Be part of our community by joining our dedicated Discord server!Astral Ascent is a 2D platformer rogue-lite set in a modern fantasy world. As one of 4 Heroes with very different personalities, you must escape from the Garden, an astral prison guarded by 12 powerful and vicious bosses, the Zodiacs.
FIGHT YOUR WAY
Unlock dozens of unique spells for your 4 distinct characters. Optimize your own build or try out a new one to take down 12 powerful bosses. Get stronger with time to match up with your foes. Each run will test your skills and your reactivity.DON'T GO ALONE
The weight of destiny is too heavy to carry by yourself? Don’t worry and bring a friend to play in our two player co-op mode. Fight and crush your enemies together in local co-op or online using the Steam's Remote Play Together feature.AN ASTRAL THREAT
The Zodiacs are 12 experienced guardians dispatched over 4 gorgeous worlds. They’ll bring to the battlefield unique attacks, abilities, and patterns, backstories to uncover, and reasons to be fighting you. Get yourself warned!NARRATION THROUGH REPLAYABILITY
Astral Ascent is a rogue-lite infused with narration. Replayability is part of our story which will be unravelled piece of piece. As you get stronger, you will discover more about the characters, their motivations, and the secrets of the world they’re trapped in.A BEAUTIFUL MODERN FANTASY WORLD
Dash across gigantic landscapes. Explore original and hand-crafted areas. Discover the world created by our artists, with a gorgeous art and frame-by-frame animation.4 PLAYABLE CHARACTERS
Unique characters. Unique weapons. Unique ways to play.- Ayla: The sole survivor of her guild of assassins, she uses her twin daggers to eliminate her enemies before they can react. Her speed and profenciency are unmatched.
- Kiran: This orphan learned life the hard way. He uses his strength to deliver attacks powerful enough to create shockwaves. Brutal.
- Calie: This talented sculptor wants her freedom back. She will use her magical gemstones to pierce enemy defenses and shred them to bits. She is unforgiving.
- Octave: Trained by a powerful witch, this young fighter summons ethereal guns to attack his foes. When needed, he can conjure bigger weapons as well. Lethal in all cases.
A COALITION FOR HOPE
You can count on faithful allies to help you find your way out- The Merchant: This mysterious figure has the power to unveil your true potential through rememoring forgotten skills. Careful… it won’t be free.
- Zim-Zim: Her greenhouse hides magical plants which can increase your abilities. If you can bear her whimiscal and frankly immature behavior.
- Oloon: The best stylist in the known universe is right here and available. Want to change the color of your clothes? Dye your hair? She has everything you need!
- Papa Yalee: This old cat—he is almost 20!—will always have a good story about the foes you’ll encounter and your runs. The good news is that… most of them are true.
- Sova: Once a powerful sorceress, Sova was cursed and must now serve the Garden. Her past is a burden of shame she carries in silence.
- Ordan: De facto leader of the Garden, this fierce warrior helps the Heroes in their quest. Her might is legendary.
- Ikki: Ordan’s ex-husband and a powerful warrior on his own, he is in charge of training Heroes. His knowledge of the art of war is endless.
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Hello everyone! taffy
\nFirst of all, we wish each and everyone of you an happy new year, may 2026 be a great year for you! meltadaOn our side 2025 was an amazing year! We announced our https://store.steampowered.com/app/3276270/Fallen_Fates/\"" style="color:#bb86fc;text-decoration:none;">new game Fallen Fates , we kept making great updates for Astral Ascent including new DLCs and collabs with games we love : https://store.steampowered.com/app/330020/Children_of_Morta/\"" style="color:#bb86fc;text-decoration:none;">Children of Morta and https://store.steampowered.com/app/588650/Dead_Cells/\"" style="color:#bb86fc;text-decoration:none;">Dead Cells .
