Hello everyone! ːzimzimSmileː

Today is the day, exactly 4 years ago we finished our Kickstarter Campaign for Astral Ascent and today, after 6 months of work (we nearly doubled the game content, it takes time!), we finally release the 2.0 Update: The Outer Reaches which is by far the biggest update to the game so far, here is the trailer!
We are happy we were able to support the game with so many updates and that was made possible because all of you are supporting and talking about the game!

To celebrate, the game will hit its biggest promotion to date of 50% off for 2 weeks starting at 7PM CET today!

We're self-published and every share and review has helped so much. Thank you for your continued support!ːzagplsː

If you want more detailed informations you can check the detailed Pach Notes below!
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1280930/view/523090111361974309

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3372880/Astral_Ascent__The_Outer_Reaches/


Ophiuchus conquered new worlds and added them to his collection and you can now go through The Outer Reaches worlds!
Explore these new worlds for a new experience!

• Shattered Rises
  

  Originally posted by autor:

  They said hiking is good for the cardio, but it’s really high up here.

  
  
• Molten Wastes
  

  Originally posted by autor:

  You like the heat, but your soles are melting.

  
  
• Frostbound Expanses
  

  Originally posted by autor:

  You love snow, but you'd better keep moving if you want to keep your finger alive.

  
  
• Obsidian Heights
  

  Originally posted by autor:

  You like fog but care of what it hides from you.

Each new world has a total of 8 new enemies and 4 traps for a total of 32 new Enemies and 16 new traps!
This is doubling the content related to these elements making runs much more interesting, we also made sure to give an incentive to select one world over another one during the run which is explained below in the section dedicated to the new special rooms!
Each new world also comes with a new music from Dale North! The new musics are more rhythmed for dynamic exploration!

Andromeda had enough of hiding and wants to join the battle for freedom!

• Defy Andromeda in an epic duel!
  Once per run, you can defy Andromeda in her bar, she wants to see if you have what it takes at your full potential so she will be giving you max life, max mana and a fullfil your healing shards for the fight.
  • If you fail she will simply set your life mana and healing shards as they were being defying her, so feel free to defy her at each run, you have nothing to lose, this fight is always a quick win or a quick defeat!
    
  • If you win she will grant you her super drink giving 1 drink of each type and join you as a summon for the rest of your run
  
• Andromeda summon
  Andromeda summon is not replacing Zodiac Summons but it's an addition named Zantetsuken that will automatically finish Star Guardians and Zodiacs when their health reach 15%.
  It's so satisfying to have such a powerful ally by your side!
  
  
• Andromeda Ending
  You will also be able to get Andromeda's narrative ending if you escape the prison with Andromeda by your side!

Andromeda also comes with a lot of new lines fully voiced in English and Japanese!

• New Imprint system - 90 ways to improve your spells!
  The Imprint system is probably the biggest addition to the game runs coming with this Update 2.0! We wanted to add a new currency for exploration rooms to have more choices than : Quartz / Gambits / Auras making it more interesting to select rooms. We also wanted to make spells, supposed to be the core of the game, more central in the experience and more interesting! Finally, we wanted to shake a little the currency synergy system consisting of stacking things looking alike to be powerful, the imprints system requires more flexibility to create powerful combos!
  
  • New Loot in Exploration Room
    One more loot type in exploration rooms dilutes the existing room types, it makes all rewards overall a little less common and more valuable to get. For example getting a little bit less Gambits will make Cetus room and Sun Room more interesting and getting a little bit less Auras will make the Yalee Kingdom and the New Aura Room more interesting!
    You can loot up to 8 imprints per run and you loot them 2 at a time in Exploration rooms, we wanted this to not be too overwhelming by having too many elements to read and compare. You can only equip one of the 2 imprints but all imprints will automatically go to the Imprint Infuser at Andromeda's Bar and Imprints you find during your runs can be freely equiped and removed from your spells at the dedicated UI in Andromeda's Bar.
    
  • 90 Blueprints to collect!
    The 90 new Imprints are linked to Blueprints you will have to find during your runs through the game! You can find them by defeating Zodiacs bosses, Star Guardians and Elite enemies!
    You can see all of your collect imprints in the Imprints Archive at Andromeda's Bar
    
  • Synergy and Transcendance
    Some Imprints can have an effect no matter your spell like the first condition below
    Some other have requirements to work even for their first effects like below
    In both cases you will have Transcendance Effect giving extra power ups if you meet specific requirements. Sometimes you will already have the right elements and sometimes you will need to work on them to have the effect and the Transcendance activated. As I said earlier, this is changing a bit the habits of focusing only on one affinity, one spell type as some imprints can be of a different affinity than your main one but still super useful or powerful, so make sure to think about that while making your builds!
    
    
  • Powerful combos
    You can create a lot of fun and powerful combos, you can see some examples below, you have 90 of them to experiment!
    
    
• New Intro RoomWe thought the previous introduction room was too stacked and overwhelming, we decided to create a new one allowing to separate better the start of runs bonuses from the classical world intro rooms.
  It also makes it clearer and easier to select in which world you will start your run (classical or The Outer Reaches version).
  
