Regular readers here will know that I love a good collaboration, and the latest to catch my eye as I scrolled through the ol’ News Feed is the announcement that Ravenswatch is joining the world of Astral Ascent.
The crossover is centred around five new Echoes that are joining Astral Ascent, as well as a special new room, The Hourglass of Dreams, which is also inspired by the Ravenswatch universe.
Update: The collaboration is out now, and there’s some interesting titbits to tell you about!
First of all, the free Astral Ascent content also just happens to have landed alongside the release of Merlin as a playable character in Ravenswatch. In fact, the base game is currently 50% off on Steam, and also reduced on PlayStation 4/5, Switch, and Xbox.
Astral Ascent, on the other hand, is also heavily discounted, but only on Steam (at the time of writing, at least).
The update to Astral Ascent is the latest in a long line of free content drops, and you’ll find patch notes via this little link. As you can see in the screenshot below, the update adds a new room: The Hourglass of Dreams.
It is inspired by Reverie, which is the setting in Ravenswatch, and the Sandman you find therein will allow you to upgrade your gambits’ rarity level for quartz, and also upgrade an echo into one of the new ones that are tied to the room.
It also sounds like much work has gone into onboarding. I think it’s fair to say that Astral Ascent is a challenging game, and HW has made an effort to help people get started more easily!
Original: If you’re not already in the loop on either game, both are very good, in my humble opinion.
Ravenswatch is a really fun but challenging co-op action-RPG by Passtech Games. It’s set in the world of Reverie, and you play with hero characters drawn from folklore. I really enjoyed it at launch, and Kieran recently reported that Merlin is joining the game soon.
On the other side of the equation is Astral Ascent, which we reviewed at launch and then again when it hit 2.0 (you can check that out via this link). Developer Hibernian Workshop has done a fine job growing their side-scrolling roguelite platformer, and as you can see in the roadmap pictured below, there’s plenty more still to come in 2026.
