Underworld Ascendant
Skip · RPG · 2018
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 0, under the fair line, at $29.99.
- Length
- 13.8h
- Value
- $2.17/hr
- Reviews
- 35% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, Nvidia GPU GeForce GTX 960 (3GB)/ AMD R9 280 (3GB), 25 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
From the creative minds behind the System Shock, Thief and Underworld® series. Enter The Stygian Abyss, a dangerous, highly interactive dungeon world. Mix and match dozens of combat, stealth and magic skills to develop your own unique style of play. Become The Ascendant.
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 $4.49. That was November 2019. Its cuts run 85 percent off as a rule. There have been 72 in the 8 years tracked, about 5 weeks apart.
It is pricier than 95 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 99 percent. Shadows of Doubt ($24.99, scores 59) outscores it, and so does Thief Simulator ($1.79, scores 78). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
This site sampled 256 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 3 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 24 percent of the 210 reviews written there were positive, against 35 percent overall, and those are 30 percent of everything written about it.
13.8 hours to finish it, 45 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 3.2 times the campaign.
The drop-off
71% 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
What players say
Unique game with the physics based gameplay. Fun for the patient problem solver. Do not expect typical hack and slash.
Вспомнил детство, когда играл в Thied Deadly Shadows и Dark Messiah, и, не смотря на отзывы, стелс и боевка в этой игре оказались интереснее! А какие уровни! Вертикальные, со множеством способов прохождения, с ловушками секретами, скрытыми переходами. Исследовать - одно удовольствие. С этим процессом исследования идет рука об руку и прокачка, в которой опыт на выбор умений дается за различные "трюки", среди которых...
I think this is the only Steam game I ever refunded. I impulse bought it while it was heavily discounted based on the pedigree of its creators and was unaware of its initial production woes/reception. But even after some updates, a lot of those issues were still present, and a lot of things that seemed to be in the description when I bought it were just not a thing in the game. The enemy AI really is interesting...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
Underworld Ascendant scores 0/100 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/692840/underworld-ascendantReviews 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 27, price as of Oct 1.
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