FAINTBURN

A single-player space adventure for iPhone

Make your living
among the stars.

Mine dangerous seams. Investigate strange signals. Defend frontier ships. Earn your next vessel, then decide where to fly.

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An illustrated Faintburn spacecraft with cyan engines and purple equipment
Existing Faintburn station illustration

Illustrated frontier artwork · Gameplay shown below

Find your next job. Follow your own direction.

Three ways to make your way.

Actual Faintburn gameplay showing extraction from an asteroid seam

Work the seam.

Take mining work, learn the deposits and earn credits for specialist tools and ships.

Actual Faintburn gameplay showing a research contact

Follow the signal.

Investigate discoveries and take research work. There is more to the frontier than the next contract.

Actual Faintburn gameplay showing ships in a defence encounter

Defend the frontier.

Protect working ships, answer calls for help and fit your vessel for the next encounter.

A mystery to discover

One more strange signal
before docking.

Travel through five connected regions, find distinctive places and follow the Riven Signal when you are ready. A complete main story sits alongside career work and optional discoveries.

After the story, keep flying, develop your careers and tune your ships.

Actual Faintburn gameplay showing a mysterious contact in the frontier

Your next step is yours.

A frontier in your pocket.

Play in landscape with touch controls. Your progress stays on your device, with no game account required.

Explore Faintburn on iPhone

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