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Lucas Merrefield · Published by Lucas Merrefield
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Last updated 28 Sept 2026
Ashen World is a roguelike where you battle in tense 4v4 fights using failed genetic experiments known as Ashen. Use fossils after every fight to heal or genetically modify your Ashen, but choose carefully. Every decision matters, fossils are scarce, and death is permanent. How far can you get?
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RPG, Strategy, Early Access · 2025 · More under £5 games
Explore Ashen World's challenging roguelike landscape as you strategize battles and evolve your Ashen with scarce fossils. Lucas Merrefield's early access game demands precision and persistence in every fight.
About this game
Ashen World is a strategic, turn-based rpg where you battle with failed genetic experiments know as Ashen, splicing DNA to modify and enhance how they act in battle. Enemies with randomized teams will battle you every step of the way, first drafting Ashen until each player has 4, then battling to the death. Every win gives you the option to buy new Ashen or genetically modify them with new passives, abilities, and steroids. Every loss takes you back to the beginning.
Endless Replayability: Every Ashen can learn any move and passive, so you can try a new strategy every run
Intentional Teambuilding: To succeed, you must design teams intentionally. As battles go on and enemies scale in power, it becomes more and more difficult to succeed without a well-designed team that can tackle any challenge
Meaningful Battles: Every battle is a chance that an Ashen will be inflicted with dehabilitating status conditions and lose a significant amount of health, if not die on the spot. Damage and status conditions persist throughout the run. Plan and navigate through battles carefully, to maximize health on key Ashen and save fossils later on.
Resource Management: Fossils are the key to success in Ashen World. Everything relies on them, from splicing DNA on key Ashen to healing status conditions and health. But there's never enough fossils to do what you want to do. Do you heal the good early game Ashen, or do you scale the strong late game Ashen? Deciding that can make or break your run.
System Requirements
Will my PC run this? →Minimum
- OS *: Windows 7 SP1+, Windows 10, or later (64-bit)
- Processor: Intel Core i3 (2.0 GHz) or AMD equivalent
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 4000 or better
- Storage: 2 GB available space
Supported Languages
*languages with full audio support
Latest news
Patch NotesOfficial
Bugfixing and UI Updates
Ashen world no longer crashes when one of your Ashen die Move Heal menu to the Lab because it made more senseRead full article on Community Announcements (Tanu)Patch NotesOfficial
Ashen World 0.7.2: New Battle System
Howdy gamers. This update brings with it a rework on the battling system, as well as both new ashen and redesigns on old ashen that were weaker than I would like. UI for battles in particular has been improved as well, focusing on clarity and giving all of the information needed to succeed Battle System: The battles have been shifted from picking all of your moves at once to having every character sorted by speed at the beginning of every round, taking turns one at a time. With this update, there is a timeline that shows when every Ashen will take their turn New Features: Added Laughtrack, a fire/flesh Ashen that burns opponents that attack it Added Spitfire, a fire/mind Ashen that becomes more volatile the more it attacks Added Steroids, which increase respective stats of Ashen by 10 Balancing: Redesigned Terramoss’s passive to Verdant Fortress, which gives it defense and special defense boosts when it tanks attacks Redesigned Fungoar’s passive to Truffle Shield, which makes it immune to tags Redesigned Macawbre’s passive to Corpse Song, which raises its stats after it kills an Ashen Quality of Life: Added a defeat menu that takes you back to the main menu (finally) Added wickthorn’s, rotbelly’s, glop’s, murmind’s, and terramoss’s passive to the shop Bugfixing: Enemies can no longer battle with ashen they have not drafted What Can be Expected Next Update: 1-3 new Ashen Updated UI Tutorials for all gameplay systems If you notice any bugs during gameplay, please put them in the Ashen World Discord bug help channel so I can hammer away at them. Thank you all for your support of Ashen World!Read full article on Community Announcements (Tanu)AnnouncementsOfficial
Gameplay and UI Overhaul
Howdy gamers. This update, we overhauled the UI of Ashen World to make it easier to answer questions players may have during gameplay. Additionally, Ashen World is now an endless game, as well as has a new shop to procure Ashen at the cost of fossils. Next update, we will prioritise adding both new Ashen and new difficulty modifiers/gameplay during runs. Thank you for your support of Ashen World!Read full article on Community Announcements (Tanu)
