Follow us on Steam to receive all our recent news!\n\nHello believers!\n\nBecoming Saint has a 30% discount on Steam with the Firesquid Publisher sale until December 1st!

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Check out all the discounts available here:

https://store.steampowered.com/sale/firesquidpublishersale2025

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If you missed the information, Becoming Saint is also Steam Deck compatible!

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Stay blessed!

-The Becoming Saint Team-

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Hello believers!

We\'re delighted to announce you that Becoming Saint is now Steamdeck verified, which means you can now convert all your faithful followers from anywhere!

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Feel free to share with us any feedback on the Steamdeck version, it helps us making the best experience possible. Also if you loved your time as a Saint, don\'t hesitate to leave us a review on Steam, it is a blessing we would be delighted to receive from you!

Want to learn more on how Becoming Saint was made? Check our interview here:

https://www.youtube.com/live/G5zYhdT3o74

We are also working on a new Patch Notes, so stay tuned for our next update!

Stay blessed!

-The Becoming Saint Team-

Hello believers!

It\'s been two weeks since release and we first wanted to thank all of you who took the time to play the game and leave us a review, we\'re almost at a 100 reviews!

We made several Patch Notes thanks to your feedback and we wanted to answer the most frequently asked questions that we received about the gameplay, the saving options and more! So let\'s dive into this new FAQ focusing on gameplay!

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The game has a tutorial for confrontation, you can open it from the \"help\" panel in the bottom right:

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Any time during the battles you can open it by using \"ESC\" button and you have the \"Open the Tutorial\" button in the menu, this is how it looks like:

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You can also open the tutorial by clicking the ? icon in the bottom right:

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The two game modes are the \"easy mode\" and the \"hard mode\".

What does easy mode do?

PATCH NOTES - 29/07/25

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Added:

• Added a \"hard mode\" for the game

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• Added 5 new achievements: for conquering all emperor\'s town, one for all merchant\'s towns, and one for all pope\'s towns, for 50 points charisma, for 200 points food

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• Added a customization of Amalfi as sea town with its splendid dome

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Improved:

• Begging phase is much faster by default and also after the first town conquered

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• Meditate ending overall state panel better on multiple clicks

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• Training battles at the end do not show cardinals

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• Improved consistency of font style for body text across Latin characters

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• Text blocks updates for better word fitting

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• Small improvement on feedback on charisma change in march

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Fixed:

• Fixed labels off-screen in Controller panel explanation

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• Fixed missing characters in Traditional Chinese

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• Small fix on closing saints on Start scene

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PATCH NOTES - 22/07/25

Improved:

• Improvements of the final part of battle being more lethal on both sides for balancing

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• Improvements of the slow down during selection, making it shorter to give more sense of control to players

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• Faster begging phase

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Fixed:

• Fixed Asian font and sort order issues

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• Fixed a bug when removing the cover in post-battle scene that made visible the menu with non-updated data for a while

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• Fixed issues with the number of cardinals feedback

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PATCH NOTES - 18/07/25

Improved:

• Improvements of the message when units leave your movement

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Added:

• Added help ? button in confrontation that opens the full tutorial

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• More variety in units for Merchant towns

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Fixed:

• Fixed icon in speed up tooltip

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Patch Notes - 17/07/25\n

Improved:

• Revised the level-up algorithm, now based on levelling up units that survived at every 3 towns conquered

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• Units when they level up do a nice fxs

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• Better wording of back to start button

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• Much faster scene navigation after battle: from the second town conquered onwards, there is no intro cover, all texts are faster, and the three sections advance much quicker

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Fixed:

• Fixed font issues

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• Fixed the tooltip on low level tree branches in Piazza

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• Fixed typos issues

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• Fixed the meeting title labels for longer character names

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PATCH NOTES\n

Improved

• Sped up tick from 4 to 3.6 secs.

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• Speeding up button now is 3.5X instead of 2X

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Fixed\n

• Fixed an issue where units and items were not saved when exiting the game

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• Fixed an issue with unlocking achievements

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Hey believers!

