Ascend from Nine Mountains
A downloadable game for Windows
Details
In Ascend from Nine Mountains you begin your life as a cultivator, struggling and striving to break through the realms on a quest to ascend to immortality. Along the way you will face fearsome spirit beasts and explore exotic locations. Take on quests for all manner of people, and aid the sect to achieve its goals. Craft a wide array of useful items, and utilize them within combat and without. And step by step, rise through the realms.
Features
- Transcend Mortal Limits: Journey through the realms of cultivation, from a mere Mundane to the fabled heights of ascension, unlocking secret techniques and surpassing your limits.
- Forge Your Fighting Path: Master six distinct styles of combat, with a vast number of individual techniques. Refine your skills, experiment with combinations, and create a martial art all of your own.
- Explore a World of Wonder: Discover a wondrous array of unique locations, from mystical mountains to treacherous caves to bustling cities. Uncover hidden treasures, encounter exotic spirit beasts, and unravel the mysteries of the world.
- Craft your Legend: Become a master artisan by using powerful crafting actions to produce all forms of Recipes. Forge potent alchemical pills, enhance your equipment, and create legendary artefacts to aid you on your journey.
- Shape your Destiny: The path to immortality is paved with alliances and betrayals. Befriend courageous cultivators, forge unbreakable bonds, and confront those who stand against you. The relationships you cultivate will determine the fate of your journey.
Notes
This is a demo/prototype, containing the first 4 of the planned 9 realms in the game. As a result, any feedback on the gameplay, visual direction, performance, or anything else will greatly aid in shaping the rest of the game.
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Development log
- Version 0.5.142 days ago
- Version 0.5.132 days ago
- Version 0.5.125 days ago
- Version 0.5.117 days ago
- Version 0.5.108 days ago
- Version 0.5.99 days ago
- Version 0.5.89 days ago
- Version 0.5.716 days ago
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Hey there! Just a quick question. Your game seems amazing, and I love that it has a lot of depth etc.. Just curious if you have a timetable for when it will be done? I'd like to record some videos of the finished or 1.0 version on my YT channel if possible. Thanks, and keep going, this is gonna be good! :)
Each realm takes me around 3 months, so with 5 realms left about 15 months or so. Maybe up to 2 more years to be pessimistic?
It's probably a problem on my end but I somehow can't open this game. If I click on the game it shows in the task bar but doesn't open and then closes itself quickly.
i did play more that 5 hours at first sit, it was nice. i read a lot of cultivation novel and like turn base games, so i like this one. a lot.
In theory, the things that cannot be read by the screen reader in this game, like the things I just mentioned above in my other comments and I'm sure many more things I missed, surely the problem is that instead of being in text format they are in the format of a textual image and since the screen reader cannot read images, surely that is the problem. If an option were added to change those images to text, this problem would be solved.
Regarding accessibility in combat, in addition to the problem I mentioned in my previous comments, it would make it much easier to add a combat log so that we can know how much damage we have received and to know the amount of damage we have done to an enemy, as well as to know if the enemy uses skills or other things.Several things that I forgot to mention are the buttons like missions, inventory and the people or places that appear on the map, the screen reader doesn't read them to me, so I have to learn the buttons by memorizing them, the same thing happens on the travel screen when we select a place to go, there are places that it reads and others that it doesn't. By the way, there is a bug when we want to enter the disciples' room without skipping the tutorial that causes the game to close, this doesn't happen when we skip the introduction and the tutorial, but at the beginning I was quite lost.
hello i want to say that i really loved this game, and i thank the developer for the effort he is putting in, but because i am a blind person, the game is only partially playable, since when i win a battle, i can't read what i get from the enemy, i can't read what each trait does in character creation, it is possible to choose traits but i don't know what they do, i can't choose the gender, i can't lower the graphics without a sighted person helping me since the screen reader only detects the default option, i can't read any kind of information about the items on the inventory screen, i can't know what item i equip or use, not even in the cultivation chamber can i read the numbers of ki gathered, and the cult favor points, but it only reads the number to me without telling me what it belongs to. In conclusion i was fascinated by the game, but i hope you can do something about it.
Is it intended that the blossom ancestor is way stronger than the fist ancestor
what is the frequency of updates
As regularly as I have stuff to release. I aim for once a week but it really depends.
Does saves works between versions?
Yes. Your saves are stored in your AppData, so it'll be automatically picked up by any version.
Great game, been playing it until Ive pretty much ran out of content. Id like to join the discord, sadly it seems like the link no longer works.
Could I get an invite?
