SAINTFALL

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SAINTFALL

Standing by

THE GILDED SILENCE

Drop into an open third-person sci-fi warzone across the ruins of Vesper-IX. Pilot an armored reliquary operative wielding hybrid lance weaponry, high-speed jet glides, and tactical orbital strikes as you battle alien swarms and hunt colossal guardians across the fallen cathedral basin.

Click the playfield to capture the mouse. Fire with LMB, aim with RMB, use F for melee, press Esc for the field menu, and hold Q + left click to select a missile drop.

How to play

Move with WASD at full stride, and vault with Space.
Tap Shift to ignite the glide, and hold it to keep gliding - steer with A, S or D, and keep firing throughout. Gliding forward burns through light enemies and throws them clear.
Hold Shift + Space to use the jetpack.
Press F while airborne for the Penitent's Fall - a ground slam that damages and stuns everything around the point of impact.
Hold E to project a frontal gold Aegis shield; it drains the same reliquary charge as the jetpack. Connected melee strikes reclaim charge, with an extra return on kills.
Look with the mouse, fire with LMB, aim with RMB, and use F for melee.
Hold Q, hover toward a field command (missile drop, cluster, resupply), and left click to deploy. Releasing Q or clicking the centre cancels.
Press Esc for the operation menu, controls, settings, and field saves.
On touch, drag the left relic to move, swipe the right side to look, and hold-drag the labeled Call control for field command.
Use the six gold boss markers to choose your route. Defeat every district guardian, then follow the new Fallen Saint signal to the penultimate fight.
Bloom waves arrive intermittently on the roads between hunts. If you outrun a wave it burrows and returns near you after a recovery window; it will not enter an undefeated boss arena.
The Bloom holds the Abbess — a queen too swollen to move. She lays clutches of eggs behind her: burn them before they split, because every Thresher that survives will walk back and feed her. When she heaves her abdomen up to slam, the underside is the softest thing on her.
The Ossuary holds the Garner. Walk in and the pan falls in with you: its tentacles break ground beside you and strike, and one that misses lies on the sand for a few seconds before it drags itself home — that is when a polearm can reach it. Cut enough of them and the mouth gapes.
The Choir Spires hold the Stylite, which fights from the needle crowns and never comes down on its own. Shooting it does not just hurt it — it wears through the grip holding it up there. Empty that and it falls eighty metres onto the flats, and a polearm does nearly triple damage to the thing while it is lying stunned in its own crater.
The Coulter waits beneath the Fallen Saint: a hundred-metre ridge moving through the sand that cannot be hurt until it surfaces.
Boss territory warnings mark each arena boundary. Turn back when the exit warning appears; crossing the boundary resets that boss to full strength.
Do not stand in the green. Venom keeps working after you leave it.
Press M for the full tactical map and objective list. Press it again to resume the operation.
The Cathedral confrontation stays sealed until all six districts and the Fallen Saint Coulter are defeated.

The Drop

You make saintfall onto the Threshold, a dune ridge at the south edge of the basin. From its lip the whole operation is in one frame: the Pilgrim's Road running north, an ancient Saint statue shattered with the surrounding Concord district during the Bloom invasion, the Vault-Cathedral on the far rise, and the broken halo still holding orbit overhead.

The Districts

The Threshold — landing zone, south gate
The Gilded Reach — dune sea, singing vanes, and the Matriarch
The Fallen Saint — the ruined ancient statue and the Concord quarter destroyed around it
Vault-Cathedral — nave, rose window, open ribs
The Ossuary — bone courtyards, and the Garner sunk in a sand funnel
The Glass Scar — an orbital strike, vitrified, guarded by the Distaff
The Censer Works — promethium, three flare stacks, and the Winnower
The Choir Spires — wind-carved needles and the Stylite perched on their crowns
The Bloom — chitin, spores, and the Abbess seated in the Throat
The Fosse — the old trench line
The Pilgrim's Road — the spine of the map

The Brood

Thresher — knee-high, six legs, forty at a time
Gleaner — four stilts, three metres up, shoots from fifty
Harrow — wide, low, and the reason your cover stops working
Matriarch — nine metres of it, holding the Gilded Reach; the Abbess lays one when she is dying
Coulter — a hundred-metre penultimate boss beneath the Fallen Saint
Stylite — a leaping Choir bug that jumps crown to crown and shoots down at you

Controls

WASD move, Space vault
Shift tap to boost, hold to glide (steer with A/S/D, fire while gliding)
Hold Shift+Space for jetpack, F airborne for the ground slam
Mouse look (click to capture), LMB fire, RMB aim, F melee, hold E to block, R vent heat
Q hold and left click to deploy field command / missile drop (release Q to cancel)
Tab or Esc operation menu, controls, settings, save and load
Touch left relic to move, swipe to look, and hold-drag Call for field command

Parody notice

A fan-made, non-commercial homage. Not affiliated with, endorsed by, or derived from any existing game or setting; every name, place and asset here is original to this build and generated procedurally in your browser.