 By April 2014 , Thorson told Eurogamer that the game had grossed a half of a million dollars , with the most sales from Ascension on the PlayStation 4 . At the time , a fifth of the games sales came from Ouya , a comparatively smaller platform with a smaller install base than PlayStation and Steam . The game was a nominee for the 2014 Independent Games Festival 's Excellence in Design award , but lost to Papers , Please . TowerFall Ascension received " generally favorable " reviews , according to game review aggregator Metacritic . Reviewers praised the game 's balance , compared it favorably with Super Smash Bros. , and recommended it as a party game . Critics felt that the single @-@ player mode was a nadir , and lamented for an online multiplayer mode , with Denton of Eurogamer calling the lack " painful " and " a crying shame " . 
