r/theascent

Hey guys, I was thinking for a while if I should post this here.

I'm actually a big fan of The Ascent myself, and generally I just really love top down games. The Ascent, RUINER and games like this are pretty special to me.

And honestly its a bit sad that we dont get many bigger top down games anymore. Seems like most studios move to other FPS things after making one.

So... I guess we decided to stay here :D

Yesterday we finally announced our game POLYSTRIKE after working on it for years.

What you see on Steam right now is mostly the 5v5 competitive part, because thats what we are ready to show properly. But this is really important and maybe more interesting for people here — we are also working on PvE campaigns, bigger missions and a much larger world to explore.

There is actually a whole world and story behind Iron Will and Vanguard that we havent shown yet.

Steam doesnt really let us use all the PvE/campaign tags right now because we havent shown that part publicly yet, which is fair tbh. So for now the page can make POLYSTRIKE look like its only a PvP game.

But its not.

Our plan is to show the first PvE campaign before the end of this year. Then I think people will understand much better what we are trying to build with this world.

Of course I'm not saying this is The Ascent 2 or RUINER 2 or anything like that lol. POLYSTRIKE is its own thing.

I just know there are people here like me who really love this camera/perspective and want to see more games doing something with it.

So yeah, after all these years its finally announced :)

Really curious what you guys think.

FishList us on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3254300/POLYSTRIKE/

So I bought the game on a whim last night and basically going in blind - just wondered if there’s anything I should know before proceeding too far? Not looking for spoilers or necessarily ‘optimum’ strategy, but just anything that improves first time experience.

or should I just continue to play blind and enjoy the game?