TowerFall Ascension
Enter the land of TowerFall with your friends and engage in the noble and brutal tradition of bow-and-arrow combat. TowerFall is an archery combat platformer for 1-4 players, with an arcade co-op mode and…
TowerFall Ascension is an indie developed by Maddy Makes Games, released 11 March 2014 on Ouya, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita and Xbox One. It currently starts at $2.99 at Steam.
What TowerFall Ascension is
TowerFall Ascension is an indie game developed by Maddy Makes Games and released in 2014. It is available on Ouya, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Xbox One, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
TowerFall is an action indie video game created by Maddy Thorson through her company Maddy Makes Games, which would later become Canadian developer and publisher Extremely OK Games. In the game, players control up to four archers in a multiplayer platform fighter. It was released on the Ouya microconsole in June 2013 and was later ported to PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Linux, OS X, and Windows as TowerFall Ascension and to the Nintendo Switch under its original title of TowerFall.
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action and fantasy. It supports multiplayer. Local play supports 4 players. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player. There are 30 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
TowerFall Ascension holds a critic score of 87 out of 100. That places it above 90% of the 5,099 rated indie games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2014 averaged 69, so it scored 18 points above the year average. Players rate it 81, 6 points lower than critics did — a gap worth knowing about before you buy.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel Core i3 M380, 2 GB RAM and Intel HD 4000. At 2GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today.
What it costs, and where
The cheapest verified price right now is $2.99 at Steam, 80% below its usual price.
What it launched against
TowerFall Ascension launched on 11 March 2014, within three weeks of South Park: The Stick of Truth, Dark Souls II, Hearthstone and Diablo III: Reaper of Souls. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4. It arrived 1 year into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: South Park: The Stick of Truth, Dark Souls II, Hearthstone, Diablo III: Reaper of Souls.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for TowerFall Ascension yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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