Do you find yourself wanting a deeper understanding of the Bible, yet struggling to carve out the time or knowing where to begin? Maybe you long to grow closer to God through His Word, but feel overwhelmed by the sheer scale of it, or at times discouraged by your experience of attempting to study it.
As a team of Christian technologists and game designers, we asked ourselves a question: Could a mobile game help people explore the story and purpose of the Bible in a meaningful way? It took us over four years of development, but the result was The Serpent & The Seed, a free, narrative-driven Bible adventure game that launched in April 2025 on the App Store and Google Play.
But why build a Bible game at all? What role can technology, especially something as often dismissed as gaming, play in helping people engage with God’s Word?
The Problem: We Struggle to Start
Scripture is central to spiritual growth. It’s how we hear God speak, how our minds are renewed, and how faith takes root in the first place:
“All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness.” (2 Timothy 3:16, NIVUK throughout)
“Faith comes from hearing the message, and the message is heard through the word about Christ.” (Romans 10:17)
But let’s be honest: many people, even Christians, struggle to open the Bible regularly. And for those unfamiliar with church or Christian faith, people can have a perception that the Bible feels intimidating, outdated, or just plain confusing.
Yet studies like the British Bible Society’s Lumino research project show that spiritual openness is higher than we think: after surveying nearly 20,000 UK adults, they found that one in four were open to the Bible and finding out more. Many people are curious about the Bible — perhaps many more than we might have expected. They just don’t know where to start.
That got our team wondering: Could a video game provide a relaxed, non-threatening entry point into the Bible?
Why a Game?
We’ve long known that mobile apps like Bible Gateway can improve people’s engagement with the Bible by making it easier to access. But what about a mobile game?
Games (whether video games or board games) have long been used as a medium for storytelling, learning, and engaging people at an emotional level. Even secular game designers acknowledge this. Jonathan Blow, creator of the acclaimed time-warping platformer Braid, once said:
“All games teach something. The question is, what are they teaching?”
There are certainly games that Christians might feel uncomfortable playing, whether due to violent content or shallow themes. But there are also many games that tell rich, meaningful stories, stir the imagination, and even provoke deep reflection.
We believed it was possible to create a game that teaches the most important story of all — the story of God’s redemption of the world through Jesus — without compromising on artistic quality or entertainment.
Introducing: The Serpent & The Seed
The Serpent & The Seed was born out of that conviction. It’s a beautifully crafted mobile game that invites players — whether Christian, curious, or completely unfamiliar with the Bible — into the big story of Scripture.
We designed it to be high quality, fun to play, and artistically rich, with stunning visuals and an immersive soundtrack. But above all, we wanted it to be spiritually meaningful.
Rather than simply quoting Bible verses or offering theological trivia, the game invites players to experience the narrative: the beauty of Eden, the tragedy of the Fall, the longings for redemption throughout the Old Testament, and how that hope finds fulfillment in Christ.
Music That Moves the Soul
One of the most powerful aspects of the game is its music. We partnered with Poor Bishop Hooper, a duo known for their musical project EveryPsalm, where they wrote a song for every psalm in the Bible over the course of three years. For The Serpent & The Seed, they composed four original songs, one for each act of the game.
These songs aren’t just background ambience, they’re part of the storytelling. For example, in the opening act, players explore the peaceful Garden of Eden. You help Adam name the animals, discover the beauty of creation, and feel the joy of a world made “very good” (Genesis 1:31). The gentle music enhances that sense of peace and harmony.
But then comes the turning point: Genesis 3. The serpent slithers onto the scene, sewing seeds of doubt with his chilling question:
“Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?” (Genesis 3:1)
As Adam and Eve disobey God, the mood shifts. The spine-tingling opening notes of the first song kick in. The warm garden turns cold. Thorns and thistles begin to choke the earth. The sorrow is palpable. And yet, even in the midst of judgment there is hope:
“I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring [lit., ‘seed’] and hers; he will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.” (Genesis 3:15)
This promise — the first hint of the gospel — is the seed of the entire rest of the story.
Discovering the Bible’s Big Story
Many people think of the Bible as a collection of random, disconnected stories. But it’s not. Despite being made up of 66 books written by about 40 different human authors over thousands of years, it has a unified message: God’s plan to rescue and restore a broken world through Jesus Christ.
“Above all, you must understand that no prophecy of Scripture came about by the prophet’s own interpretation of things. For prophecy never had its origin in the human will, but prophets, though human, spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.” (2 Peter 1:20–21)
“For he chose us in him before the creation of the world … according to the plan of him who works out everything in conformity with the purpose of his will.” (Ephesians 1:4, 11)
Our hope with The Serpent & The Seed is that players come away not just with a few Bible facts, but with a deeper understanding of its overarching narrative: of how that promise from Genesis 3, of the “Seed of Eve” who will one day crush the serpent’s head, is developed through the rest of the Bible.
Who is the “seed” going to be?
Several characters in the Old Testament look like they might have potential, only to fail and fall short at crucial moments. Yet God graciously gives many of them promises of their own: a seed of Abraham who will be a blessing to the nations, a seed of David who will rule as king forever, and so on.
So when Jesus shows up on the scene, it’s an exciting fulfillment of centuries of anticipation — is he going to be the one to help bring us back into right relationship with our Creator God, bringing an end to the curse caused by our sin, and ending our banishment from paradise?
Real Impact, Real Encouragement
Since launch, The Serpent & The Seed has already helped thousands of players engage with the Bible in a fresh way, and we’ve been blown away by the response.
But it’s also opened doors for evangelism.
We’ve had the great privilege of trying a small pilot group, where we ran a simple three-week Bible study course with some non-Christians. Each week, participants played a portion of the game at home, then met to discuss what they’d experienced alongside key Bible passages.
These discussions were engaging, thoughtful, and, crucially, non-threatening. The game served as a bridge, presenting the Bible in a way that was accessible, emotionally resonant, and easier to talk about.
“When you received the word of God… you accepted it not as a human word, but as it actually is, the word of God, which is indeed at work in you who believe.” (1 Thessalonians 2:13)
The Opportunity Before Us
Technology doesn’t need to be the enemy of spiritual growth. Even the alphabet itself is a form of technology, which is so crucial to how we engage with the Bible in its written form.
But of course our technologies also shape us and mold us, conforming our very view of the world itself into the lens through which it presents things. How important then that Christians are active in the technological space, helping build things that flow from a Biblical worldview and which are helping shape us in positive and God-glorifying ways.
Our hope and prayer is to see more Christians thinking creatively about how apps, games, and digital experiences can serve the gospel.
The Bible is not boring. The gospel is not outdated. And the people around us are more spiritually open than we often realize. What they need is an invitation — to step into God’s story.
Maybe a game can be that invitation.
Want to Try It?
The Serpent & The Seed is available now for free on the App Store and Google Play. Whether you’re a church leader looking for a fresh evangelism tool, a youth worker wanting something meaningful for your teens, or just a Christian longing to see Scripture come alive again, we’d love you to give it a try.
Let’s help this generation discover that the Bible isn’t just a book: as one person put it, it’s the very thing our fractured world needs right now, a “meaningful narrative about who we are.”
