Cultist Simulator streamer / press kit
Key Facts
- Developer & Publisher: Weather Factory
- Release date: May 2018
- Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux / App Store, Google Play / Nintendo Switch
- Price: £14.99 / $19.99
- Streamer / press contact: lottie@weatherfactory.biz
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Description
Seize forbidden treasures. Summon alien gods. Feed on your disciples.
Cultist Simulator is a game of apocalypse and yearning from Alexis Kennedy, creator of Fallen London and Sunless Sea. Play as a seeker after unholy mysteries, in a 1920s-themed setting of hidden gods and secret histories. Perhaps you’re looking for knowledge, or power, or beauty, or revenge. Perhaps you just want the colours beneath the skin of the world.
In this roguelike narrative card game, what you find may transform you forever. Every choice you make, from moment to moment, doesn’t just advance the narrative – it also shapes it.
Become a scholar of the unseen arts. Search your dreams for sanity-twisting rituals. Craft tools and summon spirits. Indoctrinate innocents. Seize your place as the herald of a new age.
Key Features
In this 20-40 hour game, you’ll:
- Combine cards to tell your own story in a rich, Lovecraftian world of ambition, appetite and abomination. Corrupt your friends. Consume your enemies. There is never only one history.
- Found a cult, dedicated to the Red Grail, or the Witch-and-Sister, or the Forge of Days. Recruit Believers and promote them to Disciples to serve as burglars, researchers, cat’s-paws. Use your disciples to keep you fed – or feed on your disciples.
- Unravel arcane, unacknowledged mysteries. Translate grimoires and glean their lore. Locate and pillage the Star Shattered Fane. Penetrate the realm of the Hours, and win a place in their service. Perhaps – if you are very cunning – you may even glimpse the Mansus.
- Outwit rivals, investigators and the increasingly suspicious Authorities. Your own altered Appetites may force you to act abominably, but your Cause must not be stopped.
- Transcend death with a story-driven legacy system. Perhaps your inheritors will complete the Rite of the Crucible Soul. Perhaps they’ll find peace in a pleasing career. Perhaps they’ll bring the Dawn.
About Weather Factory
Weather Factory is a London-based husband and wife team established in 2017 to make ingenious narrative games. Our games include:
- Double-BAFTA-nominated Cultist Simulator (2018)
- Luxury TRPG The Lady Afterwards (2021)
- Upcoming narrative crafting RPG BOOK OF HOURS (2023)
Alexis Kennedy is an acclaimed writer and game designer. He founded Failbetter Games, where he created Fallen London and Sunless Sea (plus StoryNexus, Machine Cares!, Night Circus, Black Crown et al). Additional credits include Dragon Age: The Last Court, Stellaris: Horizon Signal, Cultist Simulator and BOOK OF HOURS.
Lottie Bevan is an artist, producer and one of the youngest female founders in the industry. She was a 2019 BAFTA Breakthrough Brit and one of GI.biz’s ‘Top 100 most influential women’. Credits include Fallen London, Sunless Sea: Zubmariner, Sunless Skies, Cultist Simulator, The Lady Afterwards and BOOK OF HOURS.
Cultist Simulator also features the work of a number of brilliant freelancers, including:
- Martin Nerurkar
- Chris Payne
- Fraser McCormick
- Roman Loskutov
- Sarah Gordon
- Clockwork Cuckoo
- Catherine Unger
- Maribeth Solomon
- Soundcuts
