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Add Gamers Assembly Tournament result + allow anyone to create tournaments (todo configurable)
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Ancestral Players
Also known as Ancestral Players, ancestral players, ancestral-players
Hurl fiery axes into rivals' faces, fire arrows with surgical precision, or blast your buddies with explosive coconuts. Paint the arena with the blood of your enemies in this chaotic, skill-based PvP shooter where death is your greatest power-up.
Last update
2 Jun 2026
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14 updates
April 2026
- Nerfing the camping strat just in caseHigh tension will be x2 faster when 'out of bounds' on high grounds + add a tent icon wall hack. This is to prevent people to hide on rocks behind the map.
March 2026
- Gamers Assembly 2026 TournamentI have the honor to announce that Ancestral Players will be played at Gamers Assembly 2026 this 3-6 April! 1000e cashprize will be awarded to the top 8 players on stage Sunday 5 at 1PM . This should be retransmitted on…
February 2026
- Possible crash fix for some Intel GPUsSome players with Intel Gpus were crashing on startup. I removed the usage of double precisions floats on some shaders (because it is not supported by intel). Should be okay now, sorry for the inconvenience.
- Hello, We are participating in steam PvP Festival from today to 16 Feb. Everyone can play the demo and is invited to join us for a short tournament on the 15 of February to conclude the festival. Tournament Server open…Store
- Demo update #1Almost ~400 people tried the demo, and it helped me discover some new bugs and issues. I have addressed most of them is this update. I'm entering Steam PvP festival next week and will organize a tournament for the occas…
January 2026
- Demo Release & TournamentIt is time to close the Alpha and release a demo to the public. For the occasion, we organize a tournament on the 14 of January 8PM CET. I will release the demo a day or two before. The tournament servers are in Europe…
- Ancestral Players x Gamers Assembly HEAncestral Players was played for the first time in a LAN tournament during Gamers Assembly Halloween Edition 2025 on November 8th. (Yes I'm two month late to announce it.) The game was still in Alpha but we worked hard…
October 2025
- Alpha Tournament #2Second edition of the in-game FFA tournement (on the playtest app). Server is in EUROPE, tournament will starts at 9PM on Thursday 30 October (Paris time) Everybody is welcome :) discord event: https://discord.gg/Bj96YB…
July 2025
- FFA TOURNAMENTHi! We are organizing the first tournament ever or Ancestral Players on the 24 July ! Region: EUROPE , servers are in Germany Date: 24 July , 9 PM Paris time (UTC+2) , should be ~1h duration Game mode: Automatic Tournam…
April 2025
- Alpha Playtest #4 - After Gamers AssemblyWe had the pleasure to expose our game for the first time at Gamers Assembly 2025, biggest LAN in France: the public reception was better than expected. It was so cool to see people enjoying our games. I was afraid the…
January 2025
- Alpha Playtest #3Hi!, I'm gonna open a few servers today and give access to the new players that have registered to the playtest. So if you wanna play, come in time. 9PM CEST (3PM EDT). There will be servers in Europe and North America.…
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Community progression
Top picks from 10 Steam achievements, sorted by player unlock rates.
- Double KillTwo successive kills.83.0%
- Watermelon Slice KillMake a kill with watermelon slices.66.9%
- Water Bounce KillMake a kill bouncing on the water.58.0%
- Triple KillThree successive kills.38.1%
- Medium winWin a game against bots in medium difficulty.25.0%
- Trampoline KillMake a kill using the trampoline.23.7%