Introducing Ascendancy Redux
It’s been a while since I last released a new mod, so I’m very happy to finally announce Ascendancy Redux ! AR is a simple yet fairly extensive species modpack introducing all playable species from the classic PC game Ascendancy (1995) . Ascendancy is a 4X space strategy title released in 1995 - just a year before the much more famous Master of Orion II. While definitely flawed, the game introduced several innovations that later became genre staples, such as fully 3D galaxy and solar-system views. What truly set it apart, however, was its mysterious atmosphere, created through ambient synth music and a selection of bizarre alien races. There were no humanoids in Ascendancy: instead, you could play as sandwich-like membranoids (Kambuchka), unicellular organisms (Mebes), or the self-explanatory Oculons. Today, the game is essentially abandonware. Ascendancy’s alien species were once implemented in Stellaris through the Ascendancy Races mod, which is now unfortunately outda...