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Ascend From Nine Mountains

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95%Game Brain Score
Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, story
Most mentioned negative aspects:graphics, grinding
95% User Score Based on 202 reviews

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Ascend From Nine Mountains is a single player tactical role playing game with fantasy and romance themes. It was developed by Nine Ascension Studios and was released on October 1, 2025. It received overwhelmingly positive reviews from players.

The heavens call. Will you answer? Ascend from Nine Mountains is an RPG inspired by Chinese mythology and cultivation stories. In its world you will craft legendary treasures, engage in deep tactical combat, and journey through an intricate web of characters and stories as you ascend to immortality. Begin as a mortal. Ascend through nine realms, each with their own unique mechanics and s…

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95%Audience ScoreBased on 202 reviews
gameplay22 positive mentions
grinding9 negative mentions
  • Extensive depth and complexity across multiple game systems including combat, crafting, and cultivation progression, providing hundreds of hours of engaging gameplay.
  • Highly customizable combat system with innovative stance and technique building allowing diverse playstyles and rewarding theorycrafting.
  • Active and responsive developer team regularly releasing meaningful updates, improving quality of life features, and engaging with the player community.
  • Heavy use of AI-generated art and music leads to inconsistent visuals and lowered immersion; many players hope for human-made assets in the future.
  • Combat animations and sound effects are often repetitive and lack flair, which diminishes the excitement of fights despite deep mechanics.
  • Late-game difficulty and complexity spikes can be overwhelming or frustrating, with balancing issues especially at higher cultivation tiers and pillar formation realm.

  • gameplay

    67 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    33% positive mentions, 63% neutral mentions, 4% negative mentions

    The gameplay is praised for its deep, complex mechanics that expand significantly as players progress, offering many hours of engaging cultivation, crafting, and combat systems. While some find the learning curve steep and the grind lengthy, the continuous updates and rich content keep the experience fresh and rewarding. Criticisms focus on AI-generated assets and some unclear tutorials, but overall, the gameplay loop is considered immersive, strategic, and highly enjoyable for fans of intricate indie games.

    • “Very complex, you could play this for days and get lost in the intricacies of the game mechanic.”
    • “Fantastic game with expansive mechanics and very regular updates and improvements.”
    • “The visual upgrades, additional content, and improved depth make this game a mechanical masterpiece; simply said, the insane amount of mechanics impressed me to a point I haven't yet experienced in other indie games.”
    • “Gameplay is horribly repetitive that I think everything is AI generated except the buy game button.”
    • “Crafting, UI, time system, and gameplay/story choices all feel like a jumbled mess.”
    • “While I tolerate hard-hitting combos in boss enemies that can be encountered on purpose, having brutal random encounters narrows gameplay down to a few general purpose builds, which significantly drains the fun out of it since fights are either one click win or one click lose.”

  • story

    40 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    35% positive mentions, 57% neutral mentions, 8% negative mentions

    The story is generally praised for its engaging characters, solid pacing, and faithful capture of cultivation genre themes, though some find it confusing or half-finished in parts. Players appreciate the meaningful side quests and lore depth, but criticism includes limited player choices, repetitive quest types, and complexity in certain progression mechanics like the pillar creation realm. Overall, it offers a fun, lore-rich narrative experience with room for refinement and expansion.

    • “The story and characters are interesting, and it really captures that sense of mystery and exploration the genre excels at.”
    • “Any fan of a good cultivation story will have a blast with this game.”
    • “The story is phenomenal, the crafting is fun and interesting, the combat is engaging, and there's always more to discover as you play.”
    • “I put about 70 hours in, but the game seems half-finished story-wise.”
    • “Crafting, UI, time system, and gameplay/story choices all feel like a jumbled mess.”
    • “There are various systems that the player can use to progress, but for the most part, to me, it feels like doing kill quests and crafting quests make up a large majority of progression.”

  • graphics

    11 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    27% positive mentions, 46% neutral mentions, 27% negative mentions

    The graphics are generally considered simple but effective, fitting the game's complex gameplay and cultivation theme. While some users appreciate the depth and smooth performance, others note inconsistencies in art style and reliance on AI-generated visuals, which can detract from the overall aesthetic quality.

    • “Great sound, great graphics and wow it's depth.”
    • “Graphics are great and speeding up combat doesn't change the frames or stutter.”
    • “Don't let the simple graphics fool you, this is a really nice cultivation game with pretty complex combat and crafting systems.”
    • “The art style between characters changes quite often, which becomes more obvious when the childishly drawn starting characters are next to the more adult drawn characters in the mid and late game.”
    • “Sadly, the artworks of the monsters you battle are also AI-generated, as well as a lot—if not most—of the game art in general.”
    • “No matter what the graphics are set to, the game lags.”

