You are THE Padre and have one job- to eliminate the weeds out of the garden of God. You are stuck in an infested demonic mansion, to do the shoveling with your guns, your faith, or even your bare hands. An unknown presence is watching, waiting to smash your armor of faith into dust. The Padre is a 3D Point-and-Click Survival Adventure that combines a deep and evocative narrative with slaughtering monsters and solving puzzles, delivered through various gloomy voxelized scenes in a Lovecraftian atmosphere.
The Padre made me furious during the review. Not because it's particularly difficult, but because it tends to delete your save if you die too much. And it loves to kill you in unforeseeable ways. If you like a challenge and can stand blocky graphics, The Padre will be just up your alley.
The Padre has some interesting ideas, but they're undermined by a stiff gameplay and an art style that doesn't quite match the game's tone.
It is good retro style horror adventure with some weak parts and it is not for everybody.
Taking on the role of demon-hunting, wisecracking priest Alexander and exploring a visually-distinctive voxel mansion is pretty enjoyable. If you can survive the awkward controls and story, it's a cozy, competent creepfest.
While The Padre does an admirable job of resurrecting the survival horror tropes of the 90’s, it brings with it a number of the flaws those games had too. If you’re itching for those retro Alone In The Dark vibes, The Padre delivers them alongside an odd side salad of pop culture references – but compared to the modern day peers, there’s aspects of...
