Catechumen

Catechumen is a 3D Roman first person shooter video game developed by the now defunct N'Lightning Software Development and released in 2000. Catechumen is one of the highest budgeted Christian video games ever created. N'Lightning spent nearly $830,000 in the development of Catechumen, although the game's disappointing sales along with its spiritual successor, Ominous Horizons, eventually led to the company's disbandment.

According to N'Lightning company founder Ralph Bagley, investors were initially hesitant to fund Catechumen until the 1999 Columbine shootings. The two perpetrator's tendencies to play violent video games made a lower-violence video game alternative appealing to investors.