Astral Ascent
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Playing now
112−70 vs. yesterday
All-time peak
2,409Nov 2023
| Published | Kind | Announcement | Build |
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| Major update | Free Weekend + New DLC (OUT NOW) + Major Free Update Hello everyone! ːtaurusSmirkː Free Weekend on Steam: May 14 to May 18 Astral Ascent is free to play on Steam until May 18th! ːbarbecuePogː If someone in your circle has been on the fence about the game, this is the window. The base game and all DLCs are also on sale during the event. If you want to grab everything at once, the complete bundle gets you an additional 10% off. Cherry on top? The g… | — | |
| Game update | Patch Notes - May 2026 - 2.6 ⭐ Changes inspired by our community! Major Features · New Prowess System: Signature Spell Prowesses have been reworked for all characters, ALL element-based (burn, freeze, poison, electric, neutral and their sub-effects except mana recovery, damage increase and critical rate) prowesses will not be available anymore - if you have a mid-run save from the previous version, you might encounter a bu… | — | |
| Community | First devlog is live! We just published our Devlog #01 on YouTube! Our goal with this new format is to take you behind the scenes and show you exactly what the dev team has been cooking. And trust me, today's menu is packed! Here is a sneak peek of what you'll find inside: Fallen Fates: An exclusive look at our pre-production, including early environment concepts and new enemy animations. Astral Ascent FREE Update:… | — | |
| Release | Roadmap update + New Hero Preview (Arven) We are thrilled to finally reveal the future of Astral Ascent with our official 2026 Roadmap! Since our 1.0 launch, we have been hard at work expanding the Astral Prison, adding new ways to fight the Zodiacs, and growing this incredible universe. That's countless escape attempts, thousands of Papa Yalee stories discovered, and millions of spells cast in the Garden. It’s been an incredible journ… | — | |
| Community | 🏮 Happy Lunar New Year! The Garden lights up & New Hero Reveal 🐎✨ Hello Wardens! The Lunar New Year is a moment of celebration shared by millions of people around the world, and we wanted to join in the festivities with all of you ! 🧧 We are sending a special thought to our incredible community in Asia and everyone celebrating this tradition today. Your passion and support since the beginning of Astral Ascent mean the world to us. ✨ A New Seasonal Atmosphere… | — | |
| Major update | 2.5 Update - The Ravenswatch Sentinel is live! Hello everyone! ːtaffyː First of all, we wish each and everyone of you an happy new year , may 2026 be a great year for you! ːmeltadaːOn our side 2025 was an amazing year! We announced our new game Fallen Fates , we kept making great updates for Astral Ascent including new DLCs and collabs with games we love : Children of Morta and Dead Cells . We improved the overall game experience and it end… | — | |
| Game update | Patch Notes - January 2026 - 2.5.2 ⭐ Changes inspired by our community! Major Features · Increased the number of Prowess choices from 3 to 4 · New Special Room: Added a new type of Special Room: the Hourglass of Dreams, featuring characters from the Ravenswatch Universe. The Sandman provides the player with the ability to upgrade the Gambits on their Spells using Quartz. · New Echo Tier: Vengeful Echoes: 5 New Echoes can be foun… | — | |
| Community | Astral Ascent x Ravenswatch update coming on Jan 19th! Worlds are colliding again! We are beyond thrilled to announce our upcoming collaboration with the incredible world of Ravenswatch , arriving next week! New Echoes The heroes of Reverie join the Garden to support the fight against the Master as 5 powerful new Echoes . We’ve always been fans of Passtech Games, and adding Ravenswatch to our list of collabs is another very nice milestone for us. N… | — | |
| Community | Celestial Haven DLC is live now! Hello everyone! :melhappy: Celestial Haven Charity DLC is out now! Complete patch-notes: 100% of our revenue of this DLC will go to charity for animals ! This update is special to us and more than ever, your support is greatly appreciated as all our revenues and the one from our partners MP2 Games (porting and distributing Astral Ascent on console) and Raccoon Business (distributing Astral Asce… | — | |
