Publisher Camlann Games and developer Vivid Storm Interactive have revealed their brand-new colony sim Ascent of Ashes. Both companies will be heading to the upcoming Spring 2023 Showcase at The MIX as well where they will showcase their brand-new title. Ascent of Ashes is a space colony sim where you will be tasked with managing survivors, engaging with raiders, aliens, soldiers, and more in real-time-with-pause combat, and will be released at the end of 2023. You will build yourself a new home on an unknown hostile planet, fight off who attacks you and survive at all costs.
Check out the reveal trailer for Ascent of Ashes below which gives us a small glimpse of how the combat system of the game works along with the unique art style of the game:
In Ascent of Ashes, players are thrown into an alien world inhabited by the last remaining survivors of human civilization after a huge cataclysmic event. The planet is filled with dangerous, and unknown beasts and creatures and it will be up to the player to protect themselves from these alien forces as well as raiders and other environmental hazards. You will recruit survivors, each with their own motivations and goals, and work together to create a new home on what appears to be an entirely unhospitable planet.
Key features of the game include:
- Build a New Home: Gather resources to build up a base for your survivors. Farm crops, tame alien beasts and fortify your home against any intruders.
- Engage in Real-Time-with-Pause Combat: Participate in deep tactical combat where even non-lethal hits can render a survivor unable to go on. Use the game’s real-time-with-pause combat to plan and strategize.
- Drive Restored Vehicles: Traveling on foot isn’t always an option. Restore and drive vehicles to get around this dangerous, post-apocalyptic world.
- Meet Diverse Survivors: Each survivor players encounter have their own unique motivations and personality. Recruit those you see fit and keep them safe, happy and motivated.
- Explore the Post-Apocalyptic World: The world of Ascent of Ashes is procedurally generated and made up of multiple biomes and points of interest. Cautiously explore and uncover the many secrets the world holds.
- Intelligent Enemies: Each type of enemy will have varying levels of intelligence. Think fast to adapt to your foe’s attack patterns.
- Day One Mod Support: Ascent of Ashes has been made from the ground up to make it easily extendable. The game is being developed for modders, by modders.
CEO and Founder of Camlann Games Slava Heretz comments:
We are thrilled to be working with Vivid Storm. We had been following the game from its debut on Kickstarter. We’re huge RimWorld fans and it has been great to see such a positive response from the gaming community about Ascent of Ashes, even in these early stages.
Camlann Games is a newly established video game publisher from Boston with a focus on meaningful, fun, and highly replayable games. The publisher hopes to work on games with big ideas and memorable experiences. This will be the publisher’s first presence at The MIX where they will present their brand-new project Ascent of Ashes. The developer behind Ascent of Ashes is Vivid Storm Interactive which is a studio comprising of the original creators of RimWorld’s ‘Combat Extended’ mod with the goal of creating a fresh take on the colony sim genre.
Ascent of Ashes is slated for release in Q4 2023, and an official Steam page of the game is currently available where you can add the game to your wishlist to register your interest in the game. Additional information about Ascent of Ashes will be revealed in the coming days so make sure that you keep checking back for more news on the title.
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