Ascension: Deckbuilding Game
Worth it · Strategy · 2014
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $9.99.
- Length
- 6.5h
- Value
- $1.54/hr
- Reviews
- 89% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
Ascension: Deckbuilding Game is now available for your PC and Mac, complete with 9 full expansion decks! Play alone or with friends to battle against the Fallen One for honor and victory. Conceived and designed by Justin Gary, Ascension will provide hours of engaging and strategic game play for enthusiasts and experienced gamers alike.
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
It has never been cheaper than $2.49. That was March 2024. Its cuts run 60 percent off as a rule. There have been 43 in the 12 years tracked, about 11 weeks apart.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 4 percent on value. It is pricier than 69 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 93 percent. Among the games closest to it, Star Realms (free, scores 67) and Warhammer The Horus Heresy: Legions (scores 8) both come in lower.
Of the 395 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, none come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 63 percent of the 164 reviews written there were positive, against 89 percent overall, and those are 11 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
77% 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
41 players online when we last checked, on Oct 1, 15:50 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
I tried getting into Magic: The Gathering many times, but what always put me off was the sheer number of cards that the game has and the fact that I have to constantly buy, change, and collect them. I'm not someone who enjoys collecting things, so that aspect has never appealed to me. The same goes for Yu-Gi-Oh!, although it at least has some excellent digital adaptations, so I never even bothered trying the...
had no expectation, but the game blew me away with how fun it is and how easy it is to catch up! AI is good enough to play solo as a break from work :)
They have changed the rules. even though there are points left. the game just suddenly ends. It is annoying, I work to get the extra hit points and it makes no difference. It just ends for no reason.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Ascension: Deckbuilding Game scores 69/100 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/320430/ascension-deckbuilding-gameReviews 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 21, price as of Oct 1.
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