Becoming Saint is now available with a 10% discount for 14 days. The game is compatible with the Steam Deck, so you can spread your doctrine from anywhere!

Buy Becoming Saint:

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Watch our blessed trailer:

The game is available in 13 languages:

• English

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• Italian

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• French

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• German

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• Russian

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• Spanish

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• Ukrainian

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• Japanese

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• Simplified Chinese

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• Traditional Chinese

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• Indonesian

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• Korean

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• Vietnamese

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Do you have other questions regarding the game\'s content? The platforms? Accessibility options? Check out our FAQ!

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Want some tips to start your new cult in the best conditions possible? Take a look at our 5 Tips to Start Playing Becoming Saint guide:\n\n[dynamiclink href=\"https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3520997216\"][/dynamiclink]

Don\'t feel like reading? Check out the video made by Charm the Gamer:

Supporter Pack and Bundles to discover:

Want to support the dev team? You can also purchase the Supporter Pack with unique in-game skin, posters, wallpapers, original soundtracks, and more!

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Discover our unique bundles with amazing games and a 10% additional discount:

• Becoming Saint x Bad North: for those who are fond of strategizing fast and efficiently

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• Becoming Saint x Stronghold Crusader: Definitive Edition: for all our medieval battles lovers

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Want to share your ideas for the game? Report a bug or an issue? Feel free to leave us any feedback either in our Discord or in the Steam Discussions!

Be blessed, heretics, because you can finally bring them all the truth! YOUR truth!

- The Becoming Saint team -

Hey believers!

On July 15th, you will start your blessed journey towards sanctity, but that kind of pilgrimage never comes with a guide, does it?

Do not panic, Saints in the making, as we cover your back with a celestial FAQ to answer any questions you may have. Lets all march towards the release with our pockets full of bread!

You know you were born for something greater, and this greater can only be achieved by spreading your holy words to all of 14th-century Italy. The title is self-explanatory, but to become a saint in the shortest period after your death, you will need to face many challenges. The more impact you make in your lifetime with your conversion skills, the more likely that youll become a saint quickly.

To achieve this goal, you will need to convince people to follow you and spread your movement by converting towns to your beliefs But you are not the only one grasping for the peoples faith, as other powers in place will challenge your authority Or use you to their advantage.

In Becoming Saint, you will have access to:

• 10 different personalities based on in-game choices, will you stay true to yourself or swing from one side to the other?

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• 50 different chapters of rules and decisions about your movement

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• 16 different units based on your personality and political choices, each with their own strengths and weaknesses

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• A map of Italy with more than 40 Italian cities to convert

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• Battlemaps that have different environments depending on which city it is, diverse at each runtime

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• Various enemies and bosses that will challenge your forces

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• Management system of food and charisma to keep the belly of your followers full and their devotion to you intact

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• Random encounters that can bring good fortune or bad omens to your movement

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• A training mode to let you practice your strategy and units' synergies before going into a real confrontation

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• And more to discover!

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The game has some autobattler mechanics during combat when converting a city. You can choose between two modes for the control of your units:

• The Autobattler Mode: in the Autobattler Mode, the units move by themselves and you can let the flow of the battle follow its own path

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• The Manual Movement Mode: in the Manual Movement Mode, you will have more control over the units placement and how they move on the battlefield

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The game will be available at launch in 13 languages:

• English

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• Italian

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• French

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• German

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• Russian

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• Spanish

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• Ukrainian

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• Japanese

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• Simplified Chinese

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• Traditional Chinese

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• Indonesian

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• Korean

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• Vietnamese

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The game will cost 14.99 USD/ Euros and 54 RMB, 249TWD, 65HKD.

There will be a 10% discount during the 14-day launch period to celebrate the release.

The game will also feature a Supporter edition with an additional skin for the game, hi-res art from the game sources, soundtrack, and more!

