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LATEST RELEASEHello Ascendara 12+ Magic Links, UI Sounds and Rust Rewrites

Less setup.
More play.

Game testing. Made effortless.

Discover, download, and make yourself at home. Ascendara brings your game library together, with the complicated bits already taken care of.

Integrates with the platforms players know and the services they trust

  • Steam
  • Epic Games
  • GOG Galaxy
  • Ubisoft Connect
  • Battle.net
  • TorBox
  • Real-Debrid
  • AllDebrid
  • Premiumize
  • Debrid-Link
  • SteamGridDB
  • HowLongToBeat
  • KHInsider
  • Nexus Mods
  • FLiNG
  • Ludusavi
  • CheapShark
  • LaunchBox
  • qBittorrent
  • Discord
  • Firebase
  • Stripe
  • Resend
  • Cloudflare
  • GitHub
  • Vercel
  • Electron
01Discover

Find your next game.

Search thousands of indexed games, or almost a million with external sources turned on. Rich artwork, sizes, and categories, as fast as you can type.

  • 5,000+ indexed games
  • 900K+ with external sources
  • Filters for DLC, online, and size
02Discover

Your sources. Your call.

The Ascendara index is the default, not the limit. Switch to a community source, a list you imported, or your own self-hosted library, and search and downloads follow.

  • Community sources from a source bucket
  • Import your own game lists
  • Self-host your own library
How external sources work
03Play

One click. The rest is handled.

Magic Links go straight into a queue that downloads, extracts, and sets everything up. Bring Torbox for debrid speeds.

  • Magic Links: no ads or CAPTCHAs
  • Automatic extraction and setup
  • Download queue with live progress
04Play

Everything you play. One home.

Favorites, folders, play later, and playtime tracking. Bring in the games you already own from your other launchers, and add any game of your own.

  • Playtime and history tracking
  • Folders, favorites, and play later
  • Import from your other launchers
Bring them home
SteamEpic GamesGOG GalaxyUbisoftBattle.net
Import your libraries
05Play

Old favorites. New home.

From your first Game Boy to your last save on PlayStation. Bring your ROMs and emulator. Retro brings the artwork, the organization, and the way back in.

26systems in one library
12 + 14standard + Ascend presets

From the first disc to the next adventure. PlayStation 1 · PlayStation 2 · PlayStation 3 · PSP

Local save backups, cloud with Ascend. Your files, your emulator. No ROMs included.
Meet Ascendara Retro
06Unwind

Controller in hand. Feet up.

Big Picture Mode puts your library on the TV with a console-like interface built for the couch.

  • Full controller support
  • TV-optimized interface
  • Launch straight from the couch
07Unwind

Your library, on any PC.

Ascend keeps your games, playtime, achievements, and saves in the cloud, ready to restore on any PC. Friends, chat, and the Companion app come with it. It also keeps one developer building.

  • Cloud library and save backups
  • Retro saves and full library backups
  • Friends, chat, and the Companion app
See everything in Ascend
08Unwind

Make it yours.

Pick a theme and the whole app follows. Try one below; this tour will follow along too.

01 / 08 · Search

In their
own words.

Real ratings from players, sent from inside the Ascendara app.

_Dom7 ASCEND140 days with Ascendara

Made piracy easy, especially on linux. Amazing features and even better support. Surpasses all the other launchers I've tried (like hydra) and is just...Better. Having a community source, scraping directly from steam rip, or being able to use the hydra library links to download games is just supreme. The extension being able to take downloads and put them directly in ascendara is so useful.

ON ASCENDARA87 hrs · 22 games
killixa ASCEND472 days with Ascendara

Best launcher best UI mogs other launchers

ON ASCENDARA1,110 hrs · 51 games
Anonymous52 days with Ascendara

The app is very cool and no essential part is paywalled, which is great. The subscription is really for bonus features that are very cool, but it's not required for the app to be extremely useful

MOST PLAYED34 hrs
The Blood of Dawnwalker40% OF THEIR PLAYTIME
ON ASCENDARA84 hrs · 10 games
Thrnshri127 days with Ascendara

great, no bugs and most games i look for are available. Never gotten virus or malware from downloads

Lissom Paladin110 days with Ascendara

I love how it keeps my games all in one place and tracks each of their playtime respectively. It also looks very clean overall.

MOST PLAYED24 hrs
DragonSword Awakening35% OF THEIR PLAYTIME
ON ASCENDARA68 hrs · 12 games
Anonymous481 days with Ascendara

Thanks for creating Ascendara. It has allowed me easy access to masterpieces I'm normally not easily able to play and has enriched my gaming experience. It's also been an easy way to track the games I've played and look back on fond memories.

ON ASCENDARA293 hrs · 18 games
Lukinazz379 days with Ascendara

I really like how this project is done, how it keeps improving itself, clean and customizable UI, various DIY settings, only thing I feel lacking is a community, in a sense that you can't chat or add anyone BUT that's solved by Ascend feature so yeah I guess this is the perfect piece of software.

