PC User Reviews

A spectacle if you like cyberpunk aesthetics and music with Diablo-style camera work and cover shots.

Everything in this game feels so "premium", so well done, with so much care and attention to detail. There is a fine work of love in this game. The details are absolutely breathtaking. Many times you will stop and stare that the stores, houses, interiors and every small object and wish you could switch to first person to appreciate everything. It needs a way more developed hacking feature, with minigames and all. Most of the props should be interactable with variety and intensity. The lore, the universe, the ambience... it all looks so good, it's so immersive, you wish you could have more. It all ends soo soon. There's roughly 30 hours of gameplay with the expansion included. Then you have NG+ which add a bit more but not much (but still I'm thankfull it's there). They could keep adding weapons and armors and small sidequests while developing No Law (this studio's new game now). Instead, they just abandoned the title a year after. Makes you think what to expect from their new title as well. Special mention to the music, taxis, metros... it's all so well done, so polished. It truly looks and feels amazing. This game was made by a studio of 11 people. They're now over 30 for their new game. You will love this game because it's very RPGish. I would have appreciated that armors, augmentations and tacticals could also be upgraded Mk2,3,etc and augmentations should have slot modifications to create diferent variations of each augmentation. This applies to modules as well. It would add so much replayability value to the game. Also, a hacker build should be possible. Right now it's not very possible or at least I haven't found one that is viable.

Not too bad shooter, good visuals, atmosphere with decent gameplay actually but in general its very mid. In the ascent you are someone trying to live its day to day on a cyberpunk distopic world full of war, neon and capitalism. The best thing this game does is atmosphere and visual ambientation, everything was greatly designed, with care and fine detail. Even tho its a top down shooter you still apreciate how good it looks. But aside from this, its pretty forgetable The gameplay was not bad. The shooting was fun, it had impact and there is some enemy variety but its very, very simple and basic. The rpg mechanics/stats exist but dont expect anything complex. Its core was well designed but its just way too simple and it can wind up being repetitive And the story. I cant say much about it cause to be honest i just couldnt get into it. The characters are forgettable, the dialogues are always using acronymes for everything and it expects you to read every single thing in the codex to understand properly, but its a boring world to make me bother. Its just about a Joe who is quite violent and you get to do jobs for a fat guy and then for a fat girl, like you could say its a bit more complex than that, but its maybe the only game that i couldnt bother less to follow it. Overall, if you love top downs you would like this for its gameplay and atmosphere, also it has coop, but dont expect nothing that you will remember forever. If you arent a fan of these things i would play in ps plus or gamepass. If you really like the premise or these kind of stuff then maybe 5 or 10$

*A great game, especially in terms of ambientation. The cyberpunk world portrayed is exciting, pleasing to the eyes and with a interesting storyline. and while it's not groundbreaking in any way, the game delivers on the basics well done.* Um ótimo jogo, especialmente em termos de ambientação. O mundo cyberpunk retratado é emocionante, agradável aos olhos e com um enredo interessante. E embora não seja inovador de forma alguma, o jogo entrega o básico com perfeição.

The Ascent is fun at first and it definitely has a great cyberpunk dystopian aesthetic that immediately draws you into its world, but it ends up being a little shallow on the gameplay side, with little to actually do or interact with other than blowing **** up. The rpg mechanics are too limited, and the unbalanced difficulty spikes that aren't really necessary can add a bit of frustration. One minute it's a little too easy and the next it's nearly impossible. All that is fine once you get the trick of it down, but still, the gameplay is too simple, repetitive, and involves far too much idle time walking around between fetch points and backtracking. Additionally, it's still riddled with bugs after four years. During my time with it I experienced numerous sound glitches, graphical stutters, crashes, and at one point my guns just stopped firing mid combat. There's also a weird sound bug where the gun sounds keep firing long after the battle has finished. I would say the only real plus to this game is the graphically stunning and detailed open world which is truly a marvel to gaze at.