• New Special Rooms
  2 times per world, a choice will be attached to world selection, one time it will be a selection among existing special rooms (Cetus, Pavo, etc.) so one biome will have one special room and the other biome a different one, they appear organically (next to Exploration/Fight Rooms) during the world so they are an additional speical room. Another time, it will be among the New Auras Room and New Echo Room (explained below), even if they are guaranteed it will cost you 5. These 2 choices are guaranteed in every run making the biome selection more interesting depending on the reward you want.
  
  • New Aura Room
    This new room allows you to pick any existing Aura at a Mythic or Astral rarity level, this room is the best choice to complete a build you are making. It should make powerful builds much more frequent and reliable than before!
    
  • New Echo Room
    This new room allows you to pick any existing Echo to have the best synergies or to have the support Echo you need for your run!
    
• Better ImpactsA feedback we received multiple times was the lack of powerful impact feeling with basic attacks so we added new impacts for all weapons giving much better sensations!
  We have also added extra vertical bumps on enemies so the hits feel more impactful.
  
• Tons of QoL
  
  • In the Yalee Kingdom, the Camera is now centered so you can see all the Auras at once without needing to go on auras one by one like before and the Reset Yalee is now at the center to walk less to reset the choices
    
  • In the Echo Island, the camera is now centered so you see all auras at once with no need to move to check them and icons above heads show you what they do so you do not need to check them one by one
    
  • Selecting the drinks at Andromeda's Bar could be very slow, even more if you had a lot of stars on you, now it's much faster making it more fluid
    
  • Some rooms are now shorter like Intro rooms, Zodiac Rooms and Star Guardian rooms, they needed to walk too much to get to the next room
    
  • Transitions between rooms is now faster making it smoother to go through rooms
    
  • Teleport rails in Event Horizon is also faster
    
  • The UI windows are clearer for loots
    
  • You can now buy with Sun Pieces (if you already defeated DL6+) the Zodiac Summons, this is made for experienced players who already did the challenges many many times and have extra sun pieces to use!
    
  We have globally tried to improve a lot of small frictions we could find to make the overall experience more enjoyable!
  
• Tons of Balancing
  We have made a lot of balancing on Auras, Spells, Weapons Passive that people mentioned being too weak and you can find all of that in 2.0 Patch Notes.
  We have also made an important change to the Cursed Telescope, we only kept the Astral rarity for effects but we made maluses more important. We think this makes this room much more interesting and the bonuses full to play with!
  

We are super happy to announce that thanks to the support we received until now, we are able to commit on more updates for Astral Ascent and that's a great news because we still have a tons of things in mind to make the game better and funnier to play!

• Customization System for the Hub
  Following a suggestion event (about what to do with the Extra Sun Pieces) on our Discord Server[discord.gg], the most voted choice was being able to Custom the hub with the Extra Sun Pieces. We are working on many different collections for you to buy and make this place truly yours! Here is an example below with the Coral/Seaside collection!
  
• Charity Pet DLC
  We found very inspiring the Paws and Claws DLC from Children of Morta to collect money for Charity for animals, they already collected more than $460 000 for the Humane Society International charity[donate.humaneworld.org]. That's also a cause close to our hearts at Hibernian Workshop and we asked Dead Mage if they would be fine for us to follow their lead and create a similar initiative on our side for Astral Ascent and they were absolutely fine for that so we are completely going to do that! Like for Paws And Claws DLC, 100% of the benefice will go to Charity!
  
  
• Boss Rush
  We have the Boss Rush in mind for a very long time, it was supposed to be the first update post 1.0 release. It just makes so much sense for Astral Ascent to have a Boss Rush given how many bosses we have

Taking the occasion to speak again about the beautiful Collector Editions including Yamat DLC and The Outer Reaches DLC available for preorder coming from Red Art Games[www.redartgames.com], for PS5 and Nintendo Switch!
The DELUXE edition[www.redartgames.com] contains:

• Base Game
  
• DLC 1 : Yamat, the breach Traveler
  
• DLC 2 : The Outer Reaches
  
• 6 die-cut stickers
  
• 1 acrylic stand

The COLLECTOR edition[www.redartgames.com] contains:

• Same as DELUXE Edition
  
• Steelcase
  
• Double-sided Poster
  
• OST

These are coming in limited editions for each platforms!

We will soon update the OST of the game as new musics were introduced for the 1.7 and the 2.0 for a total of 7 new musics and 37 tracks in total!
So stay tuned for that!

Well, 2025 might be full of surprises from our studio and you might not want to miss what we will announce end of May, so be sure to follow us on your favorite social media!

• Discord[discord.gg]
  
• Steam
  
• Twitter[x.com]
  
• BlueSky[bsky.app]
  
• Instagram[www.instagram.com]
  
• Youtube

Have an excellent day and time in game! ːzimzimSmileː

- The Hibernian Workshop Team

⭐Changes inspired by our community!

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• New Alternative Worlds (Paid DLC): 4 new worlds to explore
  5 new musical tracks
  16 new traps and elements
  32 new enemies
  

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• Andromeda's Return (Paid DLC): Experience an exciting new battle
  Earn Andromeda's respect and the ability to summon her
  Witness Andromeda's Ending
  

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• New Intro Room: The First Room is now separated in 2 rooms to have a less overwhelming experience
  

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• The Void Imprints: - New reward loot in exploration rooms, featuring 90 unique imprints
  - A way to improve your spells with unique activations
  - Players start with 25 different imprints, the rest are unlocked by finding Blueprints during runs
  - A new interface in Andromeda's bar to reuse the imprints you looted
  

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• Bonus Room System: Added New system to world selection, which adds a bonus room to the world twice during a run.
  

