For the Love of God

For the Love of God is going to upset some people. Why? You’ll see. In this game you play the role of a clerk who stands outside the gates of Heaven and gets to decide who goes to Paradise and who goes to Hell.

The decisions you make will have nothing to do with your sense of justice, moral compass, interpretation of good and bad, acknowledgment of sin or good deeds. It’s all about following the textbook, which in this case are the Ten Commandments.

For the Love of God will put you face to face with one of the bigger questions about religion and the afterlife. Meaningly, will the good deeds you do out way the bad ones and guarantee you a place in Heaven. The answer? Hell no. You get your job done as the 10 Commandments dictate and that’s that. There is no room for what you think, you’re not to judge, you just have to follow the very rigid guidelines.

Someone said ‘LOL OMG’ in a chat session? Tough luck because ‘Thou shalt not take the lord's name in vain’, so, the place with fire and torture awaits. Someone worked 70 hours so his family doesn’t die of hunger? Well that’s amazing! Oh, he also worked on a Sunday... Heaven denied! You get the idea.

This game puts the idea of divine punishment in perspective. You’ll have plenty of moments when you’ll be tempted to look the other way and let some who is technically undeserving into Heaven. The downside, if you do that, you disobey God and you go to Hell, but only after a few warnings.

For the Love of God! Don’t take yourself or this game too seriously, it’s meant to be fun. Some of the life stories that these people present themselves with at your desk are funny as hell. Oh, wait...

Gameplay is simple and fun, the visual style is really nice and the puns keep coming and coming. The jokes do repeat themselves quite often but you still get the urge to keep playing to see what other wacky stuff the team has put in.

To wrap it up, if you have a sense of humor and respect for other people’s faith, For the Love of God is a really fun and funny game to play. Just don’t take the concept of it too serious.