Agradable sorpresa, y es que llevaba tiempo sin disfrutar tanto con un ARPG. Es cierto que tiene sus defectos, como la imposibilidad de llevar kit médicos para usarlos cuando los necesites y es que hay zonas que se complican bastante ante la imposibilidad de curarse, ya que los enemigos mecánicos no sueltan ningún tipo de ayuda. También se hace un poco cansino el desplazamiento y el mapa al tener varios niveles, complica bastante llegar a algunos sitios (hubo personajes con misiones secundarias a los que fui incapaz de llegar). A veces el juego tiene un extraño lag en el cual las cajas se rompen o los enemigos muere un segundo después del impacto. Pero en general destacan las cosas positivas del juego, con unos gráficos sobresalientes, una ambientación ciberpunk soberbia y uno de los mundos más vivos que he visto en mi vida. El multijugador cooperativo tiene una pinta estupenda, aunque no lo he probado, ya que soy lobo solitario y llevo sin jugar en multijugador desde Diablo 2 XD . La historia tal vez sea de lo menos currado del juego y los personajes no tienen apenas importancia en el desarrollo de la historia, lo que hace que pierda algo de inmersión. Por último, comentar que la última misión del juego es bastante frustrante, complicada y con checkpoints poco acertados, lo que obliga a repetir diálogos e incluso fases enteras si te atascas en los últimos combates. Reconozco que a punto estuve de no terminar el juego al atascarme bastante en los últimos combates y es que **** una semana en superar la última misión, mientras que para el resto del juego empleé 10 días

The atmosphere is incredibly well done for a cyberpunk world, and the gameplay is enjoyable, especially when playing with others, though it can feel a bit long at times. As for the loot and equipment, I didn’t quite get the hang of it, but I still had a great time overall.

The Ascent cyberpunk temalı bir evrende diablo tarzı oynanışa sahip hikayeli bir shooter oyunu. Oyunda bir şirketin kölesi olup üstteki elemanların sözlerini dinleye dinleye borcumuzu ödeyip özgürlüğümüzü almaya çalışıyor. Tabi aynı zamanda akıp giden bir hikayenin içine dalıyoruz. The Ascent oldukça uzun olan ve genel olarak yazı temelli bir hikaye veriyor. Arada bir minik sinematikler girse de o evrene tam girmeden yazıları tam okumadan hikayesine giremeyeceğiniz bir oyun. Yani demek istediğim türkçe yamaya ihtiyacınız var. 1 tane paralı kaliteli 1 tane de kalitesiz makine çeviri var internette. O yandan biraz sıkıntı. The Ascent oldukça fazla silah tercihine sahip. 1 tanesini hiç görememekle beraber 4 farklı özellikte mermi kullanan 10'larca silah var. Genel olarak çoğu minik farklar dışı aynı hissettirse de genede oldukça çeşide sahip. Karakterimizin genel yapı olarak 4 parça armor'u , 2 pasif skill'i , 2 aktif skill'i , 1 tane ekipmanı ve 2 silahı var. Oyunda her birinden 10'larca var ve biz kendi isteğimize göre kendi karakterimizi şekillendiriyoruz. Bu konuda oyun oldukça çeşitli. Ama her konuda böyle çeşitli değil. Mesela düşman sayısı oldukça fazla olmasına rağmen ne yazık ki bence yeterli değil. Bİr tık daha fazla olması lazımdı. Ve ya başka bir örnek olarak , oyunun genel olarak güzel bir sanat tasarımına sahip olmasına rağmen hatta nötr takıldığımız şehirler oldukça mükemmel tasarlanmış olmasına rağmen normalde dolaştığımız bölgeler oldukça tekrar eder tarzda inşa edilmiş. Bunların dışında oyunun ara sıra crash vermesi gibi , arada karakterin takılması , karakterin normal zamanda çok yavaş olması gibi minik dertleri var. Ama genel olarak oynayanı üzmeyen üstüne mutlu şekilde vedalayan bir yapısı var. Türünü sevenlere öneriyorum 🅑🅡🅞🅝🅩

The scenery is stunning, but the farther I move around the map the more boring it gets. And my game archive is broken.

