Tribes: Ascend

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• Recommended Posted August 27, 2025 on Steam I sit here at 2:56 a.m. on a Tuesday night looking for a game to bring me some level of joy or excitement. Every time I cross this in my library I feel a deep emotion of sadness. This game was too good for its day, now it will be lost to the sands of time. The speed and movement was unlike any other game, titanfall was close but skiing in tribes was just too good. It felt so nice every single time you hit the slopes perfectly and sent yourself miles high at 5 bagillion mph, not to mention landing a shot at such a velocity. Even missing was fun, just seeing how close your shot got to the enemy. If there was any game that needed to be revived, its this one. I hope I can play this game again sometime, it was unlike any other. May holy light shine on the developers of this game.
• Recommended Posted January 26, 2026 on Steam in these trying times of unoptimized UE5 games, i miss you old friend. maybe in another universe, somewhere out there im still playing you. rest easy old friend.
• Recommended Posted February 18, 2026 on Steam I had hundreds of hours in this game when Hi-Rez decided to abandon it. This was one of my absolute favorite competitive games. Ridiculous. Tragic.
• Recommended Posted September 27, 2025 on Steam Probably the best FPS I ever got to experience. I originally tried it on a whim back in 2011 and it soon became a memorable favorite. I have way more hours logged than what Steam reports, as I'd clocked most of it on the stand alone game launcher. T:A was clever in how it broke up classes where each had an option for defensive, offensive or runner roles. And no class choice in particular became oversaturated. Team composition almost always fell to a healthy mix of the different roles. The jet skiing made up T:A's backbone as unique among shooters. I don't think I'll ever find anything quite like it, the perfect fit for a capture-the-flag focused game. Skiing was such a natural way to move about the maps. Unfortunately, the player base began to fall off by 2015 and their push for e-sports attraction never really took off. This game probably fell victim to one of its greatest traits. The demographics so accustomed to the Halo's and the Call of Duty's of the world may have been put off by the novelty of jet skiing. This feels less like writing a review and more like writing an epitaph. Tribes Ascend was a ghost town the last time I'd logged in and that was roughly a decade ago. Maybe one day there will be a revival.
• Recommended Posted June 25, 2025 on Steam This game is dead now, but I've never had more fun with a multiplayer game than 8v8 T:A matches with teammates that are actively playing alongside you. RIP.
• Recommended Posted March 1, 2026 on Steam Growing up this was one of the best games I had ever played. Free to play, constant everchanging matches made it feel both challenging and enjoyable at the same time. In this world of remaking games over and over again I cling to the hope that they one day decide to revive you dear friend, to bring you to the light and restore you to the glory you once had. You read the reviews this game once had and you see that you were revolultionary, without all these over the top features that people don't even want, when in reality all we want is you. Will you come back to us?..