Leave a Review Cultist Simulator
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Audio doesn’t seem to work sadly :(VladVladZuevZuev
Developer Response
Hi! It seems like your device might be stuck in headphone mode. Please refer to this article: https://www.headphonesty.com/2020/09/iphone-stuck-headphone-mode/Exceptional game!
At heart, it’s a time management game, but there’s so much atmosphere and mysticism that you will be drawn in utterly. Some tips - play slowly, read everything! You have one life. ONE. Very old school.
Every decision counts. There’s no redo button or take back a move. The games saves your progress, but if you plan poorly, you have to live with the consequences. There’s danger every second, but once you figure out the game mechanics and discover how the cards interact, you’ll be able to foresee most dangers and prepare accordingly. Again, play SLOWLY or you will be rapidly overwhelmed! Pay attention to what you read, the cards offer clear tips within the prose.
You can easily have over a hundred cards on the table so be organized and use the pause button liberally. Enjoy your new obsession!Show lessTiff1111125
Developer Response
Thank you for your review!Good but need to use IPad
Good game, but realistically needs an IPad, because the board is so big and the cards so small, and there are timers counting down cards which pinching the screen won’t always keep up with.
Terrible on any IPhone.BilalBB
Developer Response
Thank you for your feedback, it has been passed on to the team!Got this on mobile and pc
A great game still tempted to buy the expansions for this game as well. It’s hard takes time to figure out. Wealthy heir getting money is best start. But you have no job you can only get menial work. Physician then police man the gubber and gubber office job imo lowest hardest. Keep at it it’s difficult but keep at it well worth £6.99 endless replayabilityShow lessDisturbed Fand Mega
Developer Response
Thank you for your review and feedback!Moody masterpiece
I’ve never been a big fan of board/card games, but I do love games that immerse the player in their world. This game has an H.P. Lovecraft feel, a mixture of reality and fantasy. As a card game it relies heavily on art, writing, and music to give the player an immersive experience and fortunately these are all first rate. At the start the game can be frustrating as their are no instructions. However it is well designed to reward the player for experimenting. You begin with only one action available: Work. Then Study and Dream become possible. Try different actions using different cards. Reading and enjoying the tone as your story unfolds is a big part of the game.Show lessasiavpnuser
Developer Response
Thank you for your review, we’re really glad you like the game!Atmospheric, spooky game that inspires curiosity
This game is fascinating to me. It reminds me of Dark Souls in the way the player has to discover the secrets of the game by playing it. The lore of the game is fascinating and the story is implied through the cards that you play. It’s a little bit like Civilization or a city builder in that you gain escalating powers but you build a cult instead of a nation or city. It’s a little bit like a role playing game. But of course it is totally different to all these games, it is it’s own thing.Show lessSquashyjosh
Developer Response
Thank you for your review and feedback!Most iOS games are garbage. This one is a rare exception.
Most iOS games are garbage pay-to-win games aimed at a casual audience. Mobile developers have zero respect for players as they use so-called “dark patterns” to make you effectively gamble online, just in the context of a game.
Alexis Kennedy and weather factory are a rare exception. This game is fantastic. And it’s a one-time-purchase with entirely optional and reasonably-priced DLCs that actually add quality content.
This game is very slow paced and heavy on the reading. So it is not for everybody. But if you like games that make you think, you’re gonna love this one.Show lessAstyrrean
Brilliant, dense, and rewarding
Another excellent game from the mind of Alexis Kennedy. (Pity about the sex-pest thing). The writing is amazing, telling just enough in small snippets to let the mind fill in the gaps. But the real shining point is the gameplay. It is obtuse and unexplained, making you feel just like the character you play as, gradually falling deeper and deeper into the conspiracies and the rituals, until the mechanics that were so difficult when you began are second-nature. This is the point that the game shines: when you begin to find the patterns and the world unlocks.Show lessMech3ngg
Where have you been
I’ve been craving a game of such sublimity and poetic tempo. Masterfully made.nonfatal lichen
A challenging roguelike card-game with a couple of big flaws
If you like punishing, you’ve come to the right place. Cultist Simulator is a genuinely fascinating and engaging virtual card-game where you only have one save and there’s no take-backs. It’s a game of trying to reach ascension via Sensation, Enlightenment or Power. The game works by making you learn the rules as you play, and by periodically dropping difficult challenges in front of you. It’s fun, and sometimes immensely frustrating.
The frustration is the killjoy for me. Mess up your timing or selection once? No take-backs! Get distracted by anyone or anything whilst the live timer is running? You lost your job! And it’s easy to miss the build-up of game-ending problems with everything that’s going on. Although there’s a snap-to grid for the virtual cards, the organisation system is your own, and as it gets busier and busier it’s harder and harder to keep track of what’s going on. There’s no real warning you’re nearly at game over until a card or system turns red - and by then, it’s probably too late.
This is fun. I’d buy it again. But stand back, and you realise that it’s got elements of a rat maze made harder by what appears to be degrees of random chance. The only way to learn is the hard way. And I was kind of hoping we’d gotten beyond that in game design now. But hey - I’d buy it again and I’ll play it again. And again. Eventually I’ll win. I hope.Show lessMantrahunter
