The Ascent on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

The Ascent is a solo and co-op Action-shooter RPG set in a cyberpunk world. The mega corporation that owns you and everyone, The Ascent Group, has just collapsed. Can you survive without it?

The Ascent is a top-down shooter, cyberpunk and rpg game developed by Neon Giant and published by Curve Games.
Released on July 29th 2021 is available only on Windows in 10 languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese and Korean.

It has received 22,668 reviews of which 16,799 were positive and 5,869 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.3 out of 10. 😊

The game is currently priced at 29.99€ on Steam, but you can find it for 1.02€ on Instant Gaming.

The Steam community has classified The Ascent into these genres:

Top-Down Shooter Cyberpunk RPG Action Co-op Shooter Open World Indie Adventure Isometric Twin Stick Shooter Action RPG Violent Dystopian Gore Futuristic Character Customization Local Co-Op Split Screen PvE

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System 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: Windows 10 x64
Processor: Intel Core Intel Core i5-3470 (4 * 3200) or equivalent / AMD FX-8350 (4 * 4000) or equivalent
Memory: 8 GB RAM
Graphics: GeForce GTX 660 ( 2048 MB) / Radeon R9 390X (8192 MB)
Storage: 35 GB available space
Additional Notes: Minimum Specification listed above allows gameplay experience close to 30 FPS on average while using 1080p resolution and lowest settings

User reviews & Ratings

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March 2025

Excellent single player twin stick shooter. It has among other things, the best office shootout I have experienced. This game just does so much right. Even if the game did nothing else, it is still worth playing for the incredible (not exaggeration) level of detail of the environment. Fun to practice your skills in combat, hard to master, and always something new to enjoy. All the weapons I've tried yet have all feel good to at least practice with. Some weapon are tiers above the rest so you do end up using the more effective ones for the rest of your playthrough. Lots of perks and upgrades to play around with. Exploration and combat flow and complement each other. The voice acting great, story very engaging. The other stuff the game does are hard to notice since you are enjoying your experience. There not too many bugs, and none gamebraking. A few thing are annoying. Sometimes the game will start randomly spawning enemies just offscreen too much, something which takes away from the immersion. Some story mission involve very difficult holdout fights that require specific loadouts to win, something that you will be completely unprepared for, and that will require you to fail and fail until you figure things out. The quality of content and engaging story keep those little things from ruining your experience. Every time you try something new the game becomes something you take possession of. Also the game locked up my video card a couple times, but it might have been on me. Excellent, made by pros 9.5/10

Nov. 2024

- Main story is ok - Side quests are 95% fetch quests. - There's a lot of walking, even in an age where people have net-access. A LOT of walking. - Armour and weapons are ok. You'll stick to 1-2 guns for your whole playthrough, melee is pretty much an afterthought. - A lot of bugs. No widescreen support, you'll have to find a fix online or play super zoomed in. - Missing cut-scenes, spelling mistakes, unfinished entries. Feels uncooked. - Unplayable on a controller. The aiming is a jittery mess with little to no aim-assist (even at high). - Music is great. Good electro beats and "Ghost-in-the-shell-inspired" overtures. - Enviroments are some of the best I have seen in a cyberpunk game. A truly gritty cyberpunk universe, I almost feel this game would be better in first-person because of all the detail, grittiness and lighting. - Because of the above, some moments can feel quite cinematic. It has overall, good art direction. In short, a fun little Diablo-clone. With not a lot of depth, very few quality of life mechanics and a few bugs. The environments and atmosphere should be studied as they are very well done. Get it on a big discount for less than $10 imho.

Oct. 2024

A very good couch co-op game that you can play with a friend. I fell on some ice back two years ago and I could not walk for almost a week because I hurt the inside of my knee muscles and lower back. A friend came over to check on me every two days or so to make sure, I was eating and being able to care of basic needs. I bought and downloaded this game and we played it for almost eight hours straight the first night. We had no idea what kind of game it was, or the story, anything really. Just jumped into it. We had a lot of fun couch co-oping this game.

July 2024

This is a really fun game. If you're hoping to run it on Steam Deck, you're gonna be out of luck though even though Steam shows it as fully compatible. It'll lock up your Deck if you try to open it. So beware of that. Otherwise, definitely recommend. This game nails that Blade Runner aesthetic, and the music is great.

June 2024

Wow! + Visually incredible. So, so dense. Insane amount of detail and wizardry in making this world, especially from an isometric perspective, feel so vast. Those cyberpunk skylines, everything was just so busy. It truly felt like a great cyberpunk setting akin to CP2077. - Pretty boring characters, your main doesn't speak, I dunno everyone except for maybe Noghead was a bit of a one-note dullard really. The problem with painting everyone in a Cyberpunk world as depressed is it all gets a tad boring after a while. I wanted interesting unique characters. The only other one of interest was the star-crossed lovers from different corps romeo + juliet style sidequest. That was cool. + Really fun gunplay and augs. I tried a bunch over my time. + Appreciated the gunsmithing and transmog options. ~ Never once played it co-op or online. Single player only for me. Still worked! + Enjoyed the end-game DLC too. nice little send off. Overall, definitely worth it. B+

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