Ascendant
Ascendant is the unforgiving beat 'em up that challenges you with a new world each time you play. It utilizes a number of modern roguelike elements such as permadeath and procedurally generated environments…
Ascendant is an adventure developed by Hapa Games, released 6 May 2014 on PlayStation 4, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Ascendant is
Ascendant is an adventure game developed by Hapa Games and released in 2014. It is available on PlayStation 4, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Ascendant is the unforgiving beat 'em up that challenges you with a new world each time you play. It utilizes a number of modern roguelike elements such as permadeath and procedurally generated environments. You are a demigod who invades a plane controlled by your rivals. They will stop at nothing to eliminate you. Only the most impressive warriors will triumph over their armies of zealots and beasts.
How it plays
Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player.
How it was received
Ascendant holds a critic score of 45 out of 100. That places it above 6% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2014 averaged 69, so it scored 24 points below the year average.
What it launched against
Ascendant launched on 6 May 2014, within three weeks of Watch Dogs, Wolfenstein: The New Order, Transistor and Child of Light. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 1 year into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Watch Dogs, Wolfenstein: The New Order, Transistor, Child of Light.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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