Would recommend. Review: Game is gorgeous and has a lot of set pieces to gaze upon while traversing the map. Weapon and ability sounds are very impactful and they sound amazing. There is a large selection of weapons, equipment, abilities to suite your play style. All dialog with quest NPCs are voiced and the quality is good. Game runs well. Negatives would be the story. It's really about nothing and kind of feels like you're on a job the whole time. Another problem is with the difficulty. There is something extremely wonky about it and looking at gameplay 3 years prior it seems like devs broke the flow with updates over that time. One example is a spider boss and it's near unbeatable on hard due to poor mechanics. Last thing worth to mention is the inventory UI is terrible and really hard to understand what exactly does what stat wise.

Amazing game, a perfect Cyber ambiance, 10/10 music, a lot of possibilities in the gameplay, give him a chance

What a amazing experience with this game The music, the gameplay, the ambience.a really good game

as we go back, i feel boring. there is no new enemy, background, skill, mechanic etc. just repeat. no tension. and...i cant concentrate storyline. complicated. overflowed text. not good.

I don't think this game is really that bad but I can't help but feel that is one of those quite overrated games where people are just grabbing on to something like the cyberpunk theme or whatever and they are giving 10 out of 10 scores and let me tell you if that's what a 10 game is then I'll be damned. It is boring, repetitive, monotonic and overall a pretty generic twin stick shooter that it barely has anything particularly special about it. The progression feels really slow and insignificant,enemies are all the same, places all look the same, fights feel the same. I hate to compare and it's really not something I usually do but if you wanna see what an actually good isometric action game is just try Hades, Path of Exile or Grim Dawn and hopefully you will see the difference.

Extremely fun gameplay. Cool game world. Experience unfortunately brought down by bugs and crashes. Most inexcusable of which freezes your loading screen after you beat the DLC, making the trophy inaccessible.

В общем Neon Giant решили сделать такой недорогой Cyberpunk 2077 только для любителей изометрии.Что ж получилось так себе.Игра старается копировать мир, настройку персонажа даже меню выполнено в таком же вырвиглазном цветовом антураже как в Cyberpunk 2077. Только всего этого очень мало и всё это более дёшево.Действие происходит в киберпанковском будущем. Враги какие то инопланетяне и солдаты, не особо понял. Есть боссы.Стрелять мне не очень понравилось, в изометрических играх вообще очень сложно прицелиться, а здесь сенс стрельбы на консоли очень чувствительный и изменить его не представляется возможным. При этом помощь в прицеливании не работает от слова совсем.Есть какая никакая прокачка, как персонажа так и оружия.Как и в Cyberpunk 2077 есть город хаб и задания с отстрелом врагов вокруг него.Игра не плохо выглядит, ну для изометрической конечно, нпс реагируют на героя, убегают, уворачиваются и т. д.И так. The Ascent может понравиться тем кто любит вид как в Diablo, но рассчитывать на что то большее я бы не стал. Она совершенно не выделяется среди подобных игр. Хотя сейчас её можно попробовать в PS Plus за подписку.Так, чо дерзайте.

Vraiment une belle surprise ce jeu une ambiance cyberpunk que j’adore mais surtout le gameplay et les gunfights sont vraiment jouissif

Después de jugar a "CYBERPUNK 2077" y descubrir "THE ASCENT" En Ps4, tengo que decir, y aunque es un juego que se hace repetitivo (cual no lo es?) y que tiene algún que otro bug, es para mí mucho mejor juego que Cyberpunk 2077.

I asked for a game like this for so long... and this game delivers. A real gem.

Most of the game is tedious, but sometimes the difficulty suddenly spikes. This means the developer put zero effort into balancing the game. Don't give this kind of developer any money.

Deserves way better than the actual Metascore of 73. Great visuals, great gameplay, average story, very nice game in the end. Made by something like 12 people, it's outstanding to see what such a small studio can accomplish. Can't wait to play their next game.

I tried to enjoy it twice, as did my friend, but it felt like nothing we haven't already done before many times. Graphics seemed above average for sure, but little else in my opinion. I would describe it as pretty, yet somewhat janky and unexciting. May be worth it for you, I think mostly if you really like gritty twin stick shooters.

