Marin met him across the workbench. She had expected the future to be wilder—drones and satellites and corporations with armies of lawyers. Instead it arrived small: a man in a raincoat who smelled of books.

Critics often cited the lack of direct unit control and the repetitive nature of the conversion process as major drawbacks. While the concept of a light-hearted god game was praised, many felt the execution lacked the strategic depth found in its competitors.

Marin's tools were small and mean: a soldering iron, a stack of old game cartridges, a keyboard with one missing key. She hooked Bishop up to the machine through an interface that had been built from a teardown of an arcade joystick and an analog modem. The shop filled with ozone and the smell of hot plastic as the PC booted to an operating system that had not been updated since people believed the internet was a place you could fix with polite emails.

The game features "faithful fanatics" who launch rotten fruit at opposing prophets, adding to the cartoon-like, comedic atmosphere. Critical Reception