The game will be available on PC on Steam (Windows, Mac, Linux) and will be playable on Steam Deck.

We might explore in the future other platforms such as GoG, Epic, etc

The game will also be ported to Switch and on mobile a little bit after the PC launch.

The game releases on July 15th.

Becoming Saint blends quick strategic battles with narrative layers. The game evolves around themes like society and religion with a tragicomic narrative where each playthrough presents different moral, cultural, and religious choices, leading to various outcomes. While the themes are serious and some endings are tragic, theyre all laced with humor. Youre also be part of a rebellious movement in medieval Italy, facing historical figures like the Pope and imagining how you would have thrived (or fallen) at that time period.

The combat system is also semi-automated with more or less guidance on your units depending on the playstyle you enjoy more, offering a variety of synergies and tactics in confrontations.

This combination of narrative elements and strategic battles leads to new challenges as each personality offers a set of units and synergies, giving a replayable aspect as each path to sainthood will be different depending on your choices.

Simple tactical games, like Bad North and Tabs, or even Into the Breach inspired us to create Becoming Saint. We always wondered how these games would be by adding in some way a narrative layer integrated with their wonderful mechanics and design; a layer that is not just a bridge between battles, but that has an influence on the mechanics. Also, we are fascinated by autobattlers, like Despot's Game: Dystopian Battle Simulator. We like battles in small grids, as in Banner Saga and Into the Breach. So Becoming Saint is inspired by all of this, but also with a quite unique touch.

You can learn more about our inspirations in our dedicated Steam News:

https://steamcommunity.com/games/2643010/announcements/detail/4279069370774912108?snr=2___

The game features a large fonts option that enables larger fonts in the games user interface.

The game is playable with just the mouse, or the mouse and keyboard, or from any PC/Xbox compatible controller.

Open Lab is an award-winning Italian independent studio and design agency founded in 2001. It works in multiple media and creates narratives based on popular culture themes. The team explores new narrative applications under strong artistic directions (Football Drama, Roller Drama). Becoming Saint merges an evolutive narrative and socio-political themes with a tactical medieval game of conquest.

We hope we've answered your questions regarding the game. If you still have some left, feel free to ask them in the comments or on our Discord (and if you'd like to chat with us about your pets or favorite games!). Have a great day, heretics, and see you in two weeks!

Stay blessed!

-The Becoming Saint team-

Hi everyone!

First of all, a big thank you to everyone who added Becoming Saint to their wishlist during the Steam Fest that was a lot of you! We now have more than 20 000 wishlists and that's truly a blessing!

We also received tons of valuable feedback, and weve already started implementing changes to improve the game experience.

One common point was that converting towns felt a bit hard to read so weve made several adjustments, some of which are already live in the updated demo:

• Clearer Game Mode Selection
  
  The two modes Autobattler and Manual Movement now appear in a clear, dedicated panel at the start of the game. It also remembers your last choice for convenience. (See image)
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• Slower Confrontation Timing
  
  Previously, too many things happened at once during confrontations, giving less experienced players little time to bless, curse, move, or intervene. Weve slowed things down to give you more control and breathing room.

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• New Training Mode (Coming Soon!)
  
  This is a big one: were adding a *Training Mode* that lets you practice confrontations in placeholder towns as many times as you like. Its a great way to sharpen your skills before jumping into the full game. (See video.)
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The first two updates are already available in the latest demo. The new Training Mode is coming next week. The Steam Next Fest might be over, but you can still enjoy our free demo with all the recent changes until June 25th! All feedback is always welcome and you can share it through our form here !

Thanks again for your support and we hope these changes help you on your journey to becoming a saint!

-The Becoming Saint team-

Hey believers!

Mark your calendars: on July 15th, you will officially begin your journey towards sanctity! We'll talk more about the release date and what you can expect later.


Want to give it a try before buying the game fully? Put on your Saint's shoes with our demo on Steam:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2643010/Becoming_Saint/

What's in the demo?