I really wish designers would quit focusing so much on “graphics.” Graphics don’t mean crap if the game is more or less unplayable or not fun. There are plenty of free games out better than this with lesser graphics but infinitely more fun and playable. One can easily tell that this was made as kind of a look what we can do game so that they can move onto something more lucrative which is what the industry has become nowadays. Such a waste of what could be a potentially great game if it wasn’t for the poor quality in the actual gameplay. Only reason I gave this more than a 0 is because of the graphics and potential which I believe is all they really cared about anyway.

+ Стрельба супер + Детализация супер + Дизайн локаций просто офигенный, хочется делать скриншоты каждые 20 шагов + Проработка мира супер + Сюжет норм + Система развития норм + Спецэффекты огонь В общем, это больше киберпанк, чем Киберпанк 2077)

First it was way too easy so i had to set hard difficulty, until it became ridiculously hard even on normal. Game is really beautiful, too bad **** balance made me drop it.

Bester Laufsimulator! Hätte ich so nicht rausgebracht, leider noch einige Bugs drin, weswegen man des öfteren mal neustarten muss. Vom Gameplay her ist es aber wirklich interessant und macht echt Spaß, eine Story ist gerade eben so vorhanden. Manche **** sind etwas unübersichtlich und Games unter 30 Stunden Spielzeit sind auch etwas kurz, gerade lieb gewonnen und auch schon wieder vorbei. Für den fairen Preis kann man dann aber auch wieder nichts sagen. Insgesamt hat es sich gelohnt, hat Spaß gemacht und ich musste mich nicht ernsthaft aufregen.

For me The Ascent became a controversial game. It contains BAD plot, grind system, boring characters, but at the same time interesting cyberpunk setting, interesting and not typical gameplay, amazing aesthetics. I won't lie, for me this game didn't gift nice emotions and i won't comeback for this one, but it has it's own pluses. Summing up the pros and cons i would give it 5/10. Average game, but sadly, not more.

========= worth it ========= -eye candy graphice and rebitive fun gameplay -ruined by freezes ur pc, bad story and bad characters design -disappointment final boss only fight mobs and bad open ending

This isnt what i expected. The game looks nice and the shooting is decent i guess. But its boring af. The location variety is so low you often forget where you are. The story is boring and the walks from a to b are sooooo long its insane. Even later on with taxi and train is still way too long. Well i guess i recommend this if you wanna see an immersive world. But the rest is subpar.

Slick graphics, amazing world design, deeply flawed and infuriating gameplay. Abandoned.

extremely difficult. i am glad that hacking exists. i go to playlist stupid game for free. stupid mouse aim does not work. do not buy this game. i say again do not buy this game. stupid story difficult combat boring stupid game. the stupid character doesn't even talk. eight zero stupid idiot devs.

This game is such a wreck. It doesn't deserve the praise it's gotten. It crashes constantly, the gameplay and progression is more shallow then a wading pool and the story is the laziest most predictable pieces of Pablum I've seen in ages. The best thing I can say about it is it looks pretty and some of the voice acting is good. Development team also supported the game with plenty of free cosmetic DLC. But don't believe the hype! You'd be better off playing Path of Exile, Diablo 3, Torchlight or hell I'm gonna say it! I had more fun hate playing Diablo: Immortal for 4 hours then the 20 i sank into this.

Joguei no lançamento achei ruim demais a mira. Um ano depois voltei a jogar e to achando magnifico o game, porem to jogando o teclado e mouse, nisso eu acho a mira precisa.

Just phenomonal. Great world building. Very satisfying combat. Amazing, immersive graphics. This was ten times more fun than cyberpunk. And the voice acting was great too. Don't understand why this isn't getting better reviews.

