Info about The Unholy Priest: Official game description: Add To Wishlist =============== About the Game ============== **The Unholy Priest offers a thrilling blend of simulation and horror genres, creating a unique and immersive experience.** Step into the Role of a Priest ------------------------------ Run a spooky funeral service deep in a cursed and terrifying forest. By day, greet mourning customers at the reception desk, handle requests from simple burials to elaborate memorial services, and save the souls of the dead who have been possessed by demons. Dig Graves or Cremate --------------------- For the bodies brought in by the relatives of the deceased, dig graves, bury them, and create headstones or decorations according to their requests. Or choose to cremate them in the crematorium. Save Souls from Demons ---------------------- Some of the deceased may have souls possessed by demons. You can cleanse these souls through rituals performed in the church’s special ceremony room. Don’t worry—these demons will make sure you feel their presence in the most terrifying ways. The Cursed Forest ----------------- You will be tormented by creatures bold enough to taunt even a priest, all while facing mind games. In an environment filled with eerie sounds and mysterious events, how long can you maintain your sanity? Tend to the Graves or Suffer Their Wrath ---------------------------------------- If you fail to maintain the graves of those you’ve buried during the day, they will rise restlessly at night, eager to make you regret your calling! Immerse yourself in this dark world and experience the pinnacle of horror and simulation in The Unholy Priest! Release date: 9 Aug, 2025 Categories: Management Simulation, Survival Horror, Resource Management, Crafting, Ritual System, Real-time Combat, Single-player - Hardware Profile: No data Feature extractions: - Community Price: No data - Playtime Metrics: No data - Time-to-fun: No data - Player Archetypes: No data Below are summaries of things people say about the game per category. Each point is assigned a weight that represents how often it is mentioned across all reviews. What players like: - Engaging & Humorous Gameplay (weight 0.79): Players find the game's unique blend of black humor, horror, and simulation highly entertaining and engaging. The quirky concept and creative execution contribute to a fun and captivating experience. - Strong Early Access Potential (weight 0.49): Despite being in Early Access, the game is well-received, with players acknowledging its solid foundation and significant potential for future development. Ongoing updates and fair pricing are also appreciated. - Unique Simulation & Horror Blend (weight 0.4): The game successfully combines funeral management and horror elements, creating a unique and satisfying simulation experience. The core loop of burying corpses and managing the mortuary is particularly enjoyable. - Innovative Exorcism Mechanics (weight 0.16): The exorcism mechanics, especially the innovative use of microphone input for rituals, are a standout feature. Players find these interactive elements fun and highly immersive. - Satisfying Combat Interactions (weight 0.14): Players enjoy the unique and often humorous ways they can interact with and combat the supernatural entities, such as using a crucifix or throwing bodies. - Amusing Corpse Physics (weight 0.06): The game's ragdoll physics for corpses are a source of amusement, allowing for entertaining and unexpected interactions, including a fun flying bug. - Good Value for Price (weight 0.04): The game is considered a good value, especially when purchased at a discount, making it an attractive option for players. - Improved Technical Performance (weight 0.04): Recent updates have significantly improved technical aspects of the game, specifically loading times and lighting, enhancing the overall player experience. Common complaints: - Game is buggy and unpolished (weight 0.99): Players report that the game is plagued by numerous bugs, performance issues like low FPS and crashes, and a general lack of polish. This leads to a monotonous and unengaging gameplay experience that quickly becomes boring and repetitive, with many feeling it's unfinished and not worth its price. - Ineffective horror elements (weight 0.26): The horror elements, particularly jumpscares, are criticized for being repetitive, predictable, and ineffective. Players feel the game lacks genuine horror or a sense of dread, often feeling more like a B-grade movie. - Clunky grave placement (weight 0.23): Placing tombstones and coffins is reported as difficult and imprecise, often resulting in crooked placements or items getting stuck. There are also issues with coffins being unretrievable or graves becoming uneditable after certain actions. - Frustrating morgue mechanics (weight 0.19): The morgue mechanics are a source of frustration due to frequent, annoying jumpscares, janky push/pull mechanics for drawers, and doors that open and close automatically. These issues disrupt gameplay and waste player time. - Overwhelming weed growth (weight 0.19): The rapid and overwhelming growth of weeds is a major annoyance. They are hard to distinguish, often hidden, and reappear too quickly after being cleared, making cemetery maintenance a tedious and constant chore. - Limited and repetitive content (weight 0.19): A significant concern is the lack of substantial content, especially in the late game. Players feel there's only a few hours of unique gameplay before it devolves into a repetitive grind for achievements, with little to do or explore. - Fast day cycle, tedious grave work (weight 0.18): The in-game day passes too