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Press release:
Angoulême, France – October 16th, 2023.
The New Zealand-based indie games publisher Maple Whispering Limited and Angoulême-based (France) indie games developer Hibernian Workshop, today announced with great joy and thrill that the full version (v1.0) of their 2D platformer rogue-lite “Astral Ascent“, is coming to PC (via Steam) and consoles (PS5, PS4, and the Nintendo Switch) via digital stores on November 14th, 2023.

The challenging rogue-lite has been in Early Access since April last year and will receive its 1.0 update with new content and community-requested additions and improvements.

The 1.0 update adds three new Zodiac bosses to face, including a final boss with two challenging phases, and a main soundtrack theme by composer Dale North (River City Girls, Wizard of Legend), and singer Emi Evans (Nier). The launch will also include the complete soundtrack with orchestrated songs, and full voice-over in English.

New players will also find a fully reworked tutorial, as well as hundreds of small bug fixes and improvements. The game now also features 17 fully animated and narrated endings, and a new opening cinematic.

Astral Ascent is one of the most beloved roguelite indie games on Steam right now, with over 1,000 “Very Positive” reviews. Players can choose amongst four unique heroes able to use dozens of spells to define their own playstyle and fight against the 12 powerful Zodiacs across the four hand-crafted pixel art worlds.

The 1.0 update for Astral Ascent will be released on November 14th, 2023 for PC/Mac/Linux via Steam, and PS5/PS4, and Nintendo Switch.

Players can wishlist the game on Steam, PlayStation Store and Nintendo eShop. For more information, please visit the Astral Ascent official website, follow @hibernianws on Twitter, or join the official Discord channel here.

About Hibernian Workshop
Hibernian Workshop is a French independent game studio based in Angoulême, in the South West of France. The studio is formed of self-taught game developers and artists that were able to turn their passion into their profession thanks to the support of their community through the Dark Devotion Kickstarter campaign.

The success of Dark Devotion, allowed the studio to grow and add great talents to the small independent outfit. The studio is set-up for the whole team to work from home, giving more freedom for everyone to adapt their working hours to their lifestyle, knowing that the projects are organised to be crunch-free.