For those of you unaware of Project Ascension, it was started back when Valve and Bethesda tried to introduce paid mods on Steam.

This led many to lose faith in Steam, or a t the very least take a step back from the whole worship deal.

Some wanted to stop supporting Steam, but felt too locked into the system.

After some discussion in the community an idea was formed. An idea of a software client unifying several different storefronts, making it easier to use several different digital game distribution platforms while still having one seamless experience.

Now the first official video mockup of the UI has arrived.

it looks nice and i would really like to see an alternative to steam come out but I just don't think anyone could actually compete with Steam. They just have the market on lockdown.

The point of Project Ascension is that you will be able to fuse your libraries from Steam, Origin, GOG, GreenManGming, whatever. It's not a market competitor, it's a third-party client.