quickly, making it difficult to complete tasks. Players also find the sheer number of graves to dig and maintain overwhelming, leading to frustration when bodies 'escape' or maintenance becomes impossible. - Tedious exorcism rituals (weight 0.09): Exorcism rituals are described as cumbersome and tedious, primarily due to the requirement of typing long Latin scriptures. The voice recognition for these prayers is also reported as unreliable, adding to the frustration. - Unrealistic body delivery (weight 0.08): The system for accepting burial orders is criticized for being unrealistic, with bodies simply appearing on the ground. The inability to place multiple corpses in one grave is also seen as a drawback. - Limited priest role options (weight 0.08): The game lacks depth in its priest role, with limited activities beyond basic burial and cremation. Players desire more options like hiring employees, cemetery decoration, or funeral masses to enhance the experience. Gameplay feedback: - Diverse Day-Night Gameplay Loop (weight 0.83): The core gameplay loop involves managing a funeral service by day, including grave digging, crafting coffins and headstones, and cremating bodies. At night, players transition to an exorcist role, performing rituals, fighting spirits, and managing the cemetery's condition for passive income. Resource gathering like chopping trees and collecting stones is also integral. - Suggestions for Gameplay Depth & Features (weight 0.21): Players suggest improvements such as fewer daily bodies with more in-depth interactions like embalming or possession investigations. There's also a desire for grave upgrades, a larger garden, and the ability to find wild flowers, along with potential multiplayer/co-op modes. - Clear and Helpful Tutorial (weight 0.06): The game features an effective tutorial that clearly explains the basic mechanics, making the gameplay easy to understand for new players. Performance notes: - Poor performance and optimization (weight 0.22): Many players report significant performance issues, including frequent crashes, micro-stutters, and low frame rates, even on high-end systems. This indicates a critical need for optimization, as exemplified by a 3060 GPU dropping to 30 FPS in certain conditions. - Steam Cloud save issues (weight 0.03): Some users have experienced issues with Steam Cloud failing to connect, which has led to concerns about potential loss of save files. This is a critical technical issue that impacts player progression. - Needs more testing (weight 0.03): A general sentiment among players is that the game feels unpolished and requires more thorough testing to address its various technical problems. This suggests a need for more comprehensive quality assurance. Recommendations: - Positive reception, high potential (weight 0.47): Many players express a generally positive sentiment towards the game, often giving it favorable ratings and recommending it, especially to those who enjoy sandbox or horror simulation genres. There's a strong belief that the game has significant potential and will improve with future updates and added content. - Game needs more development (weight 0.29): While positive about the game's future, several players note that the game is currently incomplete or has playability issues, suggesting it needs more development time. Some recommend waiting for further updates before fully diving in or purchasing. - Consider buying on sale (weight 0.11): Players frequently discuss the game's price point, with many recommending purchasing it during a sale or at a discount. There's a sentiment that the current price might be a bit high for its Early Access state, but it's a worthwhile investment for the future. - Not truly scary (weight 0.02): One reviewer specifically noted that if players are looking for a genuinely scary experience, this game might not be the best choice, suggesting alternatives. - Play in dark, alone (weight 0.02): A specific piece of advice given by one reviewer is to play the game alone and in a dark room to enhance the experience, suggesting an atmospheric element. Other player notes: - Future content and improvements (weight 0.69): Players are highly anticipating future updates and content additions, including co-op mode, story elements, and general gameplay improvements. There's a strong understanding that the game is in Early Access and has significant room for growth and polish. - Expand body and cemetery mechanics (weight 0.23): Players desire more detailed and expanded mechanics related to body handling, burial processes, and cemetery management. Specific suggestions include new tools, transport options, and customization for graves and the morgue. - Facility and tool upgrades (weight 0.14): Players are looking for more progression and upgrade options for their facilities and tools. This includes expanding farmland, investing in improvements, and upgrading items like watering cans and carrying capacity. - Enhance supernatural and religious elements (weight 0.12): Players want more depth and variety in the supernatural and religious aspects of the game. This includes new demon types, more complex exorcisms, and additional priest functions like sermons and confessions, along with more church-related scares. - Cemetery aesthetics and maintenance (weight 0.12): Players suggested various quality-of-life improvements for cemetery aesthetics and maintenance. This includes adding grave framing, paths, better weed visibility, and items like plastic wreaths and weed killer. - Enhance language support (weight 0.09): There's a clear need for better language support, specifically for Chinese, and an improvement in the quality of existing translations