The art, music and sound effects create an immaculate atmosphere of everything being just stressing and overwhelming.
The game’s strongest suit is probably the overall vibe. The story isn’t phenomenal, but quite creative and it definitely keeps you wanting to find out more. Cultist simulator has a great early game and a fantastic mid game. I wouldn’t say the game is as bad as something like graveyard keeper, where the unbearable grind starts early on, and the story is boring and uninspired. I probably spent about 6 hours in the endgame doing the same expedition over and over to get enough stuff for the final ritual, which was honestly just dreadful. The game overstays it’s welcome in the end.
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It’s supposed to simulate managing a cult, of course it should feel chaotic and convoluted, and that you’re always struggling with something, be it the police, your sanity, resources or sickness, but once you have figured out how to manage everything, things just drag out a bit too much. Of course I understand that the game is trying to be a bit overwhelming on purpose. This wouldn’t be as much of an issue, if things didn’t get so convoluted. It’s a fun game, but I think there’s ultimately not enough content in the base game to justify the pricepoint. Here's to the Mansus, the House, and its Seekers. Cultist Simulator is a weird, bright pocket universe: I'm so glad you answered the riddle, and are counted among the Know. Thank you to everyone who bought a copy since, making sure we can still afford Ultra-Nom Jelly Snaxx for our cats, to everyone who joined our mailing list or follows us on social media, to the people who read our blogs and the people who send in nice messages and the people who buy merch and anyone, honestly, who's reading this. Thank you to everyone who bought a copy in launch week, helping us with Steam's frightening and vital algorithms. Thank you to everyone who Kickstarted the game back in 2017. But aside from all of that, I wanted to thank you. I have to do the dev thing and mention, loudly, that we're running a 70% off Daily Deal to mark the occasion, that Cultist Sim's follow-up BOOK OF HOURS brings new Secret Histories in August, and that we're delighted to be a husband and wife team hustling to make strange flowers grow in the garden of our lives.
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We've come a long way since launch - four DLCs, four new languages, mobile and Switch [ports, a whole code rewrite, 170 Workshop mods, a TRPG [and a certain card placement SNAFU that one really needn't remember - to the point where our launch trailer looks janky compared to the actual game!
But it isn't off to Port Noon quite yet: we're still patching and fixing and improving it. (It is.)Ĭultist Simulator turns five today, which basically makes it the game version of a Long. We talk about grand things like the Importance of Art and apophenia and the unplumbed depths of a player's heart, and we talk about petty things like what colour the glow effect around an empty slot should be, and whether or not 'Guardian' is the most charming Aspect in the game. It's something AK and I spend an embarrassing amount of time doing, thinking about and discussing. Game dev, unlike jobs in Cultist Simulator, is not "an arrangement to exchange one's life for money". But now this morning my brain fizzes with fragments: IN GI RUM IMUS NOC TE ET CON SUMI MUR IGNI RUM IMUS NOC TE ET CON SUMI MUR -" "I don't recall exactly what occurred, last night, in the beating black between the trunks of the trees, where winged things moved beneath my hands.
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