We improved the overall game experience and it ended up being our best selling year for Astral Ascent, so thank you all so much for your trust in us and we are super motivated to keep bringing new updates and improve the game in 2026 starting today with the release of Update 2.5 : The Ravenswatch Sentinel, our 16th major update for Astral Ascent! \n
Before jumping into the content of this update and what comes next, we wanted to let you know about Ravenswatch if you don\'t know about it! \n\n[dynamiclink href=\"https://store.steampowered.com/app/2071280/Ravenswatch/\"][/dynamiclink]They have an amazing set of characters, you can play it in co-op, it plays and feels amazing! They are also french developers and seeing how much they care about their game made us want to make a collab with them and we are so happy they accepted melhappy
When we announced this collab, someone from the community made this comment :\n
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We could not agree more, they have been making great updates, great content and today they just released a new playable character : Merlin!\n\nDon\'t hesitate to check their game if you haven\'t already zagplsWe even have a bundle with them ! \n\n[dynamiclink href=\"https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/63863\"][/dynamiclink]\nLet\'s get back to Astral Ascent update!\n\nYou can find full Patch Notes here - \n[dynamiclink href=\"https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1280930/view/505099282921032449\"][/dynamiclink]
[hr][/hr]New Room : The Hourglass of Dreams
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Inspired by the world of Reverie, the Sandman will allow you to upgrade your gambits rarity level for Quartz.
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We think it wasn\'t fun to refresh many times the Itinerant Merchant at Andromeda\'s Bar to find higher gambits to improve your builds so we came up with this idea of being able to use your quartz but to increase gambits you already have so taking a common Gambit can be useful and you can level it up later!\n\n[img src=\"https://cdn.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/37710613/40549d46ddc524e235a82538c537fb3989d7509e.jpg\"][/img]
It can also make your negative gambits become positive gambits!
[hr][/hr]New Echoes : The Vengeful Echoes
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You can take 1 of these echoes when you visit the Hourglass of Dreams room, they are stronger than regular echoes and can only be found there. They are strong but they require a sacrifice, you need to sacrifice an Echo you already have in order to get one of them.
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We think it\'s a great thing because if you have an echo made for a build you dont want you can exchange it for an echo that will work for your build as the 5 new echoes conver all the builds elements!
[hr][/hr]Improved onboarding
You may have noticed we had a delay on our announced 2.5 update which was supposed to be about improved onboarding and Ravenswatch collab was supposed to be 2.6 but the delays made us merge both updates in today\'s update and we could not do all the improvements for onboarding we had in mind we still made some of them!
The onboarding changes are there because you are so many telling us Astral Ascent has a lot of depth and is great to play but it also has a lot of mechanics to learn when starting the game and we hope new players can learn these mechanics more progressively to not feel overwhelmed!\n
The number of Prowess choices has been increased from 3 to 4 (or from 2 to 3 with DL debuff)
[/*]The Prowess Statues now are unlocked over time to not give overwhelming informations from the start.
[/*]Imprints and blueprint spawn appear later in the game experience
[/*]Added hints about the currencies
[/*]The Star Guardians has been separated in 3 difficulty tiers:
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\"Easy\" ones
- Pegasus
- Lupus
\"Medium\" ones
- Hydra
- Draco
\"Hard\" ones
- Monoceros
- Sculptor
Now you\'ll have to defeat 2 times Easy bosses (any) to unlock Medium ones, and defeat 2 times Medium ones (any) to unlock Hard ones. This change has been made to balance more the difficulty of the Star Guardian for new players.
[hr][/hr]A word about the Charity DLC
Thanks so much to everyone for the reception of the Charity DLC :
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We have sold more than 8700 units of the DLC and we will be donating soon to the association what we collected in 2025 and doing the same every year! \n\nThough we don\'t want to discount this DLC because it all goes to charity we added it to the bundle of game + DLCs so you can have a 10% off from it if it\'s the only DLC you are missing!\n\n[dynamiclink href=\"https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/53467/Game__DLC_1__DLC_2__DLC_3/\"][/dynamiclink]
[hr][/hr]\nWhat is coming next?
Next update is supposed to be the Steam Workshop, we started working on several very cool features including sprites replacement, level design editor and more but it suffers several delays out of our control so we have to reorganize our schedule about it but don\'t worry we are already working on new content including Arven new playable character, the boss rush and more!\n\nWe also have many ideas to improve the run experiences and make the game even funnier!
One of our biggest surprise for Astral Ascent is also coming in 2026, something that has been in the work for more than a year now and it\'s so hard to keep the secret but 2026 is the year of the reveal so stay tuned for that!
\nTo sum things up : a lot is coming, thanks so much for sticking with us, have a great time ingame and have an excellent week zagpls\n
-The Hibernian Workshop Team
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