Priest Simulator Heavy Duty

Priest Simulator: Heavy Duty is a sandbox game with a vampire priest in the leading role. San de Ville is a village haunted by a recent increase in 'shatanist' activity, and Father Orlok — your character — has been called in to clean things up. The framing is presented as a BBC-style mockumentary, with a little-known streamer named Quella following the events of a chili-eating contest and discovering the front-runner's day job involves considerably more than chili.

The mockumentary structure is the game's specific voice. Talking to the camera, village drama, TV-strip cutaways, all the cringe of low-budget documentary television. It's hard to believe this really happened, the marketing notes. Father Orlok is presented as a normal guy with a normal job, except his normal job is being a vampire priest in a village overrun by satanic activity, and the streamer following him is in the process of discovering exactly what that involves.

Gameplay covers a sandbox of priestly activities — beat up shatanists, fight bosses, test out weird weapons, destroy almost everything in the environment, wash off shatanic graffiti, collect tithes from the faithful, drive a strange car, perform exorcisms, and consume considerable amounts of alcohol. The job pays well, the marketing notes, especially since everyone is afraid of you.

The humor is the project's signature. Priest Simulator commits fully to its absurd premise and its mockumentary framing, with the writing pitched somewhere between earnest small-town drama and dark satirical comedy. It's not subtle, and it doesn't try to be. For players who like sandbox games with a strong distinctive voice and aren't bothered by deliberately offensive humor, Heavy Duty is a complete experience built around an idea most studios wouldn't touch.