Update log
Full Astral Ascent update
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Hello everyone! ːtaffyː
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First of all, we wish each and everyone of you an happy new year, may 2026 be a great year for you! ːmeltadaːOn our side 2025 was an amazing year! We announced our new game Fallen Fates, we kept making great updates for Astral Ascent including new DLCs and collabs with games we love: Children of Morta and Dead Cells.
We improved the overall game experience and it ended up being our best selling year for Astral Ascent, so thank you all so much for your trust in us and we are super motivated to keep bringing new updates and improve the game in 2026 starting today with the release of Update 2.5 : The Ravenswatch Sentinel, our 16th major update for Astral Ascent!
Before jumping into the content of this update and what comes next, we wanted to let you know about Ravenswatch if you don't know about it! [dynamiclink href="https://store.steampowered.com/app/2071280/Ravenswatch/"]They have an amazing set of characters, you can play it in co-op, it plays and feels amazing! They are also french developers and seeing how much they care about their game made us want to make a collab with them and we are so happy they accepted ːmelhappyː
When we announced this collab, someone from the community made this comment :
We could not agree more, they have been making great updates, great content and today they just released a new playable character : Merlin! Don't hesitate to check their game if you haven't already ːzagplsːWe even have a bundle with them ! [dynamiclink href="https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/63863"] Let's get back to Astral Ascent update! You can find full Patch Notes here - [dynamiclink href="https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1280930/view/505099282921032449"]
New Room : The Hourglass of Dreams
Inspired by the world of Reverie, the Sandman will allow you to upgrade your gambits rarity level for Quartz.
We think it wasn't fun to refresh many times the Itinerant Merchant at Andromeda's Bar to find higher gambits to improve your builds so we came up with this idea of being able to use your quartz but to increase gambits you already have so taking a common Gambit can be useful and you can level it up later!
It can also make your negative gambits become positive gambits!
New Echoes : The Vengeful Echoes
You can take 1 of these echoes when you visit the Hourglass of Dreams room, they are stronger than regular echoes and can only be found there. They are strong but they require a sacrifice, you need to sacrifice an Echo you already have in order to get one of them.
We think it's a great thing because if you have an echo made for a build you dont want you can exchange it for an echo that will work for your build as the 5 new echoes conver all the builds elements!
Improved onboarding
You may have noticed we had a delay on our announced 2.5 update which was supposed to be about improved onboarding and Ravenswatch collab was supposed to be 2.6 but the delays made us merge both updates in today's update and we could not do all the improvements for onboarding we had in mind we still made some of them!
The onboarding changes are there because you are so many telling us Astral Ascent has a lot of depth and is great to play but it also has a lot of mechanics to learn when starting the game and we hope new players can
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