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Ascent of Ashes
A colony sim set in a post-apocalyptic dystopia. Build and defend your base. Manage your survivors. Engage raiders, aliens, Remnant soldiers and other factions in real-time-with-pause combat. Or use stealth to outwit them. Explore the massive world. Survive at all costs
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-25.
“I think this games shows a lot of potential. The graphics are really cool, I really love the style of the game. I ran into a few bugs but not really show stoppers, I usually just had to save and reload to resolve them. The UI could use some work, I wish there was an easy way to…”
— a player, Steam review · 13 hrs played“facing a issue where no matter how prepped my guys are, I need metal and the only way is to do a expidion, the problem is the raiders are way too strong and evne if I send ALL my guys they just slaughter all my pawns. at its current state its just boring sitting at base, or your…”
— a player, Steam review · 2 hrs played“I like what they wanted to do with this one. A more fluid combat version of Rimworld. Sadly it will never be anything similar to Rimworld. Moreover since it seems there is only one guy left doing this on his sparetime then i suspect there will simply never be a game. Give money…”
— a player, Steam review · 7 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2025-10 via SteamCharts.
Price tracking
US-region pricing (USD), sampled twice daily by our own tracker since 2026-09-26. Steam prices vary by region — always confirm your local price on Steam.
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Cheapest → most expensive, converted to USD at ECB reference rates (2026-09-25). Relative comparison only.
Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
Run and Gun, Custom Starts, Mod Support: v0.2.0 Released
The game's first major content update launches today. While the bulk of the work was dealing with tech debt and refactoring systems in need of cleanup, there are several major new features that take a
Version 0.2.0 Progress
Hey guys, Let's talk about the upcoming update, new features and some related news. Animation Overhaul To start with, I completely overhauled the game's animation system and changed how animations are
November 2025 Progress
Hey guys, Let's talk about animation systems. Animation Trees and AI Interaction Last time we concluded the AI refactor portion of this upcoming update, this month we took a pass at the animation syst
October 2025 Progress
Hey guys, It's time for a brief progress update. AI Refactor I mentioned last time that this update will focus on a major under-the-hood overhaul of the AI and animation system in preparation for a ne
v0.1.6 Update
Minor hotfix update addressing several smaller issues. Fixes Fixed an error that occurred when a portal was destroyed while agents were trying to path through it. Corpses no longer incorrectly show as
Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-25.
| Genres | Adventure, Indie, Simulation, Strategy, Early Access |
| Player tags | Early Access · Strategy · Colony Sim · Base Building · Survival · Real Time Tactics · Immersive Sim · Management · Simulation · Building · City Builder · Crafting (Steam store community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English * * |
| Official site | https://vivid-storm.com/ |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS: Windows 10 Processor: i5 Memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics: 2048MB Storage: 4 GB available space