Abandonia Presents: Ascendancy - Gameplay

[LetsGo6009]

I loved designing the ships!

[Nhirlathothep]

1995 too new for me, i already had my adolescential-pause from videogames

[bevivian22]

typo typo ^^ of course chance ;)

@aimson

no idea. I have prob. only 10 to 40%. everytime I have 2/3 of the galaxy occupied. After this I often played the game to the end (killing everyone^^). but even after this you can play further ^^.

A version of it is on the apple app market to buy. funny but before you could have downloaded as an abandoned software ;) (and Dosbox for example) (oh, the title says it already ; )

[bevivian22]

why is he not using his shields? (or didn't he know he have to activate them? ) ^^

interesting game with cool and very unique ships. sadly poor AI and with a really strong AI it would not be playable (the galaxy would be to complicated/defending occupied systems) the AI patch was not strong ;) (just AI "cheats" research and industry).

oh, and no change managing (and having fun) a bigger galaxy.

If you could have at least a list e.G. with 5 items the planet will build...

[Jinx1337]

The game has been ported to iphone/ipad by the people responsible for the original everyone!

[ColonelHess]

MY CHILDHOOD!

[AnotherSchmoe]

@ColonelHess:

Kids these days are missing out man. I never got into Ascendancy (though my dad had a copy of it around the house), but I was big on Master of Orion II. :)

[ColonelHess]

@AnotherSchmoe Yea man, I don't know where my copy come from, I got it handed down at least third hand, I played that for years until Master of Orion 3... Yes, my name is Colonel Hess, and I liked MOO3 :S

[aimson]

Anybody have a clue how the total game score is calculated? I can find absolutely no information on it and its damn frustrating.

[ih8makinusernames]

@aimson I can only imagine it's something to do with Time/size +tech, ships and colonies at end of game. but yeah I also have no idea.

[ThePizazzy]

I usually turn on the shield before invading the planets. None of them could hurt my ships. ;)

[Zambaku]

Is it hard? Looks like fun =)

[HardWarUK]

@Zambaku It's actually too easy, you need the patch that makes the AI be more aggressive, so play it without the patch and if it is not too easy for you, just don't download the patch.

[happosai27]

lol your shipdesign sucks! you need to activate shields! i love he music in this game. its still good after 15 years

[TheMindfiend]

Totally agree with Parnhawk. Ascendancy is one of my all-time favourites. How I miss it! The ability to outfit your ships exactly how you wanted was a key factor in that. Few games these days allow for that level of customization. And I loved placing the right buiding on the appropriate squares on a colony. Great nostalgia blast here, Abandonia, thanks for posting it.

[ParnHawk]

One of my favs...I still love this game..and I agree with Abandonia, the music is awesome and really suits the space exploration setting!

How I wished back those times when TBS games were in its prime.

Imagine this game was modable! Oh, the possibilities..

[smccuan]

Awesome game.

[Abandonia]

Yeah it's a  great game and has brilliant music to match!

[f16134]

I love this game. As good as Fragile Allegiance