3D top-down fantasy bullet-heaven action roguelite
Survivors-like build growth, movement-focused combat, and the thrill of turning a fragile run into overwhelming power.
Evolving weapon ultimates, upgradeable active abilities, procedural worlds, and long runs built around rising pressure. Wishlist now on Steam.
Official reveal
Watch the first official trailer for Where Giants Fall, then wishlist the game on Steam to follow demo news, development updates, and launch details.
About the game
A 3D top-down fantasy bullet-heaven action roguelite with survivors-like build growth, movement-focused combat, auto-fire weapons that evolve into manual ultimates, and active abilities you can earn, upgrade, and spend at the moments that decide a run.
Every run moves through 2 regular stages, a Ritual Siege, 2 boss stages, and an Endless Mode finale, with procedural worlds, killing-spree payouts, optional danger escalation, and natural dusk transitions changing the pressure from stage to stage.
Game at a glance
How a run is structured
Each run is a multi-act journey through procedural worlds: 2 regular stages, a Ritual Siege, 2 boss stages, then Endless.
What kind of game is it?
Each run spans multiple acts across regular stages, Ritual Siege stages, and boss-biome encounters in procedurally assembled worlds. Biomes drive enemy populations and giant threats, while killing-spree rewards and optional pressure statues let the danger spike far beyond the baseline before Endless Mode.
Draft upgrades, collect passive items, earn or upgrade active abilities, and survive long enough for the build to come online. Auto-fire weapons can evolve into ultimates, then keep growing through mastery upgrades that push those finales further.
"Every stage should make you feel measurably stronger, while the danger stays readable enough that movement and timing still matter."
Core strengths
Dash, jump, glide, build travel momentum, reposition, and survive through clean movement instead of passive face-tanking. Giantstride carries your sustained forward speed, and Power Rush spends movement charges on committed bursts you can steer — carving a line on the ground, holding it in the air, and feeding that speed straight back into your stride on landing.
Regular stages with killing-spree payouts and optional pressure statues, a Ritual Siege with unlimited Insight rewards, giant boss fights with legendary drops, and Endless Mode - every stage type asks something different from your build.
Weapon upgrade tracks, Giantforge enhancements bound to individual weapons, passive items, active abilities, killing-spree payouts, random chest drops, wheel rewards, and beacon choices all shape the run in different ways.
Combat is built to look powerful while preserving telegraphed attacks, crowd spacing, readable contact damage, and room for player decision-making.
Fight through seasonal forest biomes - winter, summer, and autumn - plus swamps, deserts, mountains, and volcanic terrain, each with biome-specific enemies, giant families, mood, and terrain generation.
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
A run is a multi-act journey, not a flat arena timer. The standard Journey moves through two regular stages, a Ritual Siege, two boss stages, and an Endless finale, with monster variety, biome identity, killing-spree momentum, and carried danger choices shifting as the run gets harder. Between stages, the Giantforge lets you spend the run's gold — and sometimes your own health — on the weapons you are carrying.
Fight biome-specific waves across a procedural world. Hunt chests, spin the wheel, channel beacons, seek optional trials, awaken pressure statues, and chase killing sprees for escalating XP and gold bonuses. Race the clock: when time runs out, overtime turns the world into a desperate last stand before you escape through the portal.
Clear a stage and the forge opens from the summary screen. It sells enhancements bound to the specific weapons you carry, three offers at a time, rerollable as often as you can afford. One slot is a safe improvement, one is a bargain with a real cost, and one is a wildcard that can turn out to be a Legendary. Some enhancements trade a permanent slice of your maximum health for their power, and the card shows what you will be left with before you commit.
Ritual sites send sacrificial monsters toward a dormant giant while Wardens, Champions, and carried danger choices create escalating pressure. Destroy anchors, defeat key enemies, and take on the Trial of Ascension — a flight across the biome that pays out in a battlefield-clearing shockwave and an army slowed by half. Keep completing objectives to fill Ritual Insight for as many Active Ability Drafts as you can earn, then face the awakened giant and open the portal out.
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. Pressure statues add a separate risk lever: awakening one permanently raises giant danger for the rest of the run, and the cost is the only thing it asks of you.
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. Bosses are larger, heavier, and clearer in motion after the latest scale, casting, and attack-readability pass.
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?
What makes it different?
Where Giants Fall keeps the dopamine curve of a bullet heaven — automatic weapons, draftable upgrades, and a build that grows from fragile to absurd — but the strongest moments are not passive. Movement momentum, positioning, active ability timing, and manually triggered weapon ultimates all stay in your hands.
Evolving weapons unlock ultimates, turning auto-fire weapons into deliberate buttons for boss pressure, pack clears, or emergency openings before mastery upgrades push the ultimate itself further.
Earn and upgrade manually activated abilities for movement, healing, crowd control, burst damage, and survival instead of relying only on passive weapon patterns.
Runs build toward structured giant fights like Phalanx and Morvessa, where terrain, telegraphs, and positioning matter alongside build strength.
Regular stages, Ritual Siege stages, boss-biome encounters, and Endless Mode carry the run through shifting biome moods, biome-specific enemies, and objective pressure.
Weapon Ultimates
Push a weapon far enough and it unlocks a manual ultimate with its own cooldown or charge behavior. Further mastery upgrades can add shorter cooldowns, longer durations, additional projectiles, larger attacks, new behavior, and unique finale effects.
Final Sentence
The Guillotine cashes out every wound at once, then opens them all again.
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Second Dawn
One sunset is no longer enough.
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Tempest's Last Word
Silence lasts only until the final thunderclap.
