Enthralling and maddening in equal measure, card-juggling eldritch life sim Cultist Simulator is celebrating its first birthday at present, and there’s items for the devoted. Developer Weather Factory are rolling out the ultimate two deliberate bits of DLC for the game at present, every including a brand new playable character, new methods to run your cult, and lots of extra methods to lose. They’ve additionally introduced Book Of Hours, the subsequent game within the sequence. A spin-off tasking gamers with operating and organising a forbidden library, and making certain the clientele discover what they search with out getting too badly cursed.
Details on Book Of Hours are skinny proper now, nevertheless it seems to work a lot the identical as Cultist Simulator, delivering its world by small textual content vignettes and pausable real-time card slinging. You can see just a little extra of Book of Hours and a few early artwork on its Steam store page here. The game casts you as the brand new librarian of Hush House. Your predecessor is useless, most of the books are lacking, and enterprise has grown chilly. You want to amass, restore, research and break curses on the books earlier than they are often shelved. Only then are you able to advocate them to curious guests. Or dissuade them, in the event you discover purpose to.
As for the brand new DLC, The Priest and The Ghoul (each as a consequence of be launched inside an hour of writing) look to be of comparable scale to the earlier character DLC, The Dancer. Each provides a brand new legacy place to begin, generally accessible randomly or particularly unlocked by sure failure states. The Priest DLC has you beginning out as a extra conventional preacher, steadily reforming your congregation right into a cult. The Ghoul is extra straightforwardly sinister, letting you achieve energy by devouring the useless, each long-buried and recent – your personal followers, if wants be. Each DLC gives two extra routes to Ascension, and extra tales to comply with. These are the ultimate deliberate expansions for the game.
As a curious apart, Book Of Hours isn’t the one game about forbidden library administration within the works. Project Moon’s SCP-inspired monster analysis sim Lobotomy Corporation is due a sequel; Library Of Ruina. It has a relatively totally different strategy to the idea, with considerably extra anime sword fights and electro swing within the soundtrack. Still, it’s curious that two games with the identical uncommon root idea are in improvement in parallel. You can see an early Korean language trailer here, with English subtitles accessible through closed captions. They’re aiming for a 2020 launch.
The Priest and The Ghoul DLC for Cultist Simulator are out on Steam, Humble and GOG and priced at £2.50/€2.39/$2.99 every, or free in the event you purchased the game early sufficient to personal the Perpetual Edition. It’s printed by Humble Bundle. Book Of Hours will flip to Kickstarter for funding later this 12 months. New to this cult simulating malarkey? Read Nic Reuben’s Cultist Simulator review.
