Worth getting?

[Colen Bardbarian]

Or another rushed buggy nostalgia cash grab?

[Royal Fusilier]

I think you already know the answer.

[Frogacuda]

It's not a cash grab, there's a lot of love in it, and some good original ideas. But buggy and rushed, most certainly. Add it to your wishlist and get it on sale 6 months from now when they've fixed the save system.

[Zurv]

just walk away.. nothing to see here.. really.. nothing...
This is a bad VR physics game without VR

[Yizzn]

the Intro screen is worth it playing the elder sound but once you start the game its just bullshi t

[MikeBob2013]

Stephen Russell (as Cabirus) sold me on purchasing Underworld Ascendant.

I'd been lookinmg forward to it for at least a couple of years (and for several months, here on Steam), but when I heard his voice on a trailer, I was definitely in.

Unfortunately though, I haven't been able to get much past the intro featuring his voice.

At this point, I understand that the game has lots of Cool Stuff™ (according even to many of the negative reviewers), but that it's all pretty much buried under a mountain of design flaws and bugs.

I'm hanging on (barely, with a white-knuckled grip) to a 'wait and see' outlook.

(The negative game reviews currently outnumber the positive ones by something approaching a 2:1 ratio, so we'll see.)

[William Shakesman]

It's not a nostalgia cash grab as the design almost couldn't be farther from nostalgic games. It's not an RPG, it's more a dungeon running immersive sim (Genre codeword for SS2/DX style lots of skill abilities to experiment with)

But it is an acquired taste and definitely a bit buggy and unpleasant. I love it but you may want to wait for some patches.

[Prothean]

I never played the original Underworld games, so I have no point of reference to color my opinion... so for the time I've played it so far, I'm really enjoying it... the atmosphere, openness on how to approach the world, the visuals... I don't know... there's so much hate, but I really like it so far... I haven't encountered any noticeable bugs and not a single crash... runs silky smooth maxed out @1440p on a 1080 Ti... if you're on the fence, wait for some patches and/or a sale

[Conker]

right now NO !

UA is in the same boat as bards tale 4

there is a fun game underneath but you have to wait till there are at least 3-5 MAJOR patches around

the game didnt even save your spells till the second hotfix ffs

[Xyyth]

Originally posted by Dungeon Rogue:

Or another rushed buggy nostalgia cash grab?

The company that made this game made the 2 original previous games many years ago. The game itself is worth getting and I'm sure minor issues will be worked out over time.

[Simonch]

Yes, it's a lot of fun.

[Louis Cypher]

Originally posted by GuruChaz:

Originally posted by Dungeon Rogue:

Or another rushed buggy nostalgia cash grab?

The company that made this game made the 2 original previous games many years ago. The game itself is worth getting and I'm sure minor issues will be worked out over time.

over time could be 2 years or so.
A company is made of people and we do not know if the same software engineers are still working for this company.
I mean this game is a mess and why buy now and being frustrated when you can buy next year maybe cheaper and have the full experience...?

[ocean pollen]

I played U1 and U2, played them more than the normal Ultima games, and I like this game, sure. U1 and U2 were different enough already that when people say this isn't a U3 I have to wonder what they even mean. Not that the game isn't different: there are no dialogue interactions with NPCs, and it's not an 'open world' game, although U1 and U2 were still very limited in that. This isn't "let's make a game exactly like Ultima Underworld 2--but in a modern engine"; it's "let's make a modern Underworld 3".

If you're nostalgic for Daggerfall, you'll have a lot to complain about with Skyrim: just because the 'diminutive' spell never worked, that doesn't mean you should just remove it from the game! But Bethesda were evolving to find the core of what makes their games fun and, with Fallout76, they discovered that actually all RPG elements fell outside that core.

So, it's not a nostalgia cash grab. It's been rushed, but not so much you can't enjoy it.

The bulk of this game is: spawn into different parts of sprawling levels and achieve some goal, get graded on how you did it (fighting, sneaking, magic, physics), then return to a hub to trade and get skills. You go to the same areas repeatedly, but you'll see different parts of them and they change as the bad guy's power increases.

Rather than the lots of mostly useless options that U1 and U2 gave you ("lore", "tinkering"), this game has fighting/magic/sneaking skill trees. On the fighting side you can learn to run along walls; on the sneakingside you can teleport (very) short distances, see in the dark, etc. Magic seems pretty underwhelming so far: f.e., 'spirit root' spell seems basically only good for sprinting past someone. I could play this game more the way I played U1 and U2 by getting fighter skills and buying better equipment from the dwarves, but so far a magical thief is fun.

[werner]

It is definitely worth it, if you can put some time into it. I love this game, like I did pretty much with every Looking Glass title, but atm I cannot see me playing it for a longer time due to the save system. If you can spare 2-3 hours at a piece playing it then it is very fine, but if you have a family like me, close to impossible to play it. (I started basically the first mission 4 times over because I was interrupted playing it due to more important issues)

As for the ranters and thumb down vorters, they are often very exaggerating, the game is way better than its ratings, but in the end a broken save system and it is to some degree broken can kill a game nowadays. It bleeds my heart that a game which is a very good game at its heart gets killed off in its start by pointless issues, just like it happened with BTIV, which also was one of the best pc releases in its core mechanic and overall design, this year but was released in an unnecessary sorry state and killed instantly that way.

Just a short reminder, better delay the release another 1-2 months and release a relatively bugfree game or see yourself going down big time. The first impression is what can kill a game or make it successful. Only a handful of games managed to pull themselves out of the initial impression is bad hole and most of them were multiplayer games and hyped endlessly.

[Pilda]

Check this gameplay video and decide yourself if it is worth.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1f3j2gzQXgY

[El Zoido]

At this point, there's sadly no reason to get UA, unless you have fun encountering glitches and bugs. There's potential, but it's buried under so many bugs and questionable design decisions (most of which might be concessions to running out of time and budget), I now really doubt that they'll ever manage to salvage it.
It is sad, since for some short time this seemed like a genuine chance we might get something similar to the old UU's again, but it's just the way it is.

In summary:
Unless masochistic, wait a few months for them to fix some stuff and take another look at the state of the game.