MOST PLAYED67 hrs
Lies of P43% OF THEIR PLAYTIME
ON ASCENDARA155 hrs · 21 games
Sigi31 days with Ascendara

i like it a lot

MOST PLAYED57 hrs
007 First Light61% OF THEIR PLAYTIME
ON ASCENDARA94 hrs · 19 games
Anonymous173 days with Ascendara

Easiest launcher I've used

MOST PLAYED40 hrs
Risk of Rain 298% OF THEIR PLAYTIME
ON ASCENDARA41 hrs · 2 games
Anonymous174 days with Ascendara

Amazing UI and very good collection of games

FEATURED GAME9.6 hrs
Risk of Rain 233% OF THEIR PLAYTIME
ON ASCENDARA29 hrs · 7 games
Phantomanium116 days with Ascendara

Absolutely love this, ever since i switched to ascendara ist been my goto❤️

MOST PLAYED26 hrs
Kingdom Come Deliverance II33% OF THEIR PLAYTIME
ON ASCENDARA78 hrs · 8 games
Juan230 days with Ascendara

Me gusta todo, creo que mejoraría la biblioteca. Siento que me faltan mas opciones o filtros o recomendaciones mejores para que me llame la atención. Sin quejas, 10/10 Ascendara lover

I like everything. I think the library could be improved; I feel like it's missing more options, filters or better recommendations to catch my attention. No complaints, 10/10 Ascendara lover.

MOST PLAYED40 hrs
Middle-earth Shadow of War Definitive Edition82% OF THEIR PLAYTIME
ON ASCENDARA49 hrs · 3 games
Lemi01204 days with Ascendara

Love It! Thank you.

Anonymous224 days with Ascendara

I love playing all my favorite games for free only issue I even have is that Some games say theres an issue with a dll thing and Idk how to fix it but all other games I can play freely and I have a lot of fun with

MOST PLAYED92 hrs
The Walking Dead The Telltale Definitive Series57% OF THEIR PLAYTIME
ON ASCENDARA162 hrs · 22 games
WifflesTheDragonborn319 days with Ascendara

Hey its WifflesTheDragonborn from Discord. This is a hell of an app Mr. Man. you know who you are! Keep up the awesome work, brother. Im rooting for you!

ON ASCENDARA0.5 hrs · 2 games
Anonymous34 days with Ascendara

i like how the download manager is fast and how the extracting does it for me saves a lot of time and they have all my favourite games which is awesome

MOST PLAYED4 hrs
FIFA 23 Ultimate Edition56% OF THEIR PLAYTIME
ON ASCENDARA7.1 hrs · 3 games
Felli ASCEND315 days with Ascendara

It has helped me a lot in deciding which games i should buy without being worried about wasting my money

ON ASCENDARA30 hrs · 16 games
Lamarion Landers36 days with Ascendara

It worked great.

MOST PLAYED3.6 hrs
LEGO Batman Legacy of the Dark Knight58% OF THEIR PLAYTIME
ON ASCENDARA6.2 hrs · 6 games
MalvaLess254 days with Ascendara

Godly made ❣️

MOST PLAYED16 hrs
Assassins Creed Black Flag Resynced27% OF THEIR PLAYTIME
ON ASCENDARA59 hrs · 14 games
hyo169 days with Ascendara

Muito bom, precisamos de mais filtros na pesquisa, queria muito tags pra especificar a pesquisa

Really good. We need more search filters, I would love tags to narrow down searches.

MOST PLAYED23 hrs
Absolum70% OF THEIR PLAYTIME
ON ASCENDARA33 hrs · 3 games
Dark mago288 days with Ascendara

tudo que ta qui,melhores jogos e melhores coisas

Everything here, the best games and the best stuff.

MOST PLAYED3.3 hrs
Terrible Lizards24% OF THEIR PLAYTIME
ON ASCENDARA14 hrs · 15 games
Anonymous32 days with Ascendara

well, its actually good. I primarily use it for downloading and its doing that just fine.

joaquin P69 days with Ascendara

la mejor parte a demas de ser un muy buen launcher es la pocion de poder jugar en linea y co-op, los juegos que buscas están y los puedes jugar sin bugs ni errores. en resumen, maravilloso

Besides being a really good launcher, the best part is being able to play online and co-op. The games you are looking for are there, and they run without bugs or errors. In short, wonderful.

MOST PLAYED58 hrs
Satisfactory67% OF THEIR PLAYTIME
ON ASCENDARA86 hrs · 7 games
Anonymous157 days with Ascendara

I love all and everything about your work tago!

Keep being you man <3 I will never stop sending you love.

you know who.

