FINAL FANTASY TACTICS - The Ivalice Chronicles
FINAL FANTASY TACTICS - The Ivalice Chronicles
Game
Game2025
Ascension
Developer Element Game 微元游戏
In this cultivation 4X strategy game, your sect has been in peril, and so they open a portal—sending you, a young disciple and their last hope, inside. Stand tall as the new sect leader and guide disciples to rebuild what was lost. Sharpen your focus, master alchemy, and ascend to immortality. From the Steam store page
119 reactions from 3 sources (Bluesky, Steam reviews, Mastodon) · newest Oct 7, 2026 · last updated Oct 7, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
82
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40 positive · 9 negative
95% range 69–90%
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| Steam reviews | 40 | 9 | 0 |
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Steam's own rating
Mixed
1,628 of 2,705 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What people are saying
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60 of 119 · most liked firstWith Ascension coming out Wilds has a real chance to be game of the decade! There’s just one thing they need to add…
unlabelledView post →I think I can finally share this one now that it’s been revealed! Had the pleasure of doing the cover art for the Well of Ascension Expansion of the Mistborn Deckbuilding Game! Loved working on this one. ADs: @mattdemino.bsky.social and @johnnyoneal.bsky.social #mistborn #cosmere
unlabelledView post →whoever on the SH fandom wiki was recapping the horrible, bizarre, non-game soap opera Silent Hill Ascension... ran out of steam near the end lol. i get it. go live your life. you don't need to do this
unlabelledView post →I got to work on the cover for Fallen Tear: The Ascension this year. Please look forward to the game!
unlabelledView post →Lunar Stag Another one of my favorites from the batch! Done for Ascension game. #rodart
unlabelledView post →In 2012 I won Game Day Dark Ascension at my local game store with mono red burn. #champio
unlabelledView post →World of Darkness is a fun cluster of TTRPG games because i can say "i am not nearly high enough to run a game of Mage the Ascension" and also say "i am not nearly high enough to run a game of Changeling: the Dreaming" and both are true but both are also completely different kinds of high
unlabelledView post →Fluid Realities is a minimalist game about the secret war between modern mages in a 90's gothic-punk world. This is an homage to the classic Mage: The Ascension using the rules of John Harper's Lasers & Feelings. ⬇️
unlabelledView post →youtu.be/FqSFOBOYU1Y?... MAGE THE ASCENSION NATION! Episode 2 of our Actual Play series, the Norfolk Wizard Game, is out now on youtube! Come and witness an ape be thrown across traffic! Marvel at the biases of an old stage magician! Be amazed at our frequent ADHD stunlocks! ALL THIS AND MORE AWAIT!
unlabelledView post →Game day with some DBD then Mage Ascension
unlabelledView post →My memory is hazy but I believe that one of the things that horked the release of Ultima: Ascension is that one of the major chipmakers updated their drivers something like 3 weeks after the game shipped, and that completely broke the game. Apparently we were depending on some of those bugs!
unlabelledView post →Plant gathering gone wrong featuring Haiden and Sol from Dreadlord Ascension 🍑🍆 Picture was drawn by @thymrpenguin.bsky.social for the game.
unlabelledView post →The one place I would not have expected a random Mage: the Ascension reference and yet in retrospect what other game were they gonna play. MtA is probably one of the more optimistic games, if you run it a certain way. .... Dear Lord they played the Technocracy as the good guys, didn't they.
unlabelledView post →Muse of Rebirth That one is a bit older, but I still like it. Dumb me, forgot to post it before. Another one for Ascension game.
unlabelledView post →crimson desert is proof that if you put enough Games in your Game, and enough of those games are built for and by a sicko, you will reach a stage of Game Ascension where everything makes sense again
unlabelledView post →Ascension for billionaires. once you reach a billion you lose all your money and have to start over. new game+
unlabelledView post →Some days my brain just ends up coming back to the lightning in a bottle which was Mage: the Ascension. It was an impossible game, truly terrible and wonderful, emergent in a way that feels like it could never have been entirely deliberate in its construction.
unlabelledView post →Somehow passed 1K followers; as is tradition, I must make a game free. In a Mirror Brightly is a game about fighting the power in 199X with sex, hex, and tech. Inspired by The Invisibles, Mage: The Ascension, and The Matrix. Amazing layout by @snaxwell.bsky.social. erinking.itch.io/in-a-mirror-...
