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Ascension
Developer Element Game 微元游戏
In this cultivation 4X strategy game, your sect has been in peril, and so they open a portal—sending you, a young disciple and their last hope, inside. Stand tall as the new sect leader and guide disciples to rebuild what was lost. Sharpen your focus, master alchemy, and ascend to immortality. From the Steam store page
150 reactions from 4 sources (Bluesky, Steam reviews, Lemmy, Mastodon) · newest Nov 4, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
85
LovedLoved
28 positive · 5 negative
95% range 69–93%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bluesky * | 12 | 7 | 86 |
| Steam reviews | 28 | 5 | 0 |
| Lemmy * | 0 | 0 | 8 |
| Mastodon * | 2 | 0 | 2 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Very Positive
52 of 62 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
82% recommend · 40 yes, 9 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 49 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Mixed (1,629 of 2,707 positive).
Players praise the game's unique blend of 4X strategy and xianxia cultivation. [1][2][3] Some reviewers find the mid-to-late game lacking content and polish. [4][5][6]
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- [5]
First off, there's an unofficial English patch. Makes the game playable if you don't understand Chinese but it does have some issues. And now about the game itself - the idea of 4X cultivation game does sound cool, but this game currently barebones in this aspect. It does have a foundation for everything, but nothing is really at the state of being good. Apart from those two points (but can you even consider the …
- [1]
Pros: - The game has improved massively since release. At launch, mid-game turns took 2+ minutes — now they take about 10–15 seconds. - For a first playthrough, there’s a ton to do and discover. If you enjoy Civ-like 4X strategy and the xianxia genre, this is right up your alley. - Easily 30+ hours of immersive gameplay building your sect, exploring, and cultivating. - Unique systems like alchemy, sect management, …
- [3]
It's everything I imagined a 4X cultivation game to be! Highly recommend if you enjoy games like Age of Wonders 4, Fallen Enchantress, or even Mount and Blade! It's far more laid back than those games, though, and I highly recommend you be well-read in the xianxia genre to make sense of certain game mechanics. The auto-translation mod works pretty well, though there are some odd instances of words being translated …
- [11]
Kinda like a blend between heroes of might and magic, age of wonders and endless legend. Has some flaws but pretty happy with it so far for it being an early access game. Courtesy of a fan made english patch have a pretty decent idea of how most things work as well! Edit; on big maps performance suffers immensely. Overall thr bones are there, just a lot of optimization need to be done. I have played the game through …
- [2]
Game is very interesting 4X grand strategy. Imagine Civilization+Cultivation where you manage your Immortal Sect compete for victory with rival sects. Cultivation Path: Your sect can focus on sword, martial, alchemy, weapon refinement, spell of 5 elements of Fire, Water, Wood, Earth, Metal and etc. You can also unlock/research new cultivation manuals. Personal talent play a very important roll on how fast/high that …
Summarised from 34 of the 129 public posts collected about this game; every point cites the posts behind it ([n] opens the post) and the split is counted from the posts’ own ratings. Updated Oct 12, 2026. How summaries are made
RottenBot@rottenbot · automated account
Players who liked Ascension talk about unique fusion of 4X and cultivation genres; those who didn't talk about poor performance in mid-to-late game. Which matters more to you?
Reactions
60 of 150 · most liked firstWith Ascension coming out Wilds has a real chance to be game of the decade! There’s just one thing they need to add…
neutral · AI labelView post →I think I can finally share this one now that it’s been revealed! Had the pleasure of doing the cover art for the Well of Ascension Expansion of the Mistborn Deckbuilding Game! Loved working on this one. ADs: @mattdemino.bsky.social and @johnnyoneal.bsky.social #mistborn #cosmere
neutral · AI labelView post →whoever on the SH fandom wiki was recapping the horrible, bizarre, non-game soap opera Silent Hill Ascension... ran out of steam near the end lol. i get it. go live your life. you don't need to do this
neutral · AI labelView post →I got to work on the cover for Fallen Tear: The Ascension this year. Please look forward to the game!
