Assassin’s Creed: The Nicene Creed
Mass’ Effect
Everlasting Half-Life II
Grand Theft Auto-Da-Fé
Call of Duty V: God Will Know His Own
Doom II: The Helliquary
Assassin’s Creed: The Apostle’s Creed
Counter-Reformation-Strike
Immortal Kombat
Too Humanist
Heretic: Lollards v. Waldensians
Geneva: Resident Evil
Interceptor: The Investiture Question
Call Of Duty: Schismatic (Massacre at Mérindol)
Battlefield Avignon
Halo
Assassin’s Creed: Athanasian Creed
Tomb Raider: Forced Conversion
John Wycliffe’s Zero Tolerance
Dance Dance (Protestant) Revolution
Madden’s Eucharist
Call Of Duty: The Peace At Augsburg
Final Fantasy: Translation Wars
Left 4 Dead: Ulrich Zwingli
(“Grand Theft Auto-da-fe” courtesy of Blanche de Shambles)
You are a precious jewel of a woman.
NEED FOR SPEED: 95 MPH THESES
Is it too off topic to mention that Here I Stand is an amazing board game about the Protestant Reformation?
It’s totally on my to buy list! Along with Unhappy King Richard.
In Assassin’s Creed: Athanasian Creed, you flash back to the fourth century and play as the follower of Athanasius who poisoned Arius, but you get to kill him only after 50 gameplay hours of complicated biblical exegesis minigames revolving around whether it’s possible to be both coeternal and begotten.
I love* you.
*Please see the footnotes as to whether the term being translated as “love” is agape, phileo or eros.
In a side quest, you get to play as Hilary of Poitiers, the Athanasius of the West.
Hilary Poitiers and the Chamber of Secrets
This is why we need more women in games.
The Con(substantiation)
I’ve still giggling about “Assassin’s Creed: Nicene Creed” 14 hours later. I’ve been trying to come up with one for the Edict of Nantes, but the best I can do is “Psychohuguenots”.
Psychohuguenots is the best anyone can do. It’s perfect.
That was my favourite too. Still gets me.
KataMarian Doctrine.
The Seven Deadly Sins of a Solar Empire
Crusader Kings 2 (a real game, I swear) stops a little short of Martin Luther, but you can kick off the Reformation early by championing Catharism, Fraticellism, Waldensianism, or Lollardy. Plus, if you’re playing as the Byzantine Emperor, you can mend the Great Schism by restoring the patriarchs of Alexandria, Jerusalem and Antioch and taking Rome. This confirms Orthodoxy as the one legitimate form of Christianity, instantly turning every Catholic noble in Europe into a heretic. Good times!
The game continues the fun in Europa Universalis 4. Lollards. Hussites. Calvinists. Lutherans. Oh! The joys of heresy and schism abound! And not just only in the Holy Roman Empire. It is a globe-spanning game of excommunication, jihad, conversion of the natives, Reformation, Counter Reformation and, hopefully, eventually, Enlightenment.
It’s a 4X strategic simulation, not an FPS, but if you want to feel the torture, disgust, hope, passion, and cynicism of the era, the random events of Europa Universalis should be grist for the mental mill in all of us. Or, I should say, the John Stuart Mill in all of us.
http://www.europauniversalis4.com/
Of course these are all exclusive to the Windows 95 Theses OS.
Schmalkaldic League of Legends.
The Rule of the Saints sounds like an actual game but it was a period in Scottish history with just ALL the religious murder. As opposed to slaughter on other grounds (which was every other time)
Call of Duty: Defenestration of Prague
Half Life: The Stake of Jan Hus
World of Christendomcraft
Legend of Cathars: Albigensian Sword
Homoousios Kong
I would play a first-person defenestrator game for suuuure
The final boss is Jezebel. Dogs are waiting at the bottom.
I honestly think Jezebel is one of the most badass characters in the Bible. If she’d been an Israelite princess battling a Phoenician prophet, she’d probably have two books named after her.
