Godhood

You know what's really immersive? Spending hours crafting your perfect deity only to have the game spontaneously combust before you can even smite or convert a single unbeliever. I booted up Godhood with dreams of becoming a celestial tyrant—perhaps a cosmic raccoon demanding tributes of shiny things and garbage. But the only offering this game wanted was my sanity. Crash #1: Launching the game. That’s right—sometimes Godhood treats opening itself like a moral dilemma. Should it work? Should it not? Schrödinger's executable. It's a roll of the divine dice every time I click “Play.” Steam says I'm playing, but my desktop says I'm definitely not. Crash #2: Character creation. Ah, the sacred rite of divinity, where I shape my godlike identity, choose my virtues, my commandments, and… poof. Desktop. Apparently, my theology was too spicy for the RAM. Crash #3: The intro cinematic. You know, the one that’s supposed to inspire awe and make you feel like you’re stepping into a mythic tapestry of belief and power? I wouldn’t know. I saw three seconds of some glowing stuff before the game decided it was tired and needed a nap. Permanently. To be fair, the concept of Godhood is cool. You're building a religion, shaping your followers, unleashing holy wars, the whole divine shebang. But it’s hard to start a religion when your divine presence gets obliterated by a memory leak every five minutes. I imagine this is what it felt like to be a prophet during a thunderstorm while writing on parchment with wet ink. I wanted to feel omnipotent. Instead, I feel like a tech support intern at Olympus trying to reboot Zeus’s Windows 95 machine. Final verdict: Godhood is a fun idea trapped inside a program that’s possessed by the vengeful spirit of a sloth bear. If you're into theology, divinity, and existential despair via crash reports, this game might just be your kind of heresy.

Small but I like it. It really nails those Aztec/Mayan/Incan vibes, and that in itself makes this different from most other games out there. There's no full actual nudity despite a whole ideology focused specifically to that effect, which is disappointing but not that big a deal in the grand scheme of things. The art's cute, and there are 0 crashes to speak of!

The gameplay loop is enjoyable and addicting. Anyone who says otherwise isn't immersing themselves in the gameplay and actually TRYING to enjoy it