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The Retro Exorcist

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?

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May 28, 2026
66 days ago
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Positive27 reviews96.3%

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About the Game

Story

After 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

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