Ascension: Deckbuilding Game

2,825 gems, 1,465 damage gems, 1,069 dream points, 7,940 stars, and then it froze. 😢

Thanks for an amazing experience and fun I’m having with this game throughout the years

If you want to change the brightness or volume while you’re in an online game, make sure you have enough time to wait for the server to log you back in afterwards. Even just an accidental hint of pull-up/down menu action will boot you from the server. Super annoying.

I like this game, and I still play it on the app, but some stuff here is just horrible design choice. Why does it take five seconds for cards to scroll across the screen when abilities trigger? Why can’t I turn off the motion, considering the “fast” option is sluggish? Why is the button to look at my constructs so tiny? Why can’t you auto-tap cultists when you have a hundred power stored up? Just a lot of small things that add up to an unpleasant experience.

I love the fact that I can play this wherever I go. With the free stuff you get four full sets which already give you a lot of playability and a solid idea of what this game is about, more than enough of a bite to justify purchasing other sets, which you can get at a huge discount if you buy them all together. Seriously, the value for the price is fantastic. The CPU functions very well, giving players a challenge on their own, and you can play with friends via pass and play or through the Internet. Only two things I want to note, one being a small bug, not a dealbreaker, and the other a recommendation. First, when playing Storm of Souls, the Hedron Rising event trophy is supposed to allow you to preserve a construct when you are supposed to destroy it. However when one of my constructs is destroyed by a monster effect and I am prompted to try and preserve it, the game will not let me banish the Fanatic in my Construct Tray. In fact, I can’t interact with ANY card while the prompt is active. I am forced to click “NONE” and let my construct be destroyed, which can be quite frustrating. Also, when a construct is destroyed by a Hero effect, i.e. Hedron Pyromaniac, the prompt doesn’t even come up. My construct is destroyed and the Fanatic stays in my Construct Tray. Second, I wish it were possible to make custom center decks. I have a physical copy of Realms Unraveled as well as Ascension: Eternal. I love to combine those two sets, and often will choose which cards I want from each set in the center deck. Most of the time, when I’m playing the physical game, I’m not playing with both complete sets together; a handful of cards have been taken out. That is what I love about deck builders in general, and Ascension especially. It takes the idea of a TCG and puts all the cards together in one box. Ascension builds on that concept by still having expansions that you can mix and match. In the app you can combine sets, but you can’t choose specific cards to put together in one center deck. If PlayDek could add a function that incorporates that concept, I honestly think that would make it the most like the physical game. I’m sure I’m not the only one who would appreciate it. P.S. Does anyone else miss the old border designs??? 😢

Looks like this app is all but abandoned with no updates for a year now. Was really hoping for an update to the slow AI and longer games. You would think that an iPhone 15 pro should be able to have the ai play their turn faster.

I’ve played hundreds of games of Ascension in the past but after opening it up recently for the first time in years I noticed that the app feels super sluggish. It also makes me log in every time when playing games online. It saves my password but makes me go through the login screen and hit the button. It never used to do that for years and years. iPhone 14, iOS 17.3.1

Fun game, but i always feel like the game ends right as its really getting good. It couldn’t take more than a single line of code to let us increase the point limit, and it would give us much more flexibility in our games. If you’re worried about balance you could limit it to local or AI games. This is my most desired feature, devs get on it.

This is one of the best implementations of a board/card game in app form I have played. I remember buying the expansion bundle years ago, and I feel it may not have transferred the transaction to my newest iPad, but I’m not 100% certain of that… If so, I’d dock it a star, but I really can’t remember. If you’re a deck-building fan, or you like the DC Comics deck-builder, definitely give this a look. I’ve played this for conservatively 200+ hours over the years.

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