Cultist Simulator (2018)
Android · Linux · Mac · PC (Microsoft Windows) · iOS
3.14 from 197 ratings
1709 members have it in their collection · 41 playing now · 920 backlogged · 137 wish listed
How long? Main story 80h (from 1 logged playthrough)
Seize forbidden treasures. Summon alien gods. Feed on your disciples.
Cultist Simulator is a game of apocalypse and yearning from Alexis Kennedy, creator of Fallen London and Sunless Sea. Play as a seeker after unholy mysteries, in a 1920s-themed setting of hidden gods and secret histories. Perhaps you're looking for knowledge, or power, or beauty, or revenge. Perhaps you just …
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Seize forbidden treasures. Summon alien gods. Feed on your disciples.
Cultist Simulator is a game of apocalypse and yearning from Alexis Kennedy, creator of Fallen London and Sunless Sea. Play as a seeker after unholy mysteries, in a 1920s-themed setting of hidden gods and secret histories. Perhaps you're looking for knowledge, or power, or beauty, or revenge. Perhaps you just want the colours beneath the skin of the world.
In this roguelike narrative card game, what you find may transform you forever. Every choice you make, from moment to moment, doesn't just advance the narrative - it also shapes it.
Become a scholar of the unseen arts. Search your dreams for sanity-twisting rituals. Craft tools and summon spirits. Indoctrinate innocents. Seize your place as the herald of a new age.
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Details
- Developers
- Weather Factory
- Publishers
- Weather Factory
- Genres
- Adventure, Card & Board Game, Indie, Role-playing (RPG), Simulator
- Themes
- Horror
- Steam
- View on Steam
Release dates
- May 31, 2018 (Worldwide) Linux, Mac, PC (Microsoft Windows)
- Apr 01, 2019 (Worldwide) iOS
- Apr 02, 2019 (Worldwide) Android
Related
Bundled in
- Cultist Simulator: Anthology Edition (Dec 2019) · PC, PS4, PS5, XONE, XSX
- Cultist Simulator: Initiate Edition (Feb 2021) · NSW, PS4, PS5, XONE, XSX
DLC
- Cultist Simulator: The Dancer (Oct 2018) · LIN, MAC, PC
- Cultist Simulator: The Priest (May 2019) · LIN, MAC, PC
- Cultist Simulator: The Ghoul (May 2019) · LIN, MAC, PC
- Cultist Simulator: The Exile (Feb 2021) · NSW, PS4, PS5, XONE, XSX
- Cultist Simulator: The Lady Afterwards (Nov 2021) · PC
Rating distribution
5 stars
25
4 stars
48
3 stars
66
2 stars
45
1 star
13
Community All Reviews Statuses
Status Chovus May 28, 2020
Played briefly on Steam free trial. I had little idea what I was doing and found the gameplay to be needlessly tedious. Checking each card to see what can be put where and just putting in whatever would fit to see what would happen, the stupid pop up message about "you can't put that card there" that blocked my cards, …
Read morePlayed briefly on Steam free trial. I had little idea what I was doing and found the gameplay to be needlessly tedious. Checking each card to see what can be put where and just putting in whatever would fit to see what would happen, the stupid pop up message about "you can't put that card there" that blocked my cards, and the fact that I could not read a lot of the text without moving it closer to the bottom of the screen due to the weird angles. I did manage to start a cult about watchers and light or something, and recruit 2 pawns. I ran out of money and could not seem to get more despite spending health and passion on work all the time; running out of money should never be something that happens without player agency. Then I died from disease. I had an injury from spending health to work and was resting on that injury. I had about 5 seconds between when my injury was healed to when the disease would kill me, and I sat back thinking I got this. Did I have to manually put the health into the disease thing to live? Or did I need vitality instead? Don't really care. The concept of the game is kind of interesting but the execution is far too abstract, tedious and random for my enjoyment.
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Status QuilDewIvy Dec 16, 2019
Cultist Simulator - First Impressions
What a pleasantly great make-your-own-story card game. While the fundamentals of how the card systems work aren’t too hard to grasp, I found myself quite enjoying this addicting balance and interesting decision making that came into building your own cult and living with the terrible short sighted decisions I made along the way. I managed …
Cultist Simulator - First Impressions
What a pleasantly great make-your-own-story card game. While the fundamentals of how the card systems work aren’t too hard to grasp, I found myself quite enjoying this addicting balance and interesting decision making that came into building your own cult and living with the terrible short sighted decisions I made along the way. I managed to get the mundane job ending within the first hour, which was funny considering how little of a point it makes. I have a bit of misgivings on the luck factors (I had the passion->opportunity cards cycle SIX times, what a time waste) but overall it’s very good and very cool. Shelved of course for now, I look forward to going back to it later.
Status archimidias May 15, 2019
At first I didnt love this game. I actually quit it, said 'not for me'... but a couple weeks later I heard a podcast called Three Moves Ahead where they discussed a similar ambivallence about Cultist Simulator... and somehow, through the experience, I and the podcasters talked ourselves back into it, and it was one of my favorite games of …
At first I didnt love this game. I actually quit it, said 'not for me'... but a couple weeks later I heard a podcast called Three Moves Ahead where they discussed a similar ambivallence about Cultist Simulator... and somehow, through the experience, I and the podcasters talked ourselves back into it, and it was one of my favorite games of 2018!
If you arent feeling it, let me give you this advice: dont worry if you dont know what you're doing.
You're dealing with inhuman reasoning and dream logic. It /shouldn't/ be easy to understand initially. Over time, however, you will come to understand the world on its terms, not on yours.
Status laspalabras Nov 9, 2018
The intriguing mechanic and supernatural trappings made me really want to like this game. On paper, it ticks all the boxes that pique my interest. Yet, for reasons that I cannot pinpoint, it just wasn't engaging. Exploring the various systems in the game and piecing hints together to figure out how it worked was enjoyable, but the actual gameplay was …
Read moreThe intriguing mechanic and supernatural trappings made me really want to like this game. On paper, it ticks all the boxes that pique my interest. Yet, for reasons that I cannot pinpoint, it just wasn't engaging. Exploring the various systems in the game and piecing hints together to figure out how it worked was enjoyable, but the actual gameplay was unexpectedly repetitive and unsatisfying.
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