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• New Rooms: Added Aura selection room, which allows the selection of an aura
  

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• New Rooms : Added Echo selection room, which allows the selection of any echo

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• In Event Horizon you now move faster using the rail between islands
  

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• community inspired ⭐ Transitions between rooms in now faster when entering a portal
  

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• New visual FX for each weapon when hitting the enemies
  

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• Enemies are now bumped up when hit by weapons
  

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• Some enemies are now bumped higher when hit by upward attacks
  

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• The Small Dragon now triggers automatically to give your Auras faster
  

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• Slimes were not impacted by the Opacity effect
  

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• Yalee Kingdom: Yalee's reset is now located high up on a platform and the camera zooms out to get a direct view of all auras.
  

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• Echo Island: Echo Island now shows all echoes at once and icons above Echoes help seeing what the echoes are about without needing to check them.
  

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• The Zodiac Challenge Chest for Summons can be purchased with Sun Pieces from Destiny Level 6+
  

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• Intro and boss rooms are shorter
  

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• New interface for Gambit loot, slot unlocker and Pavo feathers
  

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• Portal to next rooms are now closer in The Void and The Reckless Void
  

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• Ghost Enemies from Destiny Level modifiers are removed upon room or Zodiac Fight completion.
  

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• Added Jump Crystals in the Cursed Telescope room and it's also a little smaller now
  

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• community inspired ⭐ Andromeda's Bar changes
  - Andromeda's bar for drinks has is now higher to always see the drinks
  - Drinks reappear much faster
  - Drinks distance of interaction is bigger now
  - Andromeda animation plays directly and stat equip appears directly
  - Visual Effects have been reduced

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• community inspired ⭐ The cursed telescope now only has astral rarity bonuses (all other rarities have been removed).
  To compensate, penalties are more dangerous.
  

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• Auras: Unique Tag Context: Due to the increased availability of duplicate Astral Auras, a number of Auras have received the ""Unique"" tag if it was determined that stacking these could be stronger than intended.
  
  
  Carve Mastery
  On critical hit, creates 1 Ice Idol: reduction of the cd from 5 to 3 seconds
  Increases critical hit chances: Increased critical chance from 10% to 15%
  
  Spark Conductor
  Spark bounces an additional time: unique tag added (No change in functionality, it always worked this way)
  
  Boots Of The Herlad
  On lightning orb hit, 25% chances to create 1 spark: unique tag added
  
  Warchief Bracers
  On spell refresh, restores 2 mana: unique tag added
  
  Sword Of The Warrior
  Increases strength: Damage increased from 20% to 30%
  Increases attack speed: Attack speed increased from 20% to 25%
  Increases critical hit chance: Critical hit chance increased from 15 to 20%
  
  Twin Calibur
  On spirit sword, creates 2 missiles: unique tag added
  
  Fire Propellant
  Massively increases combustion size unique tag added (No change in functionality, it always worked this way)
  
  Raw Force
  Increased combustion damage from 75 to 100%
  
  Absolute Zero
  Increased Frostbite damage from 50 to 75%
  
  Prowess Of The Sky
  When hero it hit, gains a random bonus effect for 5 seconds: Reduction of cd from 12 to 5 seconds
  When gaining a bonus effect, create 5 thunder strike: Reduction in the number of thunder strikes created from 5 to 4
  
  Rustling Fall
  On fall attack, creates 4 ice fragment: reduction of the cd from 10 to 6 seconds
  
  Polar Venom
  Added a new effect: Increases poison limit by 5
  
  Balance Master
  On critical hit, gains velocity for 2 seconds: Increased duration of the buff from 2 to 3 seconds
  
  Blade Storm
  When dashing through enemies, casts slashing squall: Reduction of cd from 7 to 4 seconds
  
  Homing Embers
  On critical hit, creates 2 embers: Reduction of cd from 3 to 1 seconds
  
  Incandescent Rain
  Increases combustion damage from 50 to 60%
  
  Blinding comets
  Increases combustion damage from 50 to 60%
  
  Bigger Body Initiative
  Missile have 25% chance to become explosive missle: unique tag added
  

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• community inspired ⭐ Spells: Ayla
  
  Unrelenting Tornado: Increased damage from 141 to 192
  Psy Trap: Increased damage from 123 to 165
  Blade Tempest: Increased damage from 110 to 156
  Fatal Trigonometry: Increased damage from 146 to 186
  Endless Blows: Increased damage from 110 to 152
  
  Kiran
  
  Explosive hug: Longer duration of invulnerability
  Lightning Dance: Increased damage from 102 to 160
  Hadoken: Increased damage from 88 to 120
  Energy Projectiles: Increased damage from 83 to 120
  Earthquack Kick: The spell inflicted less damage than the indicated damage, now the damages are correct and deals more damage: 180
  
  Calie
  
  Topaz gladius, onslaught:The spell inflicted less damage than the indicated damage, now the damages are correct and deals more damage: 210
  
