Seize forbidden treasures. Summon alien gods. Feed on your disciples. Cultist Simulator is a game of apocalypse and yearning. Play as a seeker after unholy mysteries, in a 1920s-themed setting of hidden gods and secret histories.
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Every price cut of more than 20% we have observed, in each market that quoted one, with this game's chart position on either side of it. These are episodes, not a model: a sale is one event, and one event cannot tell you what the next one will do.
Reviews, worldwide (the counter carries no country): 1.57/day in the week to Aug 14 → 8.14/day in the week after.
For scale, across Steam · Top Sellers · Brazil over the last 30 days: the 23 chart moves that followed a price cut of more than 20% went a median of 14 places towards #1, and the 2,420 moves with no price cut behind them went 2 away. One store, one chart, one country — it is the only place we have enough observations to say even that.
Prices outside the United States have been collected since 6 August 2026 and chart positions since 19 July 2026, so a cut older than that has no market to compare and a market that joined later has no history yet. Nothing here is converted between currencies.
About
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.
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.
Add-ons
Each DLC is estimated with the same model as a game, then summed — a modeled figure, not reported DLC sales.
Sums Steam only; GOG, PlayStation, Epic publish no volume signal, so the true total is higher by an unknown amount.
| Store | Price | Audience | Score | Chart | Est. revenue |
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SteamYou are here | $19.99 | 14.2Kreviews | 80% | — | $8.4M |
| $19.99 | 346ratings | 76% | — | not modelled | |
Updates
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Reviews
Themes across 995 recent reviews and how positive each mention is. A keyword signal, not full sentiment analysis.
Reviews
A fascinating game about plugging cards into timers (Don't worry, you can pause). I never would have imagined a game like this could be so immersive, or have such interesting emergent gameplay. Little stories emerge as you go about your business ordering your cultists about. Evading (or dealing with) the law. Finding patrons and unlocking secret mysteries. I wish I could tell you more about my experience, but that would be spoilers. Those little "Wait, I can DO that?" realizations were some of my favorites. There are some caveats. This is certainly not a game for the impatient. Just learning how to not immediately lose the game from despair or insanity takes some doing. A lot of people are going to bounce off that initial hurdle and give up, I know I did the first time. After that there is a lot of trial and error that's going to happen, and it can be frustrating. Especially after you sink hours into an attempt. I think probably the worst aspect of the game is the "Work" timer. It has been pointed out in other reviews but having to plug the same cards into that timer every 70 seconds or so for tens of hours gets very old. I suppose it is supposed to represent the drudgery of a daily job, and it certainly achieves that. Of course you can simply stop going to work once get enough money, and I highly encourage anyone who plays this game to do just that. Work when you need cash. No, you do NOT need 100 funds for anything. Just stop. There is a reason it's not automated of course, as if it were you would definitely be VERY frustrated when you suddenly realize you need the work timer for something urgent only to discover that you're locked out of it for the next minute and your limited resources are going to decay and now you're completely screwed. Anyway, my advice for anyone in the mid-game slump is to stop being complacent. You got that far by trying new and risky things and you've fallen into safe habits. If things feel slow, you're probably missing something. Try new things. Plug cards in that you haven't tried before. The Dream and Talk timers will surprise you. I do wish expeditions and dreams were a bit more interesting. They are rather static once you figure them out. My first win took me 30 hours to achieve without spoiling myself on anything. Your milage may vary. Now that I know what I'm doing I suspect my next victory will take significantly less time, and I'm looking forward to it.
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Languages: English, Simplified Chinese, Russian, German, Japanese, French, Spanish - Spain
| $24.99 |
| 73ratings |
| 79% |
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| $6.99 | — | — | — | not modelled |
Matched by title — a reused name can pair the wrong games. * is a critic aggregate. Prices and positions are each store's United States storefront; Epic charts worldwide. Audience and Score too, except Steam's, which is worldwide.
Hours played at review time, across 997 reviews with recorded playtime.
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Непонятно ни хрена, но очень интересно 8/10
6-/10 游戏无新手指引，不就着攻略指南和wiki，初期完全是一脸懵，毫无游戏体验。唯二能支撑起游玩的动力就是美术和文本，但一边切wiki一边玩实在太累，劝退
太特么的好玩了，不玩不是人，特意在ipad上也下了（主要是为了强制自己不开控制台）灯衍生胜利了，但是后续再开的灯使徒实在是太难了。。回归电脑拜请一下控制台之神
I can't personally recommend this game. I find it stressful AND boring, which sounds like it would be kind of hard to achieve, but somehow the developers succeeded. Nonetheless, there's a lot of talent on display here. The writing is intriguing, the design is appealing, and the underlying idea: You're a cultist trying to...well do culty things, you don't really know all that much yourself at the start. Well, it's wonderful for anyone enjoying eldritch horror. However, the big problem I got is with the whole way that (as far as I can tell) optimal play involves a lot of waiting and trial-and-error, where if you die, you got like 2 hours of going through the same motions you already went through. So the game constantly ticks down, forcing you to react to different situations (trying to avoid spoilers, and this review is written a long time after my last playthrough, so memory's a bit hazy). And often, the bad stuff is best avoided by letting it tick away without them finding some kind of card on the table for it to grab hold. And that constant need to babysit bad effects, once every minute having to drag some card on it...I just didn't enjoy it. It should be said that the same developers made another game with basically the same basic mechanics, but without the whole time limit problem (Book of Hours), and playing it was what made me realize that removing the timing challenge made me enjoy it a lot more. Thus, I recommend people interested in this game to check that out instead. And if you liked the world in Book of Hours but were disappointed at there not being any failure state...well maybe this game's for you. But it's not for me.
IN THE DESERT I WAIT IN THE RUINS I BURN - METAL IS WATER - STONE IS WAX - FLESH IS SMOKE - ENTER ME AND BE NO LONGER.
I cant get a rung really going, I might be dooing somthing wrong, but it takes soooooooo long to do ANYTHING
好久没有一款游戏能让我几天打30个小时了，总体来说是好玩的。 优点是：文本丰富，结局很多，步入飞升，或走向平凡，或与你的金主爱人共度余生等等。一步步打通关会很爽。 但缺点很明显，耗时间，没教程，前期不懂很容易饿死吓死病死，游玩需要看视频图文wiki，或者找新手教程的mod。 如果你能接受这种一个人孤独兴奋悲哀激动的感觉，可以试试。 哦对了，邪名+3，入迷+3，隔槛望日和辉光选一个吧（
新手教程看不下去，然后自己摸索着打，想飞升被抓，我恨你警探
1. 튜토리얼 없음. (리스크 관리하고, 탐사로 자원 모으고, 법칙에 대한 지식을 성장시켜서 승천하는 게임) 2. 텍스트와 태그를 잘 살펴라. (특히 동사 토큰의 빈칸을 클릭하면 들어갈 수 있는 카드의 태그가 보인다) 3. 과감하게 시행착오 해라. (RPG에서 포션 아끼듯 안전주의 플레이는 금물. 진행은 더뎌지고 시간만 잡아먹는 괴물이 된다) 4. 나무위키를 힐끔거려라. (공략을 그대로 따라가라는 말이 아니다. 막힐 때 한 번 씩 참고하고 쾌적한 플레이하자)
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