Ashen
Ashen is a supernatural horror-themed FPS developed exclusively for the N-Gage platform. When Seven River City is plunged into chaos, stricken by storms and overcome with supernatural phenomena, Jacob Ward is…
Ashen is an adventure developed by Torus Games, released 25 May 2004 on N-Gage.
What Ashen is
Ashen is an adventure game developed by Torus Games and released in 2004. It was published by Nokia. It is available on N-Gage only. It runs on Symbian.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Ashen is a supernatural horror-themed FPS developed exclusively for the N-Gage platform. When Seven River City is plunged into chaos, stricken by storms and overcome with supernatural phenomena, Jacob Ward is filled with dread and despair, like most others. Yet Ward knows more about this catastrophe than most, and as its citizens flee, he must return to Seven River City and work to save it. Somewhere in that half-ruined darkness is his sister, a woman Ward believes is responsible for this disaster; a woman who warned him this would happen.
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action and horror. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer, Single player and Split screen.
How it was received
Ashen holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 64% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2004 averaged 70, so it scored 10 points above the year average.
What it launched against
Ashen launched on 25 May 2004, within three weeks of The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay, Thief 3: Deadly Shadows, Thief: Deadly Shadows and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4.
Released around the same time: The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay, Thief 3: Deadly Shadows, Thief: Deadly Shadows, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.
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