| Game update | Patch Notes - November 2025 - 2.4.0 ⭐ Changes inspired by our community! Major Features · The Save&Quit system has been adjusted, you can still save and quit at the beginning of a room but now if you have a crash it will automatically resume to the start of the room. · Companion Pets (Paid Charity DLC): 5 Pets with 8 colors on each and 12 effects to customize them who can follow you during your runs, celebrate your victories and… | — | |
| Community | Animals DLC coming on Nov 24th! Hello everyone! ːzimzimSmileː I am super happy to announce to you Astral Ascent new DLC : Celestial Haven Steam Page is live ! And it will be releasing .... this month ! On November 24th ! As always, wishlists help us for visibility and are very appreciated if you will to support us! Meet 5 adorable companions who are going to come with you during your runs: · Lupo are one of the rare animals f… | — | |
| Major update | Prison Renovation Update is Live! 🔨 Hello everyone, I hope you are having an excellent day ːzimzimSmileːBefore we jump into the new Update of Astral Ascent, a few word about our next project! Last hours to get next Astral Ascent hero DLC for free! Upcoming new hero DLC of Astral Ascent voiced by Ben Starr is offered for free to backers of our new game Kickstarter alongside a ton of unique elements like exclusive early access to b… | — | |
| Game update | Patch Notes - August 2025 - 2.3.0 ⭐ Changes inspired by our community! Major Features · New categories have been added to the Aura Collector for Frostbite and Poison (Effect). · community inspired ⭐ The Telluric Telescope may now be rerolled using Sun Pieces · 13 Alternative Exploration Rooms have been added to the game · community inspired ⭐ Weapon Passives at the Arsenal can now be purchased with Sun Pieces · The Loot Affinit… | — | |
| Community | New Hero DLC & New Game Hello everyone! We are so happy to announce our third game - Fallen Fates ! The game is now on Kickstarter and you can also wishlist it here ! We have planned a ton of physical and digital rewards with access to early builds and much more! But that's not all, we are extremely happy to announce that Astral Ascent will get a new hero DLC coming in 2026 from Fallen Fates that will be voiced by Ben… | — | |
| Major update | Update 2.2 is live now! Poetic Pandemonium update! We hope your summer is going great, on our side we are back with a new major update! ːzagplsː Take a look to the full Patch Notes below - Hub Customization A new NPC appeared in The Garden, The Yalee Builder! We hesitated for a long time to call this NPC "Leonardo Da Yalee" but thought it may not be fitting very well with the rest of the game, but at least you know it… | — | |
| Game update | Patch Notes - August 2025 - 2.2.3 ⭐ Changes inspired by our community! Major Features · Hub Decorations: New NPC in the hub allows you to unlock and create many different assets in the hub so you can customize it as you want : 84 decorations await! · New spells: 13 new spells have been added, including 2 each for Ayla, Kiran, Calie and Octave as well as 5 for Yamat! Ayla N360 Death Lotus Mana Cost: 2 Average Hits: 3 Average Dam… | — | |
| Game update | Patch Notes - June 2025 - 2.1.0 ⭐ Changes inspired by our community! Small Features · community inspired ⭐ Electrified Area from Magnetic Field Aura now has its own icon in the damage meter to differenciate it from Lightning Orb · community inspired ⭐ Multiple Fire shield Effects that are applied at the same time, such as by gambits on a spell, now all apply a burn pulse if Fire shield is already active. Balancing · Auras: Em… | — | |
| Major update | Update 2.1 is live now! Summer Barbecue Update! Summer is already hot super hot in France we have used Barbecue's flames to cook you a surprise an update with a lot balancing and bug fixing! ːtaffyː Take a look to the full Patch Notes below - We have fixed many bugs and balanced a lot of elements based on community feedback so we hope you will enjoy this new update to play during the summer! Update 2.2 preview! We are… | — | |
