Another extraction game? Somewhere out there, there are still people on management boards who get a self-satisfied thrill from the thought of having an extraction shooter in their portfolio, because they think they too will succeed like Fortnite and other copy-paste games. Of course, nobody stops to consider that the extraction genre already has more games than there are blatant Flappy Bird clones.

Ascendance squanders a decades-long wait with shallow combat, a one-dimensional new protagonist who retroactively damages the franchise's legacy, and a runtime so brief it barely justifies its existence as a standalone release. ​