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Crashed on a desolate but mysterious planet you find yourself eye to eye with an ancient civilisation.
Released 26 Mar 2025
Crashed on a desolate but mysterious planet you find yourself eye to eye with an ancient civilisation. Explore the planet, find powerful upgrades, and fulfill your destiny.
Developed by Johan Peitz, Vav · Published by Apskeppet
Ascent DX has about 312 positive and 3 negative player reviews out of a total 315. We'll add a detailed breakdown here when there are more reviews.
Ascent DX is a tiny metroidvania brought to life in glorious 64 x 64 pixel art and soothing chiptune music. Crashed on an unknown planet you have to explore lush jungles, lifeless deserts, and luminescent caves in search of anything that can help you understand what has happened to the planet and how to get off it.
While the game is a bigger version of the original Ascent, with almost twice as many locations to explore, it is still quite a short game. With the same celebrated gameplay and atmosphere, the DX versions also brings more items to find, more platforming puzzles, and more lore to uncover.
A world brought to life by tiny but expressive pixel art
Explore the planet's many biomes in your own pace and direction
Find new powers and abilities that help you on your way
Uncover the fate of the planet as well as your own
Different endings based on how much was discovered
Design, code, & pixel art: Johan Peitz
Music & sfx: Brent Houston
Capsule art: Jon Nielsen
| Platforms | Windows, macOS |
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| Controller support | Xbox |
| Controller required | No |
| Website | Official website |
