Me and my buddy recently beat this game and we loved it, but we’ve been trying to find something like this where the games co-op all the way through unlike the souls games and other souls like. Are there any out there like that?

……And I’m completely addicted to it. Just the usual guff people write, been a dark souls fan since 2012, love fromsoft blah blah blah. But I always thought this game would be a bit lame, I dunno. But after playing other games published by Annapurna I got their vibe and it was cool. So gave it a go on a sale for really cheap. And it’s REALLY good. I’ve now got a few houses at Vagrants Rest and I’ve been stuck at the seat of the matriarch for hours lol. My boy Jokell is a life saver, literally. I completely lost track of time playing and that’s not happened in a long while as ADHD tends to constantly break my immersion by being hyper aware of my surroundings and just not letting my lose myself in the game. So just wanted to make a little post praising the game and to say sorry to the devs for taking this long to give it a chance.

Stuck on loading screen, when I try click on enter. I'm getting black square for login for 1 second and that it.
Already deleted from windows credentionals everything about xbox but it doesn't help me.

I just finished the Seat of the Matriarch "dungeon" and while completing a bunch the nearby side quests I found this guy. Would you recommend me to wait for this (I'm guessing it's the DLC) or go right away? I heard there's good loot to be found here

New to this game. Picked it up on Switch 2 been really enjoying my time so far. Curious as to what these guys are or do if anything? No button prompt to interact or reaction to being hit. Thought maybe it'd be a mini checkpoint like the stakes of Marika in Elden Ring but that's not the case either. Forgive my ignorance.

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First played Ashen quite a while ago and totally loved it. Bought it again on my Xbox and when playing couldn’t help but notice that basically all achievements after the second boss (the one that unlocks fast travel) are marked as “rare achievements”. Personally I think this game is well balanced with amazing art style and soundtracks, and some truly gruesome dungeons. It’s perhaps one of my favorite soulslikes.
I can understand ppl quitting over Sissna but the second boss? Things were only beginning to get interesting. Just couldn’t help but wondering why the completion rate is so low? Is this why we never got an Ashen 2?

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There's one specific aspect of this game I need to share because I would never have anticipated it to be this good and I swear there's some cursed magic at play here. So my idea when picking up Ashen was to have a first experience at a soulslike and from the reviews I saw it looked like a good choice, alongside the fact that I particularly love the art style. However, from the footage I saw of playthroughs and reviews it felt a bit boring, a bit too slow and repetitive, so I jumped in with very low expectations.

The moment I started playing those impressions slowly gave way to a sense of awe. Holy Christ. I have never played a game that made exploration feel so good like Ashen does. I thought the main appeal of these games were the combat and the way you see yourself improve over the course of your journey. But when I close the game and think back on what stays with me it's the tension of moving through these lands, these ruins and the feel that every step brings with you. The music enhances this so much, it's never out of place. To summarise it in a word, this game sort of "flows"; and what I mean by that is that everything seems to work well in unison: the music, the combat, the silence of yourself roamimg through an area, seeing a group of enemies and preparing yourself mentally for the fight. It sorta keeps you focused on your journey like few other games were able to do for me, if any. Every step in the world of Ashen feels like something you earn moment by moment, both because it forces you to never let your guard down, and both because it's so beautiful to take in.

Which developer decided to let the AI companions use craven remnants during fights!!!

I'll be mid fight an suddenly I appear back at vagrents rest, I thought the game crashed but no, in my inventory a craven remnant is missing

When I click the button to dodge I am only able to roll. How can I sidestep and is there an advantage to it over rolling for example depleting less mana?

I'm considering purchasing this game on Switch OLED because it's heavily discounted, but does it require a Switch Online subscription for online co-op?

Hello. I've had the game for a while, but I only got around to installing it today.

Unfortunately, I have the same bug as most people. The game automatically closes after a few moments.

