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The Ascent 2 is a game I’ve hoped developer Neon Giant would make ever since I finished the wonderful The Ascent back in 2021 — and after speaking to the studio at gamescom, I’m convinced it’s now in the works.
Neon Giant is currently hard at work on No Law, a first-person Cyberpunk-style game with immersive sim elements set to be published by parent company Krafton. But it has also confirmed plans to turn The Ascent, which has had over 12 million players, into a franchise.
“It’s something we always wanted to do,” creative director and co-founder Arcade Berg told me. “Creatively, after we were done with the first The Ascent — that was a smashing success for us — creatively, we just wanted to go somewhere else. We weren’t ready to do more The Ascent there and then. And team size and also investment wise, we weren’t prepared for multiple projects.
“But one of the great things that we are now working with Krafton is that we now have backing and support that we can take creative risks. So together with them, we’ve actually built a franchise plan. We’re moving The Ascent from a game to a franchise.
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