unlabelledView post →Mage: The Ascension is such a weird game, because it's *full* of ideas that are way, way, way, waaaayyy cooler than the weird, racist hippies who actually created it. It's… like… all this unrealized potential. A game that's, like, a metaphor for social constructs and the way they present…
unlabelledView post →so I've been playing this fun little game called Dreadlord Ascension
unlabelledView post →Currently playing a lovely game from 2011 called El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron.
unlabelledView post →If you see this, post a monster Some monsters that I did for Ascension Deckbuilding game, including the legendary...Beezlepug 🐶!
unlabelledView post →Pros: - The game has improved massively since release. At launch, mid-game turns took 2+ minutes — now they take about 10–15 seconds. - For a first playthrough, there’s a ton to do and discover. If you enjoy Civ-like 4X strategy and the xianxia genre, this is right up your alley. - Easily 30+ hours of immersive gameplay building your sect, exploring, and cultivating. - Unique systems like alchemy, sect management, artifact forging, and disciples make the world feel alive. - The art and…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Ppl out here really saying Silent Hill Short Message is the worst Silent Hill game when Ascension exists It's so bad that I totally forgot that I was the narrator for the game tutorial until someone in chat pointed out that it's written in my IMDB
unlabelledView post →My brother says "thank you" for Ascension. A game good enough to get 40+ year olds to hang out every few weeks is worth so much.
unlabelledView post →GOT TO THE LITERAL THIRD FLOOR BOSS AND THE GAME SCREWED ME WITH DRAW OUGHHHHHHHH IM SO MAD ALMOST BEAT FIFTH ASCENSION
unlabelledView post →Preorders open now! Good Smile Company Fate/Grand Order Saber/Okita Souji: Final Ascension Ver. From the hit mobile game "Fate/Grand Order" comes a scale figure of the Saber Class servant Okita Souji in her Final Ascension outfit. Preorder: https://goodsmile.link/f8fDKZ #goodsmile
unlabelledView post →villain from my motw game #ocsky #ttrpgsky #ttrpbrioc #artsky #ascension
unlabelledView post →Jusr finished all the God of War games pre-Ascension, so now it's the time to go back to my comfort game *boots RE4 for the 100th time*
unlabelledView post →Someone asked me if Mage: The Ascension was a good game. But I wasn't awake yet.
unlabelledView post →Finished Ascension 1 on each character and unlocked all the epochs in the game so far, so now I can finally start actually playing StS2
unlabelledView post →For Random Game Saturday, I have one of the worst video game purchases I ever made: Ultima IX Ascension in the special Dragon Edition. That box is ginormous, maybe half a meter tall. The game it came with was a disaster.
unlabelledView post →Y'all are asking if this is a Jesus game. Here's the Ascension DLC I guess... 🙄 #indiegame #gaming #videogame #indiedev #gamedev
unlabelledView post →TTRPG about me First game: Star Frontiers Latest game: RQG Longest game: Shadowrun Favorite game: FATE Favorite mechanics: FATE Favorite setting: RQG/Mage the Ascension Favorite art: Planescape/RQG
unlabelledView post →My high school Mage: The Ascension game.
unlabelledView post →We’re doing an open beta for Ruya: Ascension and would love to get some feedback from people on the game so far 💜 @itch.io link: miracle-tea.itch.io/ruya-ascension iOS TestFlight link (limited to 100): testflight.apple.com/join/KTwvM4vx #indiedev #ruya #gamedev
unlabelledView post →i would love for this to be english
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →"5 Lessons Learned from 15 Years of Ascension" is an excellent read for game designers. 🎲✂️ boardgamegeek.com/blog/1/blogp...
unlabelledView post →Game is very interesting 4X grand strategy. Imagine Civilization+Cultivation where you manage your Immortal Sect compete for victory with rival sects. Cultivation Path: Your sect can focus on sword, martial, alchemy, weapon refinement, spell of 5 elements of Fire, Water, Wood, Earth, Metal and etc. You can also unlock/research new cultivation manuals. Personal talent play a very important roll on how fast/high that member can cultivate to Immortality. Cultivator will cultivate slower as they…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →There's your Mage the Ascension game lmao.
unlabelledView post →Ascension (4/24) Cosmic horror card game project #illustration #digitalart #games
unlabelledView post →First off, there's an unofficial English patch. Makes the game playable if you don't understand Chinese but it does have some issues. And now about the game itself - the idea of 4X cultivation game does sound cool, but this game currently barebones in this aspect. It does have a foundation for everything, but nothing is really at the state of being good. Apart from those two points (but can you even consider the ideas good points..?) I cannot really say anything good about the game.…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's a good solid Xianxia CIV game, it has a good core but still needs some more time to cook, give it a few months I would say before buying it.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Winning at the flag game there, Ascension Island.
