Game Box for Keep the Faith, sitting artfully on a rock outside our campus building.

Keep the Faith

$30.00

This item will be released March 31, 2026.

Shape the Faith as beliefs evolve and power shifts.

Keep the Faith is a storytelling game of belief, tension, and transformation, designed to create compelling narratives and spark discussions between players. Players become members of a fictional Faith in transition, shaping its rituals, symbols, and stories as beliefs evolve and fracture under pressure. Through cards and shared narration, they explore how conviction, community, and power shape a religion’s future.

Description

Designed for those who love board games but haven’t played a role-playing game (RPG), or for those new to hobby gaming, Keep the Faith is mechanically accessible and welcoming. It uses board game-like play to guide players through a collaborative RPG storytelling experience. 

Keep the Faith was also created with experienced role-players in mind who love storytelling and world-building games like The Quiet Year (Avery Alder), Companions' Tale (Laura Simpson), For the Queen (Alex Roberts), and Microscope (Ben Robbins). Play it as a rules-light one shot RPG, or use it at the start of a new RPG campaign to build the religions of a game setting. The possible stories are endless.

For educators, a Keep the Faith Curriculum Guide is coming soon to cmichpress.com.

Liz Davidson, PhD, a scholar of religion (specifically early Christianity) will be writing classroom materials that allow you to bring this game into a discussion of religion, its place in society, religion and politics, and even broader conversations about institutions and how they betray or hold true to their stated values.
Release Date: 31 March 2026

Press Product Code: CMUP106

Funded by BackerKit

A Scholarship and Lore: Games for Learning Series Game from Central Michigan University Press

Specifications

2 - 5 Players
60 - 90 Minutes
Ages 14+

Components

54 Aspect cards

6 Era cards 

12 Goal cards

6 Core Value cards

6 Value cards

1 Orthodoxy Indicator card

1 Fractious/Stable card

5 Player Aid cards

1 First Player card

1 wooden Tenet marker

20 wooden Power Cubes

1 Game Manual

Credits

Designer: Greg Loring-Albright, PhD (he/him) is a game designer who lives along the Susquehanna River. He designed Ahoy (Leder Games, 2022) and co-designed Bloc by Bloc: Uprising with T.L. Simons (Outlandish Games, 2022). He teaches in the Game Design and Interactive Media programs at Harrisburg University of Science and Technology. He has been, throughout his life, a Presbyterian, a Mennonite, a Quaker, an Episcopalian, and a “none.”

Artists: The game features art by Jabari Weathers and the award-winning RPG designer and artist, momatoes. 

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