The Canon Keeper

The Canon Keeper is a theological inspection game set in a country where the government has outlawed the Bible, destroyed nearly all copies and replaced Scripture with an altered version. The resistance smuggles fragments of the original Word to your desk, where you decide whether each passage is authentic, fabricated or altered by a single word. Your decisions determine whether Scripture is rebuilt or false passages spread through the resistance as the Word of God.

Examine the fragments

You compare wording against surviving references, check chapter and verse numbers, look for suspicious language and search documents for hidden clues. The passages become harder to assess as the story progresses, because the most dangerous lies can sound almost entirely biblical. You can pray and ask the Holy Spirit for guidance, but must still use discernment to decide what is true.

Consequences of your decisions

Approved passages are copied and distributed to underground churches and resistance cells, whose members may have never seen a complete Bible. Your choices can strengthen resistance cells, mislead believers, put trusted contacts in danger and raise government suspicion. Some effects happen at once; others emerge days later, when you learn what followed from a fragment you approved.

The story

You are an ordinary person carrying out the final request of someone you loved: to keep the Word. As the government closes in and the resistance grows desperate, each fragment brings you closer to restoring the Bible or corrupting it.