What is Confessional Simulator?

Confessional Simulator is a darkly comedic simulation game where you play as the new priest at St. Augustine's. Sinners kneel on the other side of the screen and tell you everything. Forgive them and your Faith grows. Work the guilt and the donations roll in. Push it too far and the Bishop starts listening.

Is there a demo for Confessional Simulator?

Yes. The free demo is out now on Steam, on both Windows and Mac. It covers three days at the booth: nine fully voiced confessions, booth upgrades, Blessings, the Parish Gazette, the hotlines, and a visit from the Bishop himself.

How many confessors are in the game?

The demo features nine fully voiced confessors plus the Bishop finale. The full game grows the parish past forty confessors, and some of them keep returning with storylines shaped by how you handled them last time.

What platforms is Confessional Simulator available on?

Confessional Simulator is on Steam for PC (Windows 10+), and the free demo also runs on Mac. It requires minimal hardware - integrated graphics will run it.

Confessional Simulator - Dark Comedy Priest Game

The Trailer

One minute of other people's sins. Straight from the Steam page.

You Are a Priest

They are sinners. The booth is your domain.

Step into the confessional as a newly assigned priest at St. Augustine's parish. Behind the ornate wooden screen, parishioners reveal their darkest secrets, pettiest grudges, and most ridiculous transgressions. What you do with those confessions... well, that's between you and God.

Gerald confessing in the booth about relocating grapes at the grocery store, with the Faith, Money, and Suspicion meters visible

Hear Their Sins

Every confession is fully voiced. Gerald doesn't steal grapes at the grocery store, he relocates them. Margaret has carried forty-three years of guilt over a pizza topping. Sister Mary has watched all four seasons of Temptation Cove. Twice.

Some of it is heavy. Most of it is ridiculous. What you do with it is up to you.

Karen filming her own confession, four reply cards from forgiving to working the guilt

Forgive Them, or Work Them

Every confession ends with you picking what to say. Send them off forgiven and your Faith goes up. Lean on the guilt instead and the donations come in.

The catch is Suspicion. Push people too hard, too often, and word gets around. Let it hit the ceiling and you're done.

Step Into the Booth

Don't take our word for it. Take his confession. Right here, fully voiced.

GERALD

Someone is waiting on the other side of the screen.
He says it's about produce.

Sound on. He speaks. So does your priest.

Meet the Sinners

Nine voiced confessions in the demo. These are some of them.

Gerald

He doesn't steal grapes at the grocery store. He relocates them.

Karen

Made a barista cry over oat milk. Filmed it for awareness.

Margaret

Forty-three years of guilt over a pizza topping.

Chad

The cold plunge guy. He cries where it counts: as training.

Sister Mary

Has watched all four seasons of Temptation Cove. Twice.

The Bishop

He has heard everything. He has one question.

Words of Wisdom

From behind the screen, your priest has opinions.

God forgives.
I'm undecided.

"A confession should have AMBITION."

"That's not a sin. That's just Tuesday."

"The hot tub stays. The guilt goes. That's the arrangement."

"I've heard worse. I've also heard better. You're solidly mid."

"Three Hail Marys and a Yelp review. That's my final offer."

Bless me, Father, for I have sinned...

- Everyone who walks through that door

Features

Everything a morally flexible priest could want.

Collecting donations from the collection plate after working a confession

Faith, Money, Suspicion

Three dials, and they don't move the same direction. Forgive and your Faith climbs. Squeeze the guilt and the Money rolls in.

But the diocese talks. Let your Suspicion run wild and the week ends with an excommunication instead of a paycheck.

The path to heaven is narrow. The path to a hot tub in your confessional is surprisingly affordable.

Booth upgrades shop showing the ladder from Golden Candles up to the hot tub

Fix Up the Booth

You start with a plain wooden box. Spend the donations and it climbs: golden candles and a velvet cushion, a gilded Bible and holy incense, a silver bell, a holy water font, stained glass.

And near the top, a hot tub behind the screen. They can't see it. You'll know.

Or skip all that and tithe to the poor instead, which the diocese loves and your Suspicion appreciates.

The Divine Blessings menu where Faith is spent on permanent powers

Spend Your Faith on Blessings

Faith isn't just a score. Cash it in for permanent powers. See which replies are holy, which are profitable, and which will get you noticed, before you commit.

Make the guilt land harder. Print very official-looking indulgences. The holy and the shady, side by side on the same menu.

The Parish Gazette newspaper covering the week at the booth

Read About Yourself in the Paper

Between days, the Parish Gazette covers the week. Big turnout at the booth? Front page news. Something went sideways? That too.

"All the sins that's fit to print."

Bishop Morrison's late-night visit to the booth, with the prompt to choose your words with great care

And Someone Is Listening

On the last night, after the church empties out, the booth door opens one more time. The Bishop has heard every confession you took this week, from the little room behind yours.

Now he has one question, and he already knows the answer. He is only curious whether you do.

A Whole Parish of Sinners

Nine voiced confessions in the demo, and a parish of more than forty confessors in the full game. Petty grudges to forty-year secrets.

Make a Call

Some confessions are above your pay grade. The Police, your Monsignor, an Exorcist, or a Therapist. One call to each, per day, and every call costs you something.