The Ascent is a solo and co-op action RPG set in a cyberpunk world. The mega corporation that owns you and everyone, The Ascent Group, has just collapsed. Confusion and chaos ensue, security and order are in disarray, and without protection, everyone is left to fend for themselves. Stop gangs and hostile corporations from taking over and discover what really happened. Welcome to The Ascent Group arcology, a self-contained corporate-run metropolis, stretching high into the sky and filled with creatures from all over the galaxy. You play as a worker, enslaved by the company that owns you and everyone else in your district. One day, whilst sent on a routine assignment to make use of your skills with a cyberdeck, you are suddenly caught in a vortex of catastrophic events. The Ascent Group, the largest mega corporation on the planet, shuts down for unknown reasons, causing the automated security systems to go haywire. The survival of your district is threatened: rival corporations are trying to force appropriation and crime syndicates are looking to boost their black-market augmentation trade. You must take up arms to stop them from seizing control and embark on a new mission to find out what started it all. You belong to the corporation. Can you survive without it?
ShooterRole-playing (RPG)AdventureIndieActionScience fictionOpen worldcyberpunkdystopianpreviously on - utomikXbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5, Xbox One
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Contemporary, grave, earnest and classical in form.
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- Platforms
- Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5, Xbox One
- Developer
- Neon Giant
- Publisher
- Krafton, Curve Digital
- Released
- July 29, 2021
- Modes
- Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative
- Perspective
- Bird view / Isometric
- Engine
- Unreal Engine 4
- Time to beat
- 21 h completionist
IGDB rating 7.2/10 from 98 ratings.
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