Crest v1.12

Crest puts you in the role of a deity with a truly original spin on traditional god simulation games. In this game, your power comes from issuing commandments written in a growing pictographic language that forms the basis of your followers’ religion. However, the interpretation of these commands isn’t fixed—they change over time as your people interpret your words in the context of their experiences within a dynamic world.

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Every decision you make has ripple effects. The game’s evolving environment—complete with realistic weather, changing landscapes, and unpredictable animal behavior—demands that you constantly adapt your strategy while keeping an eye on your followers’ beliefs and feelings. Whether they come to love, revere, or fear you is determined by both your guidance and their free will.

Crest emphasizes a sandbox approach that encourages experimenting with various paths. As you unlock new pictographic words, you can develop more complex commandments, each one further shaping the unique history of your civilization—a legacy captured by an in-game storybuilder. Despite the constant threat of losing your people, the focus remains on survival and the endless array of stories born from each new, procedurally generated world.

Set against an Afrofuturist reimagination of an advanced iron age civilization on the African continent, the game beautifully blends historical themes with imaginative narrative elements. For streamers, there’s a built-in Twitch feature that lets your viewers influence your godly decisions in real time, adding another layer of interactivity to your divine experiments.

In Crest, the goal isn’t to win but to experience the rich, ever-changing journey of crafting and evolving your own religion.