Four Last Things is a Point-and-Click adventure game by Joe Richardson, made from Renaissance-era paintings and public domain recordings of classical music. The game was released in February 2017. It is about sin, and the Four Last Things – Death, Judgement, Heaven, and Hell – and strives to be intelligent and ridiculous in equal measures. More specifically, it is about a man that has a nightmare and worries his soul will be condemned to Hell, but when he seeks absolution, is informed by the local church that there's already a huge line of people waiting for the same thing and they won't give him priority treatment unless he's the most sinful of them all.
Tropes:
- Amoral Attorney: One house has a family celebrating their newfound inheritance, and a lawyer plotting to cheat them of it. The sin of Greed involves helping him in exchange for a cut of the loot.
- The Atoner: The protagonist wants to be one, but circumstances convince him he has to sin more to be allowed to wipe the slate clean.
- Big Eater: The Pie King; even if you attempt to sabotage him with appetite suppressants, he will still beat the player in an Eating Contest.
- Can't Hold His Liquor: There's an achievement for drinking three jugs of ale, which will cause the protagonist to vomit.
- Catapult Nightmare: The story begins with the protagonist having one about the temptation of Eve in the Garden of Eden, igniting a desire for salvation.
- Corrupt Church: There's an incredibly long line in front of the local church of sinners waiting to pay their tithes, with only the truly corrupt being allowed to cut to the front.
- Downer Ending: After committing every sin and being allowed into the church, they decide that the best way to absolve the protagonist is with a literal Leap of Faith. It ends up killing him, and he's sent to hell because of all his recent sinning, forced to toil for the rest of eternity.
- Eating Contest: There's a man known as the Pie King that challenges people, such as the player, to pie-eating contests. The only way to win is to distract him and poison his current pie, killing him (and committing Wrath in the process).
- Medium Awareness: There's a gallery of Renaissance art depicting the source for every scene and key character in the game, which the protagonist must visit to examine the artists' names and figure out a riddle.
- Nature Tinkling: If the protagonist gives some ale to the Unhealthy Drunkard, he'll relieve himself in a nearby alley.
- Seven Deadly Sins: The protagonist, due to fear of dying before he can repent for his life's mistakes, decides to commit all seven in order to gain immediate access to the church.
