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Tribes: Ascend

Tribes: Ascend

This edition packages weapon DLC from ten previous expansions as well new featured content.

Released Jun 27, 2012 Developer Hi-Rez Studios Platforms Windows Free to PlayFPSMultiplayerActionShooter
View on Steam ↗ Free (US · as of 2026-07-26)

What players say

Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Data as of 2026-05-20.

80.9%positive8,585 reviews
Recommended · 13 found this helpful

“I am saddened to be in the timeline where this is a dead game”

— a player, Steam review · 93 hrs played
Recommended · 11 found this helpful

“I had hundreds of hours in this game when Hi-Rez decided to abandon it. This was one of my absolute favorite competitive games. Ridiculous. Tragic.”

— a player, Steam review · 0 hrs played
Not recommended · 1 found this helpful

“The game has been dead for a number of years, so anyone that wants to still try it out, you have to get some friends and search `wilderzone.live` with their launcher, TribesLauncherSharp on github. There are some community servers running, but they're likely to be empty most of…”

— a player, Steam review · 0 hrs played
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Price tracking

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Latest official news

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Apr 02, 2016
Ultimate Weapon Pack is $5

http://i.imgur.com/n7ai1aC.jpg

Mar 30, 2016
Tribes: Ascend 1.3 - Patch Notes

http://i.imgur.com/KGRO2LR.jpg Gameplay Hellfire is now available to play for CTF and Blitz and has been added to all appropriate server map rotations. Votekick percentage increased to 45%, up from 35

Mar 09, 2016
March NA Draft Information

http://i.imgur.com/wnqgG8z.jpg?1 March NA Draft Information Date & Time The draft will be on March 12th/13th; picking will start at 4PM EDT on the 12th. Group stages will start at ~5PM EDT. For the te

Mar 03, 2016
Newblood Workshop This Saturday 3/05/2016

http://i.imgur.com/RpQg1Ia.jpg?1 What is a newblood workshop? Teaching new players how to play PUGs (7v7 with coms), run routes, as well as how to fight enemies and so on.There will be Mentors for eac

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Screenshots

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Facts & details

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GenresAction, Free To Play
Player tagsFree to Play · FPS · Multiplayer · Action · Shooter · Fast-Paced · Sci-fi · Futuristic · First-Person · Co-op · Massively Multiplayer · Open World (SteamSpy community voting)
FeaturesMulti-player · Co-op · Family Sharing
LanguagesEnglish * , German, Russian, Portuguese - Portugal *
Estimated owners1,000,000 – 2,000,000 (SteamSpy)
Official sitehttp://www.tribesascend.com
Minimum system requirements (PC)

Minimum: OS *: Windows XP SP2, Windows Vista or Windows 7 Processor: Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz or Althon X2 2.7 GHz Memory: 2GB (XP), 3GB (Vista, Win7) Hard Disk Space: 10 GB free Video Card: ATI or Nvidia graphics card with 512MB video ram or better and Shader Model 3.0+ support. (ATI Radeon 3870 or higher, Nvidia GeForce 8800 GT or higher). DirectX®: 9.0c Sound: DirectX compatible sound card