Characters
A guardian angel answers your taps. The rosary of the cross goes out with it. The reinforcement acts alone. Facing you, four threat levels and a demon who breaks gauges.
Your guardian angels
Each angel has its weapon and its ground. You choose one before the game and you can change at any moment: tap an angel, or press the 1, 2 and 3 keys. The angel that acts alone hits far harder, and the game quietly marks the one it recommends against the threat of the moment.
Protection and restoration
The staff is a very fast streak of light that passes through demons without vanishing and carries on. It hits up to seven threats lined up in a row, each one a little less hard than the last.
Light and discernment
The sword of fire is a guided missile: it acquires its target, follows its movements and never misses as long as a threat lives. It pierces part of the resistance, bursts over an area and marks its target.
Heavenly defence
The spear flies out in a straight line, pierces three demons while ignoring their resistance, then comes back looking for new targets before returning to his hand. The return is a second full attack.
A luminous rosary in the shape of a cross, golden, available from the very first game. It goes out with every tap, passes through up to six threats and accompanies your angel and your reinforcement.
It is not unlocked and it is not chosen: it is simply there.
And when it fails
If a threat reaches one of the people you protect, Jesus steps in and the threat disappears. You lose points, depending on the size of what got through. You never lose a person, and the game goes on.
This is the rule that holds the whole game together: failure costs a score, never a person.
Exclusive reinforcement
On horseback, with armor and a blessed sword as standard. Once unlocked, he is chosen like the six other reinforcements, and he rules them out: one spiritual reinforcement per game, the Knight or another. He charges with every tap and carries the largest life gauge in the game, 220 points.
With every tap, he gallops toward the targeted threat, strikes everything in his path and returns to his post.
A threat about to reach the people is pushed back and stunned. This ability requires the Rampart shield: without it, no wall.
Roughly every seven salvos, he strikes the strongest demonic elite on the field.
Roughly every eleven salvos, three spirit knights charge with him for a few seconds.
Unlock conditions: three bosses defeated, the third stage cleared, 4,500 points in total and the major threat challenge, then 400 progression points. The Rampart shield is then bought in the shop, for 240 points: it adds 60 life points, strengthens his guard and gives back the wall of protection.
Spiritual reinforcements
The reinforcement does not obey the tap: it acts alone, at its own pace, against the threats of its speciality. The first four also throw a secondary weapon when you tap them, or with the R key. Each has its life gauge, the sturdier the harder it is to unlock, and a slide of the finger moves it across the field.
Exorcist priest From the start
Specialist in possessions and major entities. He acts alone against the large, heavy threats.
Sky blue Bible. Secondary weapon: black cassock, it wraps the threat up, holds it still for a moment, then leaves it more vulnerable.
70 life points
Intercession priestess From the start
Spiritual protection and support against bosses. She aims above all at the large threats.
Purple Bible. Secondary weapon: robe of intercession, it opens an area of protection that slows, lifts the veil and strengthens the angels.
65 life points
Deliverance pastor From the start
He wears the large threats down blow after blow: major, heavy and bosses.
Turquoise Bible. Secondary weapon: sound speaker, a sound wave over an area that pushes back and slows.
70 life points
Pastor Miracle From the start
Prayer of miracle and front-line support, against the middling and fast threats: the ones that bring doubt, fear or discouragement.
Pink Bible. Secondary weapon: pink microphone, it removes an ordinary or reinforced threat in one blow, and wounds the bigger ones.
70 life points
Sister in Christ To be unlocked
Assistance to people, prayers of deliverance, mobile support: she chases the fast and light threats.
Bright pink rosary of the cross.
95 life points
Carthusian brother To be unlocked
Contemplative support and purification of areas. He acts against groups of ordinary and reinforced threats.
Chartreuse-green rosary of the cross.
120 life points
A reinforcement can fall. Satan pulls it toward the bottom of the screen and disables its weapon for a few seconds: that is the only window in which the other threats can wound it. If it falls, the Cherubim come for it and carry it to Paradise; it stays away until the end of the game, and comes back in the next one.
The assistants
The Cherubim and the Seraphim are no longer combat reinforcements. They are the messengers of Jesus: when Satan breaks your gauge, the Defense button calls them and they rebuild it before your eyes. It comes back completely full, then a short window protects you before Satan can break it again.
As standard
Guardians of the presence of God, Genesis 3:24. Soft light. They rebuild the gauge in ten seconds, with visible progress, and carry the fallen reinforcement to Paradise.
To be unlocked
Beings of fire who praise without ceasing, Isaiah 6:2-7. Intense light. They rebuild in three seconds, heal your reinforcement, and at the end of a successful game Jesus raises up, in their place, the one that had fallen, with a verse.
Shop and backdrops
Seven items are bought with your progression points, the ones you earn by playing. Nothing is sold for real money. You take along at most three relics per game, and the Knight's Rampart takes up no slot.
Templar armor 220 points
Sixty life points and extra guard for whoever wears it.
Rosaries of Lourdes 200 points
Every five salvos, they heal the most wounded reinforcement, or fill the gauge a little.
David's sling 180 points
A stone leaves from a person every two salvos, very accurate, formidable against giants.
Oil of Beatitude 160 points
At the start of every wave, it blesses the team and heals your reinforcement.
Orthodox Bible 260 points
The reinforcement's main shot hits harder and pierces one more threat.
Palms of Jerusalem 170 points
An area of peace around the people slows the threats and lifts the veils.
Rampart 240 points
The Knight's red-cross shield. Life, guard, and the wall of protection he does not have without it.
The fight always follows the same rules, but not always in the same place. The backdrops are unlocked as you progress and are chosen before the game.
Facing you
What really changes from one level to the next: resistance, speed, size and behaviours. The names themselves point to trials.
It rises straight up, without guile. This is the ground of the staff and the rosary.
It zigzags and resists half of the ill-suited blows. The sword of fire follows it without losing it.
Slow and heavy, it summons other threats and flies into a fury. Michael's spear is made for it.
Very resilient, it veils itself, summons and rages. Facing it, the angels come down to the fight of their own accord.
Each threat carries one of these trials. The game sorts them into four families, and that is the only teaching it allows itself.
Discouragement, fear, confusion, stalled project, despair.
Marital conflict, family tension, jealousy, resentment, division.
Temptation, doubt, spiritual distance, spell, spirit of death.
Rivalry, betrayal, discord, disunity.
Session theme
Before the game you can choose a theme. Every demon then receives the label of a difficulty from that theme, shown beside it, while its real name stays readable in the information area. It is symbolic and playful: never a diagnosis, never the idea that a win in the game settles a real difficulty. You have no personal information to give, and free combat remains available.
Major threat
The biggest and the most dangerous. Nearly twice the size of a major threat, horned, red-eyed, wreathed in curls of flame. He appears and moves only within his zone, the lower part of the screen: never among the angels, never near Jesus.
His power
When he strikes, your gauge falls to zero and stops filling. During that time there is no gain, and the button for the incense, the oil or the heavenly light stays closed.
That is when the Defense button changes role: it calls the assistants. The Cherubim rebuild the gauge in ten seconds, the Seraphim in three, and it comes back completely full. A short window then protects you, with a countdown, before he can start again.
While the gauge is broken, Satan pulls your reinforcements downward and disables their weapons: that is the only moment when the other threats can wound them. Pushing him back pays triple, points and gauge, but you have to hold on.
The preparation room is waiting: the people to protect, the stage, the reinforcement, the level.