Cultist Simulator

I expected a lot more. Brought it more for the name than what it actually was. This game is more like a strange, esoterical card game...too esoterical. I guess I was expecting something that would enable you to build a group, manage it and try to take over the world. Found it unintuitive and boring to be honest, like reading a sort of weird horror book... with cards. Maybe the fault is mine, but I stopped and didn`t even bother with the extra added stuff. Haven`t been back. Sorry.

I am a few hours in and so far I have enjoyed my time with the game but as the other reviewers have said, it really does need a proper tutorial or at least an encyclopedia-like section that explains the mechanics of the game. It is hard to appreciate a game properly if you don't know what the rules are. Hopefully, these issues will be addressed soon, there is really great potential here!

I couldn´t think of a better way to make a "cultist simulator" Yes, sure it´s cryptic, weird and messy at times. But that´s what I imagine it would feel like, entering on a cultist´s mind. Maybe you are confused at first, but you´ll become one soon after! The storytelling through tokens also fit great, I already liked that system on sunless sea. This game feels simpler yet elegant and interesting. A curious experience. This review is completely subjective, as I suspect everyone who likes it is biased by the theme, ambient, and setting. I´d call it a niche game. Rather than an ingame tutorial I would have liked a pdf guide/tutorial, for some reason feels better that to me.

This game is basically a single-player board game. You manage cards, most of which expire after a certain period of time. Time-management is a key aspect of this game. You have several action "tiles" upon which you can place cards and then stuff happens. The UI is not terribly great, the keyboard controls don't work (for me at least), and there's zero tutorial. You'll probably die several times just figuring how things work, but once you get in to it there's a really interesting game mired beneath some questionable design choices. I hope the developer continues to improve upon the game because it could become a real gem.

To those who dislike the game for being hard to understand - that's the way it's supposed to be. It's supposed to be cryptic, confusing, strange. It's, after all, a game about occult knowledge. That being said, the clunkiness of interface is obviously not intended and I hope that they will change it with updates. Moving dosens of cards around can be really annoying, as well as searching for the ones you need among the mess that is your table. However, if you can get over it, the game reveals you a marvelous universe full of surprises, with the same excelent writing that Alexis Kennedy was known for before. The writing that keeps you in a strange state of mind, keeps the feeling that there are great secrets nearby. It's just beautiful.