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Saint's Mile A frontier JRPG.

A weathered frontier road story with sharp banter, real consequences, and just enough mystery to make the horizon feel haunted. Built for the generation that grew up on 90s classics.

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Install

cargo install saints-mile

Play

saints-mile

From source

git clone https://github.com/mcp-tool-shop-org/saints-mile cd saints-mile && cargo run

What Kind of Game

A frontier party RPG with terminal-native style.

Party Combat

4-slot party with distinct roles, duo techniques, and standoff-driven initiative. Not a duel game — a real 90s JRPG battle system.

Made for Adults

Themes of regret, duty, compromise, and legacy. Adults speak like adults. Choices linger. The frontier has weight.

Terminal Native

Runs in any terminal on earth. Zero graphics debt. Full focus on deterministic mechanics and text that trusts its audience.

The Cinder Basin

A frontier territory being reshaped by rail, water, and law.

Reputation as a Web

Helping one faction costs you with another. Towns remember who you helped and who you left behind.

Trail as Dungeon

Distance changes decisions. Water, ammo, and horse stamina are real costs. The road between towns is where pressure lives.

Four Decades

Play from age 19 to 50+. Galen's combat identity, worldview, and command presence change as life changes him.

The Party

Galen Rook — Gunhand

Precision • Called shots • Field command
Evolves across four life phases:
  Youth → speed and pride
  Young man → harder choices
  Adult → setup and command
  Older → judgment and certainty

Eli Winter — Grifter

Nerve attacks • Disruption • Cheap tricks
"Me? I'm being charming.
 Nobody should trust that."

Loyalty line unlocks late —
through deed, never speeches.

Dr. Ada Mercer — Sawbones

Healing • Wound management • Diagnosis
"He's one of the men bleeding
 in front of me."

The wound system matters
because she exists.

Rosa Varela — Ranch Hand

Lasso CC • Front-line tanking • Guard
"Fence doesn't hold itself."

She knows every fence post,
water point, and cattle trail.

Rev. Miriam Slate — Preacher

Channeled buffs • Nerve support • Sermon
Her abilities work in ways that
resist clean categorization.

Faith, cadence, timing —
or something the frontier
has no name for.

Lucien "Fuse" Marr — Dynamiter

Delayed AOE • Terrain reshaping
"Every road costs somebody.
 I'm just the cost you can see."

The player hates him first.
That is correct.