The Ascent is a cyberpunk, isometric action RPG shooter that released on PC and Xbox earlier this year. Its incredibly detailed environments and intense gameplay attracted a lot of attention, and it was met with largely positive reviews. Our friends over at Pure Xbox loved what they played of it, which left us wondering when it would eventually come to PlayStation consoles.
As it happens, The Ascent's arrival on PlayStation may be close. As spotted by Gematsu, the game has been rated for PS5 and PS4 in Taiwan, and ratings usually mean that official news is imminent. We're not sure whether The Ascent will launch before the year is out — a good Christmas release, maybe? — but it's probably not far off.
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I played this on Xbox GP and enjoyed it. The detailed environments are incredible. It has some nasty difficulty spikes but they later added a difficulty option which helped. Well worth checking out IMO.
I love a good Isometric ARPG. And I love when they move beyond the tried and true fantasy realm. Have had my eye on this. This is good news.
I really enjoyed the game. Great graphics and the combat is fun imo. There was a few bugs when I played it, not sure if they’ve been sorted but I didn’t come across any game breaking ones and still had fun.
Worth playing if you like the looter shooter genre.
Ps plus in january would be good
@Nightcrawler71 don’t know if you did the last boss solo, that was one hell of a difficulty spike 🤣
@lolwhatno that’s true. It’s poisoned in so many ways.
In my opinion the Ps is by far the better system, too but there are some great games on the Xbox as well. Furthermore the 4th quarter is much stronger this year on Xbox due to Forza and Halo - both are fantastic games.
I played the Ascend a little bit with a friend who has a Series X and GamePass. The game was fun. Top down twin Stick Shooter with nice visuals. Happy to see a release on the PlayStation as well.
I played a little on the series x at launch. The visuals are stunning, like unbelievable for this studios first game! The gameplay has a weird isometric meets twin stick meets cover shooter style that I bounced off pretty quickly but others may really enjoy. The initial story premise for the game is excellent but I found traversing areas to be pretty annoying (there are two modes of fast travel but neither are well signposted, might be my fault for not picking up the systems quickly enough) and that I got fed up of the dialogue pretty quickly. You can do all the campaign in coop and I suspect a playthrough with a friend is where this game will shine.
Really enjoyed this game. It's definitely more fun with Co-op.
Be aware that it does not play like a typical twin stick shooter or Diablo. Its mechanics take some getting used to.
Played this when it was released on GP. Or rather, tried it. Wasn't very good at that time, but I'm assuming it got patched.
If not, it's not gonna be a very good fit for PS (basically, I don't see people paying explicitly for such rough game, but most would try it out if free as part of a service - Xbox model).
There was so much to love about this game, but I just couldn’t. The pieces just didn’t add up to the fantastic game I’d hoped it would. If they rebalance it in an update I might consider trying it again, but it was one of the most unbalanced games I’ve ever played.the map was also an atrocious mess.
Nice! I thought it was stunning when it came out on the Xbox and I really wanted a Series X for it. I'm happy it's not an exclusive. Funny point: I believe the Korean neon signs were random and they actually don't translate to anything meaningful
Finally. Hope it runs well on PS4.
Pretty fun game from what I played. Physically couldn't play much more than a few hours but was decent from what I remember. Hope people enjoy it!
Great news! I’ve been really hoping that The Ascent would come to PS5. Now we just need Sable. Oh and I’m also hoping that Tunic will make its way to PSN once it’s released on the Xbox consoles.
Maybe one of these timed exclusives on Xbox will end up being longer than a few months or so...
@KilloWertz Agreed. Then PS owners would whine like Xbox owners do now about the long exclusivity.
Played it via gamepass on xbsx. It's cyberpunk Diablo. Had great fun with it but eventually stopped playing at the time because of some progression bugs. Didn't go back to it because - too many other great games
Will definitely pick this up while not game of the year it looks like an enjoyable cyberpunk experience.
@Rob_230 couldn’t agree more
I'll grab this if it ever comes to PS+, otherwise no thanks.
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