  Common spell
  
  Meteor blade: Reduced mana cost from 3 to 2
  Aqua ball: Increased damage from 89 to 140
  

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• Weapon passives: AYLA
  
  Lunar Daggers
  Parting gift: damage increase by 50%
  Gliding star: damage increase by 50%
  
  Moonlight Blade
  Judgment cut: added mana steal tag and damage increased by 30%
  
  Eclipse Shards
  Hunter x Hunger: Increased stack time from 1.5 to 3 seconds
  
  Throwing Knife
  Charge Knives: damage increase by 200%
  
  KIRAN
  
  Burning Bo
  Magnetic Personality: damage increased by 30%
  
  Fiery Falchions
  Santoryu: Increased damage by 100%
  Hit Maker: damage increase by 50%
  Sword Juggling: Reduced cooldown from 10 to 6 seconds
  
  Nutcracker
  Kaio-Bam: Increased the chance from 10 to 15 percent, increased duration from 5 to 10 seconds and max stacks from 5 to 10 max
  
  CALIE
  
  Unbreakable Rempart
  Siege Breaker: damage increase by 30%
  Avenging Shield: Increased damage by 50%
  
  Scythe Claw
  Surprise Element: Increased damage by 60%
  
  OCTAVE
  
  Pistor Vocatis
  Coniicio Iocor: Increased damage by 50%
  
  Magnum Cupitere
  Miseria Labrum: increased chance of applying the mark with the dash from 30 to 100%
  
  Exterminatus Exemplaris
  Priora Signa: Increased damage by 250%
  
  Wrenching Whip
  Ictus Tempestas: Reduced cooldown from 10 to 6 seconds
  Potentia Amplificatio: incresed the number of charge from 4 to 6
  
  Yamat
  
  Fighting Spirit
  Spirit Rising: Increased damage by 30%
  Obsidian Wyrm: Increased damage by 70%
  
  Oblivion Greatsword
  Destined Death: increased the number of mark from 3 to 5
  
  Symmetrical Lance
  Detonation Seal: Increased damage by 100%
  Chaotic Surge: Increased chance from 20 to 30%
  

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• community inspired ⭐ Shattered Rises biggest enemy (""Emissary"") attacks a little more frequently - ☄️ hotfix 2.0.1

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• New music rearranged for the hub
  

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• Octave: The sound of the ""Wrenching Whip"" weapon has been lowered
  

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• Added FX for when stat stones are lost by the player

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• New title screen with new artwork

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• A number of effects were not being added to the damage meter, these have been added where possible. (Thick Yalee, Snow Day, Glacier's Fall, Maddening Darkness)

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• community inspired ⭐ Taurus Sword FX could remain on the ground after being defeated
  

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• community inspired ⭐ Leo rocks could remain on the field after being defeated
  

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• community inspired ⭐ Aries Red Feedback could remain on the field after being defeated
  

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• community inspired ⭐ Pisces could keep her invincibility bubble (visual only) when getting in Phase 2
  

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• community inspired ⭐ Yamat second down attack had one frame not aligned with the other frames
  

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• Auras:
  Fixed an issue where the ""spread ice"" effect was not dealing the correct damage (damage too low)
  

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• Narration typo in french in Telescope descriptions
  

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• Enemies could attack more frequently or less frequently depending of framerate
  

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• community inspired ⭐ Resilience Mode was wrongly Labeled at different places
  

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• Unlocking Gambit Slots were not working correctly for the 4 small gambit icons (example if you had unlocked slot 4 while slot 2 was still locked, it wouldn't show the icon correctly)
  

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• Music was very loud in hub when exiting Telescope menu
  

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• Octave's Bellator shooting SFX was not playing
  

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• Burn and Combustion stacking: Combustion was unintentionally triggering twice if two or more combustions occurred subsequently. To compensate for the damage loss, the base damage of Combustion has been increased by 50%. Additionally, a number of Astral Auras related to Combustion have had their damage increased.
  

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• Auras: Maddening Darkness was not scaling with strength or critical chance, this has been corrected
  

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• Text correction: Yalee effect text updated from 3 to 4 projectiles. No change in functionality.
  

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• community inspired ⭐ Aura: Magic Weapon III would not display one part of its text - ☄️ hotfix 2.0.1
  

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• community inspired ⭐ Aura: Warchief Bracers would not restore mana on Spell Refresh as indicated - ☄️ hotfix 2.0.1
  

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• community inspired ⭐ Aura: Twin Calibur Creating Missiles on Spirit Sword hit wasn't working - ☄️ hotfix 2.0.1
  

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• community inspired ⭐ Aura: Bigger Body Initiative wasn't trigger the explosive missiles - ☄️ hotfix 2.0.1
  

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• community inspired ⭐ Picking Imprints would not interrupt UI inputs making them impossible to pick up if your dash was on R1 - ☄️ hotfix 2.0.1
  

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• community inspired ⭐ A text box could appear for 1 frame at the end of Andromeda's ult - ☄️ hotfix 2.0.1
  

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• community inspired ⭐ Andromeda was invulnerable for 1 sec at the start of her fight wasting Zodiac summons if they were used during this time period - ☄️ hotfix 2.0.1
  

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• community inspired ⭐ You could get stuck in platforms while using the Spinning Lotus in Shattered Rises - ☄️ hotfix 2.0.1

- The Hibernian Workshop Team

• Discord Server [discord.gg]
  
• Twitter Account
  
• Official Store[astral-ascent.backerkit.com]

Hello everyone!

