Ascend to ZERO
Fair · RPG · 2026
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Fair at $9.59, the lowest Steam price we have tracked since Jul 2026. Buy it now if you want it.
- Length
- 11.2h
- Value
- $0.86/hr
- Reviews
- 83% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is 20% off today.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
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Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, Nvidia GTX 1060 6GB / AMD Radeon RX 580, 3 GB of storage. Windows only.
Have you ever wondered what it feels like to stop time? Ascend to ZERO is a time-bending action-roguelike where you can use your unique ability to freeze time and fight your way to the top.
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 $9.59, set in July 2026. It has gone on sale 2 times in the 81 days tracked here, most recently in September 2026. Today's $9.59 at 20 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.
At full price it scores 63. The current cut is what makes it a 66.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 6 percent on value. It is pricier than 64 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 82 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Cave Crawlers (free, scores 67) beats it on value, while it beats Commander Quest ($6.59, scores 32).
Steam's global achievement data puts 27 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. Of the 448 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 10 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written July 2026 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 3,162 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 522 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 77 percent of the 131 reviews written there were positive, against 83 percent overall, and those are 16 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
89% start to 27% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
Cite this score
Ascend to ZERO scores 66/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2697940/ascend-to-zeroReviews 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 Aug 7, price as of Oct 2.
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