{"id":88918,"date":"2026-09-04T10:11:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T14:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=88918"},"modified":"2026-09-04T13:37:37","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T17:37:37","slug":"im-getting-my-hopes-up-for-the-ascent-2-after-the-developer-told-me-it-had-big-franchise-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=88918","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m Getting My Hopes Up for The Ascent 2 After the Developer Told Me It Had Big Franchise Plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<section data-transform=\"mobile-ad-break\">\n<p>The Ascent 2 is a game I\u2019ve hoped developer Neon Giant would make ever since I finished the wonderful <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/games\/the-ascent\">The Ascent<\/a> back in 2021 \u2014 and after speaking to the studio at gamescom, I\u2019m convinced it\u2019s now in the works.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt&#8217;s something we always wanted to do,\u201d creative director and co-founder Arcade Berg told me. \u201cCreatively, after we were done with the first The Ascent \u2014 that was a smashing success for us \u2014 creatively, we just wanted to go somewhere else. We weren&#8217;t ready to do more The Ascent there and then. And team size and also investment wise, we weren&#8217;t prepared for multiple projects.<\/p>\n<section data-transform=\"ignvideo\" data-slug=\"the-ascent-11-minutes-of-ps5-gameplay\" data-loop=\"\">\n<p>\u201cBut 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&#8217;ve actually built a franchise plan. We&#8217;re moving The Ascent from a game to a franchise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ascent 2 is a game I\u2019ve hoped developer Neon Giant would make ever since I finished the wonderful The Ascent back in 2021 \u2014 and after speaking to the studio at gamescom, I\u2019m convinced it\u2019s now in the works. Neon Giant is currently hard at work on No Law, a first-person Cyberpunk-style game with&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":88920,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88918"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88918"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88922,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88918\/revisions\/88922"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/88920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}