Astral Ascent Reviews

I heard about this game because of the collaboration with Dead Cells and decided to buy it, and what a pleasant surprise: fluid combat, compelling characters, really fun roguelike systems, and awesome bosses. I can't recommend this game enough to anyone who likes roguelikes.

This is a fantastic rogue-like and keeps you replaying to eventually beat the main levels and story. It can be enjoyed as solo or with a friend. I did prefer playing along with someone with the game ^^

Extremely fun roguelike that I would compare to Dead Cells, with the caveat that the level design/platforming is not as interesting, but the enemies, player abilities, and and flavor of the game more than make up for it. There is a tremendous amount of meta-progression in this game, with multiple currencies you can accumulate and spend on a variety of progression systems. Additionally, the variety of drops and the types of drops (e.g. different spells, modifiers for your spells, auras which give you powerful passive and/or triggered abilities). There is a ton of build variety and plenty of synergies that will keep you interested for many many hours, all while moving through a very deep and satisfying meta-progression system.

lovely game, b e a u t i f u l pixel art, fun mechanics, story is ??? [spoiler] cancer's ex wife is a zodiac, they have a zodiac child, split up and now he's married to a bird??? an actual bird we don't know has sentience or not... honestly what a power move [/spoiler]

Really fun, smooth controls, and their is way more to do, unlock, and increase the challenge level of each run than you might expect.

It took a few runs to click, but when it did, I understood why so many people are so enthusiastic about this particular roguelike. I fell into this thing deeply over the last weekend and, while i'm just barely started on this game's equivalent of heat from Hades (~5 on each character), the sheer amount of stuff to unlock, playstyles to experiment with, and the character and build variety has been fantastic. The game's got fantastic build/playstyle depth, the pixel art and sound track are consistently appealing, the animations are impressive, and the gameplay is incredible. The way the characters each control is so thoughtful and precise and it enables the game to ride a fantastic line on its difficulty and challenge. This game feels like a love letter to modern roguelike enjoyers. If you play a bunch of this type of game, then as everyone says, you cannot miss this one.

This game is fantastic for rogue lovers! incredibly diverse builds and lots and lots to unlock

Good art good game pretty much in every way. Top 10 roguelite/like game i have played I dont even need mods for this. You can install reshade and make it crispy also. Just a really good game that is worth 30$ (they only want 25$ off sale) You can make the game as hard or as easy as you see fit and at its highest possible difficulty the game is an absolute ball cruncher without a good build and many deaths worth of experience. It keeps getting more updates, I wouldve paid 30$ 5 major updates ago, game is just good for the price simply. devs also follow the community (look in patch notes)

Really solid roguelite, and when I say really solid, I mean DAMN IT'S GOOD. There are just so many different parts to this game, sure, some don't play as big of a role as others, but they still build up this amazing game together. The only unfortunate thing is that there isn't online coop. Other than that, 9.5/10

This was my first roguelite, and I had a blast with it. The combat is fast-paced, fluid, and flashy— super satisfying. I also love the variety of builds you can create with all the different elements in the game. Even after 20+ hours, every run still felt fresh. The pixel art is fantastic, and I love the character cutscenes. Definitely some Dragon Ball vibes there. Great voice acting too— really enjoyed their performances. I also love how you can gradually uncover more lore and character relationships across multiple runs. That said, the story itself didn’t feel compelling enough for me to keep going just to see every piece of it. Solid 8.0+ game for me.