Movement-First Combat
Dash, jump, glide, reposition, and survive through clean movement instead of passive face-tanking.
3D top-down fantasy bullet-heaven action roguelite
Where Giants Fall
Survivors-like build growth, movement-first combat, and the thrill of turning a fragile run into overwhelming power.
Movement-first combat, procedural worlds, and long runs built around rising pressure. Wishlist now on Steam.
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About the game
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A 3D top-down fantasy bullet-heaven action roguelite with survivors-like build growth, movement-first combat, auto-fire weapons that evolve into powerful weapon ultimates, and active abilities you can earn, upgrade, and spend at the moments that decide a run.
Every run moves through regular stages, objective-driven Ritual Sieges, boss-biome encounters, and an Endless Mode finale, with procedural worlds changing the pressure from stage to stage.
Game at a glance
Genre 3D top-down fantasy bullet-heaven action roguelite
Perspective 3D top-down
Platforms PC and Steam Deck
Core loop Multi-act runs through procedural biomes
Combat Auto-fire weapons, active abilities to earn and upgrade, weapon ultimates
Status Coming soon on Steam
How a run is structured
Each run is a multi-act journey through procedural worlds. Acts repeat in a pattern — multiple times before the finale:
Regular Stage Fight waves of enemies in a procedurally built biome world. Discover points of interest — miniboss encounters, challenge shrines, and hidden rewards — and gather as much power as you can before the timer runs out. When it does, the world turns dark. Evil monsters and giants descend, crushing pressure mounts, and eventually you must escape through the portal to the next stage.
Ritual Siege Ritual sites pour monsters toward a dormant giant — every sacrifice empowers it with HP, damage, and speed. Shut them down or face a fully awakened colossus: a robotic titan armed with telegraphed abilities and BoomBot swarms. Kill the giant, escape through the portal.
Boss Stage Face boss-biome encounters like Phalanx and Morvessa, Mother of Dread directly inside generated worlds. Victory demands skill and tactical reads as you learn attack patterns, dodge boss abilities, and outlast the pressure. Kill the boss, claim the legendary reward it drops, and step through the portal that spawns.
Endless Mode After surviving all acts, the run becomes an Endless Mode survival push: harder enemies, denser spawns, and rising threat with no exit. Survive as long as you can while the results screen tracks survival time, kills, and highest threat reached. Leaderboards are planned for launch.
What kind of game is it?
Deep run variety, not flat arena survival
Each run spans multiple acts, cycling through regular stages, Ritual Sieges, and boss-biome encounters in procedurally assembled worlds. Biomes shift, enemy mixes change, minibosses and giants vary — and the act pattern repeats with escalating stakes before Endless Mode.
Draft upgrades, collect passive items, earn or upgrade active abilities, and survive long enough for the build to come online. Fully evolved auto-fire weapons become powerful ultimates with cooldowns, turning the weapon bar into a set of clutch decisions.
"Every stage should make you feel measurably stronger, while the danger stays readable enough that movement and timing still matter."
Core strengths
Built around pressure, movement, and explosive growth
Structured Run Variety
Timed stages with exploration and escalating darkness, Ritual Siege encounters, giant boss fights with legendary drops, and Endless Mode — every stage type asks something different from your build.
Build Drafting That Matters
Weapon tiers, passive items, active abilities you earn and upgrade, wheel rewards, and beacon choices all shape the run in different ways.
Readable Spectacle
Combat is built to look powerful while preserving telegraphs, spatial reads, and room for player decision-making.
Procedural Biomes
Fight through seasonal forest biomes — winter, summer, and autumn — plus swamps, deserts, mountains, and volcanic terrain, each with biome-specific mood and terrain generation.
Endless Mode
After the last boss, the run becomes an Endless Mode survival push with threat escalation, elite enemies, and results tracking for survival time, kills, and highest threat reached.
How a run unfolds
Each run: multiple acts, procedural worlds, escalating stakes
A run is a multi-act journey, not a flat arena timer. The act pattern (Regular → Ritual Siege → Boss) repeats across different biomes and worlds, with monster variety, minibosses, and giants shifting as the run gets harder.
01
Regular Stages
Fight waves of enemies across a procedural world. Hunt chests, spin the wheel, channel beacons, seek optional trials, and tackle points of interest — miniboss fights, challenge encounters, and other risks that reward you with extra power. Race the clock: when time runs out the world goes dark, monstrous giants close in, and the pressure becomes relentless. Escape through the portal before it overwhelms you.
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Ritual Siege
Ritual sites send sacrificial monsters toward a dormant giant at the center. Every sacrifice that reaches it makes the giant stronger. Shut down the sites, then face the awakened Giant — a robotic titan with deadly telegraphed attacks and BoomBot reinforcements. Kill it to open the portal out.
03
Optional Trials & Minibosses
Regular stages hide optional Giant Remnant trials like Anchor, Soul Chase, Swarm, and Follow the Lights. Clear them to choose a new active ability or upgrade one you already have. Minibosses and giants add extra pressure with readable telegraphs and fast skill checks.
04
Boss Stages
Boss-biome encounters like Phalanx and Morvessa, Mother of Dread stand between you and the next act. Each fight blends generated terrain, readable telegraphs, area denial, and precise movement checks. Defeat the boss, claim the legendary reward it drops, and advance through the portal.
05
Endless Mode
After the final boss, the run becomes an Endless Mode survival push. Enemies get harder, spawns get denser, and there is no exit. The results screen tracks survival time, kills, and highest threat reached, with leaderboards planned for launch. How far can your build carry you?
Weapon Ultimates
Auto-fire builds. Manual power spikes.