unlabelledView post →Trevor Lawrence Ascension Game
unlabelledView post →The unsurprising second place game is Unknown Armies, which some wag on Reddit once described as "UA is like Mage: the Ascension mixed with a really reprehensible episode of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia"
unlabelledView post →It's everything I imagined a 4X cultivation game to be! Highly recommend if you enjoy games like Age of Wonders 4, Fallen Enchantress, or even Mount and Blade! It's far more laid back than those games, though, and I highly recommend you be well-read in the xianxia genre to make sense of certain game mechanics. The auto-translation mod works pretty well, though there are some odd instances of words being translated differently on some screens. It is Early Access, however, so take that into…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I'm actually running a Mage: The Ascension game for my husband, sons, and a couple of friends!
unlabelledView post →Roguelike deck builders are popular. I'm a fan of deck builders like the Cryptozoic DC Deckbuilding game and Stoneblade's Ascension. Are we moving away from those? I know Slay the Spire is super hot, but what else is being done in this space that I should look at for me and my (adult) kids?
unlabelledView post →我玩了72个小时，都蛮了解游戏特性了，游戏概念本身是不错的，问题是太肝了吧?我开局5个天属性弟子，差不多再结丹时就把对手灭掉，本以为会成就征服胜利结束游戏，没胜利就算了。结果接下来就是“跳过回合”慢慢去闭关来结丹，结婴，化身。好吧，想说化身应该就可以胜利了。结果还要建仙台，而且还是必须2选1，更离谱的是竟然在这最后关头给介绍一个“灵气”的设置就是要逼玩家更耗时更费力去肝，太离谱了吧。不是不支持你们搞4x，但请尊重玩家的游戏时间好不好。就现在这种设定，若再不改善，真的不能怪玩家贬低这游戏。
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →English speaker here: There is a mod I used that translated a good amount of the game. Very fun, with a lot of potential to live out your cultivation novel fantasy. Great bones, just needs more meat and optimizations. It plays like a civilization game. I'm excited to see what modders are able to do to this game as well. The more they can add to the game and make each play through unique, the better. That's why people get so addicted to Crusader Kings and Civilization, endless replayability,…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →潜力很大，但是洞也很大，暂时不推荐，如果你想支持能买，但是想要出完再买也行 我是先支持了，跑路也不怨
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Is it perfect? No, especially with MTL; however, this game has potential (especially when the English translation eventually comes out so I can really understand how the game works). I feel like the initial start of the game could do without the forced battle, a little more polish on secret realms and city management, as well as a better tutorial could go a long way towards keeping players hooked. All in all, I recommend this game based on its current, Early Access English MTL state as one to…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Day 6 - Short Game: youtu.be/Y46QKkIjZwc Luna Ascension Tower of Heaven (PC) Tower of Heaven is like a 20 minute platformer from 2009 yet I think it left a lasting impression on everyone that dared to climb the tower. The OST by flashygoodness being a huge part of those memories.
unlabelledView post →I had a moment during last night's Mage the Ascension game where I was very glad I spent willpower, because that roll would have been a botch otherwise. My character creates his own problems I don't need my dice helping with that.
unlabelledView post →It never says the game stage is the ONLY time and place to do the Rite of Profane Ascension. You might even be able to negotiate a better deal than Cazador did. Don't rush! :p #BG3
unlabelledView post →Love Joust! Have you ever played TowerFall Ascension? VERY similar mechanics and game play. It's the perfect couch game to play with a friend. I introduced my daughter to it at a young age and we still enjoy it!
unlabelledView post →Vampire: The Masquerade, obviously, but I also recommend Mage: The Ascension for some great TTRPG horror. For non-World of Darkness, I recommend Kult, a cosmic horror roleplaying game inspired by gnostic mythology. kultdivinitylost.com
unlabelledView post →Don't forget to take on the challenge and claim rewards such as Tracks of Destiny, Star Rail Passes, and Stellar Jades, Trailblazer! Double Ascension Point mode is now available! Access "Currency Wars: Zero-Sum Game" to get various rewards!
unlabelledView post →The manosphere references The Matrix constantly, and that's as old as Revised. Plus, M20 (Mage: The Ascension 20th anniversary edition) did a lot to revive the game. And, y'know, it's entirely possible they played in their Dad's M:tAsc game from time to time.
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