Faith: The Unholy Trinity, a beloved indie horror collection that took Steam by storm at launch, is now coming to Nintendo Switch. The game’s Switch port is due out in October 2024, and fans can pre-order a physical edition from FanGamer ahead of time to ensure they’ve got it for Halloween.
Faith: The Unholy Trinity is a collection of three chapters of pure retro horror. The first chapter was initially released in 2017, but the trilogy came together as its own title in 2022. Each one is inspired by the 8-bit classics of the ’70s you might have played, if you had a system to play on back them. Organ Trail: Director’s Cut is a more recent reference you might be familiar with.
Frighteningly physical
I believe Faith: The Unholy Trinity should be released for Nintendo Switch on October 31, 2024, because the trailer states we’ll be playing it this Halloween. However, FanGamer’s pre-order page for the physical product says it won’t be shipped until October 25, 2024.
I love horror games and adore them even more when they use retro visuals and mechanics to take you back in time. Something about the inherent clunkiness of 8-bit games and retro horror titles, in general, makes them even scarier. It’s probably the fact that you know you can’t react quickly, but the entities hunting you certainly can.
The physical edition of Faith: The Unholy Trinity comes with a boxed copy of the game, a digital download code for the soundtrack, a sticker sheet, a mock news clipping inspired by the game, a Notice for Tier 1 Acolytes Booklet, and a folded Chapter 1 Map.
While the story listing doesn’t state that there’s a physical cartridge, there likely is one because a download code for the game isn’t listed in the product description, which is what you’d expect to see if there wasn’t a cartridge included. At $35, this physical edition isn’t too pricey and is only roughly $10 more than what you’d pay for the digital version on Steam.
In Faith: The Unholy Trinity, you follow a young priest through three distinctly spooky chapters of his life. The first is his return to the site of a failed exorcism and all that follows when he arrives. The second is the descent into a new nightmare after emerging from the aftermath of the failed exorcism. The final chapter sees the young priest try to prevent a cult from summoning an incredibly powerful demon, all well out of his jurisdiction by law, but his faith won’t let him sit by and do nothing.