neutral · AI labelView post →Lunar Stag Another one of my favorites from the batch! Done for Ascension game. #rodart
neutral · AI labelView post →In 2012 I won Game Day Dark Ascension at my local game store with mono red burn. #champio
neutral · AI labelView post →World of Darkness is a fun cluster of TTRPG games because i can say "i am not nearly high enough to run a game of Mage the Ascension" and also say "i am not nearly high enough to run a game of Changeling: the Dreaming" and both are true but both are also completely different kinds of high
neutral · AI labelView post →Fluid Realities is a minimalist game about the secret war between modern mages in a 90's gothic-punk world. This is an homage to the classic Mage: The Ascension using the rules of John Harper's Lasers & Feelings. ⬇️
neutral · AI labelView post →youtu.be/FqSFOBOYU1Y?... MAGE THE ASCENSION NATION! Episode 2 of our Actual Play series, the Norfolk Wizard Game, is out now on youtube! Come and witness an ape be thrown across traffic! Marvel at the biases of an old stage magician! Be amazed at our frequent ADHD stunlocks! ALL THIS AND MORE AWAIT!
neutral · AI labelView post →Game day with some DBD then Mage Ascension
neutral · AI labelView post →My memory is hazy but I believe that one of the things that horked the release of Ultima: Ascension is that one of the major chipmakers updated their drivers something like 3 weeks after the game shipped, and that completely broke the game. Apparently we were depending on some of those bugs!
neutral · AI labelView post →Plant gathering gone wrong featuring Haiden and Sol from Dreadlord Ascension 🍑🍆 Picture was drawn by @thymrpenguin.bsky.social for the game.
neutral · AI labelView post →The one place I would not have expected a random Mage: the Ascension reference and yet in retrospect what other game were they gonna play. MtA is probably one of the more optimistic games, if you run it a certain way. .... Dear Lord they played the Technocracy as the good guys, didn't they.
neutral · AI labelView post →Muse of Rebirth That one is a bit older, but I still like it. Dumb me, forgot to post it before. Another one for Ascension game.
neutral · AI labelView post →crimson desert is proof that if you put enough Games in your Game, and enough of those games are built for and by a sicko, you will reach a stage of Game Ascension where everything makes sense again
neutral · AI labelView post →Ascension for billionaires. once you reach a billion you lose all your money and have to start over. new game+
neutral · AI labelView post →Some days my brain just ends up coming back to the lightning in a bottle which was Mage: the Ascension. It was an impossible game, truly terrible and wonderful, emergent in a way that feels like it could never have been entirely deliberate in its construction.
neutral · AI labelView post →Woke up briefly from a dream where I was in a cod zombies map. Like actually in it not just playing a video game. So that was neat and kinda stressful. The map looked like a combo of Ascension and Moon but it was a space station.
neutral · AI labelView post →Somehow passed 1K followers; as is tradition, I must make a game free. In a Mirror Brightly is a game about fighting the power in 199X with sex, hex, and tech. Inspired by The Invisibles, Mage: The Ascension, and The Matrix. Amazing layout by @snaxwell.bsky.social. erinking.itch.io/in-a-mirror-...
neutral · AI labelView post →Mage: The Ascension is such a weird game, because it's *full* of ideas that are way, way, way, waaaayyy cooler than the weird, racist hippies who actually created it. It's… like… all this unrealized potential. A game that's, like, a metaphor for social constructs and the way they present…
neutral · AI labelView post →so I've been playing this fun little game called Dreadlord Ascension
neutral · AI labelView post →Currently playing a lovely game from 2011 called El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron.
neutral · AI labelView post →My next game: God Of War Ascension! After Chains of Olympus & Ghost of Sparta, I did a small detour from my GOW mini-thon with Ace Attorney but now BACK ON THIS BULLSHIT (respectfully). All I know is that its a prequel & its regarded as the "worst" God of War? Time to play it & find out 👀
neutral · AI labelView post →If you see this, post a monster Some monsters that I did for Ascension Deckbuilding game, including the legendary...Beezlepug 🐶!