I REALLY want to play Legend of the Cathars: Albigensian Sword now, that sounds amazing.
Rev and Mrs PacMan
The Elder Scrolls VI: Book of Common Prayer
Doom III: Ye Shall Know Them By Their Fruits
Dragon Age of Enlightenment
Though I mean we are already actually getting Dragon Age: (Spanish) Inquisition.
(Neither of those have to do with the Reformation; I am the worst former Lutheran.)
I would play both those games.
Castle Wallenstein
Zelda: A Link to the Apostolic Fathers
Super Wesley Brothers 3
WINECRAFT
Sim City 1517
LEGO Vatican Council
Resident Evil Leo X
Heretic Crush Saga
Words and Sacraments with Friends
Super Wesley Brothers 1 was mostly about their failure to defeat American Bowser. By the time they get to the third one, you can also play as Asbury and Coke.
/Methodist divinity student
//so mad I didn’t make this joke first!
///good on you for making it!
I am dying these are so beautiful!
Trying to come up with a game title with transubstantiation is harder than i thought
Tomb Raider: Relics
Per a friend of mine, when I shared this link on FB:
“I actually spent like 10 hours playing a board game about the Wars of the Reformation (twice). By far the nerdiest thing I’ve ever done. Last time I played Henry VIII and got beat out by the Papacy and the Hapsburgs because I couldn’t roll high enough on my wives’ pregnancy chart to have a legitimate male heir. Really. http://www.gmtgames.com/nnhis/main.html
[…]
That was probably an overshare.”
<3 <3 <3 <3
Plants Vs Zombies: A Diet of Worms
bless you
Finally. Now we’ll be able to focus on exegesis in video games journalism. #GamerPearlyGaters
Lara Croft: Whore of Babylon
(Saint Vitus) Dance Dance Revolution
(Anyone else weirdly fascinated by dancing manias?)
HALO
hahahahaha
Sigh. So, kind of relatedly?
The game I (still) really want is a King Lear RPG called “King Fear: Lord of the Sword.” It would be loosely based off of Nahum Tate’s History of King Lear. And you can play as Cordelia, obv, and NEVER DIE.
This is great!
My suggestion:
The Last of Huss ^_^
World of (Thirty Years’) Warcraft: the Defenestration of Prague expansion pack.
Ooh, and Paris-Is-Well-Worth-A-Mass Effect
Red Dead Resurrection
I am dying these are so beautiful!
99 Teutonic Knights
The Dead Sea Scrolls V: Saxony
Sins of a Holy Roman Empire
Deus Ex: Protestant Revolution
Supreme Pope: Divine Mandate
Hotline Vatican City
Super Altar Boy (this one actually makes me feel kind of terrible on a number of levels)
Prince of Peace and Persia
MYST(ery of Faith)
Hitman Chi Rho: Judas
Rise of the Trinity
And for some real obscure art game references:
MITRE
Antisanctuary
Revenge of the Teutons
Hail Mary
Wheel within a Wheel-filled Sky
LIMBO
PXPXPXPXPXPX
…This may be less relevant to the Protestant wars of Reformation and more a straight mash-up of my Steam library and a Catholic upbringing… Not sorry?
To be fair, the original DDR contains little that relates to real dancing either.
Oh, OH! OH YES!
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Lute Hero
There really should be a video game set in the Hussite Wars, following the incredible campaign of Jan Zizka. You can train armies of fanatical peasants and outfit them to take down armies of crusading knights. Cannons, wagons, and lots and lots of consecrated wine.
We need to find a Czech company willing to make such a game. Cause it’s not happening anywhere else.
Score by Smetana, Dvorak, and Janacek of course. Man I’m geeking out.
The night before my PhD exams started, I dreamed about an English Reformation Pac-Man. Pac-Man Cranmer ran around eating pellets in a Winchester Cathedral maze and avoiding Mary, Pole, and Gardiner.