A foot-long subway sandwich! Duh!

Not quite, but it smells fishy sometimes.

As a Christian myself, I feel like their intentions may have been good but as this thread proves, it's gonna attract more naysayers and jokesters than people that are actually interested in a game about the life of Christ. Frankly, I just don't understand why there aren't any really good games based off of Biblical and/or church history. A few came close but for the most part, they're either super cheesy or just terrible games. There's so much history there that, even for non-believers, there is plenty of potential. I suppose part of it may be that studios would be too afraid of offending. As for me, as long as the intentions were clearly positive, I don't really get offended by stuff like this.

I don't know how you could make a good video game about the NT tbh. OT okay, there's some potential here, you could do something like a strategy game about King David or the Maccabees (maybe they've done something like that in Israel). But the NT? Which genre could even possibly fit for that? A business simulator where you play Paul on his missionary travels and manage new communities of believers? Would feel very odd imo.

Well, the book of Acts has quite a few interesting stories. I was thinking less about a direct adaptation and more about something that takes place during Biblical times, with your character perhaps encountering Biblical characters but there'd be a unique story told. If you've seen the much-lauded Biblical drama, The Chosen, they do that to a certain extent with the characters we don't know too much about. For example, they really delve into the story of the apostle Peter, showing his life as a shifty, anger-prone conman and they detail the relationship between him and his wife, with his encounter with Christ changing his life. Others, such as Simon the Zealot, have this entire backstory where they delve into the workings of the zealots and their resistance against the Romans.

A game would probably have to take more liberties or center around a fictional main character within the historical and religious context of the NT. I mean, I could imagine something like The Witcher 3 where you play as a zealot after the resurrection and ascension; after having a run-in with one of the apostles, you see your character struggling to lay down the sword, feeling the call to the path of righteousness and perhaps it could end in a somewhat tragic/poetic note with the character dying in battle right as they had a moment of revelation, dropping their weapon before being cut down.

I dunno, just some thoughts. As a guy who would like to start his own studio sometime, I'd absolutely be interested in making a couple games based upon the Bible. I'm not terribly concerned with offending the overzealous among my fellow Christians but I feel like not skirting around that crowd's preferences might sever a major niche market that would help the game be successful.

Watching a bit of their devlog, this a surprisingly ambitious project. Making an entertaining game while remaining Biblically true is a tall order.

FPS where you get to stone the blasphemers!

Maybe a point & click adventure? "My name is Simon Peter and I want to be an apostle!"

The whole game is built around Jesus Christ, not sure if there will be much space for Paul the apostle.
Would be best to have an option playing all of the apostles' stories.

At this trailer, I swear I can hear Morgan Freeman`s voice !
https://youtu.be/FUYExB13JuI

And with this 1 yr of Development film, https://youtu.be/jcvVZ3UCCJQ a guy actually went to Israel to visit all places mentioned in NT, walked around the Sea of Galilee(Lake Tiberias) where a lot of memorials are today.
This is a bigger project than anyone expected and attention grows.
and The "I am Jesus Christ" - Coming Soon" add, sounds ... as good news! ^

It could indeed be a very original game if it allowed you to play in alternate ways and have different endings. For example: what would have happened if Jesus joined the zealots and leaded a revolt against the Romans? etc
But I'm afraid the plot is going to be quite linear and strictly following what the Bible says... An interesting project nonetheless, but not for me.

Early Christians were rather the ones being stoned (in the literal sense, not in the sense of taking drugs), e.g. Stephen the deacon.
Point and click adventure? Might be one of the more plausible genres, but I still can't quite see how one could make a good game out of this. Also a high risk of either becoming overly preachy, or of trying to deconstruct Christianity.
Thanks, those are interesting ideas. But something like the zealot laying down his weapons would be difficult to implement as a game imo. Would be a bit like a game where the first half is something like Assassin's creed, and then it becomes a totally different genre.
But you're right, as a historical setting there's certainly some potential, if one has the stories of the Gospels, Acts etc. more as a background and explores the general issues of the time. Maybe one could make an rpg with a faction system (Pharisees, Sadducees, Zealots etc.) :-)

There's actually a game in the works based on a series of Polish fantasy books where that's pretty much exactly what happened. Only the books/game are set in the late middle ages of that world.

Technically, there is ONE part of the New Testament that has potential for an interesting adaptation. The Apocalypse. Not only it takes place in modern times (or the future) but also you can take a lot of liberties as what is written in "Book of Revelations" is a prophecy you can interpret in many ways. There were actually films like "Omega Code", books and games like "Left Behind" that reached a certain degree of success.

As for this one, it looks like the return of those mediocre edutainment Bible Stories games that had preaching over quality.

I think Book of revelations is somewhat controversial even among Christians. And if something like "Left behind" were the model for a game, it would only appeal to a rather special audience imo.

The same can be said about any part of the Bible. Of any religious text, really. There are always different interpretations of events and if you make some deviations from canon (as you'll have to to make gameplay interesting) there will always be controversy. So, in this regard adapting the Apocalypse has no more problems than any other adaptation.

P.S. Personally, I would like to see some C&C-like RTS with a story similar to "Omega Code", where you play as a commander who uncover a world conspiracy lead by Antichrist to end the world.

I very much doubt that would be a good game, but the idea is pretty funny :-) They should hire you as lead writer for such a project.