How many copies has The Ascent sold?

indielist estimates The Ascent has sold between 790,314 and 1,844,066 units (median 1,317,190), derived from its 18,817 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Who developed The Ascent?

The Ascent was developed by Neon Giant and published by KRAFTON, Inc..

Who published The Ascent?

The Ascent was published by KRAFTON, Inc., developed by Neon Giant. See KRAFTON, Inc.'s full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

When was The Ascent released?

The Ascent was released in 2021.

How many reviews does The Ascent have on Steam?

The Ascent has 18,817 Steam reviews, of which 74% are positive.

Is The Ascent worth playing?

Steam players rate The Ascent 74% positive across 18,817 reviews. indielist doesn't score games editorially; it surfaces public review sentiment and a white-box sales estimate so you can judge reception and reach yourself.

The Ascent

Jul 29, 2021 Action $29.99

Developer Neon Giant Publisher KRAFTON, Inc.

Profile updated Jul 2026

Top-down shooter action indie game with cyberpunk RPG progression and co-op play. Released in 2021 by developer Neon Giant and published by Krafton Inc, it has 24,384 Steam reviews at 74% positive and an initial price of $29.99.

The Ascent is a 2021 Action game developed by Neon Giant and published by KRAFTON, Inc.. On Steam it has gathered 18,817 player reviews, 74% of them positive, which counts as a mixed-to-positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $30. The pairing of developer Neon Giant with publisher KRAFTON, Inc. is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Action projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 790,000 to 1.8 million units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, The Ascent can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

18,817

Positive

74%

Steam appid

979690

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

Unavailable

Sales estimate

v1.0

790K to 1.8M

units (median: 1.3M)

≈ $13.5M to $31.6M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

790K median 1.8M

+ How is this calculated?

18,817 reviews × NB(70) = 1,317,190 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2021	+15
price_$30	+5
positive_74%	0
final NB	70

Heuristic display range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].

Methodology & limitations

Sales estimates use an additive Boxleiter-derived heuristic against public Steam review counts. They are not authoritative sales data, and the fixed display range is not a statistically validated confidence interval. Actual results may fall outside it, especially for deeply discounted or bundle-heavy titles. Algorithm version v1.0. Read the exact method and validation status.

indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for The Ascent at roughly 790,000 to 1.8 million copies, with a median around 1.3 million, derived from its 18,817 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $22.6M in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.

Price history

50 observed days · window low $29.99

Across 50 observed UTC days from 2026-06-03 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $29.99 to $29.99. The tracked-window low was $29.99 on 2026-06-03.

Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.

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Platforms

windows

Frequently asked questions

How many copies has The Ascent sold?: indielist estimates The Ascent has sold between 790,314 and 1,844,066 units (median 1,317,190), derived from its 18,817 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed The Ascent?: The Ascent was developed by Neon Giant and published by KRAFTON, Inc..
Who published The Ascent?: The Ascent was published by KRAFTON, Inc., developed by Neon Giant. See KRAFTON, Inc.'s full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was The Ascent released?: The Ascent was released in 2021.
How many reviews does The Ascent have on Steam?: The Ascent has 18,817 Steam reviews, of which 74% are positive.
Is The Ascent worth playing?: Steam players rate The Ascent 74% positive across 18,817 reviews. indielist doesn't score games editorially; it surfaces public review sentiment and a white-box sales estimate so you can judge reception and reach yourself.

Players looking for games like The Ascent can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as Last Epoch, Hatred, Enshrouded, Torchlight II, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Neon Giant's other releases and KRAFTON, Inc.'s wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where The Ascent sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same The Ascent page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Action game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.

Matched from shared Steam tags and primary genre. Review count breaks ties; it is not a personal recommendation score.