Cultist Simulator

Cultist Simulator won't be for everyone as the learning curve is fairly steep and it is a pretty unforgiving game. Anyone who loves puzzles, interesting games and solid narrative will find a lot to love.

A compelling and atmospheric singleplayer narrative card game.

As mentioned at the start, this is an unconventional game. It’s a narrative game, but it tells a story through incomplete fragments that must be ordered and pieced together. It’s a resource management sim, albeit simplified and purposely without documentation. At the end of the day, the one thing I can definitively say is that it is a game that I enjoyed, but also one where I can very well understand if others dislike it.

I was surprised by my experience with Cultist Simulator as it should have been a game that really grabbed me. 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. The obscurity of much of what was happening became a little tiring as, aside from the basic loop, much of the rest relied too much on experimentation. Much like the Lovecraftian world it works within, if it does get under your skin then there is a huge amount of game here to explore that may jus...

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