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Covenanter

A pixel-art story RPG set in the Scottish Reformation, 1559–60. In development at Unconsumed Games for iOS and Android, with desktop to follow.

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John Knox preaching

In short

Covenanter is a pixel-art story RPG set in the Scottish Reformation. It is May 1559, and a young scholar comes home from Geneva with a satchel and a Bible. Over eight chapters and an epilogue he walks the towns of Scotland, from Dundee to Edinburgh, and answers the false teaching of the age from Scripture. Covenanter is in development at Unconsumed Games for iOS and Android, with a closed beta from Reformation Day, 31 October 2026, and a desktop version planned after the mobile release.

Description

It is May 1559. John Knox has come home to Scotland, the Lords of the Congregation have bound themselves by covenant, and the country stands on the edge of change. You play a young scholar home from three years’ study in Geneva, in a long coat and a flat cap, with a satchel over his shoulder and a Bible in his hand. His name is Alasdair, unless you give him another.

The journey runs through Dundee, Perth, St Andrews, Stirling, Aberdeen, Ayr, the Highlands and Edinburgh, with an epilogue at Holyrood when Mary, Queen of Scots, comes home in 1561. In each town you talk with the people, learn the Truths of Scripture and the verses that prove them, and answer the friars, priors and prophets who hold the crowd. Between disputations there are catechism rounds, psalms to sing, verses to practise and a verse to set in type at the print shop. Win a town and its kirk is reformed: the images come down, and the psalms are sung in the people’s own tongue.

Covenanter is made for Reformed Christians, for the families and schools teaching the Bible and church history, and for anyone who loves the history of Scotland. Knox, Willock, Erskine of Dun, Lord James Stewart and the printer Lekpreuik are historical, and the game’s History tells who they were and what really happened. Scripture is in King James wording, presented in the game as Tyndale’s English Testament. Five difficulty levels let a child of about five and a grown-up play the same story.

The chapters

  • IDundeeMay 1559
  • IIPerthMay 1559
  • IIISt AndrewsJune 1559
  • IVStirling and MenteithJuly 1559
  • VAberdeenOctober 1559
  • VIAyr and CarrickDecember 1559
  • VIIGlen Mhòr, in the HighlandsMarch 1560
  • VIIIEdinburghAugust 1560
  • EpilogueLeith and HolyroodAugust 1561

The history behind the name

Most people link the word “Covenanter” with the seventeenth century. But on 3 December 1557 Protestant nobles, among them the Earls of Argyll, Glencairn and Morton, Lord Lorne, and John Erskine of Dun, signed the First Band, pledging to “maintain, set forward, and establish the most blessed Word of God, and his Congregation.” Historians date the Lords of the Congregation to that band. Covenanting began with Knox’s generation, and that is where the game begins.

Sources: John Knox, History of the Reformation in Scotland; PCA Historical Center, This Day in Presbyterian History, 3 December.

Features

  • Disputations: answer the claims of pardoners, priors and prophets with the Truth that meets them and a verse from Scripture, and affirm the claims that are true.
  • Catechism rounds, asked by the people you meet, from the Geneva Catechism of 1556.
  • Psalm-singing: eleven metrical psalms from the Scottish Psalter, each recorded both by the hero alone and by a whole congregation. Sing them to restore your Faith.
  • Verse drills: a Commonplace Book of 21 Truths and 162 proof-texts, with practice questions that bring back what you miss.
  • Typesetting at Robert Lekpreuik’s print shop in Edinburgh: set a verse in type before the ink runs out.
  • Town maps of every burgh, and a road map of Scotland between them.
  • Reformed towns change as you go: the images come down, the windows are cleared, and the psalms are sung in the kirk.
  • The whole armour of God (Ephesians 6), put on piece by piece as the chapters are won, each piece with its own effect in play.
  • Five difficulty levels, from choosing a verse from three to writing it out from memory.
  • An in-game History of the real people, places and events, and of where the story bends them.
  • No ads and no loot boxes.

Trailer

Alasdair walks a wooden pier at Dundee beside a three-masted merchant ship flying the saltire. A seaman stands on the stone quay above. A screenshot, standing in until the trailer is cut.Trailer coming soon
The trailer and a downloadable cut will be posted here. Until then, write to [email protected] and we will send assets as they are ready.

Screenshots

Alasdair, with his satchel, stands beside a bearded man in a printer’s shop with bookshelves, desks and stacks of paper.
Print shop
A catechism card from Jonet and Tammie. The question “Which is the second commandment?” is rightly answered: “Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image.”
Catechism
A card titled The Whole Armour of God shows the Belt of Truth, the verse Ephesians 6:14, and what it does in disputation.
Armour
A psalm practice question. The lines “Praise God, for he is good” are matched to Psalm 107, sung to York, from the Scottish Psalter.
Psalms
A busy market square of cobbles and grass, with stalls, a well, a mercat cross, a flag, friars in grey habits and townsfolk.
Market
Alasdair walks a wooden pier at Dundee beside a three-masted merchant ship flying the saltire. A seaman stands on the stone quay above.
Dundee
The town map of Edinburgh, showing the castle, St Giles’ Kirk and the streets, with a list of places to go beside it.
Town map
A snowy town square in Ayr at dusk. Alasdair meets a bearded minister by the mercat cross, with lit lamps, stalls and a stone tower.
Ayr

Captured from the game at 2868 × 1320, the App Store size. Select a screenshot to download the full-size PNG.

Logos and colours

Palette

  • Navy#14213D
  • Ember#E4572E
  • Amber#F2A541
  • Parchment#F4EBD9

Type: Cormorant Garamond for display, Source Serif 4 for text. In the game, Cinzel for labels and Cinzel Decorative for the title.

About Unconsumed Games

Unconsumed Games is an independent studio founded by H.T. Williams. We create games grounded in the Word of God that teach children the Bible, doctrine and history, and are made to last. Covenanter is our first. Our line, “Games that abide,” comes from 1 Corinthians 3:14: “If any man’s work abide…”

The studio’s name comes from Exodus 3:2: “the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed.” The burning bush, with the Latin motto Nec tamen consumebatur (“yet it was not consumed”), first appeared on the Church of Scotland’s General Assembly Acts in 1691 and became the Church’s official emblem in 1958.

Press contact

For interviews, questions, assets and news of the release, write to H.T. Williams at [email protected].