  • grinding

    9 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    0% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 100% negative mentions

    Grinding in the game is substantial, with around 50+ hours of play leading to repetitive material farming and farming specific items for optimization. While the semi-auto battle system reduces tedium, progression requires assembling complex setups and overcoming peak difficulty spikes through extensive grinding, which may appeal to some players but feel grind-heavy or frustrating to others.

    • “The game can get quite grindy at times and some materials are a pain to farm when you need to wait for a boss to spawn, but there's always a lot of other things to do.”
    • “Be aware that the game will become more and more grindy, which can be a plus to some and a con to others.”
    • “The game is a bit grindy at the moment, with around 50+ hours of gameplay required.”

  • music

    5 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    20% positive mentions, 20% neutral mentions, 60% negative mentions

    Users have mixed feelings about the game's music, noting it is AI-generated and somewhat noticeable, especially during vocal tracks where quality struggles arise. While some appreciate the clever use of AI, many hope the developers will commission or create original music for the full release to improve overall quality.

    • “On a different note, the game makes clever use of AI for art and music, and I didn’t actually notice that the music was AI until very late when a vocal track made it somewhat obvious since it struggled on some parts.”
    • “My one pain point for this game is the AI art and music. If the dev's Patreon income and the money from game sales indicate they have the funds to at least commission or hire an artist, then I hope they do so by the time it leaves early access.”
    • “Downsides: AI-generated art and music, both of which are kinda obvious and obnoxious. The specifics of a lot of mechanics are hard to pinpoint because the tooltips and tutorials are redundant or poorly done.”
    • “I do wish and hope that as the game reaches its full version, the developer moves away from AI used for the art and music.”

  • optimization

    2 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    100% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions

    The game offers an impressive level of optimization and theorycrafting depth, making it highly appealing for players who enjoy strategic planning. Despite being in early access, it provides a complete and engaging experience with a supportive community.

    • “A surprisingly complete experience despite being in early access. If you enjoy cultivation stories and/or theorycrafting & optimization, I would 100% recommend giving this a try. There is a lot to explore and a very positive community of players on the Discord.”
    • “This game excels at theorycrafting and optimization.”

  • humor

    2 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    100% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions

    The humor in the game is situational, with moments like confronting a young master rival eliciting mixed reactions depending on the player's combat style. Some players also find amusement in discovering the game through unconventional channels like external Discord communities rather than the official platform.

  • replayability

    2 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    100% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions

    The game offers high replayability thanks to its well-designed progression system, diverse skills, crafting, and builds. Additionally, frequent updates and responsive developers further enhance the experience. Despite being in early access, it already provides a substantial amount of content for players to enjoy repeatedly.

    • “Biggest pros are: very well thought-out progression, great skills, crafting and build diversity which bring great replayability, very reactive developers and fast pace of updating.”
    • “Despite being an early access game, it has a ton of content and really high replayability.”

  • monetization

    1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    100% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions

    The game's monetization is praised for being fair and balanced, avoiding pay-to-win mechanics common in mobile games, and staying true to the immersive experience of immortal cultivation genres.

    • “This immortal cultivation game aligns with what we have read from numerous light novels out there, unlike mobile games which easily outbalance the game with in-app purchases and so on.”
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Play Times

78h Median play time
105h Average play time
10-300h Spent by most gamers
*Based on 4 analyzed playthroughs
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Ascend From Nine Mountains is a tactical role playing game with fantasy and romance themes. Common tags for Ascend From Nine Mountains include turn-based, magic, auto battler, tactical rpg, crafting and others.

Ascend From Nine Mountains is available on PC, Windows and Linux.

On average players spend around 105 hours playing Ascend From Nine Mountains.

Ascend From Nine Mountains was released on October 1, 2025.

Ascend From Nine Mountains was developed by Nine Ascension Studios.

Ascend From Nine Mountains has received overwhelmingly positive reviews from players. Most players liked Ascend From Nine Mountains for its gameplay but disliked it for its graphics.

Ascend From Nine Mountains is a single player game.

Similar games include Hero's Adventure: Road to Passion, Wandering Sword, TROUBLESHOOTER: Abandoned Children, Trials of Fire, He is Coming and others.