Overview
At a glance
Is this game right for my group?
ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.
Harder to teach
High replayability
Highly interactive
Scales well
Deep strategy
More strategic control
How it plays
How does it play?
Program body-patterns, hack a hostile virtual world, and fight through a branching cyberpunk campaign as humanity searches for a new home.
Core mechanisms
Key systems that shape the decisions players make.
Cooperative Game
Players coordinate their actions toward a shared objective and win or lose together.
Pattern Building
Place elements to create arrangements that satisfy scoring or action patterns.
Scenario Campaign
Play linked or standalone scenarios with their own setup, objectives, and consequences.
Action Points
Spend a limited allowance of points across several possible actions each turn.
Deck / Bag Building
Add new pieces during play to improve the cards, tokens, or dice drawn later.
Dice Rolling
Roll dice to introduce uncertainty into actions, production, movement, or resolution.
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Read the full game description
Tamashii: Chronicle of Ascend is a scenario-driven adventure set after an artificial intelligence has turned Earth into a machine-policed ruin. Players are survivors who can upload themselves into different bodies, so identity is both a resource and a tactical tool. Each scenario unfolds across a modular city map and its virtual mirror. Movement, exploration, narrative choices, and combat determine where the team can reach, while the central programming puzzle asks players to arrange coloured data tokens into patterns. Completed programs launch attacks, break security, manipulate the board, or activate the specialised powers of a chosen body. Enemies and bosses answer through dice-driven routines, creating pressure without removing the planning at the heart of the game. New bodies, programs, and story consequences change later scenarios, and several modes support fully cooperative play, competitive objectives, or temporary alliances. The result blends campaign discovery, pattern building, miniatures combat, and a flexible cyberpunk identity system. Every mission asks the same unsettling question in a new form: if consciousness can move between shells, what part of humanity is worth saving?
