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Tribes: Ascend
This edition packages weapon DLC from ten previous expansions as well new featured content.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-10-22 · quoted reviews as of 2026-10-15.
“2012: the year many tribes fans were dissapointed by the thought that Hi Rez didn't have the money to support this game further, and more so by the thought that SMITE was the real money maker. some folks thought that they were abandoning the game to milk the MOBA genre for…”
— a player, Steam review · 13 hrs played“This used to be the pinnacle of games, with its fast paced, action packed, pure joy multiplayer. Sadly, over the years it has faded away. It got abandoned by the devs, with just a last punch in the face when they removed the class system. Nobody plays this anymore, which is sad.…”
— a player, Steam review · 22 hrs played“Game was absurdly fun back in the day. Hi-Rez, sadly, elected to shunt it to the back burner to jump on the MOBA train, and now here we are. I don't know why I'm even bothering with this, they unlisted it from the steam store so no one will ever see it or any other reviews on…”
— a player, Steam review · 56 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players, self-collected from the Steam API since Aug 2026.
Price tracking
US-region pricing (USD), sampled twice daily by our own tracker since 2026-07-11. Steam prices vary by region — always confirm your local price on Steam.
Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
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
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
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
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-12.
| Genres | Action, Free To Play |
| Player tags | Free to Play · FPS · Multiplayer · Action · Shooter · Fast-Paced · Sci-fi · Futuristic · First-Person · Co-op · Massively Multiplayer · Open World (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Multi-player · Co-op · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English * , German, Russian, Portuguese - Portugal * |
| Official site | http://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