The Ascent

I'm glad to hear they were successful! Awesome to see indies doing great They surely put a ton of work in the game. I gave it a spin and it just didn't click for me

Yeah, I tried it too on the gamepass. For such a tiny team, this game is no short of a miracle. Been following it since even before it was announced, and the team really killed it.

Some things could have been a little better, the characters for instance look really rubbery, lighting can be busy at times and the map / ui a little confusing at the start.

But, killing monsters feel really snappy and gameplay fluid enough to carry the experience. I'll boot it up again soon to play a couple more hours, but I'm not the biggest fan of isometric action games so I doubt I'll put in the 50 hours to finish it.

But it's worth checking it out for the universe alone, specially if you're into industrial scifi art directions.

feel like im half way through the game, having lots of fun, love jumping between cover and all the abilities, games tight

Quote from blackdog

7 hours ago, blackdog said: What didn’t you like @Minos? I haven’t tried it, only seen some videos.

Really dig the atmosphere but not sure about combat from what I’ve seen.

PS: you have the Xbox pass to just be able to try stuff?

Yeah, I got a Series X + 3 years of game pass (did that trick of buying 3 years of Live Gold at Costco then converting to gamepass for 1 dollar ). Amazing deal.

As for the game, while the gameplay is solid it felt similar to other games I played before. I had a hard time getting immersed too... the initial environments looked very kitbashed and unbelievable. With so many other quality games to play, I just preferred to play something else

Definitely give it a try if you are interested though, it's really impressive what the team accomplished!

Quote from Minos

10 hours ago, Minos said: Yeah, I got a Series X + 3 years of game pass (did that trick of buying 3 years of Live Gold at Costco then converting to gamepass for 1 dollar ). Amazing deal.

As for the game, while the gameplay is solid it felt similar to other games I played before. I had a hard time getting immersed too... the initial environments looked very kitbashed and unbelievable. With so many other quality games to play, I just preferred to play something else

Definitely give it a try if you are interested though, it's really impressive what the team accomplished!

Yeah I’m happy they’re having sustainable success, but I saw the screenshots people were saying looked so great, and they didn’t do much for me. I agree with the kitbashed sentiment, quite like the top of a Star Wars ship but using a cyberpunk city theme.

While Cyberpunk 20forgot-the-digits may have let people down, it truly looked the part of a big exciting game, and it had that art direction on point. This game seems to be pleasing people, but it looks very much like an aimless indie game to my eyes.

I never played Disco Elysium but even that comparable indie game seemed to have a lot more visual appeal and art direction with the isometric idea.