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Bunker Buster
One final shadow swallows the warning circle.
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Cathedral of Ice
A fourth nave rises after the first three.
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Fatal Diagnosis
Death and expiry share one final toxic conclusion.
Open weapon page →Active Abilities
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. You can equip four active abilities at once, then upgrade them during trials and Ritual Insight drafts.
12s cooldown
A close-range freeze that splinters, brittles giants, and follows you as Absolute Zero.
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12s cooldown
A dense vortex that commands, relocates, and collapses into seeking void shards.
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10s cooldown
A teleport escape that tears open damaging rifts and folds space back on itself.
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12s cooldown
A focused fire cone that grows into scorched earth and a spectral dragon repeat.
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12s cooldown
Jagged earth eruptions that branch into fault lines and continental breaks.
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12s cooldown
Charge, launch, steer a steep wingsuit dive, and crash down like a siege weapon.
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16s cooldown
Temporary invulnerability that stores pressure and replays your path as detonating holy pools.
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22s cooldown
A bomb you charge: lifesteal builds a real shield, and the shield erupts.
Open ability page →Browse the arsenal for the full active ability list and each ability's current upgrade progression.
Build your run
Every run starts small. You earn XP from kills, level up into upgrade drafts, collect passive items from loot, world events, and occasional chest drops, then decide when to chase killing-spree momentum or raise the danger for a more rewarding run.
Worlds of Everclear
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.
Screenshots
Latest update
Announcements, patch notes, polish passes, and public-facing updates as Where Giants Fall develops.
The biggest patch yet. Real hills across every stage, the Trial of Ascension replacing the Ritual Beacon, a rebuilt Giantforge with 26 Legendaries, Power Rush you can steer, the new Venom Rift ability, and a Loot Goblin you rob instead of kill.
FAQ
A concise overview for players, press, and anyone looking for the core facts.
Where Giants Fall is a 3D top-down fantasy bullet-heaven action roguelite with survivors-like build growth, procedural worlds, upgradable weapons, active abilities, powerful weapon ultimates, killing-spree rewards, and optional ways to raise the danger of a run for better rewards.
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.
Where Giants Fall is currently being developed for PC and Steam Deck.
Yes. The official Steam Coming Soon page is live for wishlists at https://store.steampowered.com/app/4432710/Where_Giants_Fall/.
Yes. Auto-fire weapons can evolve into manual ultimates, then keep improving through mastery upgrades such as shorter cooldowns, longer durations, extra projectiles, stronger attacks, new behavior, and unique finale effects.
Yes. Active abilities are manually activated tools for movement, healing, crowd control, burst damage, and survival. You can equip up to four at once, earn new abilities, and upgrade existing ones during a run.
Warpath is a killing-spree system that ignites when you destroy enemies much faster than your recent pace. It climbs through six tiers, banks bonus XP and gold, and pays out when the Warpath ends or the stage finishes.
Giant Pressure is a persistent secondary giant invasion in regular stages. Awakening statues raises pressure for the rest of the run, increasing giant intensity, health, damage, movement speed, and the amount of battlefield reward fuel available.
The Giantforge is a forge that opens between stages. It sells enhancements bound to individual weapons you are carrying, three offers per visit, rerollable as often as you can afford. All three cards roll independently, and every card shows the exact values it rolled — that is what you keep for the run. Twenty-six Legendary enhancements exist, two per weapon: one Core transformation available immediately and one Ultimate transformation once that weapon's Ultimate is unlocked. Cards are bought with gold, but some enhancements also take a permanent slice of your maximum health as the price of their power. Across a run the forge will not let that total pass 40%, and a purchase can never kill you.
Dash and Power Rush share one pool of three movement charges. A Dash costs one; a Power Rush commits two and becomes committed momentum that accelerates down slopes, throws lesser enemies aside at speed, and carries you off ledges into a steerable glide before dropping back into the rush on landing. You genuinely steer a Power Rush — sustained turns carve on the ground and reposition you in the air. Charges refill one at a time, in order, six seconds each. Giantstride builds smooth speed from sustained forward running, and the speed you earn from a Rush now carries into it. A Power Rush grants no invulnerability, so spending charges on it instead of saving them for a Dash is a real decision.
The standard Journey moves through 2 regular stages, a Ritual Siege, 2 boss stages, and an Endless Mode finale across procedurally assembled biome worlds, so the pacing and pressure keep changing during a single run. Between stages, the Giantforge sells enhancements for the weapons you are carrying.
No. Weapons auto-fire by default, but evolved weapons 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.
A public demo is planned before launch, with the current marketing target aimed around February 2027 Steam Next Fest.
Where Giants Fall is currently planned for a March 2027 Steam launch. The game is still in active development, so launch details may change as polish continues.
Steam Deck is a first-class development target. The Deck build now runs the same game as the PC version — the same procedural worlds, at the same size, with the same environment detail — and targets 60 FPS. Steam Deck button prompts are supported. The game has not yet been submitted for a Deck Verified rating, so no badge is claimed while development continues.
Yes. The controller layout covers the whole game: both sticks are live at once, mobility sits on the triggers, four active abilities sit on the face and bumper buttons, and four weapon ultimates sit on the D-pad. Menus and Settings are fully navigable with a pad. Button prompts follow the controller you are holding — Xbox, PlayStation, or Steam Deck — and switch back the moment you touch the keyboard or mouse. Keyboard and mouse controls are fully supported alongside it.
Follow development
Where Giants Fall is in active development for PC and Steam Deck. More footage, feature updates, and patch notes are on the way.
