Since I’ve covered most of the game’s mechanics, let me try to wrap it all up into one neat package. At their worst, you can sacrifice them to a pit of tentacles for emergency meat. At their best, they’re pretty much slaves to your every whim. They’re a resource to be used in your quest to slay the bishops. Cultists aren’t friends or helpful NPC’s. This is the biggest argument for me on why Cult of the Lamb isn’t like Animal Crossing. You can also unlock the ability to sacrifice members for various reasons, including to resurrect yourself after dying in the roguelike portion of the game, but I never used that feature. There’s also a portion of the game where several of your cultists will be randomly selected to turn against you, and you’re forced to kill them. But cultist death makes it feel bad to use gifts or invest any significant effort into leveling up a single member. Cultists can die of old age, which encourages constantly acquiring new members. It doesn’t help that there are a bunch of other mechanics that discourage you from getting attached. The benefits to doing so were pretty much non-existent. The end result is that I never really felt incentivized to get attached to anyone, or to assign any specific cultist a specific task. I only ever saw cultists with a maximum of three traits, and most of them have fairly minimal gameplay impacts things like “15% faster/slower gathering speed.” While each individual cultist does have some of their own traits, they don’t offer much variety. This is as good a moment as any to talk about the cultists themselves. So it’s somewhat necessary to either set things up so that they won’t starve while you’re away, or to try to minimize the time spent on your crusades. Time passes the same regardless of if you’re at your cult, or on a crusade.
The timing system itself is probably worth noting. For some rituals the cooldown was several in-game days long. In practice, I never once ran out of the resource needed to perform rituals, so I pretty much just performed them whenever they were off cooldown. Speaking of, rituals! Another building you unlock early on is the Church, where you can perform rituals and announce doctrines for your followers to obey. This might have been because the only time someone wasn’t loyal, I sacrificed them to be ritually devoured by tentacles. Keep them loyal, or they’ll… I actually don’t know what happens to be honest. Keep your cultists fed, or they’ll start to starve, and get unhappy. While individual cultists have their own stats, these meters provide a sort of aggregate overview of the status of your cult. The other resources you have to keep an eye on are the food and faith meters. It’s used to unlock additional buildings and structures from your primary tech tree. The shrine is used to gather devotion.ĭevotion serves the role that something like “Science points” would in another game. But you make the the most important building during the game’s intro: the shrine. You can construct buildings with resources you’ve gathered. This is the management sim portion of the game. Either way you’ll be sent back to your cult after. If you win the fight, you’ll get some bonus resources, and if you lose, you’ll lose some of what you’ve collected. Only one boss fight in the game took me multiple attempts. I played the game on medium difficultly, and I’d say that none of the fights are particularly challenging. Or two, if you’ve already defeated the zone 3 times, you’ll face off against the zone’s boss: one of the four Bishops of the Old Faith. One, you’ll face off against a mini-boss for a bit more loot and a recruitable. Upon reaching the final area of a zone, one of two things will happen. The rest are actually resource nodes, shops, or other small events. While this might look a little intimidating at first, there are usually only 2-3 combat areas in a run.
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