HP Lovecraft turns 130 on the 20th August 2020! So we’re running a week-long giveaway across Twitter, Facebook and Instagram to celebrate. What are the prizes? Sixteen people will win something! The grand prize is a mega Lovecraftian bundle. It includes: ★ a (vegan!) skeletal raven statuette, perfect for mantelpieces, library shelves and/or weddings and Read more
Just a short update this time! Alexis has been busy with setting up modding and Steam Workshop, which you can read about in detail here. Can’t wait to see what you crazy kids come up with, bearing in mind we already have the infamous My Little Pony total conversion. What depths have we yet to Read more
This is the season of the Forge of Days – the hottest August day in the UK for the last decade – so here’s something apposite for you. I’ve been quiet recently, for two reasons. One is that last month, Lottie finally cajoled me into taking a couple of weeks off. (I now have to Read more
Orgoglio is Italian for ‘pride’ and used as straightforward allegory in The Faerie Queene. He’s a giant, introduced like a 16th-century video game: our noble HERO truffles up to the gate of a dark castle, met by the hideous GIANT and his evil WITCH FRIEND on a PURPLE MANY-HEADED BEAST BREATHING FIRE FROM BLOODY MOUTHS. Read more
Hey Believers! Hope you’re hanging in there. This is a special month for charitable causes. Thanks to Cultist‘s free weekend and the release of EXILE we had a bumper June, which means we get to give away an unusally large amount to charity this month. So we’ve split it across two causes close to our Read more
Marinell – Sir Marinell, to you – is a knight of the sea whose nervous nymph-mother Cymoent misinterpreted a prophesy that he would be mortally wounded by a maiden. She thus teaches him that LOVE is BAD and he is NOT TO PLAY WITH LADIES. Turns out one maiden does gore him – good ol’ Read more
Hullo, hullo! The wind is whistling outside like a vengance of ghosts; the dull horizon meets a duller sky with a cold, grey kiss of Thames; a lone, heroic birb hunkers stoically in the crevasse we call our balcony. Ah, June. As you know, we donate 10% of our profits each month to a WORTHY Read more
Happy forbidden birthday, Believers! This Sunday marks two years since Cultist‘s launch. It’s been a hell of a trip, and we really couldn’t have done it without you: Kickstarter backers, launch-week buyers, community members, merch owners, streamers, fan artists, social media cheerleaders, the lot. Thank you for being a bunch of total mensches. Now, onto Read more
Hope you’re hanging in there, everyone! I come with good tidings. Next sprint is Cultist‘s second birthday! There’ll be a bunch of fun stuff going on around the end of May to celebrate Cultist turning two, as well as the ultimate Mansus-inspired party: two Hours tearing themselves limb from symbolist limb while you and a Read more
Hey, Believers! Alexis’s and my sprint have been dominated by a troupe of giggling Portuguese carpenters who came in and built a floor-to-ceiling library with sparkly lights and a rolling ladder. This has been a dream of Alexis’s since childhood, and once we get the ladder installed we will be staging Weather Factory’s version of Read more
