The Ascent is PEAK! The world of Veles is beautifully crafted! Every environment is rich with character and feels different from each zone. The art direction and map design is perfect! Quest markers can be a little hard to find due to the verticality in certain zones but other than that its a minor issue. The gunplay in the Ascent is so punchy and satisfying each gun feels different from each other. The story is a good time too! Great voice acting too! IF your looking for a good RPG don't look past this one. It is great solo and super fun with friends!
Great concept and gameplay.
no matchmaking
[h1]The Ascent — визуальный шедевр в эстетике киберпанка, запертый в теле монотонного изометрического шутера.[/h1] The Ascent с первых же секунд ослепляет своей красотой. Это невероятно детализированный экшен-РПГ с видом сверху, который создала крошечная команда разработчиков. Атмосфера грязного мегаполиса будущего здесь передана на каком-то запредельном уровне, но как только ты привыкаешь к сочной картинке, геймплейные шероховатости начинают откровенно портит впечатление. [h2]Что в игре сделано на высшем уровне (Плюсы):[/h2] [list] [*] [b]Безумный уровень детализации и визуал:[/b] Игра выглядит просто феноменально. Местный футуристический мир-улей Велес проработан до мельчайших подробностей. Неоновые вывески, толпы разношерстных инопланетян и киборгов на улицах, летающий транспорт, пар из труб и разрушаемость объектов во время перестрелок создают невероятно живую картинку. Это один из самых красивых киберпанк-миров в игровой индустрии. [*] [b]Сочная и динамичная стрельба:[/b] Перестрелки ощущаются отлично. Оружие бахает мощно, импакт от попаданий по врагам тактильный и увесистый, а спецэффекты от взрывов и лазеров заливают весь экран сочными красками. Механика стрельбы из-за укрытий (когда можно поднимать ствол выше) добавляет неплохой тактической глубины в динамичный PvE-геймплей. [*] [b]Шикарный саундтрек:[/b] Тяжелый, качающий синтвейв и электронная музыка идеально дополняют общую атмосферу киберпанковского безумия и отлично задают темп во время жестких замесов. [/list] [h2]Где разработчики не дожали (Минусы):[/h2] [list] [*] [b]Ужасная навигация и сломанная карта:[/b] Пожалуй, главный кошмар игры. Город разделен на множество вертикальных ярусов, соединенных лифтами и переходами. Местная трехмерная карта абсолютно нечитаема, а квестовый маркер (путеводная линия) регулярно багует, ведет тебя в тупик, заставляет нарезать круги или показывает путь сквозь закрытые по сюжету двери. Из-за этого кучу времени приходится тратить на унылую беготню. [*] [b]Скачки сложности и кривой баланс:[/b] Игра не умеет плавно дозировать сложность. Ты можешь полчаса без проблем косить врагов пачками, а потом зайти за угол и наткнуться на патруль, который выше тебя на 10 уровней и стирает твоего персонажа за секунду. Ближе к финалу игра просто утомляет бесконечным спамом волн «толстых» врагов-губок, превращая боевку в душную рутину. [*] [b]Пустой мир и слабая РПГ-составляющая:[/b] Несмотря на толпы NPC на улицах, мир абсолютно статичен — поговорить почти ни с кем нельзя, интерактивности минимум. Побочные квесты невероятно унылые и сводятся к классическому «принеси-подай» из одного конца огромного улья в другой. Прокачка и билдостроение получились довольно поверхностными: большинство навыков дают лишь скучные пассивные прибавки к характеристикам, а действительно уникальных имплантов не так много. [/list] --- [b]Итог: 6.5 из 10.[/b] [i]The Ascent — это крепкий середняк и отличный визуальный аттракцион на пару вечеров, особенно если проходить его в кооперативе с друзьями. Игра способна подарить массу удовольствия своей атмосферой и мясными перестрелками, но ей сильно не хватает полировки, вменяемой карты и разнообразия в квестах. Брать лучше всего по хорошей скидке чисто ради эстетики неонового гетто.[/i]
Trash game
Really nice game if you love twin stick shooter! love the atmosphere, the gunplay.
BRING A FRIEND
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 !
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