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Ashes of the Singularity

Ashes of the Singularity is a real-time strategy game set in humanity’s not-so-distant future. What it means to be human has changed with the coming of the singularity. In the post-human economy, sentience is…

70 31 March 2016

Ashes of the Singularity is an indie developed by Oxide Games, released 31 March 2016 on PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Ashes of the Singularity is

Ashes of the Singularity is an indie game developed by Oxide Games and released in 2016. It was published by Stardock. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only. It runs on Nitrous.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Ashes of the Singularity is a real-time strategy game set in humanity’s not-so-distant future. What it means to be human has changed with the coming of the singularity. In the post-human economy, sentience is now the most valuable commodity in the universe. The only way to acquire more of that is through the control of Turinium – programmable matter – which can extend consciousness to levels we can't even imagine. Worlds are being transformed into this substance and wars are now being fought across the galaxy for control of those worlds. Each conflict takes place across an entire world. It isn't a skirmish. It's a war. Thousands of units are constantly constructed and sent across the planet…
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How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player.

How it was received

Ashes of the Singularity holds a critic score of 70 out of 100. That places it above 32% of the 5,098 rated indie games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2016 averaged 68, so it scored 2 points above the year average.

How long it takes, and what that costs

A full completion run takes around 38 hrs.

What it launched against

Ashes of the Singularity launched on 31 March 2016, within three weeks of Dark Souls III, Hitman, Ratchet & Clank and Don't Starve Together. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Dark Souls III, Hitman, Ratchet & Clank, Don't Starve Together.

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When did Ashes of the Singularity come out?
Ashes of the Singularity was released on 31 March 2016 for PC (Microsoft Windows).

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