| Community | Celebration Giveaway! Hello everyone! ːzimzimSmileː Our new game Fallen Fates is coming to Kickstarter in September, in just 3 months! As we are self-publishing this new game too we are mostly relying on the Astral Ascent community to help us making it visible and noticed, in order to make it interesting we are making a big giveaway! You take a look at our campaign and in exchange you can get : · 1 Ayla Figure · 3 P… | — | |
| Community | Help to unlock a new hero DLC ! Hello everyone ːzimzimSmileː A NEW JOURNEY - FALLEN FATES We have an amazing news to share with all you today, a new game named Fallen Fates ! It is going to be by far our biggest game to date and if you love the fights, bosses, characters of Astral Ascent we are sure you will love what we are cooking with Fallen Fates ! Any share or wishlist of the game is greatly appreciated to help us get mo… | — | |
| Major update | Update 2.0 is live now! Hello everyone! ːzimzimSmileː Today is the day, exactly 4 years ago we finished our Kickstarter Campaign for Astral Ascent and today, after 6 months of work (we nearly doubled the game content, it takes time!), we finally release the 2.0 Update: The Outer Reaches which is by far the biggest update to the game so far, here is the trailer! We are happy we were able to support the game with so man… | — | |
| Game update | Patch Notes - April 2025 - 2.0.3 ⭐ Changes inspired by our community! Major Features · New Alternative Worlds (Paid DLC): 4 new worlds to explore 5 new musical tracks 16 new traps and elements 32 new enemies · Andromeda's Return (Paid DLC): Experience an exciting new battle Earn Andromeda's respect and the ability to summon her Witness Andromeda's Ending · New Intro Room: The First Room is now separated in 2 rooms to have a le… | — | |
| Community | Collector Physical Editions! Hello everyone! The Outer Reaches 2.0 releases in 24h from now and we hope you're as excited as we are for that! If you haven't already, make sure to wishlist the DLC to be notified when it's out! (and help us for visibility ːzagplsː) --- In the meantime we are super happy to announce a new DELUXE and COLLECTOR physical edition coming from Red Art Games , for PS5 and Nintendo Switch ! The DELUX… | — | |
| Community | 2.0 update - Mark the date! Hello everyone! ːzimzimSmileː We are coming to show you a bit more elements of the 2.0 Update - The Outer Reaches update and DLC, first of all thanks so much for being already more than 10.000 to have wishlisted this new DLC ! ːbarbecuePogː Wishlisting it helps us with visibility on Steam and you will of course receive a notification once it's out! Andromeda is getting ready Andromeda fight is… | — | |
| Major update | The Bergsons' Reinforcements update We are so happy to make updates including licences we love and inspire us and this time it's Children of Morta 's turn! We'd like to thanks once again Dead Mage and 11 bit studios for the opportunity! For more details you can check the 1.10 Patch Notes . 7 new Echoes from Children of Morta It's really great to be able to summon the Bergsons with 7 new echoes that complete the possible builds. ·… | — | |
| Game update | Patch Notes - February 2025 - 1.10.0 ⭐ Changes inspired by our community! Major Features · The Bergsons' Reinforcements: 7 new echoes from Children of Morta licence : - Apan's Magic Glyph - Joey's Smite - John's Heaven's Strike - Kevin's Fan of Knives - Linda's Explosive Crescendo - Lucy's Cyclone - Mark's Scourging Whip · Rerolls of Small Dragon Auras: You can now rerolls for Sun Pieces the starting auras of the Small Dragon · Vi… | — | |
| Major update | 2.0 DLC, New Roadmap, The Dead Cells Rendezvous Update The Dead Cells Rendezvous 1.9.0 is now live! -- youtube video Thanks again to Motion Twin for their trust, it has been an honor for us to work on Dead Cells which is a genre-defining game and an inspiration! Do not hesitate to check their new game Windblown , it is so fun to play and even more in co-op (up to 3 players)! Dead Cells content Discover 5 new weapons from Dead Cells : · Ayla: Throwi… | — |
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