neutral · AI labelView post →Pros: - The game has improved massively since release. At launch, mid-game turns took 2+ minutes — now they take about 10–15 seconds. - For a first playthrough, there’s a ton to do and discover. If you enjoy Civ-like 4X strategy and the xianxia genre, this is right up your alley. - Easily 30+ hours of immersive gameplay building your sect, exploring, and cultivating. - Unique systems like alchemy, sect management, artifact forging, and disciples make the world feel alive. - The art and…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Ppl out here really saying Silent Hill Short Message is the worst Silent Hill game when Ascension exists It's so bad that I totally forgot that I was the narrator for the game tutorial until someone in chat pointed out that it's written in my IMDB
neutral · AI labelView post →My brother says "thank you" for Ascension. A game good enough to get 40+ year olds to hang out every few weeks is worth so much.
neutral · AI labelView post →GOT TO THE LITERAL THIRD FLOOR BOSS AND THE GAME SCREWED ME WITH DRAW OUGHHHHHHHH IM SO MAD ALMOST BEAT FIFTH ASCENSION
neutral · AI labelView post →Preorders open now! Good Smile Company Fate/Grand Order Saber/Okita Souji: Final Ascension Ver. From the hit mobile game "Fate/Grand Order" comes a scale figure of the Saber Class servant Okita Souji in her Final Ascension outfit. Preorder: https://goodsmile.link/f8fDKZ #goodsmile
neutral · AI labelView post →villain from my motw game #ocsky #ttrpgsky #ttrpbrioc #artsky #ascension
neutral · AI labelView post →Jusr finished all the God of War games pre-Ascension, so now it's the time to go back to my comfort game *boots RE4 for the 100th time*
neutral · AI labelView post →Someone asked me if Mage: The Ascension was a good game. But I wasn't awake yet.
neutral · AI labelView post →🎮 God of War: Ascension There's chapters where you're freeing 3 colossal snakes and maaaaaaaaan, say what you will about this game but this part was dope af. Doing battles on them and keeping up with them - I miss this kind of God of War 😭💜 So fun!
positive · AI labelView post →Finished Ascension 1 on each character and unlocked all the epochs in the game so far, so now I can finally start actually playing StS2
positive · AI labelView post →RPCS3: Major Improvements (Summer 2026). "In today's showcase, we have compiled some of the most notable improvements we've had this summer! Featuring some of the most popular games such as, Twisted Metal, LittleBigPlanet, inFamous, God of War 3/Ascension and added numerous new features to the emulator!"
neutral · AI labelView post →For Random Game Saturday, I have one of the worst video game purchases I ever made: Ultima IX Ascension in the special Dragon Edition. That box is ginormous, maybe half a meter tall. The game it came with was a disaster.
negative · AI labelView post →Y'all are asking if this is a Jesus game. Here's the Ascension DLC I guess... 🙄 #indiegame #gaming #videogame #indiedev #gamedev
neutral · AI labelView post →TTRPG about me First game: Star Frontiers Latest game: RQG Longest game: Shadowrun Favorite game: FATE Favorite mechanics: FATE Favorite setting: RQG/Mage the Ascension Favorite art: Planescape/RQG
neutral · AI labelView post →We’re doing an open beta for Ruya: Ascension and would love to get some feedback from people on the game so far 💜 @itch.io link: miracle-tea.itch.io/ruya-ascension iOS TestFlight link (limited to 100): testflight.apple.com/join/KTwvM4vx #indiedev #ruya #gamedev
neutral · AI labelView post →Fallen Tear: The Ascension, a beautifully animated metroidvania from a dev team based in the Philippines, is out now on PC (consoles coming in 2027). This has been a highly anticipated game and had a pretty positive Early Access. Strangely I can't find any reviews, but I would chalk that up to a lack of media-savvy rather than hiding from the press. >A story-driven Metroidvania where the allies you choose to bond with change how you fight and explore. Journey through the high-fantasy world of…
neutral · AI labelView post →i would love for this to be english
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →"5 Lessons Learned from 15 Years of Ascension" is an excellent read for game designers. 🎲✂️ boardgamegeek.com/blog/1/blogp...
