Darkblade Ascent

This game has not received an update in almost a year now at this point, and in its current condition, it feels very unfinished. I won't deny that I enjoy the game, but there really is not much here. If you've got a spare $10 laying around and don't have literally anything else to spend it on, I guess buy the game. Even then, however, there are other games I would recommend over this one.

It is a 2 second unity project meant to grab money. However, I still enjoyed it. Needs more quality. It is very basic and simple yet entertaining.

Abandoned.

Abandoned! Darkblade Ascent just totally sucked and just as bad as Chivalry 2 and they're both the worst! Way too repetitve and got less fun after playing it for 3 hours! Darkblade Ascent just hurts anyones sanity! 4/10

It looks like a talented level artist and a decent VFX artist have been passionately working on their levels and effects for a portfolio (i.e. for no real purpose) for quite some time, and one day they met and thought: "what if we combined our amazing art into a videogame?", and that moment was the inception of Darkblade Ascent. Don't get me wrong, level art and VFX are amazing here. But everything else is lacking, and most importantly - a basic understanding of what videogames are and why they can be fun. For example, an understanding of what words like "roguelike", "progression" and "decision making" actually mean. - It's not really a roguelike if all runs are the same. The only variety in this game may come from the "class" active ability (which the player chooses right before the run and which has a 15-second cooldown, so it has virtually no effect on combat) and from a weapon type (there is no significant difference between them and you are effectively forced to use just one type for the entire run). - It's not a satisfying progression when you can only unlock passive bonuses like "+7% sword damage" and things that should have been unlocked from the very beginning (like all …

I can not in good faith recommend this title to anyone. It has a few good bones but overall needs a lot of balance and fixing. There have been no updates in close to a year, so the game does seem to be abandoned. I enjoyed the first hour, then the tutorial forced me to play the arena mode to continue, and thus the game showed its ugly hand. I didn't continue playing the campaign after that so most of the following is regarding the arena mode (which is where the devs clearly intended for everyone to end up spending most of their time). Don't expect any sense of balance in this game. The enemies can shoot through eachother harmlessly, scale up in power faster than you can, and come in numbers which clog the arena and make it impossible for your stamina to keep up with defending or dodging. Mage projectiles can also hit you behind pillars because apparently you are the most insanely obese swordsman in the universe and your hitbox is just so wide that passing shots will get you. The temporal bubble was a cool idea and looks good, but you can fire spells through it at point blank to clear the field and any accidental interaction (like trying to collect a weapon that got ejected into …