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Ascent - The Space Game cover art

Ascent - The Space Game

Fluffy Kitten Studios · 2016-04-11

Steam

IndieMassively MultiplayerSimulationStrategy

Modes: Multiplayer, Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO)

Releases: Apr 11, 2016 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Ascent is a PVE sandbox space MMO with 270 BILLION star systems and an emphasis on strong Sci Fi. It encourages Exploration, Colonization, Research, Asteroid mining, Farming, Trading, and Combat. Outside the tutorial sector, everything in-game has been built by players.

0
playing now
68%
positive of 339 reviews
Mixed
steam rating
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
60/100
IGDB user rating (0 ratings)
$19.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 12:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 42% of 17,990 Indie games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 8.5k–20k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 339 total reviews — how this is computed.

Players online

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Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$19.99$9.992015-02-272019-10-162015-02-27 — best price $17.992015-03-06 — best price $19.992015-06-11 — best price $15.992015-06-22 — best price $19.992015-09-28 — best price $13.992015-10-05 — best price $19.992015-11-30 — best price $15.992015-12-07 — best price $19.992016-02-05 — best price $15.992016-02-12 — best price $19.992016-04-12 — best price $17.992016-04-18 — best price $19.992016-06-13 — best price $14.992016-06-20 — best price $19.992016-08-15 — best price $14.992016-08-22 — best price $19.992016-10-17 — best price $14.992016-10-24 — best price $19.992017-05-01 — best price $9.992017-05-08 — best price $19.992018-02-15 — best price $13.392018-02-19 — best price $19.992019-08-29 — best price $14.992019-09-01 — best price $19.992019-10-13 — best price $14.992019-10-16 — best price $19.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsMulti-playerMMOPartial Controller SupportFamily Sharing4 DLC

Player tags

IndieSpaceSci-fiScienceStrategySimulationEarly AccessMassively Multiplayer

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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Similarity via IGDB.

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