Astral Ascent, a 2D platformer rogue-lite on PC and consoles with four worlds to escape, if you can beat the Zodiacs, 12 mighty bosses!
Latest Updates from Our Project:
Ravenswatch Sentinel Update!
2 months ago
– Mon, Jan 19, 2026 at 08:00:32 AM
Hello everyone!
First of all, I wish to all of you an amazing year 2026 🌟
We are announcing today our 16th major update since the game release and 13th free update!
This time it is a collaboration with Ravenswatch game!
Ravenswatch just released a new character named Merlin and they keep making great updates to support their game so we definitively recommend you to check their game and there is a bundle to get 10% off
Charity DLC is live!
4 months ago
– Mon, Nov 24, 2025 at 08:13:14 AM
Hello Everyone!
I am so happy to announce that the Celestial Haven DLC is now live on Steam!
The update introduces a brand-new area in the main hub where five fluffy animals will find their new home. Players can watch them interact, move around, and even pet them. But these companions are more than just cute: they’ll also become valuable allies during the runs.
On each escape attempt from the prison, your chosen pet — which can be customized with many different color combinations and trail effects — will faithfully follow you through the biomes, using their instinct to sniff out and dig up special rewards across the rooms. True to their cute nature, they’ll also cheer you on during your journey — celebrating when you defeat a Zodiac after a tough battle, level up, or perfect a room.
100% of the revenue donated to charity for Animals!
Beyond caring for animals in-game, players will also be supporting real ones: the studio will donate all the money received from the DLC’s sales to One Voice, a French animal welfare organization that for 30 years has been defending animals around the world against violence and abuse. Hibernian Workshop’s publishing partners have also joined the initiative, ensuring that 100% of the revenue goes directly to the charity.
Designed to fit all pockets, the DLC will offer players the chance to support the cause for a symbolic price of $2.99. Through this initiative, the studio aims to make a positive real-world impact through its work and the support of its community.
Extra support tiers
Gamesplanet, a major PC storefront, is also supporting the initiative by waiving its commission and providing additional pricing tiers, enabling players to contribute even more to the cause.
On the retail platform, beyond the base $2.99 price, players will be able to choose from two higher tiers — $4.99 and $14.99 — to support even further. The studio’s goal is to keep the DLC accessible to everyone while still allowing the community to increase their contribution to the animal protection effort if they wish to do so.
You can find out more about this new content and One Voice initiatives in our last Steam news!
New Roadmap
We are super happy to announce a new roadmap for end of 2025 and 2026 for Astral Ascent, still a lot of very exciting to come!
Thanks everyone and have an excellent week ahead!
-The Hibernian Workshop Team
Prison Renovation Update + Last Chance for free DLC
6 months ago
– Thu, Oct 16, 2025 at 10:06:22 AM
Hello everyone, I hope you are having an excellent day zimzimSmileBefore we jump into the new Update of Astral Ascent, a few word about our next project!
Last hours to get next Astral Ascent hero DLC for free!
Upcoming new hero DLC of Astral Ascent voiced by Ben Starr is offered for free to backers of our new game Kickstarter alongside a ton of unique elements like exclusive early access to build and more!
If you enjoyed Astral Ascent, I promise you will find again the same ingredients in a much more ambitious project and we are even very close to unlock a stretch goal for a Roguelike mode within the game and we are super hyped by that as you may imagine! So don't hesitate to pledge to get the free AA DLC, exclusive rewards and support us, even $1 helps by adding even more people to the campaign and making us keep our full independance for this new project!
Prison Renovation Update
This update focuses on many QoL update asked by the community to make the game even better!
Reroll Telescope with Sun Pieces
For those of you having a lot of Sun Pieces and wanting to optimize, you can now reroll the Telescope choices for Sun Pieces!
Imprints Rework
You now find 3 imprints per room instead of 2
Unselected Imprints will no longer be found at Andromeda's Bar
When you pick a spell on ground, your imprint is kept
Affinity to find the right imprints for your build has been greatly improved
New option
It has been asked us a lot, so we added an option to be able to remove Dead Cells heads in the game for the Dead Cells weapons, we have added an option in the Gameplay section!
First spells improvements
When you start a run you select your first aura and then you select your first Spell but this spell sometimes is now of the affinity that you want, now the 5 starting spells cover all affinities so you always have something to go with your build there!
