Bible games for kids: play a real chapter, free, in the browser

Safety

Built for children, with the parent in charge

These are not promises for a future version. They are how the game works today, and the privacy notice states each of them in full.

• A child's account needs a parent. When a player's year of birth says they may be under 13, the game asks only for a username, a password and a parent's email. It never asks for the child's own email. We email the parent, and until the parent confirms, the child plays alone: nobody else can see them or join them.
• No free text between players, ever. There is no chat box anywhere in the game. Players speak to each other only with a fixed list of friendly phrases ("Follow me!", "Well done!", "Amen!") and emotes such as wave, cheer and pray. Nothing a child types can reach another player, because there is nowhere to type it.
• Strangers never see a child's name. A child's username is never shown to other players, friends included. Everyone else sees "Scribe" and a number.
• No ads, and nothing to buy inside the game. The only thing for sale is the subscription, and a child cannot buy one until a parent has confirmed the account. The in-game shop sells cosmetics for the Scribe, paid for with coins earned by playing; coins are never sold for money.
• The parent keeps a link. When a parent confirms, we send a second email with a link they keep. With it, at any time, a parent can download everything we hold about their child, withdraw consent (the child plays alone again) or delete the account and everything in it.
• Even feedback is safe. A child cannot type a message to us either; they choose from a short list such as "I got stuck" or "I want more stories".
• If no parent confirms within 14 days, the account and everything in it are deleted.

Questions a parent asks that we do not have a tidy answer to, we answer honestly on the FAQ or at the email address in the privacy notice.

Printables and a playable world: what each does well

Colouring sheets and word searches are quiet, cheap and need no screen; keep them. What a worksheet cannot do is put a child inside the chapter. In the game a child does not read that John was on Patmos; they stand on the shore and hear why he is there. They do not fill in "seven" on a line; they count the lampstands. The verse is still the verse, quoted word for word, and the quiz checks that it landed.

The game also keeps its own order: chapters open one after another along a road through the books, era by era, so a child cannot skip to the exciting parts and miss the rest. The story scenes (the Life of Jesus, the Sabbath), Revelation 1 and Genesis 1 are open from the first day; of those, Revelation 1 and The Baptism of Jesus are free, and the rest come with a subscription.

What is free

Free forever, for every player and with no card asked: the intro story in the Archivery, Revelation 1, the story scene The Baptism of Jesus, and four open lands to walk with other players: the City of the Last Days, the Garden of Eden, Judea in the days of Jesus, and Patmos and the Seven Churches. The quiz, experience points and multiplayer all work in the free content.

A subscription ($9.99 a month or $79.99 a year, cancel any time) opens the rest: every one of the Bible's 1,189 chapters and all 14 story scenes. Each player has their own account, so in a family each person who plays premium chapters needs their own subscription; free content is free for everyone in the room. Details on the pricing page.

How to play on a phone, a tablet or a computer

1. Open the game in a browser. Safari, Chrome, Edge and Firefox all work. There is nothing to download and no app store to visit.
2. Make the account together. If your child is under 13, enter your own email where it asks for a parent's. Confirm from the email we send.
3. Add it to the home screen if you like: the browser offers to install it, and it then opens full screen like any app. Progress is saved on the device first and synced when you are back online, so a dropped connection loses nothing.
4. Play the intro, then Revelation 1. On a phone the Scribe walks with a thumb; on a computer, with the arrow keys or WASD. Talking to someone is a tap.
5. To play together, one of you starts a room and the others type its code, which looks like SCRIBE-7K4P2Q. Up to six players.

How old should a child be?

There is reading. The Bible is quoted from the King James Version, and the characters' dialogue is written for readers of about eight and up. Narration is voiced, which carries younger children along when a parent plays beside them and reads the rest. Nothing in the game is gory; where Scripture tells of battle or judgement, the game tells it as Scripture does, without showing blood, and no battle is played that the Bible does not present as given by God.

The game is made by a Seventh-day Adventist developer and reads the Bible in the Adventist understanding of Scripture; children of any church are welcome, and the about page says plainly what that means.

Try two questions

From the Revelation 1 quiz

Two of the fifteen real questions, in the game's own words. The answers are not marked; the game shuffles the options each time.

More on the Revelation 1 page, and on how the quiz works.

Questions parents ask