The game

Thirty-eight Roman soldiers close the harbor road at Caesarea. You have no weapon, and you keep full control the entire way. You walk into the line, and one man after another is thrown off his feet without being touched.

“But he passing through the midst of them went his way.” Luke 4:30, King James Version

You are an apostle in training. The teacher is never shown and never speaks here. The game is only the practice, carried by someone who is not good at it yet.

There is no attack button, and you carry no weapon. Hostile people throw stones at you, and pressing RECEIVE at the right moment means the stone lands in you instead of on you. What was thrown in anger becomes Grace. Grace powers one aimed beam: it heals people who are suffering, quiets accusers, and cleanses what blocks the road. Receive enough of a thrower’s stones and his anger runs out — you break him by absorbing him, not by aiming at him. Resting at a waystone returns Grace as well.

Accusers drain your Grace while they talk. Waystones give it back. Stones arriving close together can be chained. Weather crosses the open ground, crowds and camels stand where you meant to walk, and fear is harder to walk through than anything anyone throws.

On the Jericho Road there is one drawn blade in the whole game, and you do not draw it. Someone who loves you decides you need defending, and cuts a man down. The round will not end until you heal the man who came to arrest you.

Somewhere in the dust is a person past helping. Raising that one asks for a deep reserve of Grace and one unbroken channel, and nothing about it is owed to you.

Something passes over the last valley near the end. It is not explained.

Jesus is never shown and never voiced, and no words are put in his mouth.

Screenshots

An empty tent of folding chairs under string lights, with the words: The Valley. The occupation. The year the stones began to fly. — The tent, before the road.

A market square with striped tents and boats; a dark sphere hangs over the well. — The Decapolis: darkness at the well.

A busy harbour market with a Roman enforcer among the crowd; RECEIVE and HEAL buttons on screen. — Caesarea, under the enforcers’ watch. On a phone, RECEIVE and HEAL sit under your thumb.

A windswept valley of palms and rock, with the words BEYOND HEALING, POUR ALL across the bottom of the screen. — A person past helping. Beyond healing — pour all.

Stone gateways at the end of a dusty road, with figures waiting along it. — The Jericho Road.

A beam of Grace from open hands reaching a kneeling man. — Grace, spent as one aimed beam.

Six rounds

I — The CallingA village morning beside the river.
II — Capernaum ShoreThe shut gate, the storm, and Saul watching.
III — The DecapolisTen cities’ crossroads — a market full of need.
IV — CaesareaRome’s harbour, healing under the enforcers’ watch.
V — The Temple CourtsGreed on every table — turn them over with light.
VI — The Jericho RoadThe long road down to the gate, and the summit.

grace remains

Every stone you receive becomes light.

Get it

iPhone & iPad

iOS 15 or later. Landscape.

Mac

macOS 12 or later. Keyboard and mouse.

Android

Android 8.0 or later, 64-bit. Phones and tablets, landscape.

What it doesn’t do

Nothing to buySeason I is free and complete. No purchases, no ads.
Nothing collectedNo accounts, no analytics, no tracking.
Nothing onlineThe game plays entirely offline. The Google Play version has no internet permission at all; the direct download only checks this site once a day for an update.