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Ascendance

Ascendance is a real-time space strategy game that sees you lead your civilisation into a vast and mysterious galaxy. Experience an immersive journey with detailed civilisations, deeply-simulated economies, internal politics, nuanced diplomacy, and intense space battles.

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Release Date:

2025

Developer:

Torchdrive

Publisher:

Torchdrive

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Coming Soon To Early Access

The developers of this game intend to release as a work in progress, developing with the feedback of players.

Note: Games in Early Access are not complete and may or may not change further. If you are not excited to play this game in its current state, then you should wait to see if the game progresses further in development. Learn more

What the developers have to say:

Why Early Access?

“Early Access is great for allowing a period of final development alongside player feedback to help make it as enjoyable and intuitive as possible. This period will see the adjustment of mechanics, the addition of content, and the refinement of the user interface, controls, graphics, and sound.”

Approximately how long will this game be in Early Access?

“The game is expected to be in Early Access for 1-2 years. This is to allow time to refine the game, add content, and consider valuable feedback before a full release.”

How is the full version planned to differ from the Early Access version?

“The current Early Access version contains most of the core game-play intended for the full version, but the goal is to greatly expand and refine it. This includes improvements such as adding nuance to diplomacy, expanding the scope of the political system to encompass everything in the civilisation, ensuring the geopolitical and military AI are challenging and interesting, expanding the technology tree and creating various technological eras to suit different game experiences.

The full version is intended to also feature:
- Allowing the player to play as a corporation or ship captain.
- Species and civilisation customisation.
- A ship designer.
- Adding numerous starting scenarios to greatly vary the experience game-to-game.
- Provide modding tools and support for the Steam Workshop.
- Graphical and audio improvements.
- Improved accessibility and in-game information.”

What is the current state of the Early Access version?

“The current state of the Early Access version provides all fundamental game-play for playing as the government of a nation. This includes exploration, colonisation, research, management of finances and government services, a functional military, political system, diplomacy, population simulation, the economy, and tactical ship combat.

There are various planned features that aren't yet included, such as civilisation customisation, modding tools, workshop support, multiple starting scenarios, and playing as a corporations or a ship captain.”

Will the game be priced differently during and after Early Access?

“The price will rise during the Early Access period or at the end of it to reflect improvement and expansion of the game.”

How are you planning on involving the Community in your development process?

“Two-way communication with the community will be an ongoing priority for the game's life-cycle. Players will be able to provide feedback, ideas, and report any technical issues via the game's Steam forum, Discord, Twitter, and YouTube.

The game's development is dynamic and we will actively consider feedback and ideas from the community to improve the game. Technical issues are best reported via Discord or the Steam forum and will be prioritised.

There's particular focus on making the game as accessible as possible, avoiding tedious game-play, and maximising customisation and strategic options, all of which are dependent on community feedback.”

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Planned Release Date: 2025

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About This Game

Ascendance is a real-time strategy game that puts you in command of a space-faring civilisation in a blend of RTS, 4X, and grand strategy gameplay. Traverse a vast and seamless galaxy, delve into a rich civilisation simulation, and engage in intense real-time space battles.

Civilisations are complex and detailed, with sprawling governments, powerful militaries, exploratory space agencies, ruthless corporations, and engaging political systems – all driven by a multitude of characters. A civilisation is the sum of all of these parts, yet with all of their agendas they also may hinder your goals or even threaten unity of the civilisation itself!

Your role is to guide your civilisation as it explores and expands into the cosmos, and if necessary, shield it from threats both external and from within.

SHIP COMBAT

Lead your fleets using real-time strategy mechanics in dynamic, physics-based combat that emphasises sensors, tactical positioning, engagement ranges, and ship designs. Weapons accurately track targets with predictive aiming, and every projectile is individually simulated. Location-based damage can disable ship systems and weapons, and the danger of any single hit makes for intense combat.

HUGE GALAXIES

Embark on a cosmic odyssey across thousands of star systems, each providing numerous planets and moons to explore and colonise. Along your journey you may discover other civilisations, some far more ancient, and some yet to take the leap into space. If you'd prefer a more intimate game, you can also play in a single star system, as systems can feature dozens of planets, moons, and thousands of asteroids - perfect for a slower-than-light only game!

DEEP ECONOMY

Oversee a deep economic simulation driven by supply and demand, featuring location-based production and consumption, busy market exchanges, and numerous freighters delivering the many resources and goods where needed. Factories within colonies, mines, and certain types of stations may all produce resources and goods, all owned by organisations and employing local workers.

INTERNAL POLITICS

Navigate the ever-shifting dynamics of political parties, influential individuals, vested business interests, and the opinion of the masses, all ardently pursuing their own agendas. Strive to strike a delicate balance, wielding your influence to command the legislative assembly, enact laws that align with your vision, or shape public opinion to your advantage during pivotal elections. For those who dare, the path to authoritarian rule beckons, as you gradually centralise power under your firm control.

OPTIONS GALORE

Scenarios, highly customisable game settings, and planned modding support will all allow the player to customise the game to how they want to play. Galaxies can be abundant with life and civilisations, or empty, civilisations can start united or fractured into multiple nations, faster-than-light travel can be adjusted or disabled completely, you can play in a single star system or a massive galaxy. The choice is yours!

ACCESSIBILITY

The game will be deep but is aimed to be as accessible as possible, with great attention paid to making mechanics intuitive, and presenting a clean UI for the player.

FEATURES

A massive game world, whether it be a single star system, or a galaxy of thousands of star systems.
The ability to play as a government, corporation, or a ship captain.
Complex civilisations made of governments, corporations, militaries, space agencies, and characters.
Deep economic and political simulation, including legislative votes, public elections, physical goods being produced and transported where needed.
Nuanced diplomacy, allowing cold wars, limited wars, complex trade deals, and spheres of influence.
Bring mystery back to space!
In-depth ship combat with physically-simulated weapons and projectiles, ship systems, and damage modelling.
Highly customisable to create different types of play-throughs, such interplanetary or interstellar starts, starting as a united civilisation or just one of multiple nations, technology limitations such as no faster-than-light, starting in an empty galaxy or one with many expansive empires.
An emphasis on accessibility, designed to be picked up and played, with automation and clean UI.
Strong modding support.

System Requirements

Minimum:

OS: Windows® 10 Home 64 Bit
Processor: Intel® iCore™ i3 or AMD® Ryzen™ 3
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: NVidia GTX 1650 equivalent or better
DirectX: Version 11
Network: Broadband Internet connection
Storage: 10 GB available space
Sound Card: Direct X 11 compatible sound card

Recommended:

OS: Windows® 10 Home 64 Bit
Processor: Intel® iCore™ i5 or AMD® Ryzen™ 5
Memory: 8 GB RAM
Graphics: NVidia GTX 3060 or AMD 6600xt equivalent or better
DirectX: Version 11
Network: Broadband Internet connection
Storage: 10 GB available space
Sound Card: Direct X 11 compatible sound card

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