Ein wirklich tolles Spiel. Optik, Gameplay, Balance, Welt, Immersion, Charaktere alles wirklich top. Es machte so viel Spaß in dieses Spiel und dessen Welt einzutauchen. Die Optik ist auf alle Fälle über alle Zweifel erhaben. Das Gameplay schön wuchtig. Die Welt sieht einfach richtig klasse aus (Cyber Punk). Ob nun jede einzelne Kleinigkeit ausgereift bis zum Ende ist? Bestimmt nicht. Der Loot könnte mehr Vielfalt und Kreativität vertragen. Die Charaktere tiefgreifender. Die Quests mehr ausgearbeitet und das zum Teil unnötige umherlaufe nervte auch ein klein wenig. Das sind aber alles nur kleine Punkte im großen Ganzen. Das Ende lassen wir vorerst raus, da ich das Gefühl hatte, dass es definitiv zu einem 2. Teil kommen soll bzw. wird. Je nachdem wie erfolgreich das Spiel am Ende geworden ist. Ich habe das Spiel erst im Januar 2022 "nachgeholt", also knapp ein halbes Jahr nach Release. Und ich muss sagen, dass ich weder Glitches, Bugs, noch Abstürze oder sonst was. Es lief auf meiner mittlerweile betagten 1080 auf 1440P mit Ulti/Max Einstellungen mit flüssigen 80-90 FPS. Außer bei einigen Boss Gegnern mit vielen Projektilen gingen die FPS drastisch runter. Fazit: Aber alles in allem ein richtig gutes Game, dass ich jedem empfehlen kann. Also auf alle Fälle jeder der den Gamepass schon abonniert hat. Wer es noch nicht gemacht hat, dann tut dies und holt das Spiel unbedingt nach. Meine Wertung sind 8,5 von 10 Punkten. _____________________________________________________________________________ A really great game. Looks, gameplay, balance, world, immersion, characters are all really great. It was so much fun to dive into this game and its world. In any case, the optics are beyond all doubt. The gameplay is pretty massive. The world just looks really great (cyber punk). Whether every single little thing is mature to the end? Definitely not. The loot could use more variety and creativity. The characters more profound. The quests were more elaborate and the sometimes unnecessary walking around was a little annoying. But these are all just small points in the big picture. We'll leave out the ending for the time being, because I had the feeling that there should definitely be a second part. Depending on how successful the game ended up being. I didn't "catch up" on the game until January 2022, almost half a year after the release. And I have to say that I don't get any glitches, bugs, crashes or anything else. It ran on my now aged 1080 on 1440P with Ulti/Max settings at a smooth 80-90 FPS. Except for some bosses with lots of projectiles, the FPS went down drastically. Conclusion: But all in all a really good game that I can recommend to everyone. In any case, everyone who has already subscribed to the game pass. If you haven't done it yet, then do so and definitely catch up on the game. My rating is 8.5 out of 10 points.

The game looks stunning. Artists did an amazing job! Core gameplay is fun. There is a lot of content. But after a several hours I started to realize that it's pretty repetitive, RPG mechanics are underdeveloped, and there is a lot of bugs. I dropped this game after around 8 hours because I was bored. But then started to play in online co-op with 3 friends. There is 4 times more bugs for 4 players . We beat the game, but aftertaste was pretty bad. Last few levels was a buggy mess (we played after 03.2022 update). I definitely recommend to play the Ascent for a few hours, but do not try to beat it.

Um tiroteio bem cativante, numa cidade enorme e envolvente, mas com uma trama bem chata e repetitiva. Pareceu ser mais divertido com amigos, mas joguei solo. A versão analisada é a do gamepass de PC. PONTOS POSITIVOS: + Gameplay bem bacana, tanto no teclado/mouse quanto no controle, responde bem; + Visual e som muito envolventes, capricharam muito na ambientação desse jogo; PONTOS NEGATIVOS: + instabilidade técnica, com travamentos e jogo fechando e instabilidade na taxa de quadros, com alguns congelamentos mesmo em ambientes pouco movimentados; + Tradução das legendas incompleta, com parte do texto em português e parte em inglês; + A cidade até que é grande, mas você fica muito tempo indo e voltando aos mesmos lugares. + A história no geral é bem sem graça e esquecível.

