We called its first cyberpunk setting 'cooler than Night City,' and now the studio behind The Ascent says it's making 'the kind of game that every developer wants to work on'

A screenshot from Project Impact, the codename for the second game from Neon Giant.

We had a lot of nice things to say about top-down co-op shooter The Ascent back in 2021. Former PC Gamer editor Andy Kelly awarded it an enthusiastic 84% in his review, and called its cyberpunk setting "way cooler than Night City."

Now Swedish developer Neon Giant is teasing its next game, but it's not giving away much. It'll be first-person, and it's big on "player agency." A handful of screenshots tease a new world clogged with old-school tech (see the gallery below). The whole mysterious thing is "ludicrously ambitious," the studio promises.