Cultist Simulator




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.

In this 20-40 hour game, you'll:
  • Combine cards to tell your own story in a rich, Lovecraftian world of ambition, appetite and abomination. Corrupt your friends. Consume your enemies. There is never only one history.
  • Found a cult, dedicated to the Red Grail, or the Witch-and-Sister, or the Forge of Days. Recruit Believers and promote them to Disciples to serve as burglars, researchers, cat's-paws. Use your disciples to keep you fed - or feed on your disciples.
  • Unravel arcane, unacknowledged mysteries. Translate grimoires and glean their lore. Locate and pillage the Star Shattered Fane. Penetrate the realm of the Hours, and win a place in their service. Perhaps - if you are very cunning - you may even glimpse the Mansus.
  • Outwit rivals, investigators and the increasingly suspicious Authorities. Your own altered Appetites may force you to act abominably, but your Cause must not be stopped.
  • Transcend death with a story-driven legacy system. Perhaps your inheritors will complete the Rite of the Crucible Soul. Perhaps they'll find peace in a pleasing career. Perhaps they'll bring the Dawn.



Minimum Requirements
OS: Windows 7 or later
Processor: 2GHz or better
Memory: 1 GB RAM
Graphics: 1280x768 minimum resolution, post-2012 integrated graphics
DirectX: Version 9.0c
Storage: 500 MB available space
Sound Card: DirectX 9.0c compatible
Minimum Requirements
OS: Mac OS X 10.9 or later (Steam support is a problem with earlier versions, sorry!)
Processor: 2GHz or better
Memory: 1 GB RAM
Graphics: 1280x768 minimum resolution, post-2012 integrated graphics
Storage: 500 MB available space
Sound Card: DirectX v9.0c compatible
Minimum Requirements
Processor: 2GHz or better
Memory: 1 GB RAM
Graphics: 1280x768 minimum resolution, OpenGL Core, post-2012 integrated graphics
Storage: 500 MB available space
Sound Card: DirectX 9.0c compatible
  • That’s the real beauty of Weather Factor’s debut title — the world feels so large and full of possibilities, even though everything is mainly told through small snippets of text. It’s filled with poetry, like descriptions of a vial of Greydawn Oil that’s “the precise color of the hours when one cannot sleep,” and it makes you want to explore and unravel its mysteries. And it makes you work for it, reading between the lines and imagining a realm unseen.

  • Cultist Simulator is a posthumanist spiral that, like its endless card combinations, is greater than the sum of its parts.

  • A dark, engrossing, and challenging narrative card and crafting game.

  • The end result is a glittering construct of stunningly good prose.

  • CD-Action

    At first glance Cultist Simulator looks like a card game, but in fact it’s a fusion of a puzzle game with a text adventure game. With its extraordinarily atmospheric writing, ability to merge simplicity with depth, and different paths it’s fun for hours. It’s a shame the later stage relies on grinding too much and can become tedious. [07/2018, p.80]

  • If you already enjoyed previous Fallen London escapades like Sunless Seas, there’s a good chance you’ll enjoy Cultist Simulator as well. It’s certainly not the easiest game to break into, but then again it was never really meant to be either. Cultist Simulator isn’t afraid to keep its greatest rewards locked away for only the most patient and clever players to find, and there’s a lot of potential enjoyment to be had for players who relish the journey as much as the destination.

  • Cultist Simulator is the kind of game where “Just one more turn,” easily becomes “Four hours later…” It’s addicting even when it’s difficult and frustrating, and extremely satisfying when things finally start going right for you. If you’re even slightly interested in it, the price is right to try something that’s completely original and unlike anything else out right now.

  • Cultist Simulator is intriguing and full of potential, but even flawed and frustrating.

  • The mood, the setting, and the pedigree of the writing are all perfectly in line with my interests, but I found the combination of the card playing and having to sit at a PC never truly gelled.

  • Edge Magazine

    At its best, Cultist Simulator is quietly riveting, conjuring a palpable atmosphere of intrigue and danger as you juggle the risk and reward of harnessing otherworldly powers. During a bad run, however, it can feel like a rather inefficient way of telling a fairly miserable story. [July 2018, p.118]

  • games(TM)

    An engrossing dabble into otherworldly forces. [July 2018, p.72]

  • The quality of Cultist Simulator‘s writing and intriguing setting coupled with its arduous gameplay made me wish I was reading a surrealist novel rather than grasping at some sort of narrative with all these disparate cards. While I can appreciate the game’s own attempt at experimentation with its indefinite gameplay, tabletop format, and fragmented story, I could not find much enjoyment in constantly wondering what I was doing and asking myself why I was still playing.

  • Games Master UK

    Fascinating but alienating. [July 2018, p.83]

  • LEVEL (Czech Republic)

    An inaccessible and difficult-to-use card game that hides a genius core underneath the questionable design decisions. It reveals the its unexpected depths and can keep the attention of only the most patient players. [Issue#287]

  • Lovecraft-inspired, one-of-a-kind, original-looking… boring grindfest.

  • Cultist Simulator is a laboratory of bizarre ideas and that corresponds with conflicting gaming experience. The story of a cult was squeezed into a pack of cards, but originality alone doesn’t provide fun.

  • With so little gameplay and almost no visual flair, the combination of broadly described ideas and impetus on the player to find their own story just don't come together. It's like the bare bones of a game without any of the meat.

Cultist Simulator
$19.99 $7.24

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Title: Cultist Simulator
Genre: Indie, RPG, Simulation
Released: 31 May 2018
Developer: Weather Factory
Publisher: Humble Bundle
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  • Steam Achievements
  • Steam Cloud
  • Steam Trading Cards
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