I will take my power and spread my darkness everywhere, to all homes, to every human, every soul. I will go everywhere in this land, I will go into every city into every corner of them.
You won this time but this will not stop me. When successfully rejecting Satan and his temptations using your holy spirit projectiles(!), you are launched into a cut scene in the POV of Satan, in which he flies through Jerusalem/Nazareth damning you and the people and plotting his return almost like the Joker: This functions as a combat tutorial while being tempted by Satan’s offers and culminates into an actual boss battle against Satan himself. The story of Jesus continues as he sets out into the desert to test his beliefs and live in abstinence for forty days. If you are also into game development, you can immediately tell that this game was built in Unreal Engine, as it uses a lot of the default UI elements and assets.Īfter being baptized in another cut scene, you unlock the ability to pray by pressing “R” which is basically a reload for all your powers, health, and stamina. The gameplay is pretty straightforward as it reminds gamers of other RPGs such as The Elder Scrolls games and consists mainly of walking around and talking to NPCs. Then suddenly the screen goes black (well actually not that sudden, the loading screens in between are all quite long), the text “30 years later…” appears on screen and we are thrust into the body of Jesus Christ, who has a vision that he should seek out John the Baptist to be baptized. The narrator continues and starts to tell Jesus’ story with Matthew 1:20 and Luke 2:7 as we see the classic nativity scenes we all know from Christmastime. The game starts with a cut scene of the creation of life, various images of space, and the dinosaurs which are all accompanied by a narration of the Bible verse John 1:1 in the possibly worst audio quality I have ever heard in a game. But I mean hey, maybe the main menu screen has a mistake in the code, the whole game is still in the beta release and maybe the gameplay itself isn’t so bad, right? On the day of the release, I was ready, ready to be proselytized, ready to BE Jesus Christ, only to be greeted by an absolutely eardrum-shattering theme tune that, even if you turn it down to the lowest setting is still too loud. Getting to play the miracles of Jesus Christ with some really janky-looking first-person gameplay sounded like a very fun time to me. So when I randomly stumbled upon this game while mindlessly clicking through Steam, I was hyped. There is, however, a part of me that finds the idea of Christian video games wildly entertaining, like for example Super 3D Noah’s Ark, which is basically a re-skinned version of the original Wolfenstein but instead of killing Nazis, you are Moses trying to wrangle the animals on the ark. I’ve had my fair share of Sunday school and some Christian upbringing, but in general, the whole institution and belief system don’t really speak to me.
Now let me preface this by saying I am not the most religious person. The game lets you step into the footsteps of the Son of God, relive his life and experience the miracles of Jesus, and oh boy, let me tell you it is definitely an experience.
Released on December 1st, 2022 I am Jesus Christ Prologue is the first part and free-to-play demo of the upcoming game I am Jesus Christ. Back in 1882 Nietzsche famously said: “God is dead And we have killed him.” Now, about 140 years later I think it’s safe to say: “Yup, he’s dead” and if not I’m pretty sure I am Jesus Christ Prologue will do the trick.
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