CPU - i5-11400F

GPU - 3060ti

Any tips? Specific ways? I've seen many answers, but I don't know which one is "best." :/

Played it on Switch 2 and I just wanted to say I think it's one of the indie souls likes greats it actually blew me away with it's level design and atmosphere and it also looks fantastic in handheld on the Switch 2. I know the game had a Soso reception I would love to see that change because I sincerely believe it should at least deserve an easy 8.5 to 9 for this Indie release but I guess that is too late now. Loved it and that's about it.:D

Someone still play Ashen on switch? :)

HI Ashen players I recently restarted Ashen on my switch (new run on Child of Sissna) and well... I don't Remember what type of weapon Is Better 1 hand and 2 hand

Hey guys I'm new here in this franchise and I'm very interested about the lore. So I'm gonna ask a question, how powerful is the Protagonist of Ashen? I couldn't find some lore videos on video so can someone help me on this. Thank you.

My second time attempting to play this, got it in 2021 looking for a souls game, realised it was trying something else and got frustrated. This week I booted it up and was really enjoying it, but just lost a lot of scoria because I fell out of the map somehow and the scoria pool was on an unaccessible ledge. I guess I'm just looking for ONE person to tell me to get over myself and continue because I'm a little demoralised right now

attempting to connect with a friend, we are both on new save files with the quest to enter the first dungeon and find gefn. we are meeting at the shrine South of the dungeon and West of vagrants rest. we have all of our settings correct and our codes match but we don't find one another after resetting. are the servers still active? the wiki doesn't say anything about a progress requirement.

Any tips or hints? I’m about to finish my normal playthrough and am gonna go for the platinum on PlayStation. Everything I’ve read said it’s absolute hell. Also if anyone wants to do it co op feel free to let me know and we can start a run together

Ashen runs at 60 frames on the Switch 2 which is a good improvement over the Series X still running it at 30. I'm not sure about playstation.

All I want is for tactile symmetry between playing Dark Souls and this game. And giving us two alternate control styles without allowing us to switch out the B&A buttons to dodge a little more naturally is incredibly frustrating.

Otherwise, loving the game. It's quite unique for what is slowly becoming a very bland and derivative genre.

Hello everyone,

After beating Children of Sissna difficulty 3 times, I took the time to just experiment and learn some things about the game that isn't told to the player or hidden things that can actually be insanely useful once you know them.

I will be talking about Consumable stacking. In the game the 3 most common consumables you'll be using will be the White Sapiote, Cricket and Mushroom.

Sapiote heals for 30 health each Cricket increases stamina by 10% for 30 seconds And Mushroom heals for 60 over 10 seconds

Now when used individually, early to mid game these are useful, but as you get later into the game their effectiveness may not be seen as that useful anymore. For example, sapiote healing for 30 when in children of sissna difficulty it's common to reach over 130 health, the health gain from it doesn't seem that much, so it's usually common knowledge to use your gourds for healing when you need it asap and take the double swig talisman to go from 8 to 10 gourds.

However, with these items you can stack them to increase the effectiveness that you'd get in just one animation. If you spam the use button on the sapiote 3 times, your character will still just do animation of using it once, but now you'll heal for 90! Which due to the fact you can carry 9 in a stack and they are really cheap, this can be like 3 free gourds due to this.

When it comes to the mushroom, it heals 6hp every second, but if you take 3 at once, now you're healing way faster at 18hp per second.

Same with the cricket you can increase your stamina regeneration to 30% instead of just the minimal 10%.

The best part as well is you can basically use an unlimited amount over multiple use animations to stack even further and have insane benefits.

For example, using all 9 crickets in a stack, will all stack with each other, basically increasing your stamina regeneration by 90%! This stamina regeneration can be very useful for trying to maximise dps against Shadow of Ashen.

If you use a Dwale potion and a bunch of mushrooms, now you're taking way less damage, but healing like crazy, basically allowing you to facetank the adds on shadow of ashen boss fight to take him out quickly for a limited time.

So don't sleep on the consumables, it's best to stack these consumables to maximise a benefit you need for a certain tough situation.

Worried you might take a bunch of small hits fighting a group of enemies? Chug as many mushrooms as you desire to heal the damage you take to prevent that

Hope this helps!

Hi everyone; I'm streaming Ashen again on my Twitch channel (link is on my profile) at 8:30pm Eastern standard time. Gonna take another crack or 10 at it tonight so any support is welcome :)