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Verlet Ascend
Verlet Ascend is a physics based, action platformer with roguelike mechanics, a fully destructable procedurally generated environment, and rope swing physics. Fight creatures, loot enemies, upgrade your character, and climb your way up in an endless parkour.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-28.
“Verlet Ascend is an ambitious blend of roguelike action and physics-based platforming that challenges players to conquer a towering world through agility, experimentation, and persistence. Developed by Sagewind Studio and published by Stratera Games, the game distinguishes…”
— a player, Steam review · 11 hrs played“It's fine.”
— a player, Steam review · 3 hrs playedAchievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-28.
Latest official news
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Verlet Ascend 2.1 Patch Notes
Hey everyone! We have a small update that addresses some feedback and issues that we got from the release of 2.0. We hope that you are enjoying the 2.0 content. Changes In this version; -Made the firs
Verlet Ascend 2.0 is HERE!
Here is a list of changes for Verlet Ascend 2.0; Gameplay Enhancements: Improved Character Animations: - Sword IK polish. - Rope grabbing + Shotgun animation aim set. - Fixed head aim direction during
Publisher Plays: Verlet Ascend
Some gameplay of Verlet Ascend with both weapon options. Verlet Ascend free demo is now available during Steam Next Fest & full game launches on 28th of February.
Steam Next Fest Demo Update!
We are participating in Steam Next Fest, which will start on February 6 and last 7 days! We have great new features and content planned for the game, and some are already implemented, we have updated
Demo update 5 September
-Added controller support -Added key rebinding -Added options menu
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-28.
| Genres | Action, Indie, Strategy |
| Player tags | Action Roguelike · Action · Platformer · Singleplayer · Physics · Controller · Hack and Slash · Shoot 'Em Up · 2D · Underground · Precision Platformer · 2D Platformer (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Remote Play Together · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Greek, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Portuguese - Portugal, Romanian, Russian, S… |
| Controller | Full support |
| Achievements | 13 |
| Official site | https://stratera.co/ |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS *: Windows 7 or newer Processor: Intel Core i3-6100 / AMD FX-8350 Memory: 4 MB RAM Graphics: GTX 580 / AMD HD 7870 DirectX: Version 10 Storage: 200 MB available space