Push a weapon to level 10 and it unlocks a manual ultimate with its own cooldown. These are the payoff buttons that turn steady scaling into a burst of decisive power.
Weapon ultimate
Astral Fangs
Starfang Tempest
Unleash a five-second storm of astral fangs that hunt nearby enemies.
Open weapon page →
Weapon ultimate
Manaburst
Singularity
Open a massive singularity 15m ahead that drags enemies inward and repeatedly crushes them. Elites and bosses take double damage.
Open weapon page →
Weapon ultimate
Chain Lightning
Tempest Ascension
Become a living tempest of chains that ravages every enemy in sight.
Open weapon page →
Weapon ultimate
Frostwave
Glacial Wall
Raise three wider, harder-hitting walls of winter that freeze everything in their path.
Open weapon page →
Weapon ultimate
Golden Gun
King's Judgment
Call down the king's judgment in a burst of sacred gunfire and one single-target execution round.
Open weapon page →
Weapon ultimate
Grenade
Carpet Bombardment
Unleash a forward skillshot barrage of 50 critical grenades across 10 escalating pulses.
Open weapon page →Active Abilities
Your weapons auto-fire. Your abilities swing the fight.
Active abilities give you direct control over your strongest tools: dash through danger, heal at the right moment, lock enemies down, clear space, or unleash burst damage when the screen starts closing in. Earn new abilities or upgrade existing ones through optional trials during regular stages.
Control
Frost Nova
12s cooldown
A freezing shockwave that locks down nearby packs and turns clusters into chain reactions.
Open ability page →
Control
Void Pull
12s cooldown
A dark vortex that drags enemies together and eventually crushes them at the center.
Open ability page →
Mobility
Blink
10s cooldown
A teleport escape that becomes a double-charge stun-and-knockback tool.
Open ability page →
Damage
Dragon Breath
12s cooldown
A sweeping cone of fire that escalates into a mobile dragon channel.
Open ability page →
Damage
Earthspikes
12s cooldown
A violent earth eruption that grows from burst knockback into a lingering fault line.
Open ability page →
Mobility
Human Catapult
12s cooldown
Launch, glide, and crash back down in a shockwave that keeps getting meaner.
Open ability page →
Survival
Phase Guard
16s cooldown
Temporary invulnerability that evolves from panic protection into aggressive body-checking.
Open ability page →
Survival
Blood Pact
22s cooldown
Dark lifesteal that evolves into shield conversion and a detonating blood nova.
Open ability page →Browse the arsenal for the full active ability list and each ability's five-level progression.
Build your run
Weapons, items, abilities, and momentum
Every run starts small. You earn XP from kills, level up into upgrade drafts, collect passive items from loot and world events, and seek out optional trials that let you choose new active abilities or upgrade the ones you already have.
- Weapons auto-fire and evolve through 10-tier upgrade tracks, eventually unlocking powerful ultimates with cooldowns.
- Active abilities add crowd control, burst damage, healing, survival tools, and mobility on top of your weapon cycle, then grow stronger when you upgrade them.
- Passive items stack, exhaust from the pool, and keep late-run drops exciting.
- Wheel spins, beacons, and optional trials inject risk, variance, and power spikes between fights.
Worlds of Everclear
Procedural biomes with fantasy character
Stages are built from curated biome collections, terrain layers, topography presets, and lighting profiles — giving each act its own tone while keeping the run readable and fast.
- Seasonal forest biomes — winter, summer, and autumn — plus swamps, deserts, mountains, and volcanic terrain.
- Biome-driven prop scatter, terrain painting, lighting, and cloud-shadow treatment.
- Boss stages that carry biome mood into the encounter instead of abandoning the world.
Screenshots
From early pressure to late-run spectacle
Latest update
Follow the latest news and progress
Announcements, patch notes, polish passes, and public-facing updates as Where Giants Fall develops.
Where Giants Fall — v0.51 Patch Notes
v0.51 adds Skybreaker and Chrono Veil, lets players choose an active ability before a run, introduces the first Journey Selection flow, rebuilds the main menu into a live cinematic scene, and improves weapons, shop flow, audio, and menu performance.
FAQ
Quick answers about Where Giants Fall
A concise overview for players, press, and anyone looking for the core facts.
What is Where Giants Fall?
Where Giants Fall is a 3D top-down fantasy bullet-heaven action roguelite with survivors-like build growth, movement-first combat, procedural worlds, active abilities to earn and upgrade, powerful weapon ultimates, and multi-act runs that keep raising the pressure.
Is Where Giants Fall a bullet-heaven or survivors-like game?
Yes. It blends survivors-like auto-fire build growth with active ability timing, powerful weapon ultimates, boss-biome encounters, and a more structured multi-act run format than flat arena survival.
What platforms is Where Giants Fall coming to?
Where Giants Fall is currently being developed for PC and Steam Deck.
Can I wishlist Where Giants Fall on Steam?
Yes. The official Steam Coming Soon page is live for wishlists at https://store.steampowered.com/app/4432710/.
What makes the run structure different?
Runs move through regular stages, Ritual Sieges, boss-biome encounters, optional trials, and an Endless Mode finale across procedurally assembled biome worlds, so the pacing and pressure keep changing during a single run.
Does the game only use auto-fire weapons?
No. Weapons auto-fire by default, but level-10 upgrades unlock manual ultimates, and active abilities add mobility, healing, crowd control, survival, and burst decisions on top of the auto-fire core. Active abilities can also be earned and upgraded during a run through optional trials.
Follow development
Wishlist and watch the game take shape
Where Giants Fall is in active development for PC and Steam Deck. More footage, feature updates, and patch notes are on the way.