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The Ultimate 4x Fantasy Worker Placement Experience

Will You Build Your Legacy?

1-4 Humans     90+ Minutes    Ages 13+      

 Solo Mode | Head-to-Head | Allied Teams | Fully Cooperative | FFA

CHOOSE YOUR ROYAL HOUSE

House Kahnn - The Red Empire

Take on the role of an uncrowned noble heir.

House Valiss - The Green Keepers

Lead 1 of many asymmetric Houses of royal lineage, each vying for the throne.

House Raspute - The Purple Underworld

Reclaim your family name on a hero's (or villain's) journey spanning decades (turns), generations (game sessions), or scenarios (objectives).

House Roberts - The Blue Armada

Build your empire skyward, seize control outward, manipulate the economy, or dominate the battlefield. There are several paths to victory. Every decision counts, and no two games of Ascendancy are ever the same.

Anoint Powerful Champions

Choose which royal family members will lead your efforts on the battlefield.  Each character comes with unique strengths & weaknesses.

Discover the World of Ascendancy

Develop A Kingdom of Your Own Design

Journey a classic hex based Map.

Draw 2, Place 1 Location.  No two games will ever be the same.

Area Control Over Your Dominion

Each unique Location will test your Skills, and provide an adjacency bonus or penalty, depending on placement

Worker Placement - by Social Class

At the heart of the game is unique twist on this classic mechanic.  Based on Social Class Hierarchy, Reward Your Loyalists, Exile Your Traitors, or Promote Your Outlaws to Kings.

OUTCASTS

"Undesireable scavengers, your grace"

LABORERS

"Useful bodies your grace"

LOYALISTS

"Vetted, valuable citizens"

LORDS

"Our esteemed vassals, your grace"

ROYAL ADVISORS

"What is your will?"

MOUNT

"A trusty companion for any explorer"

 Each Decade (game round) has 4 Phases.  Each Phase has up to 6 competitve placement Actions for each player to choose from.

Phase 1 - The FRONTIER

Phase 2 - The SUPPLY

Eurogame Inspired Economics

Trade whatever you want, whenever you want.  The price of each resource is fully dynamic throughout each campaign, to simulate real world supply and demand. 

Green FOOD in short supply?  Time to get Farming, and make a handsome profit!  

Phase 3 - The ACADEMY

Phase 4 - The EMPIRE

Grow Your Personal Estate

Your Estate Buildings become new shared Actions, with up to 3 possible Tiers of power.  

Opponents can use them too!  After paying your fee…

Grow your Personal Tech Tree

Variable Player powers?  Each House has up to 29 unique techs to unlock!

Over 200 Unlockable Tech Cards

Every new Action card you unlock is a gateway to additional powers.

HARNESS THE POWER OF JOINING

Diabolical Game Controlled Nemesis Players and Bosses

If you’re a solo gamer, or want to make your multiplayer experience more challenging, you can add up to 3 Sovereign Nemesis players.  Choose from Standard or Hard difficulty modes.

Side A - Nemesis Player

Side B - Boss Unit

Side View JRPG Style Combat

Fight it out versus diabolically game controlled Creatures, or 100% optional VS other players. 

Place up to 3 Champions at a time, to counter up to 3 enemy units.

Rock Paper Scissors Combat, Combining Deep Strategy, and Tactical Decision Making.

Battles resolve quickly, with light dice chucking excitement.

Reap rewards for knowing when to push your luck, and when to manage risk.

Ascend Your Champions

Invest SKILL Resources to Ascend your Champions

Each Champion has multiple versions

24 Unlockable Champion Class Evolutions, 6 Schools of Elemental Magic, and Creature Summoning

ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED?

Epic Scenarios with Boss Battles

Unforgettable moments that will have you thinking & talking about them for a long time

Inherit Legacy Traits, Redeem Your Vices, and Gain Virtues

Legacy-Lite reward cards will persist across each game.

Your personality quirks are inherited from you previous generations.  But, you may redeem yourself through completing quests, and you’ll have the chance to turn your Vices into Virtues.  

Thematic Objectives

Draw a random backstory or win condition for each new generation of your Royal House.

Complete Quests

Complete Ascendancy Quests to advance your Workers, and gain Loyalty.

Rouge Like Loot

3 Tiers of rewards, dripping with nostalgia

Gear Up

Consumable Items are usable anytime.  After use, they flip to a scrap, which can be used for crafting.

Status Effects

18 fully stackable states of Joy and Suffering.  From Hasted Initiative, to Controling your enemies minds!

Play How YOU Want

Go Wide - Empire Expansion

Go Tall - City Building

Push Your Luck - Combat

Slow Roll Risk Mitigation

Economic Powerhouse

Superior Technology

A Great Community of Likeminded Gamers

Hundreds of convention floor & in-person playtests completed.  Great balance!

Meet the Designer

when you show your game at Gencon, only to be photo bombed by einstein

Hi, I’m Matthew.  Thanks for checking out my tabletop magnum opus..

The concept itself, was rather simple.  What if I took all the video game and fantasy elements I loved most, and put them all together in 1 epic game?

I’d want the color themes and escalating complexity of Magic the Gathering. 

It would need the epic scope, and political intrigue of Game of Thrones. 

I’d want the interesting decisions, and area control of Civilization. 

How about the side view combat of Final Fantasy?  Evolving towns, like in Heroes of Might & Magic? Or the multi-generation marriage decisions of Phantasy Star III?

After 5 years of development (and several “throw it out and re-do everything” revisions), this dream game is finally going to become a reality.

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Published by:

One More Turn Games

Contact:

matthew@ascendancy4x.com