ON ASCENDARA5.1 hrs · 2 games
Anonymous247 days with Ascendara

AMAZING I LOVE YOU

FEATURED GAME3 hrs
Onimusha Way of the Sword7% OF THEIR PLAYTIME
ON ASCENDARA41 hrs · 5 games
Napwastaken41 days with Ascendara

It's just great overall and has a solid GUI

MOST PLAYED15 hrs
FIFA 23 Ultimate Edition50% OF THEIR PLAYTIME
ON ASCENDARA30 hrs · 8 games
Anonymous140 days with Ascendara

ease of use

MOST PLAYED54 hrs
Disco Elysium – The Final Cut52% OF THEIR PLAYTIME
ON ASCENDARA104 hrs · 11 games
Deadlox DF49 days with Ascendara

Easy and minimal ui

MOST PLAYED22 hrs
DARK SOULS REMASTERED51% OF THEIR PLAYTIME
ON ASCENDARA43 hrs · 5 games
Anonymous33 days with Ascendara

Easy to install

MOST PLAYED70 hrs
Assassins Creed Mirage42% OF THEIR PLAYTIME
ON ASCENDARA165 hrs · 4 games
Wombat5668 ASCEND91 days with Ascendara

I like how easy it is to find and download games. Also having cloud saves is a real bonus. However I find it frustrating that achievements (at least for me) are hit and miss with many games not tracking. Overall though a fantastic app. Keep up the good work, Colin

MOST PLAYED0.7 hrs
Garfield Escape from Monday54% OF THEIR PLAYTIME
ON ASCENDARA1.3 hrs · 3 games
Anonymous397 days with Ascendara

the best. with ascendara launcher's help it saved me a ton of storage.

MOST PLAYED0.1 hrs
Attack on Titan 2 Final Battle100% OF THEIR PLAYTIME
ON ASCENDARA0.1 hrs · 1 game
Anonymous245 days with Ascendara

how easy and simple it is

MOST PLAYED16 hrs
Life is Strange Double Exposure17% OF THEIR PLAYTIME
ON ASCENDARA94 hrs · 21 games
jacbullock135 days with Ascendara

I put all of my system games in here instead of having them as desktop icons. Even my paid ones.

FEATURED GAME5.8 hrs
White Knuckle10% OF THEIR PLAYTIME
ON ASCENDARA58 hrs · 22 games
33 RATINGS
01OUTSTANDING NUMBERS

Downloadedthousands oftimes by people ready to play.

Countries
40+
Games in the index
—
External games
900K+
02A LITTLE SUPPORT. A LOT MORE POSSIBILITY.

ascend↗

Step up. Connect.

Help one developer keep building. Joining Ascend funds the future of Ascendara and gives you a whole lot more to play with.

7-day free trial
$1.50/ month

Billed every 6 months.
Or $2 with monthly billing.

Explore Ascend
04 / 21 — INCLUDED WITH ASCEND

Ascendara Companion

Follow your downloads live, pause or resume them, launch games on your PC, browse the Ascendara index, and see what your friends are up to, all from your phone's browser.

THE PEOPLE BEHIND THE NEXT UPDATE

A little support. A whole community.

To everyone helping fund the next update: you make this possible.

Backed by people like you. Thank you, Ascend supporters.
03 / BUILT IN THE OPEN · A NOTE FROM TAGO

Small project.
Big community.
Thank you.

To everyone who has downloaded Ascendara, shared it with a friend, reported a bug, contributed code, or joined Ascend: thank you for being part of this.

Built by one developer. Made better by all of you. And every line is out in the open, so you can read it, question it, and make it better.

tagoDeveloper of Ascendara
AscendaraDownloader/http.rsRUST
// A little of what makes it work.

fn plan_pieces(total: u64, connections: usize) -> Vec<Piece> {
    let size = (total / (connections as u64 * 4).max(1))
        .clamp(MIN_PIECE, MAX_PIECE);
    let mut pieces = Vec::new();
    let mut start = 0;
    while start < total {
        let end = (start + size).min(total);
        pieces.push(Piece { start, pos: start, end, owner: None });
        start = end;
    }
    pieces
}
Completely open sourceExplore the source

One developer. ~130,800 lines of code. Verify

Made better together.
Meet the contributors
04BEFORE YOU JUMP IN

Good
questions.

A few things you might be wondering.

The documentation
01

What is Ascendara?

Ascendara is an all-in-one game tester and manager. It gives you a simple interface to organize, test, and launch your games, so you can try them before you buy.
02

Do I need an account?

No account is needed to download, manage, or back up your games. Accounts are only used for Ascend subscriptions.
03

What about Fitgirl Repacks?

Fitgirl Repacks and torrenting are supported as experimental features. Fitgirl games do not have categories or weights, so their ordering can seem a little random.
04

Which platforms does Ascendara support?

Ascendara is available for Windows, Linux, and macOS. Use the download button to get the installation instructions for your platform.
05

Debrid support on Ascendara?

Yes. TorBox, Real-Debrid, AllDebrid, Premiumize and Debrid-Link are built right into Ascendara. Bring your own account to use them.
06

Can I add my own games to Ascendara?

Yes. Add your own games to your library, or import an existing library from platforms such as Steam.
07

How private is Ascendara?

Your game information and username are stored locally on your computer. Analytics are optional.
08

Need more help?

Visit the documentation for detailed guides and tutorials, or meet the community on Discord.

Ready when
you are.

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