Astral Ascent — patch notes and updates
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| First devlog is live! | 2026-04-03 | We just published our Devlog #01 on YouTube! Our goal with this new format is to take you behind the scenes and show you exactly what the dev team has been cooking. And trust me, today's menu is packed! Here is a sneak peek of what you'll find inside: Fallen Fates: An exclusive look at our pre-production, including early environment concepts and new enemy animations. Astral Ascent FREE Update: We are introducing a HUGE rework to the Signature Spells Perk system! Arven Gameplay Deep Dive: We are breaking down the mechanics of our next DLC hero comming in MAY 14th and his companion Kat! Make sure to subscribe to the channel and let us know in t |
| Roadmap update + New Hero Preview (Arven) | 2026-03-13 | We are thrilled to finally reveal the future of Astral Ascent with our official 2026 Roadmap! Since our 1.0 launch, we have been hard at work expanding the Astral Prison, adding new ways to fight the Zodiacs, and growing this incredible universe. That's countless escape attempts, thousands of Papa Yalee stories discovered, and millions of spells cast in the Garden. It’s been an incredible journey, and we want to say a huge THANK YOU for your long-standing support!As revealed in the video, a new challenger is breaking into the prison...Arven the Wolf Blade is coming in only 2 months on May 14!We are very happy to announce that you can now wish |
| 🏮 Happy Lunar New Year! The Garden lights up & New Hero Reveal 🐎✨ | 2026-02-16 | Hello Wardens!The Lunar New Year is a moment of celebration shared by millions of people around the world, and we wanted to join in the festivities with all of you! 🧧We are sending a special thought to our incredible community in Asia and everyone celebrating this tradition today. Your passion and support since the beginning of Astral Ascent mean the world to us.✨ A New Seasonal AtmosphereTo mark this occasion, we decided to bring a festive touch to the game for everyone to enjoy.We have deployed a special atmospheric update. When you return to the Hub, you'll notice the Garden has been decorated with traditional lanterns and new warm lighti |
| 2.5 Update - The Ravenswatch Sentinel is live! | 2026-01-19 | Hello everyone! ːtaffyː First of all, we wish each and everyone of you an happy new year, may 2026 be a great year for you! ːmeltadaːOn our side 2025 was an amazing year! We announced our new game Fallen Fates, we kept making great updates for Astral Ascent including new DLCs and collabs with games we love : Children of Morta and Dead Cells. We improved the overall game experience and it ended up being our best selling year for Astral Ascent, so thank you all so much for your trust in us and we are super motivated to keep bringing new updates and improve the game in 2026 starting today with the release of Update 2.5 : The Ravenswatch Sentinel |
| Patch Notes - January 2026 - 2.5.2 | 2026-01-19 | ⭐Changes inspired by our community! Major Features Increased the number of Prowess choices from 3 to 4 New Special Room: Added a new type of Special Room: the Hourglass of Dreams, featuring characters from the Ravenswatch Universe. The Sandman provides the player with the ability to upgrade the Gambits on their Spells using Quartz. New Echo Tier: Vengeful Echoes: 5 New Echoes can be found in the Hourglass of Dreams room, the player can recruit one of these powerful Echoes in exchange for one of the Echoes they have. Scarlet: Applies Vulnerability and Pacification to enemies The Pied Piper: Applies Poison to enemies Beowulf: Applies Burn to en |
| Astral Ascent x Ravenswatch update coming on Jan 19th! | 2026-01-13 | Worlds are colliding again! We are beyond thrilled to announce our upcoming collaboration with the incredible world of Ravenswatch, arriving next week! New EchoesThe heroes of Reverie join the Garden to support the fight against the Master as 5 powerful new Echoes. We’ve always been fans of Passtech Games, and adding Ravenswatch to our list of collabs is another very nice milestone for us.New Special Room: The Hourglass of DreamsWith this update, we’re also introducing a mystical new space: The Hourglass of Dreams, also inspired by the Ravenswatch universe, with a new mechanic for gambits! We'll keep some suspense for now, but keep an eye on |
