I had my first contact with Ascension, when it was first released on PC. It was a good and innovative card game without paywalls, but overall, pretty unspectacular, and there were so many exciting things happening in the video-game world, that i lost interest pretty fast.
Now, more than ten years later, im a different person. I dont seek adrenaline and dopamine anymore, but like it calm and relaxing, and appreciate asynchronous multiplayer-games.