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Forgive Me Father 2

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Shoot your way through Lovecraftian madness in a dark comic book world.

Platforms: PC, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch
Stores: Steam, Epic, GOG
Price: Paid
Rated: Very Positive on Steam (82% of 2,540 reviews); 79 Top Critic Average on OpenCritic; 4.11 of 5 stars from 355 ratings on the PlayStation Store
Players: 1
Controls: Mouse and keyboard on PC, with partial controller support on Steam; also played with a pad on PS5, Xbox Series X|S and Switch.
Made by: Byte Barrel
Released: 2024

On GOG: one of the GOG horror games.

No. 16 of the tentacle horror games · No. 13 of the horror games with priests

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What frightens A world taken from Lovecraft's myths, drawn like a dark comic book: swollen, possessed townsfolk shamble out of foggy streets, cultists fill candlelit churches, and many-eyed, tentacled horrors grow out of glowing fungus, every enemy twisting into worse forms as your own grip on sanity slips.
Content: gore, violence, alcohol and tobacco references.

Forgive Me Father 2 is a fast first-person shooter set in a world inspired by H.P. Lovecraft, drawn like a dark comic book. Continuing the Priest's story from the first game, you blast through hordes of possessed cultists and eldritch horrors, and use your growing madness to unlock strange powers.

About Forgive Me Father 2

Forgive Me Father 2 is a first-person shooter from the studio Byte Barrel, published by Fulqrum Publishing. It entered Early Access on PC in October 2023 and came out in full on 24 October 2024 on Steam, GOG and the Epic Games Store. The PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S versions followed on 23 September 2025, and the Switch version on 22 January 2026. It is the sequel to Forgive Me Father and continues the story of the Priest from the first game.

You travel into a hostile world drawn from H.P. Lovecraft's myths, searching for a way back to sanity. The levels move from foggy night streets and gothic churches to glowing alien growths, a snowy mountain base and a rain-soaked cultist camp, and every frame is drawn to look like a page of a dark comic book, with heavy ink lines and bright, sickly colour.

It plays as a fast, old-school shooter. You fight crowds of possessed townsfolk, deranged cultists, gas-masked soldiers and ancient things with shotguns, rifles and explosive launchers, each with stronger versions to unlock. Enemies evolve into more twisted forms as you go. Madness builds as you fight and feeds abilities you can unleash on what is attacking you, and the soundtrack is driven by electric guitars and drums. Against the first game, the store page points to improved sprites, models and lighting, and to the madness skills.

A run through the main story takes about 6.5 hours by HowLongToBeat's count, shown on its GOG page. Critics were broadly positive, with a Top Critic Average of 79 on OpenCritic; reviews there praise the shooting and the art, while some find the story thin, the level design plain and the campaign short, and some report weaker performance on consoles. The PlayStation version lists adjustable difficulty and subtitles.

This is horror you fight head-on rather than run from: the dread is in the grotesque designs, the gore and the cult imagery, not in hiding. It suits players who liked DUSK, CULTIC or the first Forgive Me Father and want a darker, Lovecraftian take on the genre.

How to play Forgive Me Father 2

Move through each level and shoot what comes at you.
Pick up ammunition and health, and switch weapons to suit the enemies in front of you.
Unlock new weapons and their stronger variants as you progress.
Let madness build in fights, then spend it on the special abilities it powers.
Find the way forward through each level to its end and the next part of the Priest's journey.

Screenshots

Forgive Me Father 2 screenshot: two swollen, bloodied men in shirts and braces lurch toward the player's pistol on a foggy night street of old cars

Forgive Me Father 2 screenshot: the player aims a shotgun at a gothic church lit green from inside, a tentacled statue before its doors

Forgive Me Father 2 screenshot: a giant purple fungus covered in eyes and a tentacled, many-eyed creature in a glowing alien growth

Forgive Me Father 2 screenshot: a candlelit church interior with burning debris, the player holding a weapon wrapped in tentacles

Forgive Me Father 2 screenshot: rotting townsfolk, one holding a severed head and one in striped prison clothes, on a cobbled path before a gated brick building

Forgive Me Father 2 screenshot: snowy mountains around a red-roofed base with a radar dish and a watchtower, a pink-glowing gun in the player's hand

Forgive Me Father 2 screenshot: a giant winged being with an octopus head looms in the rain between carved stone arches as the player raises an ornate shotgun

Tips

Keep moving; standing still in a crowd of cultists is how you die.
Save the explosive launchers for groups and the rifles for enemies at range.
Use your madness abilities when you are swarmed rather than holding on to them.

Questions

Do I need to play the first Forgive Me Father?

It helps with the story, since the sequel continues the Priest's journey, but it can be started on its own.

Is Forgive Me Father 2 on consoles?

Yes. It came to PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S on 23 September 2025 and to Nintendo Switch on 22 January 2026, after its full PC release in October 2024.

Where can I buy it on PC?

It is sold on Steam, GOG and the Epic Games Store, for Windows.

How long is Forgive Me Father 2?

About 6.5 hours for the main story and around 9 hours with side content, by HowLongToBeat's figures shown on GOG; finishing everything takes about 17 hours.

Is Forgive Me Father 2 scary?

It is an action shooter more than a frightening one: the horror is in its Lovecraftian monsters, cult imagery and gore, and you are always well armed.