Additionally, the Telluric Ruins, the fourth room of your runs giving you an extra spell for free also sometimes did not have something to go with your build. Now all spells there are of a different affinity to cover all possibilities and when you reroll them it's extremely fast while before it was very slow.
Unlock Weapon Passives with Sun Pieces
It has been required a lot by the community so we added it : you can now buy Weapon Passives with Sun Pieces, the prices are in 3 categories :
1000 sun pieces for easy challenges
3000 sun pieces for medium challenges
5000 sun pieces for hard challenges
13 New Exploration Rooms
We have added 13 new exploration rooms to make your runs vary a bit more. We have been working with community member Pac & community member Lightbringer for QA as they know the game very well (more than 1300 hours on the game combined) and we worked with Lightbringer to bring these new levels in the game!
Increased movespeed
We have increased base movespeed by nearly 20% making it smoother to explore the maps and runs overall faster
Increased affinity system
We know it can be frustration when you do not find the right elements to make your perfect build and we have increase the affinity system strength so you will be more likely to find elements of your current build!
Celestial Haven DLC
We are working on a new DLC named the Celestial Haven and 100% of the benefits of this DLC will go to charity for Animals!
We will make this DLC not expensive so as many of you can take it and so we can all be donating a little to support real animals
You will have a new place in the hub with animals there!
This new sanctuary is kept by a Yalee in a costume, and there is 5 companions :
they will have many different animations and also many different skins
You will of course be able to pet them and you can go with them during your runs!
We are planning this update for the end of November, very soon!
DLC featuring Ben Starr & New Game!
7 months ago
– Thu, Sep 18, 2025 at 07:59:42 AM
Hello everyone!
I am so excited to announce to you our third game - Fallen Fates!
We will never thank you enough for being there to trust in our small studio back in 2021, your support allowed us to make an amazing roguelite that is still being updated to this day and allow us to self-fund our game and develop it beyond our wildest dreams and we hope Fallen Fates will be the continuity of this journey for us!
But we are not coming empty handed, we are so happy to announce that Fallen Fates hero will be a DLC hero playable in Astral Ascent and voiced by Ben Starr!
Arven will be coming with his own playstyle, set of spells and weapons!
We are aiming to release this DLC on Astral Ascent in 2026 and it will be free for all Fallen Fates backers!
Don't hesitate to check the Fallen Fates Kickstarter campaign and share about the project, you proved back in 2021 how much impact these fundings can have on the games we make!
Wishing you the best!
Louis
New Hero DLC to Unlock + New Game!
10 months ago
– Wed, May 28, 2025 at 09:06:51 AM
Hello everyone!
I am beyond excited to announce our studio has been working on a new game more than a year in parallel to Astral Ascent: Fallen Fates!
We are keeping the same DNA from our previous games so you can expect fluid and responsive gameplay, epic bosses and beautiful hand-drawn pixel art!
The team has increased thanks to the success of Astral Ascent that all started because you believed in us back in 2021 during the Kickstarter campaign, we constantly improved the game since then, beyond our wildest dreams so thank you so much for trusting us as you did and making this possible!
We are coming back on Kickstarter with a campaign for Fallen Fates in September 2025 and we are planning a ton of exciting things to unlock during this campaign with physical copies, figures etc. and digital rewards such as early access to dev previews and beta builds!
In addition to these rewards, we are going to have a ton of Social Goals to unlock exciting rewards during the campaign and we even have one reward than can be unlocked before the campaign starts!
Arven, hero of Fallen Fates, as hero DLC in Astral Ascent
We are opening the first social goal, by gaining followers on the Kickstarter Page it fills a gauge to get social points, at 5 social points the Arven DLC will be unlocked and it will be free for all Fallen Fates campaign backers !
But do not worry, if we don't reach the 5 points before the campaign starts we will have more social goals to get more points and more ways to unlock the DLC 🌟 as we aim to be self-publishing once again it is mostly a way for us to get more eyes on this new project!
Our idea is : Spread the word, share the love and get rewarded by doing so!
Don't forget, this does not mean the end of Astral Ascent updates, we have announced a new roadmap for 2025/2026 with a lot of exciting updates as you can see below!
And now maybe a 6th playable character?!
We hope you will follow us in this new journey and help us spread the word!