The Ascent brings one of the best depictions of a futuristic cyberpunk environment with an interesting take on class structure and looting. The world design is certainly the highlight of this game, often drawing you into how impressive some of the areas can be with tons of detail. Gameplay is solid enough with fairly good pacing. Playing alone kinda ****, solely because the majority of the challenge in the game is a steady diet of positioning, clustering enemies and periodic cover shooting - which is a hit/miss mechanic in the game. Playing MP is where the game shines as the sheer chaos multiple players brings makes for a bombastic blast that pales in comparison to the SP experience - in my opinion. So is the game good? I'd say yes, it certainly is - given the genre and style. However there are quite a few aspects I wish were done differently. There are often stretches where you are seeking your next point of reasonable progression, given while the world is open - traversal is time consuming. Also each encounter, can feel very similar to the last one? Some variations of enemies give a little spice, but more or less each encounter will feel very honed in, which can be a good thing for some. For myself, it was what made me eventually tire of the game. But I certainly enjoyed what I did play and am sure many others will continue to do so.

Ambientação cyberpunk incrível!! pra quem é apaixonado pelo gênero, mais RPG compra garantida !

Came for the graphics, stayed for the atmosphere. The world is so dense with details ,the music is superb, everything just fits and creates an fantastic cyberpunk atmosphere. The gameplay is solid and fun, the story does its job. Pleasant surprise.

Great game! Very nice graphics

A real cyberpunk game with great graphics and gameplay mechanics. The only thing that it is quite bad it is the story, but this does not interfere the quality of this masterpiece.

I only come across this game month ago on game-pass and I have for game that was made by first time developers this is one of the best looking games I've seen this year and the gameplay is pretty good as well looking at the world the game it is set in it give me Blade Runner/ Altered Carbon vibes to it the only minor issue I have with the game is that it might crash but apart from that I have no major issues with game and to me this is how Cyberpunk 2077 should have been so give this game a shot

Довольно динамичный геймплей, саундтрэк и атмосфера в этой игре заслуживают отдельной похвалы, сюжет конечно такой себе но это не мешает играть вместе с другом и получать удовольствие.

Boring. Nice graphics, physics. Too slow walking, transport, map etc. Little wrong mechanics and presentation. Top down shooter isnt good idea with off screen shooting range. RTX - enabled looks worse and much slower. Simillar to other RTX games.

A lot of high octane fun in a very beautiful package held back a bit by some bad design choices (map looks cool, but is useless, etc.), some technical issues, and could do with a balancing pass. Gameplay: - top down open world twin stick shooter – some rpg / rpg lite elements, some rogue-lite aspects - the mission design is pretty one sided, tbh – go here, shoot this – some minor variety, like you get a timer here, you get a couple main targets which summon minions there, etc. not a complaint, but an observation – despite the setting and some of the tacked on features, this is a game that is primarily focused on combat, and there is a lot of it. You want some quiet moments in between? Not really a game for you, in my opinion. - too grindy, after you get halfway through the game, leveling becomes a chore, even when killing equal or higher level enemies and doing all of the side content, it will feel slow – would not be as much issue if the combat wasn’t so damn stats based, but it is and leveling up sufficiently is a requirement, forcing you into a repetitive, slow going, boring grind. As you approach level 30, it starts feeling like a free to play gacha MMO where trying to progress anything by gameplay takes ages - combat itself feels great, fast paced, visceral, a lot of fun, even has some vertical elements which is unusual for this type of game - has a couple issues – often you get shot / attacked outside of your view because of camera placement, and even outside of your minimap/radar, feels a bit unfair. - the world is pretty complex in places and can be hard to navigate – the map is bad, the GPS is okay but far from perfect, but you can’t place your own markers on the map, so it can only lead you to active missions - as mentioned before, combat is heavily reliant on stats, higher level enemies take much less damage from you, and do much more damage to you, to a point where they can pretty much one-two shot you if they are 5+ levels above you, at least in the early game. It’s not really possible to discern them from equal or lower level enemies, making early game exploration hit and miss and unnecessarily frustrating, not to mention the GPS that leads you to missions will sometimes lead you through parts of the map occupied by these high level enemies, just for lulz, I guess? Story: – has some interesting elements, some pretty memorable characters as well, interesting lore as well. It’s not super high quality and deep, but it’s good enough to give you some background to all of the slaughter and mayhem. - side missions have a bunch of pretty funny and wacky stuff in them, but they still remain pretty well grounded in the world of the game, interesting quest givers as well, I recommend doing the side content as well, not just rushing through the main story – you kinda will have to for the XP rewards unless you want to endlessly grind the same respawning encounters Graphics: - great overall - technical side is okay, but there are some minor issues– some misaligned textures, some floating object, in loading screens and when entering new locations sometimes character T-pose for a moment before their animations load, etc. - the style is great, the design of the world, the peds, everything looks awesome - just stayed still sometimes just looking at the beautiful designs, the lively and moving backgrounds, etc. Sound – great sound design and direction, weapons sound great, a lot of intricate ambience, music is awesome, gets blood pumping in combat Notable bugs: - Enemies did not load in a main story mission, or spawned inside inaccessible building / in a wall where they were stuck, or killing them did not trigger mission completion – basically, every couple missions, something will break, forcing game restart and redoing the mission. - Sometimes after a cutscene, movement gets stuck for 10-20 minutes and no matter what you do, your character automatically moves in one direction – only appeared after a couple hours into the game. - Game randomly crashes during loading screens when moving between the world tiers, no progress loss as the game saves before changing the locations, but still annoying - When enemies get too far away from their “turf”, they get into a “flight” mode and try to return to their base location, while taking considerably less damage (something like 90% damage resistance) and can also regenerate health, but do not attack. However, they do so without rhyme or reason. The distance is random, their remaining HP is random, whether you are actively fighting them or running from them does not matter. Sometimes, it also glitches out, and they stay in flight mode when they reach their base location, you can literally stand in a place shooting a glitched out enemy for 2 minutes. - not really a bug, but the game is a bit underoptimized and has some framerate drop issues, even in non intensive situations