The Outer Reaches 2.0 releases in 24h from now and we hope you're as excited as we are for that!

If you haven't already, make sure to wishlist the DLC to be notified when it's out! (and help us for visibility ːzagplsː)

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3372880/Astral_Ascent__The_Outer_Reaches/

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In the meantime we are super happy to announce a new DELUXE and COLLECTOR physical edition[www.redartgames.com] coming from Red Art Games[www.redartgames.com], for PS5 and Nintendo Switch!

• Base Game
  
• DLC 1 : Yamat, the breach Traveler
  
• DLC 2 : The Outer Reaches
  
• 6 die-cut stickers
  
• 1 acrylic stand

• Same as DELUXE Edition
  
• Steelcase
  
• Double-sided Poster
  
• OST

These are coming in limited editions for each platforms!

Wishing to see all of you around tomorrow for the 2.0 Update!

Have an excellent day!

- The Hibernian Workshop Team

Hello everyone! ːzimzimSmileː

We are coming to show you a bit more elements of the 2.0 Update - The Outer Reaches update and DLC, first of all thanks so much for being already more than 10.000 to have wishlisted this new DLC ! ːbarbecuePogː

Wishlisting it helps us with visibility on Steam and you will of course receive a notification once it's out!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3372880/Astral_Ascent__The_Outer_Reaches/

Andromeda fight is almost ready and she will be brutal! We want this duel to be either a quick win or quick defeat, you've been warned!

(but no worries she just wants to see if you are worthy or not, she wont stop your runs)
We have been working on the new system related to spells named "Void Imprints", it is going to be a new loot type in Exploration rooms (in addition to Gambits, Quartz and Auras) giving more variety to the choice of rooms.
You can equip one directly on a spell but every one you found (even if not equiped) during your run are available at Andromeda's bar to equip during your run.
There are Void Imprints for each affinity for a total of more than 90 unique imprints!
Here is one example per affinity -

Originally posted by author:

• On spell cast, create an Incandescent barrier for 10 seconds, create 1 combustion if the enemy hits you
  Transcendence effect:If the spell is lvl 10+, gain Shield for 3 second and attract 3 enemies
  
  
• The first enemy hit by this spell creates a frozen ground for 6 seconds applying 1 freeze periodically
  Transcendence effect:For each freeze gambit equipped on this spell, adds 1 second to the duration
  
  
• On spell cast, 2 enemies are marked by a curse mark for 7 seconds, dealing damage when the affected enemies attack
  Transcendence effect:If the spell is full poison affinity, adds 1 curse mark on another enemy
  
  
• The first enemy hit by this spell creates a column of lightning for 5 seconds, pushing back enemies and apply 1 electrify on hit
  Transcendence effect:If the spell is full electric affinity, passing through column of lightning grants thunder dash for 5 seconds
  
  
• The first enemy hit by this spell attracts up to 4 enemies
  Transcendence effect:If the spell is full neutral affinity, increase damage on this spell by 30%

This new system is made to make spells more interesting to use and build and overall more impactful and strategic to use!

One new change is that we decided to add a new room before the first intro room when starting a run and there are several reasons for that

Originally posted by author:

• First Room was too stacked with too many things to do at once
  
• First Intro Room was very different from the other intro rooms from worlds 2, 3, 4
  
• We needed to be able to select default world or The Outer Reaches variation before entering the world
  
• Elements were badly placed with the Baby Dragon being on the left of spawn for example

This has also allowed us to add the portal to buy the DLC there instead of adding even more elements in the main hub, we will have more possibilities if we want to add more features there!
We decided to make of this new room a calm and neutral place!
In addition to all the content planned, (not everything is shown there as its missing the 4 new worlds, 32 new enemies, 16 new traps) we are also taking time to improve things all around the game. One feedback we often received was the lack of impact feeling when doing basic attacks, we have made a new impact FX per weapon/per character (so 20 different FX) and improved the hit feeling.
We have also speed up many slow interactions like picking up the drinks at Andromeda's
We have also speed up entering end of rooms portals, reset start auras, we even reduced the size of some rooms to make runs more fluid and smooth to go through!


We are also super happy to announce that we will be partnering with Red Are Games[www.redartgames.com] open pre-orders for new physical editions including steelcase and other elements!

Long story short, the 2.0 Update will be a massive change for the game and we hope you are as excited as we are for it!

We are still keeping more secrets coming for 2025 so stay tuned and don't hesitate to follow us on

• Discord[discord.gg]
  
• Steam
  
• Twitter[x.com]
  
• BlueSky[bsky.app]
  
• Instagram[www.instagram.com]
  
• Youtube

Have an excellent week ahead and mark the date for April 30 ! ːzagplsː

We are so happy to make updates including licences we love and inspire us and this time it's Children of Morta's turn!

We'd like to thanks once again Dead Mage and 11 bit studios for the opportunity!

For more details you can check the 1.10 Patch Notes.

It's really great to be able to summon the Bergsons with 7 new echoes that complete the possible builds.

