Dev Update: Ascendancy Preview 2
Rattleaxe Games
Hello Commanders! We'd like to show you some further progress we've made with the Ascendancy, and share the story of Algernon the Rat.
The story of the Ascendancy is the story of Algernon. After the Chroma Wars irradiates the planet with Chroma energy, the corpses the rats feed off start to evolve Algernon.
But the evolution is not permanent, without constant Chroma his intelligence starts to slip, as does that of the rat minions he raises up. And leading a nation of rats is not easy...
Meanwhile we've been working on our building pipeline for more animated structures while keeping our 2D sprite look.
And we now have the sprites for all the structures worked out, having done a few iterations for visual clarity.
Sorry for the short and infrequent updates, we've been too busy making faction to do the best job keeping people up to date. But it is almost done and coming out soon.
We hope you all enjoy the Ascendancy as much as we've enjoyed making it!
This announcement was originally published by Rattleaxe Games on Steam on Oct 31, 2026.
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