Angels Fall First
Angels Fall First is a first person combined-arms sci-fi wargame.
AFF focuses on team-oriented tactical gameplay and objective-based scenarios with a high degree of replayability, featuring:
- Wide selection of weapons and tools, ground vehicles and spacecraft to fight with.
- Diverse combat opportunities – assume point to clear a building, hunt with a frigate wolfpack as a lineship captain, issue orders from the bridge of your battleship.
- Fully operational and pilotable capital ships with playable interiors.
- Unique combination of spaceship and infantry combat – board spacestations, shipyards and vessels to capture or destroy them from the inside.
- Dogfighting using space interceptors and bombers, launched from capital ships and stations.
- Gameplay mechanics designed as a mix of modern elements (customization, loadouts, persistence) and inspirations from classic shooters (frantic, fast-paced firefights).
- Commander mode for issuing orders to your squadmates and teammates.
- Full AI support – all scenarios can be played both offline and online identically, supporting up to 64 players or bots filling in for the players if required.
- Rich science fiction universe setting.
Another space game?
Well, we’ve been doing this a long time – AFF has been a rich universe of fiction and art since 2005. We made a Homeworld mod, and kept building from there. Work started on an Unreal Tournament 2004 mod, but was then ported over to UT3 in 2007, culminating in a 3rd place grand prize in 2009’s MakeSomethingUnreal contest.
Angels Fall First as a standalone game is, for us, a mission to enable the player to do as much as possible in a vast environment – whilst still retaining the focussed, fun experience of match based FPS games.
Way back in the back-whens, we loved Tie Fighter. A little later on, we loved Battlefield. We waited patiently for the game which would inevitably unite the vast scale and spacefights with the close and personal firefights and thunderous vehicle battles…
But it never really appeared. Many games came close, but there was always some part missing. You couldn’t get out of your spaceship, you couldn’t get into your spaceship, you had big spaceships but you couldn’t run around in them, you could run around in your big spaceship but you couldn’t fly it and so on and so forth and gahd damMIT! Where was our spacefight groundfight game?
So, we set ourselves to work. AFF exists because it MUST exist. Only in AFF can you spawn in your crew quarters, run to the bay watching the space fight out of the windows, launch a dropship, fight through the defenders to the enemy flagship, breach the hull, run and gun your way to the bridge and SHOOT THE ENEMY CAPTAIN IN THE BACK OF THE NECK.
Calm Down!
Ok. But it’s this slightly twitchy passion which has driven us to create such a monster. We grew old making this, and we got grumpy watching everyone else release their cool games or whatever. We’re from a time when games were about blowing stuff up for points and glory and now FINALLY we want to go out there and share this crazy passion with all of you!
Steam User 33
Good game if you like offline bot games.
There is offline progression.
I think the devs should focus more on single player content as the player base is extremely low.
Steam User 16
This game needs to exist but it needs players so badly. To get players it needs to get the jank dejanked, and then we need another well-subscribed youtuber to feature some gameplay with a crew of friends because I tried that one time and it was magical.
Steam User 12
Angels Fall First isn't bad, it's not great but it's not bad either, it's a fine game but there are better similar games out there.
If you like games such as Enemy Territory: Quake Wars, Star Wars Battlefront 2, Battlefield 2, Section 8, etc... then you may like this, i'm not a fan of the models of weapons, vehicles, armors, etc... But it's a fine shooter nonetheless.
And it is playable with bots.
Steam User 14
Lots of fun, feels like a Planetside 2 + Battlefield crossover. Expect most games to be played against bots tho, but they are pretty good. Hopefully they will continue development and maybe even add workshop support in the future.
Steam User 16
What if Battlefield 2142 wasn't shut down and wasn't difficult to load up and play?
What if Star Wars Battlefront 2 (2005) had a spiritual successor?
What if making a game took 10+ years on evenings and weekends among a close group of friends and you sold it for $18?
Well, you'd get Angels Fall First, a nearly feature complete hobby project that oozes love from every QoL patch committed to it over a decade.
This is a game made by people who play and, dare I say, love the very game they created. This takes me back to the days of playing Battlefield 2142 with my brother back when we lived together and got along. Even now, playing against bots is good relaxing fun. Ranking up is optional, stress free, and just lets you equip more stuff (assuming you allow rank to set your capacity).
Try playing against Bots FIRST with Bot Skill Rank 1 until you learn the maps, mechanics, and loadout system.
Online may be "dead" but the server (and bots) are always there, a testament to the efforts and commitment of the Angels Fall First team. The upcoming Update 30 claims to be version 1.0 and I personally look forward to seeing it.
Meanwhile why not buy some copies for yourself and friends? Play some bot matches. Host your own listen server. Get back to the old days of playing a game for fun instead of some arbitrary grind. Sure there's rankups and prestiges here, but it's all optional and just there to show off how long you've been playing (and how much gear you can equip at once). Whether you have 1 friend or up to 63 (including yourself), the game is sure to entertain for as long as you want to play.
Steam User 14
One of those games that sits in your library for ages just begging to get dusted off. Consume the lore, beat your head against the loadout system, load a match, die, die, die, and somewhere along the way feel that little spark of joy that you thought you lost a long time ago.
Steam User 8
Do you miss the fun times of battlefield 4, blowing up other dudes with SMAWs? how about star wars battlefront 2, boarding other players ships and blowing them up from the inside? what if I told you.there was a game that did both of those things of those things, but with a tiny bit of "oh, this looks dated but it's better then anything EA has put out in years." ?
I really haven't had this much fun with a shooter since Titanfall 2. 100% worth 20 bucks.