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Ascent DX
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.
All Reviews:
Positive (38) - 100% of the 38 user reviews for this game are positive.
Release Date:
Mar 26, 2025
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Publisher:
Apskeppet

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Single-player
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“Ascent DX is a wonderful showcase of how important good gameplay is and the fact that you don’t need ray tracing or the highest frame rate to have a strong gaming experience.”
4/5 – So Many Games

About This Game

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. 

FEATURES

  • 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

CREDITS

Design, code, & pixel art: Johan Peitz

Music & sfx: Brent Houston

Capsule art: Jon Nielsen 

System Requirements

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macOS
    Minimum:
    • OS: Windows 10
    • Processor: Intel Core i3
    • Memory: 1 GB RAM
    • Graphics: Integrated Graphics
    • Storage: 100 MB available space
    • Sound Card: Integrated Sound card
    Minimum:
    • OS: macOS 11 (Big Sur) or later
    • Processor: Any Intel or Apple Silicon processor
    • Memory: 1 GB RAM
    • Graphics: Integrated Graphics
    • Storage: 100 MB available space
    • Sound Card: Integrated Sound card
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