A journey of encouragement. A road filled with decisions.
The road begins in Antioch. Communities await encouragement, provisions are limited, and every journey takes time. Will you travel overland, take a sea route, or pause to prepare before setting out?
Created by Marcus Draper, Paul’s Journeys: Carry the Light is a free, single-player strategy game inspired by Paul’s ministry in the book of Acts.
Choose your route, care for your supplies, and carry encouragement from one community to the next.
Your Mission
Encourage at least six different communities—including Rome—and complete your journey in Rome before time runs out.
Travel through a route network featuring Antioch, Cyprus, Perga, Ephesus, Philippi, Thessalonica, Corinth, and Rome.
Arriving is only the beginning. Spend time encouraging each community to make your visit count toward the goal. Even Antioch, where your journey begins, offers an opportunity to help before you depart.
You don’t have to visit every place. Choose a route that leaves enough time and provisions to finish your mission.
Every Journey Brings a Choice
Land routes cost fewer days and provisions than sea routes, but your destination determines which connections are available.
Along the way, changing travel events may bring delays, damaged supplies, weariness, or unexpected hospitality. A welcoming household might share provisions. Kind words might restore your courage.
Between journeys, you can gather supplies or rest with a community. Both help you prepare—but both take time.
The challenge is knowing when to press forward and when to pause.
What’s Included?
- A clear route board: See connected destinations, your current location, and communities already encouraged.
- Land and sea travel: Weigh the time and provision costs before departing.
- Changing travel events: Respond to setbacks and welcome help along the road.
- Resource management: Balance provisions, courage, and remaining days.
- A journey journal: Review your travels and recent events.
- Built-in guidance: Complete rules and a step-by-step walkthrough.
- Easy replay: Start a new journey and explore a different route.
Choose Your Difficulty
Peaceful: Begin with 32 days, 14 provisions, and 10 courage. A welcoming starting point for learning the game.
Standard: Begin with 28 days, 12 provisions, and 8 courage.
Challenging: Begin with 24 days, 10 provisions, and 6 courage, leaving less room for delays and extra stops.
Download for Windows—Free
Paul’s Journeys: Carry the Light is offered free of charge, with no subscription or purchase required.
Download for Windows — v1.0.0 Alpha
Getting Started
- Download the Windows ZIP.
- Right-click it and choose Extract All.
- Open the extracted folder.
- Double-click Pauls Journeys – Carry the Light.exe.
- Select Walk me through the game to begin learning.
Choose New journey → Peaceful for a more forgiving first adventure.
Requirements: 64-bit Windows 10 or Windows 11 with Microsoft Edge.
The game is bundled inside the executable and runs locally in an Edge app-style window. Gameplay works offline.
Progress is not currently saved. Closing or refreshing starts a new journey.
Inspired by Paul’s Ministry
This game draws inspiration from the journeys, perseverance, hospitality, and encouragement found in the book of Acts.
Its route board combines places associated with Paul’s travels into a fictional strategy challenge. It is not a geographic map or an exact reconstruction of his itinerary.
Travel events, resource costs, and time limits are invented gameplay elements. Courage represents readiness within the game—not a measurement of faith.
Help Shape the Journey
This is an alpha release, and your feedback is welcome!
Were the instructions clear? Did the route choices make sense? Was the difficulty enjoyable? Did anything look wrong or stop working?
When reporting a problem, please include your difficulty level, what happened, and a screenshot if possible.
Thank you for playing and helping us create more free games for others to enjoy.
Prepare for the road. Encourage the people. Carry the light.
Created by Marcus Draper · Available free at Deskatur.com