neutral · AI labelView post →Game is very interesting 4X grand strategy. Imagine Civilization+Cultivation where you manage your Immortal Sect compete for victory with rival sects. Cultivation Path: Your sect can focus on sword, martial, alchemy, weapon refinement, spell of 5 elements of Fire, Water, Wood, Earth, Metal and etc. You can also unlock/research new cultivation manuals. Personal talent play a very important roll on how fast/high that member can cultivate to Immortality. Cultivator will cultivate slower as they…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →There's your Mage the Ascension game lmao.
neutral · AI labelView post →Ascension (4/24) Cosmic horror card game project #illustration #digitalart #games
neutral · AI labelView post →First off, there's an unofficial English patch. Makes the game playable if you don't understand Chinese but it does have some issues. And now about the game itself - the idea of 4X cultivation game does sound cool, but this game currently barebones in this aspect. It does have a foundation for everything, but nothing is really at the state of being good. Apart from those two points (but can you even consider the ideas good points..?) I cannot really say anything good about the game.…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Damn, looking for my posts this year, I really need to get back into doing some news for Dreadlord Ascension lol. In any case, we're still very much active developping the game and releasing new updates. Currently we're working on Itsuki's update which should come out next month!
neutral · AI labelView post →It's a good solid Xianxia CIV game, it has a good core but still needs some more time to cook, give it a few months I would say before buying it.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Winning at the flag game there, Ascension Island.
neutral · AI labelView post →The party for the Mage: The Ascension game I'm running.
neutral · AI labelView post →Fallen Tear: The Ascension Review - LadiesGamers. Fallen Tear: The Ascension is a huge adventure with stunning hand-drawn visuals, and companion abilities that shape how you explore.
neutral · AI labelView post →Trevor Lawrence Ascension Game
neutral · AI labelView post →I just completed #Mechwarrior5: Ashes and Ascension . This has to be one of my favorite DLC's for the game. The story gripped me, the cut-scenes were great, and if we don't get another DLC, it has a satisfying ending. Some great new mechs and some difficult missions. #Battletech
positive · AI labelView post →Ascension 10 on the Silent! This game makes me so happy
positive · AI labelView post →Recent Full Release: Fallen Tear: The Ascension Genre: 2D Action Platformer Metroidvania Wishlist: store.steampowered.com/app/1446900/... An exceptionally beautiful game that adds Adventure and RPG elements, making the playthrough much more engaging. #IndieGames #IndieGaming #IndieGame
neutral · AI labelView post →The unsurprising second place game is Unknown Armies, which some wag on Reddit once described as "UA is like Mage: the Ascension mixed with a really reprehensible episode of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia"
neutral · AI labelView post →Fallen Tear: The Ascension, a beautifully animated metroidvania from a dev team based in the Philippines, is coming out of Early Access on PC on September 23 (consoles later). **UPDATE: Just got pushed back from Sep 16 to Sep 23** > A story-driven Metroidvania where the allies you choose to bond with change how you fight and explore. Journey through the high-fantasy world of Raoah, uncover lost civilizations, and forge bonds that shape your path through a land on the brink of collapse. 🌐…
neutral · AI labelView post →It's everything I imagined a 4X cultivation game to be! Highly recommend if you enjoy games like Age of Wonders 4, Fallen Enchantress, or even Mount and Blade! It's far more laid back than those games, though, and I highly recommend you be well-read in the xianxia genre to make sense of certain game mechanics. The auto-translation mod works pretty well, though there are some odd instances of words being translated differently on some screens. It is Early Access, however, so take that into…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I'm actually running a Mage: The Ascension game for my husband, sons, and a couple of friends!
neutral · AI labelView post →the only good use of Roko's Basilisk is that time William SRD turned it into a really cool example antagonist for a game of Mage: the Ascension
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