Death: The Ascension

Death: The Ascension

Dystopian Ruler · October 20, 2020 · Roguelike Deckbuilder, Tabletop, Management, Medieval, Card Game

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Death: The Ascension price by region

Death: The Ascension costs $3.29 in Georgia (USD), £4.29 in the United Kingdom, $4.99 in the United States, €4.99 in Europe (EUR), CA$6.49 in Canada, NZ$7.39 in New Zealand, A$7.50 in Australia, R$16.99 in Brazil and zł22.99 in Poland right now.

Cheapest Death: The Ascension offer in each region, in local currency
RegionBest priceOfficial storeKey shopStores
Georgia (USD) $3.29 $3.29 — 1
United Kingdom £4.29 £4.29 — 1
United Statesyour region $4.99 $4.99 — 1
Europe (EUR) €4.99 €4.99 — 1
Canada CA$6.49 CA$6.49 — 1
New Zealand NZ$7.39 NZ$7.39 — 1
Australia A$7.50 A$7.50 — 1
Brazil R$16.99 R$16.99 — 1
Poland zł22.99 zł22.99 — 1

Each row is a real price from that region's own stores, not a currency conversion, so the figures are not directly comparable. Switch regions in the header to shop the one you buy in.

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About Death: The Ascension

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You found true love and lived happily with your wife. That was until her death made you alone again.

The next moment, you found yourself in the presence of Death itself. Death offered you a deal to get your wife back.

However, her life had a price that you must pay at the end of your mortal life. Fail to pay, and you will lose your soul.

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You play cards that represent an action you could take, all actions have 4 different outcomes 2 good and 2 bad, each card has its unique chance that is affected by your resources and you.

"High risk, High reward"

Resources are needed for paying the price, death has given you a chance but you need to pay, so instead of getting powerful for the final boss, you need to be as greedy as possible to have enough to pay at the end.

"The rich get richer and the poor get poorer"

You can change drastically the chance of your action negatively or positively by using the soul extraction/infusion power you were granted by death so you may have a chance.

“Souls are the most valuable resource”
-The Grim Reaper

Gathering resources is not enough. You also need to "ASCEND" by climbing one of the 3 paths at every step you will face a decision you must take.

Everything is up to chance, but as in life the more you "sacrifice" the better the chance is.

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  • GOLD - as much as you can.
  • LOVE - too much can be distracting.
  • FAME - bow before the king.
  • LAW - no one is above the law.

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You start your new life with the desire to make gold, to change fate, and hatred for this world.
  • 4 Gold cards
  • 1 Hate card

Each card has 4 outcomes:
  • Terrible
  • Bad
  • Good
  • Formidable

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You can change the outcome of a card in 2 ways.

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Gathering resources affiliated with the card.

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Using SOULS to change the chance.

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Sacrifice the chance of a card to get souls, but get a terrible outcome.

Sacrifice souls to get a better chance at the card you play for a formidable outcome.

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From GOLD, LOVE, FAME, and LAW to SOUL and back.

At insane exchange rates.

“Would rather starve than lose your wife?”

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Use your blood to perform rituals:
  • Destroy one of your desire (card)
  • Become a new self (random card from the deck)
  • Devil Bet (pay blood to receive wealth or lose years out of your life)


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You chose your own path to the God gamble:
  • the PURE path
Proves little challenge but no hate or blood.
  • the OPORTUNIS path
The balance between hard encounters and rewards of hate and blood.
  • the CORRUPTED path
The hardest path, but with lots of hate and blood.

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Death has his own deck of cards base on the path you take, Death could burden you or help you.

Every Death card has 3 results

  • The Intention
The default card effect if no action is taken.

  • The Prevention
Using a blue gem card.
Prevents the bad effect or amplify the good one.

  • The Elimination
Using a red gem card.
Remove the card from the Death deck.

Every death card has a different blue/red gem card.

Death: The Ascension — game info

Platforms
Windows
Player modes
Single-player
PC Game Pass
Not included

What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

Recommended Feb 14, 2021
A ton of style. Interesting card-based and resource management game. The the developer clearly wants to try new things but did not cut any corners along the way - hand-drawn art, music, game design right up front. Expressive work, really really nice
6 found this helpful
Not recommended Dec 5, 2021
♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ game! Way too hard. The chances are pretty much stacked against you... and if you slip in a hole once you constantly get punished for it. Sad because the concept is interesting.
3 found this helpful
Not recommended Jul 31, 2021
A horrible experience. Avoid at all costs. The game is full of confusion, and neither the tutorial or the video on YouTube give you a real clue what to do. I found a few things out my guessing, bur example at one point it said I had to click the blue skull to advance, and there wasn't one, only a red one, and clicking on that did nothing. Turning out that despite the instructions, I had to scroll up to see new options, (no skills) to click on. Even on the easiest of settings it is brutally hard. You died if you have a shortage of one of the vital resources, but only sometimes as I have gone turns with negative cash and not died, sometimes. The last game I played I died three times in five cards, with no chance or opportunity that I could find or understand to even try to get the resource I needed! And this was on the easiest setting. The random factor seems way out of wack as well. You can change the odds with the use of the red (negative?) gem and earn a soul or souls, or the green (positive?) gem at the cost of a soul or souls. More often than not though, I pick the red gem, and the chance of a good outcome goes up? Bizarre. And while unexpected outcomes are always possible whe…
3 found this helpful
Recommended Apr 21, 2021
Lovely Art and User Interface No Performance Issues
2 found this helpful
Recommended Mar 13, 2022
Good alternative to all the card battler games out there. Instead of PvP or player vs AI, you're fighting entroy (Death) gradually wearing you away every round. You play cards to try and stay alive so you can ascend the ladder, which then gives you more choices to make with regards to your resources. A really interesting game and a great deal (especially if you find it on sale)
1 found this helpful
Recommended May 8, 2025
Pretty fun game. Not as hard as some other reviews make it out to be, it does require a decent dose of luck, though. There are some typos, which is less ideal. But nice game overall.

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