Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation
Skip · Strategy · 2016
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 32, under the fair line, at $29.99.
- Length
- 15.3h
- Value
- $1.96/hr
- Reviews
- 74% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 6 GB of memory, 27 GB of storage. Windows only.
A massive-scale real-time strategy game where you command entire armies on a dynamic battlefield. Conquer multiple worlds across several single-player campaigns; or play with your friends in multiplayer 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
June 2025 is where it bottomed out, at $2.99. 88 discounts in the 10 years on record. They run about 66 percent off, roughly 5 weeks apart.
Value puts it in the top 45 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 97 percent of its genre. 9-Bit Armies: A Bit Too Far ($19.99, scores 51) outscores it, and so does Planetary Annihilation: TITANS ($29.99, scores 63). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
4 of the 589 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 40 percent of the 381 reviews written there were positive, against 74 percent overall, and those are 14 percent of everything written about it.
15.3 hours to finish it, 37 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.4 times the campaign.
The drop-off
46% start to 2% 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
39 players online when we last checked, on Sep 29, 21:46 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Great game with good balance. The graphics on the ultra setting I'm getting greater than 35fps. Its just that when it comes to the skirmish the player that has the most quanta and aggressively expands wins with the most upgrades. Does not matter the strength of the AI, the ai does not build quanta farms like I do.
the system is more or less the perfection of an RTS concept. i've only played the first segment so far, but there are some critical issues with the controls that i hope have been sorted out in later versions (adding units/structures to control groups, for instance). i'm also a bit worried the various factions all have too-similar units, but i've only played the first campaign so far. still, for a former competitive...
You cannot do a private match without 2 human players. So no random matches by yourself. Refunded.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation scores 32/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/507490/ashes-of-the-singularity-escalationReviews 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 26, price as of Oct 1.
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