Saint Maker joins some young women who’ve been sent to a convent for the Summer. It was due to be a lousy trip BEFORE the creepy statues started moving around.
The game’s store page asks us what makes a saint. Well, most saints have met some very, VERY unpleasant ends. Anyway, with that question, you get to hang with Holly and Gabriella at their stay at a convent this Summer. Gabriella points out that most folks only end up here if they’ve been forced to be here, and judging from the charmingly stone-faced sister who greets you, it’s hard to argue with her. Although you’ll endure things that are much, MUCH worse than being preached at. You’ll find that out when the religious statues all start roaming around in the dark and hanging around your bed when you close your eyes. But that’s probably just a dream, right?
Holly has some skeletons in her closet, to be sure. Lots of visions of twisted religious figures and, well, the above-mentioned moving, broken statues. As you work through the story, you’ll begin to unravel her own suffering and the events that lead her to be here. Judging from some of the imagery in her dreams, though, are you entirely sure you want to know everything? Still, for the curious, the game can be completed in a couple of hours, and you also have some freedom of choice to guide yourself to a couple of endings. Preferably the ending where the statues stop hanging around you and staring at you with those long, open mouths. Something about creeps me out HARD. The whole living statue thing is pretty bad, too. But it’s LONG MOUTHS I hate.
Saint Maker is a tight, dark religious horror story with some unsettling imagery that will have you side-eyeing any statues you see for some time.
Saint Maker is available now on Steam. It is also slated to release on the Nintendo Switch on March 22, 2023.
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