like Ukrainian. Players also requested a Thai version of scriptures. - Expand economic and management (weight 0.07): Players are interested in expanding the economic and management aspects of the game. This includes random daily profits from donation boxes, new client types, and the ability to hire more varied workers. - Improve navigation and boundaries (weight 0.05): One player reported getting lost outside the cemetery and encountering evil spirits, suggesting a need for clearer boundaries or guidance. - Address save file issues (weight 0.04): Players reported issues with losing saved files and advised turning off Steam Cloud Save to prevent this problem. - Improve body status tracking (weight 0.04): Players suggested adding clearer indicators for body decay progress and a system to track accumulating bodies and their needs. - Add storage and office spaces (weight 0.04): Players suggested adding dedicated spaces like a warehouse for materials and an office for management to improve organization. - Game theme is unholy (weight 0.03): Some players expressed a general negative sentiment about the game's theme, describing it as 'unholy' or 'cult-like'. This appears to be a subjective opinion rather than constructive feedback. Emotions: - Satisfaction (weight 0.19): Players are satisfied with the game's unique blend of genres, particularly the horror and simulator elements, and its overall quality. The immersive exorcism mechanics, creative concept, and engaging gameplay loop contribute to a positive experience, often despite minor flaws. - Frustration (weight 0.16): Frustration primarily stems from numerous bugs, poor optimization, and game-breaking glitches that hinder progress and gameplay. Repetitive and tedious tasks, clunky controls, and inconvenient mechanics like the weeding system or corpse management also contribute significantly to player annoyance. - Disappointment (weight 0.16): Players express disappointment due to the game's lack of content, repetitive gameplay, and unfulfilled potential, especially regarding horror elements and progression. Technical issues like poor optimization, unfinished models, and critical bugs that make the game unplayable further contribute to this sentiment. - Hope (weight 0.1): Players express hope for the game's future, driven by its solid foundation and perceived potential. They anticipate bug fixes, performance improvements, and the addition of more content, features, and localization, suggesting a desire for the developers to continue evolving the game. - Excitement (weight 0.08): Excitement is generated by the game's unique concept, addictive atmosphere, and the anticipation of future updates, particularly the co-op mode. Players are eager to see how the game evolves and are drawn to its interesting and surprising elements. - Amusement (weight 0.07): Amusement arises from the game's quirky nature, black humor, and absurd gameplay elements, such as humorous combat with reanimated corpses or the ability to throw bodies. Players find the game's 'jankiness' and unexpected situations to be funny and entertaining. - Enjoyment (weight 0.06): Players enjoy the game's unique genre combination, interesting black humor, and immersive atmosphere. The core gameplay loop, particularly the exorcism mechanics and meaningful tasks, provides an entertaining and engaging experience. - Anticipation (weight 0.03): Anticipation is driven by the desire for the full, polished game and future updates, especially the potential addition of a co-op mode. Players are looking forward to more features, bug fixes, and overall improvements. - Boredom (weight 0.02): Boredom sets in due to the game's repetitive tasks, lack of progression, and limited content. Players feel there is nothing new to experience after a short playtime, leading to monotony. - Confusion (weight 0.02): Confusion stems from the game's abstract nature, lack of clear explanations for mechanics, and inconsistent controls. Players are unsure about game logic, graphics settings, and how to progress or reach an ending. - Joy (weight 0.02): Players experience joy from the game being fun, captivating, and having an enjoyable overall idea. The gameplay itself is a significant source of this positive emotion. - Annoyance (weight 0.01): Annoyance is caused by specific unwanted mechanics, such as unrealistic weed growth, the need to restart the game, and the presence of AI-generated artwork. - Intrigue (weight 0.01): Intrigue is sparked by the game's unique blend of funeral management and supernatural horror, its interesting new approach, and the ability to interact closely with corpses. - Admiration (weight 0.01): Admiration is directed towards the game's creative concept, its ambition, and its uniqueness within the simulator genre. - Curiosity (weight 0.01): Curiosity arises from the game's interesting concept, its unique qualities, and a desire to understand more about its goals and upgrade elements. - Fear (weight 0.01): Fear is primarily caused by the game's jumpscares and the general atmosphere of the morgue, making players hesitant to continue playing. - Mild fear (weight 0.01): Mild fear is experienced due to the initial creepiness of some scenes and scary moments within the game. - Mild frustration (weight 0.01): Mild frustration is caused by specific gameplay elements such as low pay for tasks and tight time management. - Anger (weight 0.01): Anger is caused by critical issues that prevent players from engaging with the game, rendering it unplayable. - Concern (weight 0.01): Concern is raised by the macabre nature of corpse transport, which might deter some players, and the presence of a controversial symbol within the game.}