Angels Fall First

About this game

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!

User reviews

Very Positive82% positive · 3,386 reviews

Recommended1h played · 8h ago

I had to refund the game because it had no players; actually, the ideas in the game were pretty good.

Recommended0h played · 18h ago

I wish I could rate this a neutral. There's a fun game somewhere here, but it still needs a lot more polish. The concept is awesome; capital ships in duke it out in epic space battles as swarms of fighters contest the void between. Marines pile into boarding craft, to lead pitched battles in the depths of enemy ships. And you, the player, can play any of those roles. That said, while there are some great moments, the game a lot clunkier than it needs to be. It feels dated but with modern aspects. The UI is by far the worst offender, trying to do way too much. The player population is low, party due to the long development this game has had. Better bots would make the game feel more alive, which is needed. But at least the game can be played offline with the bots. I hope this game gets the love it needs to become all it can be, but unfortunately I feel like it won't. Still a decent game though!

Recommended14h played · 2d ago

How I wish there were more players.

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Not recommended8h played · 3d ago

If I were to really point out two things as being rather awful, it would be: • The UI • Space combat The UI is by far one of the most atrocious creations I have ever seen. Coming into this game, it will make less sense than trying to read Latin. Space combat is beans. Pure, unpleasant, cold beans. Ships do not feel like ships. Instead they feel like go-karts in low gravity. Does it make AFF a bad game? No, not at all. I think regardless of what gripes I have it's still a decent game. I also only think it's a decent game because I have been following the development since the days of it being a mod. The problem with that is the game has kind of not moved on since then. Sure it is an entirely new game, standalone from being a mod in need of another to play it, but is is still stuck in the time it originated. To a bad degree I'd say. Angels Fall First came out in the aughts some near 20 years ago, and it feels the EXACT SAME now as it did then.

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