The Game That Let Me Mourn My Lost Faith

[Lordquinton]

2. I've mentioned it before: The Binding Of Isaac

The title should clue you in to what it's based on:

It's not directly anti-religious per se, but the themes aren't favorable to it. It's themes, along side Christianity, are childhood trauma, decay, and nostalgia, with a smattering of references thrown in (that are mostly about video games, and tie back into the childhood theme).

You play a naked child, who uses his tears as weapons against his enemys, all the other characters are from the Bible (Cain, Maggy, Lazarus) and are just Isaac in costumes (he is also confirmed to be a gender-fluid character, including one agender character, fwiw)

The story is not direct, like FF games, or Dragon Age, but it's implied through the experience, with items you acquire, various cutscenes, and enemies you fight. It's easy to forget how dark the material is until you are confronted with it.

It's a hard game, top down rogue like, but I feel it's among the best created.

(The game's creator, Edmond McMillen was asked if he was ever going to include any of the Kaballah, or Islamic stuff, and he said no, on account of he didn't know much about Jewish traditions, and no Islamic stuff because he didn't want to get killed)