| Celestial Haven DLC is live now! | 2025-11-24 | Hello everyone! :melhappy: Celestial Haven Charity DLC is out now! Complete patch-notes: 100% of our revenue of this DLC will go to charity for animals ! This update is special to us and more than ever, your support is greatly appreciated as all our revenues and the one from our partners MP2 Games (porting and distributing Astral Ascent on console) and Raccoon Business (distributing Astral Ascent on smaller stores) will be entirely given to Animals Protection Association One Voice. Buying this DLC will directly contribute to One Voice actions: Protecting animals from hunts (more than 1000 badgers and 100 000 birds saved this year alone) Sanct |
| Patch Notes - November 2025 - 2.4.0 | 2025-11-24 | ⭐Changes inspired by our community! Major Features The Save&Quit system has been adjusted, you can still save and quit at the beginning of a room but now if you have a crash it will automatically resume to the start of the room. Companion Pets (Paid Charity DLC): 5 Pets with 8 colors on each and 12 effects to customize them who can follow you during your runs, celebrate your victories and dig hidden treasures! Small Features You can now find Echoes of your hero during runs to allow you to have access to all the build Echoes Balancing Increased Sun Pieces multiplier limit from x3 to x10 depending on Destiny Levels The Cosmic Greed Telescope bo |
| Animals DLC coming on Nov 24th! | 2025-11-03 | Hello everyone! ːzimzimSmileː I am super happy to announce to you Astral Ascent new DLC : Celestial Haven Steam Page is live! https://store.steampowered.com/app/4116520/Astral_Ascent__Celestial_Haven/ And it will be releasing .... this month! On November 24th! As always, wishlists help us for visibility and are very appreciated if you will to support us! Meet 5 adorable companions who are going to come with you during your runs: Lupo are one of the rare animals found on Planet Lunides, often kept as pets by the royals due to their high intelligence and loyal and protective personalities Additionally, some specimens seem capable of small amoun |
| Prison Renovation Update is Live! 🔨 | 2025-10-16 | Hello everyone, I hope you are having an excellent day ːzimzimSmileːBefore we jump into the new Update of Astral Ascent, a few word about our next project! Last hours to get next Astral Ascent hero DLC for free!Upcoming new hero DLC of Astral Ascent voiced by Ben Starr is offered for free to backers of our new game Kickstarter alongside a ton of unique elements like exclusive early access to build and more! If you enjoyed Astral Ascent, I promise you will find again the same ingredients in a much more ambitious project and we are even very close to unlock a stretch goal for a Roguelike mode within the game and we are super hyped by that as yo |
| Patch Notes - August 2025 - 2.3.0 | 2025-10-16 | ⭐Changes inspired by our community! Major Features New categories have been added to the Aura Collector for Frostbite and Poison (Effect). community inspired ⭐ The Telluric Telescope may now be rerolled using Sun Pieces 13 Alternative Exploration Rooms have been added to the game community inspired ⭐ Weapon Passives at the Arsenal can now be purchased with Sun Pieces The Loot Affinity system has been reworked to align more with effects The Imprint System has been reworked: Total Imprints (per room) from 2 to 3 Unselected Imprints will no longer be found at Andromeda's Bar The Loot Affinity for Imprints has been significantly increased Players |
| New Hero DLC & New Game | 2025-09-18 | Hello everyone! We are so happy to announce our third game - Fallen Fates! The game is now on Kickstarter and you can also wishlist it here ! We have planned a ton of physical and digital rewards with access to early builds and much more!But that's not all, we are extremely happy to announce that Astral Ascent will get a new hero DLC coming in 2026 from Fallen Fates that will be voiced by Ben Starr. Arven will be coming with his own playstyle, set of spells and weapons!This Astral Ascent DLC will be free if you support the Fallen Fates campaign, so don't hesitate to support us there for that and many other rewards!Also no worries for Astral A |
