System Ascension: Idle Core

Studio Rouleau

About this game

System Ascension: Idle Core is a story-rich, incremental strategy game where you take control of a stranded artificial intelligence arriving on a mysterious planet. Master interlocking power sources, optimize your resource automation, and engineer the ultimate planetary engine. Will you conquer the old world to bring order to the new?

Manage an ever-growing global engine of energy generation in an in-depth, multifaceted idle experience. Master planetary forces, from gravity and tidal pulls to the mysteries of quantum energy. Optimize your upgrades, balance your choices, and trigger cascading chain reactions that push your numbers into the stratosphere.

Features:
- Beautiful and mesmerizing art develops and grows based on your choices
- Deep and engaging sci-fi story
- Fully narrated by Angela Clark
- Cross-platform Cloud Saving
- No ads or in-app purchases of any kind

A standalone idle game experience set inside the expansive universe of the isekai LitRPG/Gamelit series Judicator Jane, along with Idle Drops, Mind Construct and Force Escape.

Ratings and reviews

It's okay. I finished it. Many issues. Many mechanics don't trigger enough to matter. The turrets and insight are pointless. Low tiers don't matter as soon as a higher tier is unlocked. The big issue is energy/sec. It's WAY off if the simulation's open. It says you're earning 5e20/s, but it's 10 times less or worse. To actually earn the amount it has to be in the background, which also disables the autobuyer. I'd leave the screen, wait a while, then go back and turn on autobuy. Tedious.

Just finished this and took me a couple weeks to get through it. It's one of the best Idle games I've played. I'd put it right up there with SPACEPLAN which is one of my favorites. The visuals are beautiful, the soundtrack is great. There's a couple times where I felt like progression really slowed down a bit, but overall it's absolutely excellent. I saw others reporting having issues/bugs, I personally experienced none during my playthrough. I hope to see future releases of this style!

very unique and interesting integration of gameplay, puzzle and visual mechanics. unfortunately, the gameplay loop and progression mechanics are very weak. most of the time also, the puzzle like mechanics comes down to pressing the same button repeatdely which feels like a missed opportunity. being extra harsh with this one becuase i purchased it just to get bored after a couple of hours.

What’s new

Fixes various bugs:
- Insight timer not resetting correctly
- Environmental blocks drop rates for rare blocks improved
- Added ability to rewatch end sequence
- Other misc fixes