Ascenders
The full world never followed its playable combat demo
A sci-fantasy open-world action RPG with player-crafted NFT items and ownable land, planned as an MMO on its own Avalanche subnet by Legendary Foundry Games.
- Capital raised (announced)
Recorded announced backing; this is separate from cash received, customer deposits and money recovered.
Funding
| Round | Date | Announced | Investors |
|---|---|---|---|
| Private round | 2022 |
Announced is what was said at the time. Cash actually received is rarely disclosed and is not assumed to match.
People
| Name | Role | Period | Now | Last checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jackson Poon | — | Co-founder, @nara_usd | Oct 2026 |
Promises vs reality
Target · target Sep 2023
By January 2023 the target had moved to the first quarter of 2024. Development stopped in October 2023 with the MMO unreleased; what shipped were a combat demo in 2022 and a companion browser game in 2023.
What shipped
- · Mar 2022
A missed promise is a missed promise. It is not evidence of fraud, and this page does not treat it as any.
Timeline
February 2022
April 2022
DappRadar described a free downloadable demo whose combat challenge ran until the end of April. This was a limited activity, rather than the promised full open-world game.
3 January 2023
Previously slated for the third quarter of 2023.
May 2023
5 October 2023
How it ended
Ran out of money
Legendary Foundry Games announced in early October 2023 that it had stopped developing Ascenders and its companion browser game Ascenders: Simulation, and that the company was ceasing operations. It said the land NFT mint of May 2023 had fallen short of its targets and left it unable to continue financially. The full MMO, which a trade outlet reported in January 2023 had slipped from the third quarter of 2023 to early 2024, was never released.
Still alive
Open spot
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Sources
11 sources behind this page.
- 1Legendary Foundry Games launches environment trailer for its Ascenders RPG · BlockchainGamer.biz · Jan 2023
- 2How to Play and Win: Ascenders · DappRadar · May 2023
- 3Legendary Foundry Games Announces End of Ascenders Development · GAMES.GG · Oct 2023
- 4Nara homepage · Nara
- 5Ascenders Has Successfully Raised $6.4 Fund · Smart Liquidity Research · Mar 2022
- 6Ascenders Closes $US 6.4 M Private Investment Round Co-led by Paramount Capital, Three Arrows Capital, Sino Global Capital, and Merit Circle · TMCnet (Business Wire press release) · Mar 2022
- 7X account lookup: @0xArcyl · twitterapi.io (X data provider)
- 8X account lookup: @nara_usd · twitterapi.io (X data provider)
- 9X post search: "Jackson Poon" (includes Avalanche's May 2022 post introducing Legendary Foundry Games CEO @0xArcyl) · twitterapi.io (X data provider)
- 10X post search: @0xArcyl posts about Ascenders (2022–2023) · twitterapi.io (X data provider)
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- 11X posts by @0xArcyl, latest (including the 26 August 2026 Nara announcement) · twitterapi.io (X data provider)
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