Pilots: Ascension

Build from a grass airstrip to interstellar flight, one horizon at a time.

Pilots: Ascension is an aviation idle and incremental strategy game. It starts with a hand-cranked fuel drum and a wood-and-fabric machine that has no business leaving the ground. Your job is to get it into the sky anyway.

You are the quartermaster of a tiny airfield. Crank fuel, recruit crew and coax the first aircraft into the air. Then build an industry: depots, mines, smelters and workshops. Assign aviators to the jobs that suit them and research your way up the altitude spine through seven eras: Dawn of Flight, the Propeller Age, the Jet Age, the Rocket Age, Orbit, the Interplanetary frontier and the Interstellar Age.

IT KEEPS THE LOOP YOU KNOW
Gather, build, assign, research, trade, prestige. Then it adds mechanics built around flight:
• Adventure campaign: five flight programs tie era research to real flying. Aircraft must be capable of their route, so your fleet choices matter.
• Grand Expeditions: three voyages and 16 story legs with changing routes, flight modes and supply needs. Earn Bronze, Silver and Gold honors that stay with every future career. No deadlines.
• Flight Operations: seven stories and 21 mission stages across all seven eras. Choose relief service or scientific survey.
• Flight modes: Standard, Economy, Express and Survey trade speed, fuel, risk and science output for each aircraft.
• Route mastery: successful landings earn better payouts and lower risk on familiar routes.
• Simulated weather: four in-game seasons plus changing conditions. Tailwinds, fog and thunderstorms can ground flights and shift production.
• Pilot ranks: aviators climb from Rookie to Wingman to Veteran to Ace, multiplying their output.
• New Horizon: take a Final Flight, bank Legacy, Ace Points and Renown, pick a Founding Charter and, if you want, a challenge for your next run. Your career log remembers your last 50 runs.

A CALMER, CLEARER AIRFIELD
A compact home screen puts one crank button beside your crew and fuel stats. Tap any resource to see what produces it, what stores it and what consumes it. Fleets group by aircraft, route and mode, with bulk controls for dispatch.

CLASSIC AND ADVENTURE
New careers begin in Adventure. Existing careers keep the original rules as Classic, and you can choose Adventure at a voluntary New Horizon.

Offline progress for up to three days: your fleet keeps flying while you are away. Your save lives on your device.

No timers nagging you. No ads. No in-app purchases. No account or login.

Start with a windsock and an empty field.