- July 15, 2025
- Open Lab Games
Becoming Saint
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About Becoming Saint
Becoming Saint is a single player tactical management game with medieval and historical themes. It was developed by Open Lab Games and was released on July 15, 2025. It received mostly positive reviews from players.
Choose your doctrine and preach across medieval Italy in this real-time strategy roguelike. Gather your diverse cast of followers, venture out to convince and convert new believers, conquer towns, and strive to become a saint in your lifetime — or die trying.
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Reviews
- Unique and original concept blending historical satire, roguelike elements, and ideological strategy that offers a refreshing alternative to traditional strategy games.
- Charming and visually appealing art style combined with a fitting medieval soundtrack that complements the game's atmosphere and humor.
- Strong replay value through experimenting with different doctrines, follower combinations, and branching narrative events that dynamically influence each playthrough.
- Combat system is often clunky, frustrating, and simplistic with poor AI and unintuitive mechanics, leading many players to rely on autoplayer mode which reduces engagement.
- Game economy suffers from balancing issues, especially the mandatory food (bread) management that forces players into unintuitive and punishing strategies like intentional losses to avoid starvation.
- Lack of clear tutorials and explanations of core mechanics and win conditions causes confusion and can lead to player frustration; the UI and pacing have annoying delays.
gameplay
31 mentions Positive Neutral NegativeThe gameplay of Becoming Saint offers a unique blend of strategic, tactical, and management elements with a roguelike and historical satire twist, but many find it simplistic, repetitive, and lacking depth in both combat and economic mechanics. While the religion crafting and ideological choices add charm and humor, they have minimal impact on gameplay, leading to a somewhat tedious loop that may appeal more to players who appreciate its thematic references than to those seeking complex strategy or management. Overall, it provides an entertaining but shallow experience that may not sustain long-term engagement without further feature additions.
“Becoming Saint, developed by Open Lab Games and published by Firesquid and 2P Games, is an unconventional strategy game that blends historical themes with roguelike structure and tactical gameplay.”
“This unusual premise immediately distinguishes it from most strategy games, offering a blend of historical satire, tactical encounters, and narrative decision-making that creates a surprisingly unique gameplay experience.”
“The game incorporates elements of real-time tactics and autobattler mechanics, meaning that positioning, unit composition, and timing all influence the outcome of these ideological clashes.”
“The religion crafting mechanic is less of a mechanic and more of a rote personality test, affecting nothing and being the rare spark of humor in an otherwise bland and tedious game.”
“However, Becoming Saint's blending of genres creates a game that's frustrating in its simplicity, annoying in its combat mechanics, baffling in its lack of management ability, and ultimately, just boring.”
“The translations are very rough around the edges, and the gameplay has very little long-term depth to it.”
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Becoming Saint is a tactical management game with medieval and historical themes. Common tags for Becoming Saint include politics, indie, war, cute, resource management and others.
Becoming Saint is available on PC, Mac OS, Steam Deck, Windows and others.
Becoming Saint was released on July 15, 2025.
Becoming Saint was developed by Open Lab Games.
Becoming Saint has received mostly positive reviews from players. Most players liked Becoming Saint for its humor but disliked it for its gameplay.
Becoming Saint is a single player game.
Similar games include Godhood, Plebby Quest: The Crusades, Old World, Gloria Victis: Siege, The King is Watching and others.