The Holy Gosh Darn Review

I’m blown away by how awesome this game is! There is so much humor and so many clever puzzles with time manipulation. This was such a joy to play! It has many missable achievements + a speedrun achievement.

Approximate amount of time to 100%: ~16h+
Estimated achievement difficulty: 5/10
Minimum number of playthroughs needed: at least 2 (normal playthrough + speedrun)
Is there a good guide available: Not yet. I couldn’t find all the secrets but I hope someone will make a nice achievement guide.
Multiplayer achievements: No
Missable achievements: Yes, many achievements are missable. I recommend backing up your save file. Especially when you reach that point the game warns you if you’re sure that you want to continue.
Grinding Achievements: No
DLC-Only achievements: No
Speedrun achievements: Yes, there is an achievement for finishing the game with under 30 rewinds. This sounds like such a challenge and you have to do things quickly.
Time-gated achievements: No
RNG-achievements: No
Does difficulty affect achievements: No difficulty setting
Unobtainable/glitched achievements: No

I was a bit scared at the start of this game. I know it was a game full of humor, but humor can be so subjective. It is a hit-and-miss with humor. For me, this was an absolute hit! Add to that just an awesome game with clever puzzles and a time manipulation factor and you get this master hit!

The Holy Gosh Darn reminds me so much of The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask. There you had 3 in-game days to change things and get further into the game, here you have 6 in-game hours… why did you sleep till 12 on exactly this day… why oh why…

You play as Cassiel, who is an archangel in heaven, but it is quite boring in heaven. God has been away for a while and the only souls entering heaven are dogs because they are holy enough to enter heaven. But then.. out of the blue something goes wrong and heaven is destroyed! Gladly Samual has a trick on his sleeve, he has a time-traveling watch that allows you to change how things play out that day. Will you be able to stop this catastrophe from happening and save heaven?

When I started playing The Holy Gosh Darn I couldn’t stop. It was so addictive and just doing this quickly or that quickly kept me playing for hours, and I love that! There was always something to do, something new to discover. So many hidden secrets and I know there are so many because I found a bunch of them but there are hints and achievements for many more of them. This game does such a good job of giving you the feeling you’re always progressing.

Unlocking all the achievements will be a challenge. so many secrets to be found but there is a point in the story that will make some of them missable. the game will warn you and I highly recommend making a backup save file before progressing to have a way to go back. I hope someone will manage to make an achievement guide, but with an achievement to learn everything.. that might be tricky. The Holy Gosh Darn has new game+ which will help with the speedrun achievement to finish the game within 30 rewinds. However, I still think that this might be really challenging.

Did I already mention that I love this game and was hooked from the start? I give The Holy Gosh Darn 4,5 out of 5 stars.

This review for The Holy Gosh Darn was written on 26 September 2024, based on the current Steam version of the game which has 36 achievements at the time of writing this review. This information can be outdated, for example, when the developer adds or removes achievements or releases (new) DLC.