• - Apan's Magic Glyph (restore life)
  
• - Joey's Smite (meteors)
  
• - John's Heaven's Strike (spirit swords)
  
• - Kevin's Fan of Knives (missiles)
  
• - Linda's Explosive Crescendo (ignition)
  
• - Lucy's Cyclone (sparks)
  
• - Mark's Scourging Whip (ice idols)
  

As we have more echoes now, 40 in total, we added an extra Yalee reroll.

We have also added the possibility to reset the Small Dragons Auras for Sun Pieces so you have more flexibility for your starting Aura -
We have also added an option to change the opacity of visual effects -
This 1.10 update content is smaller than usual because we are hard working on the 2.0 update!

The update is planned for April 30 2025 and we still have a lot to do! The amount of content is very big as we wish for it to deliver a new and fresh experience for Astral Ascent at this moment.

We have already been working on the new Rooms. One of them is allowing you to pick any Auras from the game, Auras are ordered by key words so if you have Fire Slime like in the example below, they will be in the Fire and in the Slime categories.
The idea is that you simply go to the category you are focusing right now, for example Ice Swords and you will see all auras related to Ice Swords at once.

We have also worked on the Room to select any Echoes from the game, with 40 Echoes in the game it makes sure you can get the exact Echo you want to complete your build as we want to make sure all echoes exist for their respective builds.
We have also started to work on the Andromeda's boss fight and we found out how she will fight and how this fight will be integrated in the game!
Don't hesitate to wishlist the DLC if you want to!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3372880/Astral_Ascent__The_Outer_Reaches/


Finally, we are part of the Steam Couch Co-op Fest so it's a great opportunity to remind you can play in co-op in Astral Ascent, either in local co-op or through Remote Play Together or Parsec for online play!
We wish you all to have an amazing week ahead and we cannot to tell you more about the Outer Reaches and other surprises coming this year!

-The Hibernian Workshop Team

⭐Changes inspired by our community!

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• The Bergsons' Reinforcements: 7 new echoes from Children of Morta licence :
  - Apan's Magic Glyph
  - Joey's Smite
  - John's Heaven's Strike
  - Kevin's Fan of Knives
  - Linda's Explosive Crescendo
  - Lucy's Cyclone
  - Mark's Scourging Whip
  

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• Rerolls of Small Dragon Auras: You can now rerolls for Sun Pieces the starting auras of the Small Dragon
  

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• Visual Effects Opacity option: A new option allows you to reduce the opacity of visual FX for better readability

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• Octave's Bellator Destruction damage now deals double damage
  

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• Reset Echoes in the Echo Island goes from 3 times to 4 times
  

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• Cursed telescope:
  The Astral immunity: increased chance of gaining 1 protection absorbing next hit from 10% to 20% (mythic) and 20% to 40 % (astral)

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• Small dragon Aura spawning would show an empty text for one frame
  

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• community inspired ⭐ When playing for a long time, Chinese symbols could be replaced by circle symbols
  

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• community inspired ⭐ Typos fixed
  

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• Ice Idols hits could not work when several were spawned at once

- The Hibernian Workshop Team

• Discord Server [discord.gg]
  
• Twitter Account
  
• Official Store[astral-ascent.backerkit.com]

Thanks again to Motion Twin[motiontwin.com] for their trust, it has been an honor for us to work on Dead Cells which is a genre-defining game and an inspiration! Do not hesitate to check their new game Windblown, it is so fun to play and even more in co-op (up to 3 players)!

Discover 5 new weapons from Dead Cells:

• Ayla: Throwing Knife
  

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• Kiran: Nutcracker
  

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• Calie: Scythe Claw
  

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• Octave: Wrenching Whip
  

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• Yamat: Symmetrical Lance
  

These new weapons add even more variations to your playstyles!
As you saw above, these new weapons come with an extra 15 new passives to discover to complete your fighting style.
Andromeda's bar will also have a surprise visitor if you have a Dead Cells weapon equiped!

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• You can now equip 2 weapons at once, this will allow you to adapt depending of the situation. For example if you cannot get close to an enemy, switch for a ranged weapon to keep attacking!
  This also changes a lot of things for Weapon Passives as you can have both passives at once but you need the right weapon to use them. For example if you get stacks for your weapon when killing enemies, you can kill them with your other weapon and still get the stacks but you will need to switch to the right weapon to consume them!
  
  
• The weapons are also always visible now, it was a lot of work to do as all animations are done frame by frame but this gives more personality to weapons and allows you to better understand which weapon you have now that you can have 2 at once.
  

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https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1280930/view/4453592104064518892

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We are very happy to announce that we are working on the 2.0 planned for April 2025 (this is subject to change) and this update will have a lot of content at once, there will be a major Free update and a paid DLC named The Outer Reaches.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3372880/Astral_Ascent__The_Outer_Reaches

Originally posted by author:

The Master destroyed countless worlds for his selfish collection. The Fragments Plains, The Red Barrens, The Coral Archipelago and The Crimson Highlands. Quoted text
You go through these worlds to reach The Master because it is the easiest way to reach him but there are many other worlds, alternative paths to follow, The Outer Reaches.
The Outer Reaches are new worlds to explore with their own wildlife and foes.