Here you go! https://discord.gg/gnyjqwxzC7
Very cool game, easily addictive and very unique in what it does.
It's difficult to find Cultivation games (Xianxia/Wuxia) that aim to literally create your character and gain the respect of the Sect, with meditation, items and battle mechanics.
I would really like to see the game on Steam when it is complete or close to complete, I believe there is a lot of market that is not covered by games in this genre.
Please continue investing in the project and updating it, it's looking incredible.
when update game how tranfer data to new version
Your save data is stored in the user AppData folder, so just run the new version and itll pick up your previous save.
hello bro, I am working on the same game genre. Can we somehow help each other? Thanks
Sure, drop me a message on discord
After new game i followed tutorial but most of places are locked. I have something like that on screen. I cant travel or do anything other than cultivate in room to move time. Please help.
Did you maybe restart the game during the tutorial? Something like this was reported by someone on the discord after doing that.
If so, you will have to make a new character, and play through the whole tutorial before closing the game (about 15mins).
If it happened without you closing, do say and try to detail the steps you did so I can try to replicate it.
Hi! I absolutely love this game. I've played hundreds of hours in so many cultivation games, and this actually my favorite, more then even the big releases.
My one complaint is, There should be a really clear way of differentiating between buffs where having 30 stacks causes 30 times the effect vs ones where it means that the effect will last for 30 techniques/turns.
I spent so long wondering why my armor didn't go up with two stacks of armored. And then when I did celestial I was trying to give my enemies really high stacks of Moonchill, thinking that would nerf their damage a lot, until I finally realized how it works and that in fact giving me 100 stacks of Sunfury and them 100 stacks of Moonchill was pointless.
I don't have a problem with how the buffs and debuffs work! I just wish I could tell beforehand!
Most of them appear to not stack, but then there's ones like Sunlight and Moonlight that do! So it gets confusing.
(I haven't passed out of the third realm on anyone yet, but I have a Metal and Celestial with 20+ hours and I'll probably get out past that point with one of them, if I can stop myself from going back and doing a cloud one next. Love the way you differentiate each cultivation type)
I'm glad you've enjoyed!
On the topic of buffs, it is a tricky one. There is a very wide variety between ones that stack, ones that are permanent, ones that stack in duration, etc etc. Currently, the only things that stack in intensity are ones that say 'per stack' after the stat. I know that isn't super obvious on the ones that don't do that (as it doesn't say anything like 'not per stack'), but it's hard to find a place in the UI for such a message.
I will look into ways to make this clearer however. Cant say when I will have a solution though.
Very good game with great potential and its not boring 👍🏻
I love this game, so much potential. Keep up the great work!
Good spot on Versatile Blood, will fix.
And the Animated Stitches will be getting a rework in the next month or so, so they are not a good example to test against for now.
Ok, in the meantime i'll use them to farm contribution and tier 3 tecnique crystals
If i'm playing th 0.4.5 and i want to update do i have to start again or i can just use the old savefile
Your save will be automatically picked up and updated to the new version.
thanks
Amazing game, keep up the good work with the updates!
Nice game but where are saves because i want continue game on my new laptop. Styles in game have nice flavour and give you mixed feelings. Roses and blood give you rather primal feelings.
You can find backups of your saves in AppData\Roaming\AscendFromNineMountains\saveBackups, transfer that to your other machine and in the continue menu there will be a button to restore from those backups.
This game is really good. i would love to see the development of this game for the future. (and thanks for fixing the bug) :D
When will you add the next realm
It is now out (a good chunk of it anyway). Hope you enjoy!
Okay i can't even get past the first fight it won't let me click the fight button... i'm sad.. yeah i just can't do the tutorial. hope that get's fixed. (i tried more then once. it wasn't a one time thing)
That bug should now be fixed in 0.3.12
cant play. text is too small.
I have increased the text size a bit. Is it better? Or is it still too small?
i guess its better now, but blind people like me would prefer option for 120% text size :D
version 0.4.1 when i "chose" my crafting skills in their menu by clicking them, they went to the bottom. After that on next crafting attempt i couldnt do anything except for exiting game, and starting new character.
Right, that does sound like a bug. Shall fix
This bug is now fixed in 0.4.2
In 0.4.5 you can now increase the font size. It will cause some clipping in particular areas of the game, but it should hopefully make it more playable for you.
sick game! found this from babyboomergamer - look forward to updates :)
same
Is there a discord?
There is now:
https://discord.gg/gnyjqwxzC7
Thanks!
Hello, this is showing as an invalid invitation :(
Does this link work?
https://discord.gg/gnyjqwxzC7