Astral Ascent
Worth it · Roguelike · 2023
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $24.99.
- Length
- 15.3h
- Value
- $1.63/hr
- Reviews
- 95% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, GeForce GTS 250 or Radeon HD 5770, 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Choose one of four heroes and explore the Garden, an astral prison guarded by 12 powerful mystical bosses: the Zodiacs. Challenge them with dozens of unique spells and faithful friends by your side to unfold the story of this platform roguelite with lightning fast combat.
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
The value story
The lowest price on record is $9.99, set in May 2026. It has been discounted 40 times in the 4 years tracked here, typically at 35 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales.
Value puts it in the top 7 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 91 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 92 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Hades ($6.24, scores 95) beats it on value, while it beats Dreamscaper ($24.99, scores 67).
Critics scored it 86. Players sit 9 points higher at 95 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
This site sampled 597 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 6 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2022 to August 2026. That is fewer refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 698 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 574 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 74 percent of the 320 reviews written there were positive, against 95 percent overall, and those are 6 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 15.3 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 51, 3.4 times as much.
Deck Verified, so no launch options and no controller remapping before it runs.
The drop-off
85% start to 13% finishA game like this has no single ending, so its score does not use the finish rate. The curve shows where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
67 players online when we last checked, on Sep 28, 16:46 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
the BEST rougelite imo. If you like: Flashy combat OP builds good animation hack-and-slash-ing and you have a chronic lack of skill, THIS IS FOR YOU. btw the game saves between levels so there's no big 8hr run without saving sorta thing unless you're a masochist and you like that stuff. Have fun 😝
Very positive review absolutely adore this game difficulty curve is perfect, very fun enemy variation, amazing animation and pixel art would recommend this game to everyone this is my num: 1 favorite
Lore wise, is very rich for a roguelike in my book, the gameplay is a little slow at the start but picks speed before you notice, customization and challenges are great as well. 10/10
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
Astral Ascent scores 82/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1280930/astral-ascentReviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.
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