The Outer Reaches DLC content -

• 4 new worlds to explore with their own musics
  
• 16 new traps/elements in worlds
  
• 32 new enemies: 
  
• Andromeda:
  
  • Boss Fight
    
  • Summon
    
  • Ending 

You may know that even Zodiacs are afraid of Andromeda because of how powerful she is. She might accept to fight you but do not be afraid, she won't kill you but she won't go easy on you either. If you success to beat her, she will come with you as a Summon fitting with all builds and you might also unlock her ending!

Major Free Update released simultaneously -

• New currency to find during runs related to spells
  
• 2 New Rooms to find during your runs:
  

We hope this content will be as exciting for you as it is for us, this will make the game so much bigger than it already is. Doubling the variety of enemies and worlds making each run even fresher and interesting! And we will do our best to create an epic boss fight out of Andromeda, that has been a wish of us for a very long time!
If you are interested by this DLC, do not hesitate to wishlist it, it always helps for our visibility too!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3372880/Astral_Ascent__The_Outer_Reaches/

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We are also very happy to share an updated version of our Roadmap for Astral Ascent, We have added 2 smaller updates, 1.10 and 1.11 before the 2.0 that is now planned for April 2025.
The 1.10 will add long time requested features to the game that we didn't want to postpone more and the 1.11 will add 7 new very fun echoes to the game from a licence we love!

With this new Roadmap we are also making it clear that 2.0 is not the end and more updates are planned after it. We even have very cool things that are not announced yet.

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We are super happy to team up with incredible games for an epic bundle!

• Dead Cells
  
• Ember Knights
  
• Nine Sols
  
• One Step from Eden

You can check the Bundle below, the price is much lower due to Steam Autumn Sales!
https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/47308/Ultimate_ActionPacked/

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To Celebrate everything that is happening we are making a Giveaway of physical copies that you can get before the end of the year.
You can win 1 copy per platform if you follow us and share on the posts on the following platforms:

• Twitter/X: post link[x.com]
  
• Instagram: post link[www.instagram.com]
  
• Bluesky: post link[bsky.app]

This is also the opportunity for us to be followed outside of Twitter/X as that is currently our main communication platform (outside of Discord), so we hope to see you there too ːzimzimSmileː

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Once again thank you so much for your support making all of this possible!

We are currently standing at 3812 reviews on our Steam page
When starting this year we thought it would be amazing if we could reach 4000 reviews by the end of the year and we are so close to it, maybe this update will give us a small increase of reviews making it possible! Thank you a lot if you already gave us a review or consider doing so!

Have an excellent time in game, you can share your feedback with us on the Steam Forum or on our Discord server[discord.gg]

- The Hibernian Workshop Team

⭐Changes inspired by our community!

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• Dead Cells Update: - 5 New Weapons from Dead Cells licence
  Ayla: Throwing Knife
  Kiran: Nutcracker
  Calie: Scythe Claw
  Octave: Wrenching Whip
  Yamat: Symmetrical Lance
  
  - 15 new Weapon passives for the new weapons
  
  - Guillain NPC will visit Andromeda's bar if you have a weapon from Dead Cells
  

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• Dual Weapons: Equip 2 weapons at once, switching anytime between both for deeper gameplay
  

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• Visible Weapon: You can now see weapons you currently hold during most animations

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• community inspired ⭐ Preview spells video in the Forge - ☄️ hotfix 1.9.1
  

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• Calie's Shield passive : Defensive Measures now works with her Gems weapon passive : Field Supplies - ☄️ hotfix 1.9.2

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• Auras: Ravaging sphere: Increased damage from 15% to 30%
  Crystal Screen: Increased explosion damage of max life from 60% to 100% and 100% to 200%
  

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• Weapons: AYLA
  Passive Starfire: Increased damage
  KIRAN
  Passive Hit marker: Now also hits nearby enemies
  Passive Explosive temper: Increased damage
  Passive Sword juggling: Increased damage
  OCTAVE
  Weapon Exterminatum Exemplaris : Increased damage
  Passive Priora signal: Increased damage
  CALIE
  Weapon Survive spear: Increased attack speed

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• Attacking aiming bottom with Octave dual guns would make Octave shake
  

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• community inspired ⭐ The Dead Cells weapons unlock condition was not visible - ☄️ hotfix 1.9.1
  

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• community inspired ⭐ French typos were fixed - ☄️ hotfix 1.9.1
  

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• community inspired ⭐ Octave Mechanical Spider could consume mana and be canceled before creating the spider - ☄️ hotfix 1.9.1
  

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• community inspired ⭐ Icarus Slime Aura on Player 2 would attribute the Slimes to Player 1 - ☄️ hotfix 1.9.1
  

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• community inspired ⭐ In coop, if player 1 has inventory open, player 2 movement in their inventory is reversed - ☄️ hotfix 1.9.1
  

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• community inspired ⭐ Yamat's Dance of Contempt summon could get stuck on borders - ☄️ hotfix 1.9.1
  

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• community inspired ⭐ Fixed description for last effect of aura Lighting Favor III - ☄️ hotfix 1.9.1
  

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• community inspired ⭐ Effects of auras that triggered on enemies hit with full life would not behave correctly during PvP - ☄️ hotfix 1.9.1
  

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• community inspired ⭐ Steamdeck inputs XY and AB were invented in the inputs display - ☄️ hotfix 1.9.1
  

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• community inspired ⭐ Ayla Dead Cells daggers would sometimes shoot whille launching spells - ☄️ hotfix 1.9.2

- The Hibernian Workshop Team

• Discord Server [discord.gg]
  
• Twitter Account
  
• Official Store[astral-ascent.backerkit.com]

We are very excited to announce to you our collaboration with Motion Twin to release a Dead Cells update for Astral Ascent coming out on November 27th! Here is our reveal teaser below! ːbarbecuePogː

We are very proud of this collaboration as Dead Cells is the most popular of our genre of Platformer Roguelike games it is probably the game that defined this genre the most. It is also a game we took inspiration from for its fluidity of movement and nervous action.

