Image this: a hellish cult, bloody satanic imagery coating the partitions, stuffed with sacrifice and morbid rituals disregarding your cult members’ well-being, its chief feared by the rival gods of different cults due to their actions. You wouldn’t assume the chief of this cult could be an lovable tiny lamb with unholy energy bestowed upon him by an elder god trapped in limbo, hellbent on revenge in opposition to his brethren for betraying him, would you?
A lone lamb, the final of its type, is sacrificed earlier than 4 unholy entities. Following its dying, the lamb seems earlier than a chained deity named “The One Who Waits” who bestows the creature along with his crown and his unholy powers, he additionally resurrects the lamb, and in trade, it should begin a cult in the deity’s picture. After escaping, assembly your predecessor (and future playing buddy) Ratau, and rescuing your first follower, you start to construct your cult’s campsite. Establishing a shrine of the lamb in your followers to worship and a temple for them to wish in. A nice begin isn’t it?
By way of gameplay, Cult of the Lamb is a rogue-like, dungeon crawler finest described as a mix of ‘The Binding of Isaac’, ‘Enter the Gungeon’, and ‘Animal Crossing’. Feels like a drink that’s blended collectively on a Halloween dare, doesn’t it? However on this case not solely can you retain the drink down, however you’d additionally ask for one more spherical.
Now the time period “rogue-like” is thrown round rather a lot, usually debatably, however Cult of the Lamb lives very a lot as much as the style. Very like most religions that get out of hand, to get extra assets, followers, wipe out your enemies, and in addition progress within the story, you may partake within the odd campaign. Originally of each campaign, you choose up a melee weapon and talents referred to as ‘curses’ to guard your self.
In levels paying homage to bullet-hell gameplay you dodge your well beyond enemy hearth and slay any non-believer who dares to face in your approach, with the objective of taking out one of many 4 boss entities referred to as “Bishops” per space. However when you die? That’s it. Again to the cult’s campsite with half of all the things you’ve earned on a campaign taken. Together with any followers you’ll have recruited on the best way. Sorry in case your new recruit isn’t impressed by their saviour when you perish throughout the identical quest you rescued them on.
Cult of the Lamb might lure you right into a false sense of safety with its cute imagery of the lovable animals working collectively in a camp. However that sinister ingredient is all the time lingering, you’re main a literal cult, You’re an evil idol worshipped by those that are determined and don’t know any higher, and your followers survive or perish in your whim. Are you a benevolent chief or are these wilful servants only a instrument so that you can exploit? Both approach, somebody has to have a tendency the crops and collect constructing provides when you’re spreading the great phrase of the lamb by waves of dissidents’ flesh.
Now it isn’t all doom and gloom, the lamb and your animal followers are all so lovable, you might confuse Cult of the Lamb with a very violent Construct-A-Bear Workshop. You may fully customise each follower you indoctrinate nonetheless you want. It’s your cult in spite of everything they usually’re your loyal followers, why shouldn’t you have the ability to remodel their our bodies in opposition to their will? Now it’s time to get to work! You can too assign each follower a job and it’s as much as you to handle them, however beware, each follower has distinctive traits, each constructive and unfavorable, that have an effect on how they behave within the cult.
Similar to; one follower’s religion could also be more durable to lift total and one other could also be gradual whereas working, whereas one other might preserve their religion in you even when sick, and one other could also be so devoted that their religion may stay unshaken when killing off any dissenters. You may handle these traits in your favour per who you enable to affix the cult, nevertheless it is perhaps value maintaining somebody who doesn’t have any notably helpful traits, as you would possibly want some meat come time for dinner.
Though it could really feel like babysitting at occasions, all this effort will repay with you receiving upgrades. Not simply in your cult’s village but additionally with the fight too, with entry to new highly effective skills and weapons. So preserve at it! What, you assume an environment friendly cult is in-built a day? After all not! It takes laborious work and sacrifice! No actually, literal human sacrifice to the eldritch monsters that drag cult members to a grotesque destiny. So don’t get too connected to your followers.
The world outdoors of your cult’s camp and the crusading routes is various and plentiful. Take a leisurely stroll to the southern coast to relight an outdated lighthouse and take up fishing with an skilled fisherman exhibiting you the ropes… who can also be a fish. Attempt not to consider it an excessive amount of. If fishing isn’t your model then head north to your outdated buddy Ratau’s place for a sport of ‘Knucklebones’ a posh but addictive cube sport the place you may gamble some gold away, and when you tire of Ratau you’ll find as much as three extra Knucklebones opponents throughout your crusades to ship to his home to face a larger problem.
Head southeast to caves actually dripping in gold the place a mysterious idol is working a doubtful sacrifice-for-profit scheme. Set your sights northeast for a grotto stuffed to the brim with mushrooms which you’ll be able to go to with an ant named Sozo who’s just a little too keen to show you concerning the magic of mushrooms. Okay Sozo, you do you, man. Final however not least, head west and also you’ll discover a derelict pirate’s cove housing a grouchy grasshopper promoting tarot playing cards and complaining about his mother-in-law. Did I point out that almost all of those NPCs have their very own quests?
Although its members are determined for a secure haven on this harmful land, wouldn’t you be barely questioning when requested to affix a literal cult? Aww, however who would say no to an lovable little fluffy lamb?