Description
"The definitive hard core strategy experience on the iDevice." - TouchMyApps.com
"Control the universe from the comfort of your iPhone.” [or iPad] “An incredibly satisfying strategy title that just keeps giving and giving. Highly recommended." - Imagine Publishing, KnowYourApps.com
“...an endlessly customizable sci-fi playground.” “Excellent replayability.” - Slide to Play, Jason D’Aprile
“Ascendancy is a true classic in the turn based strategy genre.” - TouchGen, Torbjorn Kamblad
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Just Play: no ads, no in game purchases, no non-game popups ... just pure game play.
Manage your planets, research new technologies, design ships, engage in combat, conduct diplomacy, and explore the cosmos. Once your people venture to the stars, they will encounter exotic spacefaring life forms.
Choose to lead any of twenty-one wildly different alien species. Each one has its own personality, evolutionary history, theme music, and approach to diplomacy. Strange effects abound: each species has its own special power, and technological advances allow you to bend the rules of the cosmos.
Combat in Ascendancy is turn based and occurs within star systems. It ranges from encounters between a few small ships up to large battles between as many as seven species at once, wielding fleets of ships with varying hull sizes and capabilities.
The new technologies the player can discover in Ascendancy allow enormous battleships to maintain a wide variety of devices including weapons, shields, and specialty gizmos that can change the course of a war with a single well-timed activation. The player controls combat: ship movement, firing weapons, raising shields, invading planets, planetary attacks on ships, and setting up combinations of moves so key gizmos can be used at the right time. At any time, the player has the option to activate the autopilot feature and watch combat run on-screen.
Ascendancy offers extensive diplomacy, communications options, and trading between species. Players can win through clever means that go beyond brute force.
Be a diplomat or a warlord. Win by force or by unity. Can you lead your people to Ascendancy?
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Thanks to players of Ascendancy for the great reviews, ratings, and comments. Please keep them coming!
We’re hard at work improving Ascendancy: incorporating suggestions, fixing rare bugs, and implementing long standing plans for the evolution of the game. Watch for updates on the App Store.
Check out The Logic Factory’s web site for videos explaining game play. And for personal responses to comments, suggestions, and questions please email contact@logicfactory.com.
What's New in Version 3.3.8
Species Art Update:
-Improved and increased resolution of species artwork, especially for iPad and iPhone 4.
-Increased resolution of some buttons on iPhone 4 and iPad.
-Improved management of artwork to reduce stress on memory.
-Improved data loading to speed app startup.
-Fixed a rare crash that occurred during ship target selection.
-Fixed a rare crash that occurred during diplomacy.
-Fixed a bug that allowed some ship actions to be skipped if the user exited the system view in the middle of an action.
-Fixed a bug with rotation in the research view.
-Fixed some minor user interface layout errors.
-Fixed a bug with tinting of system objects.
-Changed the resume game button to make its effect clearer.
-Made other improvements to increase the stability of Ascendancy.
Thanks for all the comments and reviews!
Detailed comments from customers help us prioritize the content of new updates.
As a small, independent developer every great review helps us keep improving our games. If you like Ascendancy please consider a favorable review or rating.
- The Logic Factory
contact@logicfactory.com
Customer Reviews
Quality Strategy game.
Within an hour of buying this game, I called my girlfriend, and told her that if she wants to see me, she may have to come and rip my iPad from my hands. I was never fortunate enough to play the DOS version, but a friend who played it and worshipped it like it was a god, squealed with glee when we found out Ascendancy had come out for iOS
After only a couple hours of playing, I was hooked. I was sending ships back and forth, exploring, exploiting, exterminating. Ascendancy is great for anybody who enjoys a good strategy game, or loves 4X games (eXpand, eXplore, eXploit, eXterminate) loving the update, it shows that Logic Factory is listening to its players. Great game, I've been playing it on my iPad for a good number of months, and still playing it. The best part? Yes you have to manage planets, but you can take all the time you want to decide what you want to do.
All In all, great game, and I have grown to love it. If you enjoy strategy games, i would recommend this game to you. Great Job, Logic Factory!
Needs a tutorial
The gameplay itself is addictive, fun, and enjoyable. Be prepared though - the only help you get are walls of text to an incredibly complex interface and game. As someone who hasn't played the original game, it took me almost four hours to figure out how to refit a ship, build a ship, get a ship out into other solar systems, etc. I'm still not 100% sure how to have planets attack ships, how to tell ship range, or any number of other things.
It'd be an easy five star if there was a basic tutorial or had more readable help dialogues. Also, the interface, while complicated, has serious annoyances. Why can't we skip ahead days while in planet view? We have to go out two levels to do that. It's infuriating.
It's also not a very good looking game - expect barebones aesthetics, clearly designed by engineers. It works, but it isn't "pleasant" to look at and the poor UI design compounds it into feeling cheap, though the gameplay is most certainly not.
Great game, bad bugs
I really want to give this game 5 stars but the slow updates and plethora of game-breaking bugs have been a problem since I first downloaded it several months ago. It's truly a fun game design (no thanks to the app developer) but the playability tanks with this implementation (no thanks to the app developer). The interface buttons are too small and inconveniently placed too close to each other, an easy fix. The sudden crashes are often and painful. If it would cease to crash and if I would stop getting ridiculous bugs like ships being suddenly warped back to the home planet after a 40 turn trip (over and over in a loop mind you, over hundreds of turns!), then I would consider upping my vote. But as for now, I feel so mediocre about the game, I'll only ever reinstall and open it upon updates to see if the issues are fixed. After months of waiting I won't get my hopes up. I can't recommend this game at this point.
- $4.99
- Category: Games
- Updated: Feb 27, 2012
- Version: 3.3.8
- Size: 68.2 MB
- Language: English
- Seller: Logic Factory International Publishing Limited
- © 1995-2012 The Logic Factory Inc. All rights reserved.
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad.Requires iOS 4.1 or later.
