Diluvian Ultra: Awakening

Released Sep 2024

Diluvian Ultra: Awakening shows a never-before seen part of Diluvian Ultra's story, preceding the events of the main game. As a young Diluvian Knight, stage a heroic defense against insurmountable odds, in this single-player FPS with a retro aesthetic and fast-paced, strategic combat.

72% positive · 181 reviews

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All announced content has been released

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Done

All announced content has been released

High confidence

Where to get it

Free on Steam

Steam Free

Evaluation

Diluvian Ultra: Awakening launched on September 16, 2024 as a free, stand-alone FPS prologue to the main game, Diluvian Ultra. The store description presents it as a self-contained story experience — a single new level with new characters, story, and dialogue that depicts events preceding the main game. It was released as part of the BOOMSTOCK event and is explicitly framed as an introduction for new players and a supplementary addition for veterans, with no mention of future updates or additional content. There has been only one developer communication since launch — the release announcement itself on September 16, 2024 — and no subsequent posts of any kind. There are no unreleased DLC entries, no announced roadmap, and no developer statements indicating further content is planned. Given that the game was designed and shipped as a compact, narratively complete prologue experience, the absence of any post-launch communication is consistent with a game that launched as a finished product rather than an ongoing project.

Evidence

Diluvian Ultra: Awakening launched as a free prologue during the BOOMSTOCK event. Developers shared excitement and invited community feedback, with no mention of future updates or additional content.

news post · Sep 16, 2024 source content shipped

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Store description presents the game as a single self-contained level with new characters, story, and dialogue. Framed as a complete introduction/supplement to the main game, with no mention of planned expansions or updates.

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Details

Developer

Cresthelm Studios

Publisher

Fulqrum Publishing

Achievements

Platform

Windows

Controller

partial support

Steam Deck

Unsupported

Players

Single-player

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About this game

Witness the events preceding the story of Diluvian Ultra in this free, stand-alone FPS. Embody a young Diluvian Knight, Qasar, and face the brutal Myrmidon invasion of your tomb-ship. Find and protect the sarcophagus of Attila, your Lord, and ensure he survives to set in motion the events of Diluvian Ultra.

Featuring a brand-new level, new characters, story and dialogues, Diluvian Ultra: Awakening is an excellent introduction for new explorers of the game’s universe, as well as an interesting new addition to veterans who have already completed the first chapter of Diluvian Ultra.

Strategic combat

Diluvian Ultra’s combat is built around a dual-damage system where you have to combine weapons to be effective. Armour absorbs damage, but some weapons are designed to quickly strip it off your targets - unable to kill them, but exposing them for a single lethal blow. You have to be careful though, as enemies will mix their attacks in the same way. Collect and consume blood to upgrade your weapons and pick up various power-ups at the opportune moment, to become vengeance incarnate - if only for a while!

Keep it moving

Surviving in Diluvian Ultra is all about mobility. Dodge enemy fire while you chain together ranged attacks with close combat blows and devastating ground slams. Double-jump, dash, find cover and even deflect projectiles with your sword, but never stay in one place for too long!

Organic philosophy

Your spaceship home is a living combination of flesh and stone, and so it is with your arsenal of weapons; use both traditional Tech weapons as well as grotesque, living Organic armaments, and don’t forget to take good care of your closest companion, your sentient Squire Gun.

Epic story

Diluvian Ultra may be an over the top retro FPS filled with frenetic action, but all that carnage is set on a background of an epic, tragic story tackling the themes of fanaticism, trauma, betrayal and hope for redemption, playing out in neo-gothic architectural set pieces and immense, cathedral-like spaceships.