| Update 2.2 is live now! | 2025-08-26 | Poetic Pandemonium update!We hope your summer is going great, on our side we are back with a new major update! ːzagplsː Take a look to the full Patch Notes below - Hub Customization A new NPC appeared in The Garden, The Yalee Builder! We hesitated for a long time to call this NPC "Leonardo Da Yalee" but thought it may not be fitting very well with the rest of the game, but at least you know it now haha You will have many places where you can add new assets, this feature was voted a lot by our Discord community about how to handle the extra Sun Pieces in late game!(We also noted other suggestions for later! ːtaurusSmirkː) But while making this |
| Patch Notes - August 2025 - 2.2.3 | 2025-08-26 | ⭐Changes inspired by our community! Major Features Hub Decorations: New NPC in the hub allows you to unlock and create many different assets in the hub so you can customize it as you want : 84 decorations await! New spells: 13 new spells have been added, including 2 each for Ayla, Kiran, Calie and Octave as well as 5 for Yamat! Ayla N360 Death Lotus Mana Cost: 2 Average Hits: 3 Average Damage: 171 at 3 hits N1000 Thousand Cuts Mana Cost: 3 Average Hits: 4-14 Average Damage: 171 at 9 hits Kiran Crater Maker Mana Cost: 2 Average Hits: 2-6 Average Damage: 160 at 4 hits Kiran Comet! Mana Cost: 3 Average Hits: 3-11 Average Damage: 210 at 7 hits Ca |
| Patch Notes - June 2025 - 2.1.0 | 2025-06-27 | ⭐Changes inspired by our community! Small Features community inspired ⭐ Electrified Area from Magnetic Field Aura now has its own icon in the damage meter to differenciate it from Lightning Orb community inspired ⭐ Multiple Fire shield Effects that are applied at the same time, such as by gambits on a spell, now all apply a burn pulse if Fire shield is already active. Balancing Auras: Ember Shock III: Increased duration of embers from 2 to 3 seconds The First Flame: Increased combustion damage from 50 to 60% Ardent Sprint III: Increased burn stack from 1 to 2 on dashes Fairy Revenge I/II/III: Reduced Cd for wisp when player is hit from 12 to |
| Update 2.1 is live now! | 2025-06-27 | Summer Barbecue Update!Summer is already hot super hot in France we have used Barbecue's flames to cook you a surprise an update with a lot balancing and bug fixing! ːtaffyː Take a look to the full Patch Notes below - We have fixed many bugs and balanced a lot of elements based on community feedback so we hope you will enjoy this new update to play during the summer!Update 2.2 preview!We are also already working hard on the version 2.2 including many assets to unlock and buy to customize your own hub, here are a few examples!You will have dozens of specific assets to select, that's a lot of graphical work with different themes such as Oasis, |
| Celebration Giveaway! | 2025-06-11 | Hello everyone! ːzimzimSmileːOur new game Fallen Fates is coming to Kickstarter in September, in just 3 months! As we are self-publishing this new game too we are mostly relying on the Astral Ascent community to help us making it visible and noticed, in order to make it interesting we are making a big giveaway!You take a look at our campaign and in exchange you can get :1 Ayla Figure3 Physical copies5 Digitals keys + DLCsClick here to participate to the giveaway and to get a chance to win prizes! We already have more than 1300 followers on the Kickstarter page, when we reach 5000 we will confirm the DLC of Arven in Astral Ascent !Arven will h |
| Help to unlock a new hero DLC ! | 2025-05-28 | Hello everyone ːzimzimSmileː A NEW JOURNEY - FALLEN FATES We have an amazing news to share with all you today, a new game named Fallen Fates! It is going to be by far our biggest game to date and if you love the fights, bosses, characters of Astral Ascent we are sure you will love what we are cooking with Fallen Fates! https://store.steampowered.com/app/3276270/Fallen_Fates/ Any share or wishlist of the game is greatly appreciated to help us get more visibility as we wish to self-publish this game once again! https://store.steampowered.com/app/3276270/Fallen_Fates/ UNLOCK A NEW HERO IN ASTRAL ASCENT First of all, this new project does not mea |
| Update 2.0 is live now! | 2025-04-30 | 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 r |
| Patch Notes - April 2025 - 2.0.3 | 2025-04-30 | ⭐Changes inspired by our community! Major Features New Alternative Worlds (Paid DLC): 4 new worlds to explore 5 new musical tracks 16 new traps and elements 32 new enemies Andromeda's Return (Paid DLC): Experience an exciting new battle Earn Andromeda's respect and the ability to summon her Witness Andromeda's Ending New Intro Room: The First Room is now separated in 2 rooms to have a less overwhelming experience 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 du |