Кайфовая игра для того что бы посидеть вечерком и часик расслабиться, в геймпасе вообще кайф такие игры получать.

What a fresh breath of (toxic) air. I've been playing this game for the past few weeks and I'm really very impressed with The Ascent. The artwork is so friggin' detailed, inspired and believable it's uncanny. I just love it to bits and I think the people responsible for the world design should win a few prizes. It's simply ART with a capital A in my book and they must have invested an incredible amount of passion, time and effort into it. The writing and characters really complement that art-style and I love the overall idea behind the setting. Game play grows on you quickly too, and though quite simple, it is highly compelling and more engaging than the average hack-and-slash action rpg. Another thing this game does well is the pacing of its rpg elements like loot and upgrades: valuable upgrades at the right intervals, appealing chests to hunt down, interesting abilities to unlock, cool guns, etc. Not much filler stuff here and you won't be overburdened either. The game doesn't hold your hand much, it can be quite challenging here and there and at times explains very little. Eventually things work out though, doors get unlocked, locked out chests become available and the high level enemies that one-shotted you earlier, will be destroyed. Only downsides so far: the map can be confusing at times and I encountered a bug where a door in the Morgue wouldn't open for me for some time but I think they fixed that with an upgrade. Performance is excellent I think. I'm playing this at 1440p on my old GTX970 and I have most of the settings (that are available to my set-up) maxed out, except for shadow quality as I saw a yt vid on that being the biggest resource hog. Conclusion: If you like action rpgs and if you like an inspired cyberpunk setting it's simply a must buy. For around 20 bucks on Steam this really is kind of a steal. I'm really looking forward to see what these people will be working on next.

+ Cool graphics & drawing style + Cool setting / atmosphere +/- Missions + sidemissions take about 20 hours to play. You could get a bit more out of the world. - The game is sometimes too difficult on level "Normal", even as an experienced player. You should be at least 1-2 levels above the mission recommendation. Towards the end it suddenly becomes too easy. - A bit much running around on the map - Still many bugs - Various "quality of life" features are still missing, such as all missions being displayed on the map (not just the active one).

The most average game I played recently. Looks pretty good, but the gameplay is so boring. Want a good top down shooter? Go Helldivers