If you do not own Dead Cells already, you can now purchase it alongside Astral Ascent in a bundle!

https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/46767/Dead_Cells__Astral_Ascent_Duo/

They have also released a Board Game[deadcellstheboardgame.com] just recently and their great Animated Serie started release in English! And of course they recently launched their new game Windblown we have a ton of fun playing in co-op!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1911610/Windblown/

Though you may want to wait November 27th for an extra discount for the launch of the update.


You will be able to play with 5 unique weapons from Dead Cells :

• Nutcracker for Kiran
  
• Throwing Knives for Ayla
  
• Wrenching Whip for Octave
  
• Scythe Claw for Calie
  
• Symmetrical Lance for Yamat

These weapons will also come with 15 new passives.
We are also introducing a new system in the 1.9 update, you will be able to hold 2 weapons at once, giving you more strategy opportunities and poweful combos with weapon passives!

It will of course be possible to unlock both of weapons equipped passives at once!

A new addition is also that weapons will always be visible when playing the game now!
It was a lot of work so we hope you will enjoy this change! It is also the case for big weapons like Octave's rocket launcher!
We didn't show anything from 1.9 before today but we will be able to share more on our Discord Server and Twitter of what is coming in just 2 weeks from now

We hope you will keep supporting us in this journey to become one of the best action roguelite out there ːzagplsː

Have an excellent week everyone! ːzimzimSmileː

- The Hibernian Workshop Team

First of all, thanks for the great reception of the 1.7 version! We are working hard on new updates!

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1280930/view/4545912358018084589

The first major change of this new version is the rework of the hub Telescope. We removed all the perks that were linked to a specific build because you would select them in the hub before knowing what would be your build during the run so it would either be frustrating because you do not find the right build or not be useful if you don't do this build so we focused on perks working with all builds. We also added new perks in the hub.

Adding to that, we have created a new room type : The Cursed Telescope!

This new room can be found up to 2 times per run and will allow you to get new Telescope perks, different from the Hub ones, with usual rarities : common, rare, mythic and astral.
But a random Malus is attached to each of these bonus and will be removed when reaching Andromeda's bar of your current world.
That's a total of 31 bonuses there (102 with rarities) and 15 maluses in this new room. This room works very similar to Chaos in Hades, high risk high rewards! ːzagplsː
To help you find what you want, we added up to 6 rerolls you can get from a new Zim-Zim upgrade -
A new feature is also the Build Recap, we used to see community members share their builds through a dozen of screens taken before the final boss and it felt really bad to share a good build. We have came with a solution to that - the Prison Memento! In the hub you will be able to find this large book in the bottom right, if you open it it will show your runs (only the ones post 1.8 release).
This screen also appears when you Win a run or die and it also works in co-op (only from hub for now)!
We truly hope this will make sharing your best runs and best builds easier!

We have also improved a lot of small elements requested by the community!

You can now preview on the progress bar where are the special rooms, the bar and the Zodiac fight, it does not display all the random rooms like Moon/Sun for example but it gives a better idea of what is coming next to help organize your run better!

An icon now shows what is the effect of the Zodiac summon before entering the room so you have a better idea if it will fit into your build or not.

We have added a new system to reward players perfecting rooms, perfected rooms can stack and offer different rewards

• Explo / Fight rooms - 1 Star
  
• Star Guardians - 2 Stars
  
• Zodiacs - 3 Stars

And this stacks over room so the more rooms you perfect in a row the more stars you get in each new room and it resets when getting hit!

It has been requested a lot and the Arsenal is now available in the hub and in Andromeda's bar so you can change your weapon/passive before the boss if you want to!

Another change is also that salvaging an Aura Refiner will give rarer Auras depending of your current world if you have Barbecue's aura.

There are more small changes like a 5th Aura Refiner in Event Horizon, double rewards in Cetus room in co-op and more!

We had also like to address a global concern we started to hear, the 2.0 planned for Q1 2025 with new worlds is not the end of our updates for Astral Ascent, we have more updates planned after that, some of them are already in the work ːzimzimSmileː

We do not tease the 1.9 version (big collab with a famous game) yet because we are still looking for opportunities to maybe announce it in some places to get more visibility but it's progressing very well on our side and we cannot wait to show you more about this update coming very soon! (Q4 2024)!

Last thing, our friends at Doom Turtle just released a massive DLC + free update for their game Ember Knights in a few hours, this update is huge, don't hesitate to check it here -
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2948140/Ember_Knights__Wrath_of_the_Architect/

Have an excellent time in the game and a great week ːzimzimSmileː

Louis