Evercore Heroes : Ascension

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Evercore Heroes : Ascension is a single player role playing game. It was developed by Vela Games and was released on September 18, 2025. It received neutral reviews from players.

Evercore Heroes: Ascension is a roguelite where you master unique heroes with distinct playstyles through challenging, procedurally generated missions. Battle deadly monsters and bosses while recovering shattered Evercore fragments to restore balance in a world threatened by corruption. Every run demands strategy, adaptability, and skill to protect Lumerea’s magical core.

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44%

Audience ScoreBased on 133 reviews

gameplay13 positive mentions

replayability3 negative mentions

The game has a solid foundation with enjoyable gameplay mechanics and character designs that show potential.
The developers are responsive to community feedback and have made quick updates to address initial issues, such as adding duo queue shortly after launch.
The art style and environments are visually appealing, contributing to an engaging atmosphere during gameplay.

The game has been abandoned shortly after its 1.0 release, with the removal of multiplayer functionality, which was a core feature.
Many players feel scammed due to the lack of promised content and features, leading to a perception of the game as abandonware.
The gameplay is criticized for being repetitive and lacking depth, with many mechanics feeling unbalanced and unrefined.

gameplay
30 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
43%
47%
10%
The gameplay is characterized by a solid core loop that combines smooth combat mechanics with unique character abilities, promoting engaging encounters and team coordination. However, players have noted issues with balance, repetitive enemy encounters, and excessive loading screens that disrupt immersion. While the game shows potential for depth and improvement, it still requires significant refinement before reaching its full potential.
- “The gameplay loop is fun; I enjoy the climb through each encounter.”
- “Fluid gameplay: combat feels smooth and responsive, making each run engaging.”
- “Evercore Heroes mixes rogue-like gameplay with fun team strategy, making every match feel fresh and exciting.”
- “Every enemy encounter, including the 'raid boss', had the same gameplay of attack -> move to dodge -> repeat.”
- “Balance is awful, gameplay is mid.”
- “The gameplay is just boring.”
character development
10 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
30%
40%
30%
Overall, the character development in the game is highly praised for its unique and engaging designs, with players appreciating the art style and the depth of upgrade choices. While still in early stages, the character designs, particularly for heroes like Lotus, stand out as interesting and fun, contributing to a solid gameplay experience. The improvements in gameplay and worldbuilding further enhance the appeal of the characters.
- “The worldbuilding is great, the character design is great, and since the beta, the gameplay has drastically improved from clunky to genuinely engaging.”
- “The character designs are unique, and the upgrade choices are more compelling than just '+x% damage to basic attacks.'”
- “I really like the character designs, particularly Lotus, one of the most interesting support hero archetypes I've played.”
- “While still in its early stages, it shows great potential, especially in its core gameplay and character design.”
graphics
8 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
75%
12%
13%
The graphics of the game are highly praised for their appealing art style and character designs, which contribute to a clean user interface and a strong aesthetic. Reviewers appreciate the variety in settings and characters, noting that the visuals enhance the overall gameplay experience.
- “I absolutely love the art style and character designs in this game.”
- “The different settings are cool, the art style’s great, and I’m loving the variety between the characters.”
- “Pros: great art style and character design.”
- “Graphically, it's pretty disappointing.”
replayability
5 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The game features a solid replayable co-op roguelite experience, with five strike missions and procedurally varied encounters that enhance replayability. Additionally, hints of future content expansions suggest potential for even greater depth and variety, responding to player feedback before the final release.
- “Procedurally varied encounters for high replayability.”
- “There are hints of additional systems in development, which could add depth and replayability.”
- “The game already offers a complete, replayable co-op roguelite experience.”
- “This ideally gives us the flexibility to expand content, respond to feedback, and ensure the game delivers the right level of depth, variety, and replayability before hitting 1.0.”
story
5 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
40%
60%
The game's story aspect is notably lacking, with no narrative elements present in the five replayable strike missions, which focus primarily on challenging gameplay and team coordination. Players express frustration over the absence of a cohesive story and various gameplay mechanics that detract from the overall experience.
- “No story - pass.”
- “Not even the normal missions at a lower player count.”
- “Some weird things - not being able to see your teammates in town, the party disbanding after a mission so you have to invite again.”
optimization
4 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
25%
75%
Reviews indicate that while the game initially promised significant content updates, including new biomes and heroes, the current focus appears to be solely on enhancing polish and performance. Overall, users report that the art, animation, and system performance are already solid, with improvements in optimization being well-received.
- “Good performance.”
- “This is what they said would be included in the game's 1.0: '3 biomes, 12 unique heroes, a new progression system, new enemies, and polish and better performance.' Now it is saying it will have nothing but polish????”
- “Art, animation, VFX, and system performance are already quite solid.”
- “Enhanced polish and performance.”
music
3 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
67%
67%
The music in the game has received largely negative feedback, with users criticizing it as either poor quality or too low in volume, overshadowed by character sounds. While one user found it suitable for freestyling, the overall consensus is that the music fails to enhance the gaming experience, which is particularly disappointing for a roguelike where music plays a significant role.
- “The music is good enough to freestyle to!”
- “Music is such a massive part of roguelikes, and here it's either missing entirely or extremely low volume.”
- “The sounds are all bad, the music is bad... I legit can't think of a single thing I actually enjoyed in this game.”
- “Music is such a massive part of roguelikes, and here it's either missing entirely or extremely low volume, as all I could hear the entire time were grunts from my character.”
monetization
3 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
100%
The monetization strategy of the game has been criticized for prioritizing cash grabs through the release of skins and heroes over meaningful updates and player feedback, leading to community dissatisfaction and a perception of favoritism from community leaders. Players feel that the developers are neglecting essential game improvements in favor of profit-driven decisions.
- “The community player leads have killed the game with favoritism and biased feedback. The community manager has neglected the NA community, and the developers ignored player feedback by releasing talents for the old version instead of addressing issues. Instead, they focused on releasing more skins and heroes as a cash grab.”
- “The new version doesn't even save your settings, which says a lot about how this development team operates.”
- “It feels like the developers are more interested in making money than improving the game experience for players.”
humor
3 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
100%
Reviewers find the audio setting of the game to be exceptionally funny, contributing significantly to the overall humor experience.
- “The audio settings are absolutely hilarious.”
- “The game's witty dialogue had me laughing out loud.”
- “The humor is cleverly woven into the gameplay, making every moment enjoyable.”
grinding
1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
100%
Players find grinding to unlock new heroes to be an enjoyable and challenging experience, adding depth to the gameplay.
stability
1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
100%
The game's stability is marred by poor controls and frequent glitches, particularly with directional targeting, leading to a frustrating user experience.
- “Poor controls and odd glitches with directional targeting.”

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Evercore Heroes : Ascension is a role playing game.

Evercore Heroes : Ascension is available on PC and Windows.

Evercore Heroes : Ascension was released on September 18, 2025.

Evercore Heroes : Ascension was developed by Vela Games.

Evercore Heroes : Ascension has received neutral reviews from players. Most players liked this game for its gameplay but disliked it for its character development.

Evercore Heroes : Ascension is a single player game.

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