Astria Ascending
Skip · RPG · 2021
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 0, under the fair line, at $3.49.
- Length
- 24h 91.8h to 100%
- Value
- $0.15/hr
- Reviews
- 53% of 366 positive
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Buy now or wait
It is 90% off today.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
About the game
Explore a vast world on the brink of chaos in a mature, emotional JRPG. Experience an epic story with rewarding, turn-based combat and expansive customization rendered in glorious 4K hand-drawn visuals.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750, 25 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
Across all 56 discounts in the 5 years tracked, the median cut is 60 percent, about 4 weeks apart. Today's $3.49 at 90 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.
It is pricier than 96 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 98 percent. Dragon Cliff ($1.99, scores 77) outscores it, and so does FINAL FANTASY V ($17.99, scores 79). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
More about Astria Ascending
Of the 301 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 2 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written September 2021 to July 2026.
The main story runs 24 hours. Doing everything runs 92, 3.8 times as long.
Deck Verified, so no launch options and no controller remapping before it runs.
The drop-off
68% start to 1% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
- Players online
- 1 when we last checked, on Oct 2, 15:56 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
This is a distractingly poorly made game. It's really tough to see past the Puppet2d style animation- it's like watching a cheap flash animation at points. Chances are you can get it for four dollars, and it's... worth that I think? It's kinda fun. Fun adjacent. The first level I played left me feeling like it was going to be too saccharine to be enjoyable for an adult gamer.
2 more reviews, 2 not recommended
This is not a fun game. Even though I got it on sale for $4 CDN, I don't think it's worth it. The writing and story telling is so boring that unbearable that you wish you could speed up the dialogue, but you can't. You can keep the entire conversation though. Everything is voiced and there's a 3-5 seconds delay after every chat bubble. The voice acting is not good. There's no personality to any of the characters...
Liked: 1. The "almost" Vanillaware art style Disliked: 1. Everything felt unpolished from walking around to the combat.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Astria Ascending scores 0/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1121780/astria-ascendingReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.