BODY: Veles is coming to Switch 2. KRAFTON announced on October 6, 2026 that preorders for The Ascent Ultimate Edition are now live on the Japanese Nintendo eShop, priced at ¥3,500 including tax — well under the ¥4,000 line that Japanese players increasingly treat as the threshold for an impulse digital purchase.
The company also released a new trailer built around two pillars: solo play and co-op. Both get roughly equal screen time, which is a deliberate signal. The Ascent is an isometric action-shooter set in a vertically stacked arcology on the planet Veles, where your indentured worker is dumped into a power vacuum after the corporation that owns them collapses overnight. It is a game about shooting your way up through the floors of a dying company town.
Originally developed by the small Swedish studio Neon Giant and released in 2021, the game earned a reputation for visual density far beyond its team size — neon-choked market levels, cover-based twin-stick gunplay, and a verticality system that lets you aim high or low mid-firefight. The Ultimate Edition packages the base game with its post-launch content, making the Switch 2 version the most complete release to date.
The Switch 2 port matters for a specific reason: The Ascent has always been a game you want to play with someone on the couch, and it supports up to four players in co-op. A hybrid console is arguably its most natural home.
The insider take
KRAFTON's Japan strategy has quietly shifted over the past few years from PUBG-centric mobile operations toward building a multi-genre publishing catalogue, and the Switch 2 is the obvious vehicle. Japanese players have a long-standing appetite for isometric and top-down action — the lineage runs through everything from Diablo clones to doujin shooters — and cyberpunk is one of the few Western-authored aesthetics that reads as native here rather than imported. The ¥3,500 price point is the real tell, though. Japanese Switch owners have been conditioned by years of indie and mid-tier releases to view that bracket as low-risk, and it is where word-of-mouth on Japanese gaming Twitter and Note tends to do the heaviest lifting. Expect this one to find its audience slowly and steadily rather than in a launch-week spike.
Originally reported by 4Gamer.net − 最新記事 (Japanese).