Hey Heretics,

Our new dev blog this time will shed some light on the threats we face during this journey! From food management, rebellious followers to other powers in place, fights are made on and off the battlefield.

Food or foe?

• Losing followers who run away or get converted during confrontations
• Not having enough food to feed your followers
  

• The Pope
• The Emperor
• The merchants and banks
  

• Cardinals and new victory conditions.
• Complete victory conditions are now clearer, as you have to control most of the cardinals to become Popesse in your lifetime and hence a saint while alive
• The fact that the cardinal seat locations are mostly generative creates a greater variety of paths in the map, as you chase the towns with seats
• Units are controlled by hand by default, plus a global switch at start, and the choice is persisted.
• New character and feature: the illusionist, which enables new unit types.
• There is a slimmed-down and interactive tutorial that introduces some actions in confrontations.
• New handling of pauses in confrontation and sync of infos.
  

Hello Heretics!

Our second playtest is now fully open until March 31st! The first playtest we had was an amazing experience and your feedback helped us so much improve the game that we decided to host another one, public this time!

To participate, go to the Steam Store Page of the game and click on this button:

From the previous closed playtest's feedback we added:

• Random events triggering during the march and where your choices will influence your charisma and how your followers perceive you as a good leader (or not!)
• Improvement of the tutorial and better gameplay explanation through tooltips
• More town customized for a complete immersion into medieval Italy
• Improvements of units controls that are now more reactive during combat phase
• A new icon to let you know how many cities you have converted (next to the food and charisma ressources)
• ...And more for you to discover in-game!
  

Hey Heretics,

Our fifth dev blog brings to light our intentions in design and gameplay when creating Becoming Saint, and you can find a little summary of the playtests at the end of this dev blog!

Bloody history, light tone

Write your own story with your followers

A divine journey that is still ongoing

A holy thank you to our playtesters!

Hey Heretics!

Were super proud to announce that we will host our first playtest from January 20th until February 3rd and let you enjoy the game for the first time!


We're excited to read your feedback on the game and see you experience it, the playtests are always an amazing experience after working for so much time on our game!

You can register here: https://forms.gle/VXKWrjjyNo7Y6Bs89

• Not everyone may be selected for this playtest due to limited spots. If you are chosen, we will send out Steam keys manually, so it may take some time to receive yours. We appreciate your patience and understanding!
• You can not share gameplay footage/screenshot elsewhere than in our Discord .
  

Heretics,

Our fourth dev blog will be centered around the creation and shaping of your doctrine in the game: after all, how can you imagine becoming a saint without rules to preach to your followers?

Your decisions, your creed

Inspirations behind the political stances

Who will follow you?

Should I be true to myself or embrace chaos?

Heretics,

Our third dev blog will preach the importance of the setting of the game and how it shapes your journey in sanctity as well as the way to achieve it through conquest.

Medieval Italy as a place of changes and evolution

Your surroundings during battles

• Platforms give the occupying unit an advantage in both defence and attack;
• Fountains block a cell so that nobody can cross it;
• Monuments both block the cell where they are set and also can block projectiles.
  

Giving birth to an environment

Heretics,

Our second dev blog is centered on the humorous aspects of the game and how units are part of the narrative as representation of society but also part of the gameplay with their unique synergies.

Humour in tragedy

Medieval setting, contemporary issues

Tell me who you go with...

...and I'll tell you who you are

Heretics,

Our first dev blog is about all the inspirations we took to give life to our game whether in literature, videogames or paintings... And how it gave shape both to the art direction of the game but also its mechanics and core gameplay.

Games that inspired us

Medieval inspirations

Goals in Becoming Saint

Themes

• The union of a political/sociological game of choices that dynamically generates a sort of army of destitute people
• The notion of battle and conquest turned into a confrontation of persuasion and determination
• The tragicomic tone and themes; spiritual belief as a source of rebellion instead of a tool for conservation
• The mix of autobattler features and real-time tactical management.
  

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Storyline and Narrative

Gameplay