Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation

A massive-scale real-time strategy game where you command entire armies on a dynamic battlefield. Conquer multiple worlds across several single-player campaigns; or play with your friends in multiplayer combat.

Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation is a rts, base-building and pvp game developed by Stardock Entertainment and Oxide Games and published by Stardock Entertainment.
Released on November 10th 2016 is available only on Windows in 6 languages: English, German, French, Italian, Spanish - Spain and Portuguese - Brazil.

It has received 4,700 reviews of which 3,497 were positive and 1,203 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.3 out of 10. 😊

The game is currently priced at 7.24€ on Steam and has a 75% discount.

The Steam community has classified Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation into these genres:

RTS Base-Building PvP Real Time Tactics Moddable Strategy Online Co-Op Transhumanism Sci-fi Military Simulation Isometric Building Dark Futuristic Robots Co-op Singleplayer Multiplayer War

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Requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

Windows

Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS *: 64-bit Windows 10 / 8.1 / 7
Processor: Quad-core Intel / AMD Processor
Memory: 6 GB RAM
Graphics: 2 GB GDDR5 NVidia GeForce 660 / AMD R7 360 or better (GeForce 900+ / Radeon 290+ for Vulkan)
DirectX: Version 11
Network: Broadband Internet connection
Storage: 27 GB available space
Sound Card: DirectX Compatible Sound Card
Additional Notes: 1920x1080 Display Resolution or Higher

Reviews

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Jan. 2025

I wish more games would take this approach its simple but not halo wars simple(love that game too btw).

Dec. 2024

I have not finished the campaign yet but my first impression was a good one. The skirmish mode is replayable too. I think it's worth what I paid for it. I do recommend it.

Oct. 2024

Its a fun game, interesting story as well. Hard though at first, even on easy! Lots to manage. But overall great game,

April 2024

Definitely wait for a sale, but it's a good classic style RTS. Could be great if they added more units, factions and maps (without charging an arm and a leg for it via DLC).

Jan. 2024

Less than 5% of Steam players finished the single player campaign of Ashes , and multiplayer is apparently broken for good. Seems like an obvious thumbs down. But for a certain narrow category of players [*]casual player [*]focused on single player campaign [*]enjoyed Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance but wish the campaign was longer [*]not too finicky about graphics performance even in 2024, I would recommend the game, based on the single player campaign. Much of my commentary references or compares to SCFA. Good: [*]31 missions, 4 or 5 of which might be considered tutorial [*]excellent variety of scenarios and objectives [*]excellent difficulty balance. I played on normal (usual practice for me). I'd fail a typical mission ~2 times and complete it on the 3rd attempt. [*]A few of the maps/missions are epic or at least near epic. [*]Voice acting is good, especially kyle Hebert voicing Mac. [*]overall economy design is engaging [*]IMO the "capture and hold Turinium generator until critical mass" gameplay mode has a lot of appeal. That is only employed on a couple of missions. But you can choose that in skirmish vs. AI. [*]As many quick-saves as you like. Not so good: [*]Multiplayer apparently is completely broken. (According to the forums - I didn't try.) [*]User Interface is inferior to SCFA. Build queue (or lack thereof), having to click a unit (and lose your selection) to see a description... etc, etc. I'm at 200+ hours with Ashes so it isn't lack of familiarity talking here. [*]Heavy load on your graphics card. My RX 6600 XT is marketed @ 1080p but runs most games OK @ 1440p (60Hz). With medium graphics settings, Ashes makes 60fps @ 1080p most of the time, with the GPU fans running loudly. [*]Yet the displayed graphics are so-so. Effects are OK. IMO not eye candy like Titanfall 2 or Death Stranding. About like SCFA, which runs fine @ 1440p for me. [*]no reclaim (brilliant feature of SCFA economy). [*]fog of war: I complain about this on every RTS, but it aggravated me more on Ashes than most. Unit visibility range is really short. Scouts are weak/vulnerable. When your last unit in the enemy midst dies, poof your view goes to a "heat map" (assuming you have radar). Then you can't even see the artillery that is savaging your forward units. Not my idea of fun. [*](subjective) A lot of the maps are just ugly IMO. Lots of browns and dark reds and near black. shrug: [*]two factions, pretty well balanced [*]tech tree is simpler than SCFA, but complex enough that I had all the head scratching and vexing trade-off decisions I wanted. [*]no navy. [*]no map spanning long range artillery. You could argue this makes the bigger maps more epic... [*]Skirmish vs. AI seems to work fine and there appears to be a pretty good variety of maps. I would have included this in the good list but at this point I've only played one skirmish match. [*]unit control: I complain about this on every RTS. In Ashes , the smaller land units are called frigates and cruisers. Maybe due to how they maneuver. I won't give details on the "AI", but overall it seems just as vexing as SCFA. [*]Before playing this game, I found little interest in the story or lore of any RTS game**. I didn't take much interest in this story either. [*]Tutorial missions are rushed/useless. Added after launch? Not deducting points since the early missions serve the purpose. **possible exception: [url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/38440/Sacrifice/]Sacrifice

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