The Bloody Cross is a short, narrative-driven top-down game with horror elements that looks at sin, guilt, and redemption through a Christian lens.^1 Living Bones — Benjamin Westlake’s indie label Living Bones Interactive — released it free on Steam for Windows, with full controller support.^1 The same title is on itch.io as a name-your-own-price HTML5 browser game and Windows download, and that page says no generative AI was used.^2
You play as a wanderer climbing a mountain that stands for moral achievement, then meeting temptation, failure, and spiritual struggle. Along the way you meet others like you, including Jesus, who offers forgiveness and calls you to follow him even unto the cross.^1 Steam is clear this is not a sanitized or child-friendly Christian game: it deals with addiction, shame, pride, suicide, and the trauma of trying to be good in a broken world, and the store lists depictions of blood, death, addiction, emotional trauma, and suicide.^1
Westlake presents it as a mature crucifixion story rather than a kids’ Bible game, built to challenge players and stay with them after the credits.^1
