Pray Your God!

Pray Your God! is a game of chance in which you found cults and pray for your god to remove an Inquisitor. You name each cult and its followers, choose two sacred colours and decide how many people to bring: from ten to sixty-nine or even a million.

The prayers

For each prayer, you choose one of a hundred numbers. The Inquisitor then chooses a number with an honest die. If the numbers do not match, a follower is removed from the register, with a footnote, and you can pray again. If they match, your god answers by removing the Inquisitor. There are 16 possible miracles, each with its own animation, obituary and achievement; you do not choose which one occurs.

The odds are not rigged, and there is no hidden mercy or difficulty adjustment. The Inquisitor’s number is drawn only after you commit, and reloading a save does not let you retry a prayer. A prayer takes seconds, while a miracle takes about a hundred prayers on average. There is no final page to reach: the 16 obituaries arrive when they do.

Cult records

Every cult gets an entry in the Hall of Fame, including those that fail, whose records are longer. Six plaques mark kinds of misfortune, including the swiftest miracle, the longest calvary, the largest flock misplaced and the most numbers missed by exactly one. The crypt stores former cults in their chosen sacred colours. The Inquisitor keeps the records; your god does not.

Other features

• 36 achievements, most awarded for things going badly.
• A new cult every two to four minutes.
• A chiptune organ that treats the proceedings seriously.
• Ten autosaved slots, with no way to undo a prayer.
• An Inquisitor with over fifty ways of saying no.