Image courtesy of Neon Giant Blade Runner, Cyberpunk 2077 , and to some extent... The Outer Worlds 1 and 2 . These would all be works that could be found in the vein of cyberpunk, or at least possess some elements of the genre. The typical pieces are all there. Major distances between rich and poor, corporations in charge of various entities normally controlled by governments, and rain. You have to have rain. The Ascent tackles every one of these components in spades. In this newcomer to the cyberpunk scene, we play as an "indent" in the underbelly of Veles, a planet headed by several corporations vying for power over one another. An indent is short for an indentured servant. Similar to the origins of the term from colonial America's earliest days, indentured servants take on terrible contracts in order to get a one-way trip to a burgeoning community promising more. This is the story of Veles, and in order to claw our way out of the underground we have to w...