The Retro Exorcist

The Retro Exorcist

Chestpain Studios · 2026 · Visual Novel, Story Rich, Choices Matter, Multiple Endings, Casual

PC
Positive96% · 27
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About The Retro Exorcist

StoryAfter losing your position as a priest for the Vatican, you find yourself employed for a shady company. You've been hired to perform exorcisms on all sorts of entities. The only thing you can't seem to understand is...why do they all haunt video games?The Retro Exorcist is a narrative-focused visual novel centered around a former priest as he attempts to exorcize a plethora of haunted video game discs and cartridges. In order to set these entities free, you must ask them several questions to learn more about their past lives. But be careful, too many questions will cause them to go berserk, and not every question is important to the investigation. Features
  • 2 to 3 hours of gameplay
  • 5 endings
  • 25 achievements
  • Post-ending side-content
  • Some other stuff I guess

What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

Not recommended Jul 16, 2026
Did I enjoy it? Yes. Was that enjoyement ruined by 1) the absence of a skip button and 2) a broken achievement (tied to an unobtainale scene) that the dev apparently doesn't care about? Also yes. (Guess how many times I've replayed it, without any skipping, before one bug was fixed and before I accepted the second would never be, and you'll understand my frustration. At least one hour of my playtime was spent just trying to circumvent them.)
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Recommended Jun 14, 2026
honestly this game really surprised me, for such a simple concept it's done so well, and honestly I think this would really slap if it went deeper as a longer styled game too I would 100% drop some money on it. But this is still worth a play, it's free!
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Recommended Jul 13, 2026
A cool game, but you'd best be taking notes on which choices work and which don't. I like how straight-forward every interaction is. There is a way to talk that yields good results and a way to talk that yields bad results. I haven't gotten every ending, but it definitely feels more like a deduction game. At no point during the game did I splash holy water upon the monitor and yell "the power of Christ compels you!", which is a bit sad. 7/10. For some reason there was a problem posting this review, but I think it is fine. There might have been a spirit that needed to be exorcised.
Recommended Jun 23, 2026
Short, sweet, and clearly made with a lot of love for all those old creepypastas you stayed up way too late at night reading.
Recommended Jun 22, 2026
Short but very very sweet! The characters are enjoyable and the gameplay isn’t too complex without being boring! I had a fun time playing it, learning about the various anomalies, and getting the different endings as well as discovering what the true ending had to offer! Highly recommend for a fun afternoon.
Recommended Jun 15, 2026
Fun, free game with cool art. Only negative thing I could say about it is that some of the achievements are a little grueling to get (requiring multiple runs with no dialogue skip features). Looking forward to Mirror Drama!

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