In a new game on Steam, it’s up to you to profit from the poor souls who end up in hell. To do this, you search on the surface for employees whom you recruit in a very harmless manner.
What game is this about? Sintopia is a mix of a building game and a god simulation. You are the manager of hell and earn your money by “recycling” souls for heaven. In the meantime, you influence the overworld and ensure that you never run out of souls to punish.
Currently, there is only a trailer and a few screenshots of Sintopia on Steam. The game is expected to enter Early Access in 2025.
You can watch the official announcement trailer here:
Turning Purgatory into a Business
What does the trailer reveal about the game? To purify your hellish residents of their sins, you need experts: The “Greedologist,” for example, drives the greed out of the souls. The same applies to the other 6 of the 7 deadly sins that you will encounter.
For a game where you literally create your own hell in Sintopia, it is designed with a lot of humor. The character design is quite cute, and the game doesn’t take itself too seriously. This is also reflected in the methods of purification:
- Lecherous souls are subjected to an unattractive pole dance number
- Those who have succumbed to gluttony are surrounded by fast food and sweets but can never reach them
- A soul is locked in a dark room where it seemingly can do nothing but watch movies and series on “Hellflix”
After their stay, the souls are reborn and sent back to the overworld. In contrast to hell, which has an 80s look, the overworld is designed in a medieval style.
Where does the god simulation come into play? If you want, you can make the lives of certain individuals in the overworld a living hell – accidents happen, and wooden houses burn quite well. This might even earn you a new soul, which you can use to make money again.
However, be careful to maintain a certain balance in the extent of corruption. If too many sins accumulate in the overworld, a demon invasion will occur. And those are, as every good manager knows, bad for business.
In contrast, another building game on Steam seems to be quite good for business, and not just for the developers: A CEO even provided his employees with free copies of the game so they could learn something for their work. You can read more about it here: A building game excites gamers on Steam and tech billionaires like Elon Musk
