Cool, casual and quite relaxing. No pay to win! It looks better than it looks.
Nice artwork similar to magic the gathering and a fairly good UI.

Unfortunately, the amount of available honor points, which determine the
lengh of the game, can't be adjusted in multiplayer.

Schade, bisher hats noch keiner gepackt "Ascension" in die deutsche Sprache zu lokalisieren. Schade. So geht Potenzial verloren und letzten Endes auch der spielende Kunde - ich habe keinen Bock mehr dies zu spielen - das anfänglich spannende Feeling geht komplett verloren, es baut sich kein weiteres auf... der Spannungsbogen fällt ab - weil die Texte auf den Karten leider nicht in der Sprache der Spieler vorhanden sind. Schon gewußt, daß Lokalisierungen der Art auch einen Teil der analogen Spieler begeistern kann? Immerhin gibt es einige Kartenspielausgaben aus dieser Serie beim Vertrieb in Deutschland bei Asmodee. Wenn sich BEIDE Systeme, der vom digitalen, wie dem, im analogen Bereich, diese sprachtechnisch eine EINHEIT bilden würden... dann sind auch die Verkaufszahlen im digitalen Bereich viel höher. Die Entwickler der Playdek, Inc. würde es freuen, ebenso Asmodee digital. Oder anders: Wenn die digitale Version des Spiels in deutsch wäre.. dann müßte Asmodee in Deutschland die (analoge) Kartenspielversion nicht vom Markt nehmen oder für n Appel und n Ei verkaufen....
Also: Welcher Profi macht sich an das Werk und lokalisierts in die deutsche Sprache? Bleiben nur die Entwickler von "Playdek, Inc." übrig - fühlt Ihr Euch angesprochen oder seid Ihr schon alle entlassen worden ?

Die Auflösung ist schlicht zu niedrig, was will man mit einem Spiel bei dem man nichts erkennt...

Players have been asking for a way to increase honor points and make games last longer for years. Devs continue to ignore this, and when players take it into their own hands to modify the game to fix it, devs shut attempts down without saying anything.

In general, poor communication from devs.

I'll start off by saying I am a HUGE fan of Ascension in its tabletop form. It's one of best deckbuilding games out there! Which is why it pains me to give a negative review about the PC version. Unfortunately, this is a port that just shouldn't have been made. I have had a long negative history with stoneblade, so I winced when I saw they were behind this atrocity of a port.

Just be warned if you are considering a purchase: The game crashes A LOT! Mine does so 1/3 games. To the point where I questioned my PC, but after reading that everyone is having the same issue, it was pretty clear. Stoneblade is notorious for ignoring their customer base, so it is highly unlikely we will ever see a hotfix or update to the game to correct the issues. The game does save where you are in a game if it does match, but unfortunately, every time you log back in and pick up where you leave off, it crashes again. The port is just, unfortunately, BROKEN.

The port COULD HAVE been great, but sadly, it is very far from. I strongly recommend to fans of the game to save your money until a fix or update is released. It will save you a LOT of frustration.

Ascension: Chronicle of the Godslayer is one of my all time favourite board games to play with mates, family and even solo if nothing else to do.
When it was released (for FREE!) on iPad i jumped at it and play it near on every day.
I've been following the Kickstarter for "Ascension Online" and other pages/resources (http://steamcommunity.com/app/261860) for a long time now, it really looked like it would be a fantastic improvement on what the iPad is lacking for online playability.

I was on my phone when i saw it had finally been release on PC/Steam, i got so excited i immediately bought it via the iPhone App without any thought to reviewing the game release, i even gifted a few copies to mates that also love the game.
All day i was itching to get home to play and potentially stream some Ascension. Man was it a disappointment.

In a nutshell - this is a straight up port of the iPad/Andriod version of the game with little to no thought around compatibility or running state (visual/audio options).
It has been a waste of money, if you have to have it i highly suggest waiting for the steam sales to see if it appears.

As much as I love Ascension; this is a pretty shoddy port of a much better iOS/Mobile version. Unchangable windowed resolution and a blurry, unreadable full-screen resolution are only made worse by recently introduced bugs in the patch (just in time for the holidays!).

One top of that, this version is already out of date, within a week of coming out, as a new expansion set has been release for the iOS/Mobile versions that we've yet to get.

Until the developement team gets it together, skip the port.

Fantastic art, fun to play, simple mechanics with a lot of depth.

But it's developed by extremely incompetent and lazy people. Don't give them your money.

Initially the game was a port from iOS to PC, with all the UI design choices (read:limitations) that come with such a thing, and frequent bugs and glitches of all kinds. They fixed the UI, at least. Took them a few ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ years.

They refuse to implement a very basic function - choosing the amount of Honor points (victory points) required to win the game. What this means is that when you're playing 1v1 games, which are the easiest games to setup since you don't have to wait for a 3rd or 4th player, the game presets the amount of points to 60, and once you've got your engine going, it comes to an abrupt halt.

The only viable strategies, therefore, are quick point-grabbing decks.

This is extremely unfun, and the problem is very easy to solve - the option to manually choose the amount of Honor points already exists for offline play. People have constantly asked the devs, on Steam forums, sending them emails, etc but to no avail. They just don't care - what is essentially much, much less than a day's work is too much of a hassle to fix their ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ game.

Until they fix this, I cannot in good conscience recommend anyone to spend money on this game, despite Ascension itself being a great deck builder.

PS: The in-game menu STILL randomly stops working and disappears for people due to no apparent reason, preventing you from playing the game offline or online. This can last for days at a time and there is no known fix, sometimes it just goes away after a while. What the ♥♥♥♥, Playdek/Asmodee?

PPS: Three expansions that offer one set of cards each. Each expansion costs half the game's price. They're ♥♥♥♥ expansions, too.

Great Game, Amazing Mechanics, but honor pool is too small, game will end before any deck strategy can be formed. There is no option to change it in Online mode, offline has the pool changeable from 90 to 180, from 60(online mode), but you can't play with friends in offline mode.

I don't recommend this game till this simple change is added to online mode, already implemented in offline mode.Otherwise this would be one of my top favorite games.

Cant recommend in its current state - remove the honour pool caps for multiplayer.