Cultist Simulator

前所未有的痛苦游戏体验 因为好评最终去尝试游玩并达成一周目飞升杯，在我看来是纯受苦加极致谜语人的一款游戏，文本带来的那点好感完全对抗不了繁复、无聊、折磨的游戏体验，想要达成飞升几乎毫无自由度可言，需要重复试错才能找到途径，然而游戏本身几乎毫无引导性，玩家不看攻略不查wiki几乎像个受难的西西弗斯，然而看了攻略却会使游戏体验大打折扣。巨量重复的找素材过程除了增加游戏时长感受不到内容上的增量，不推荐给任何人。

At first, it’s magical. You’re a mysterious occultist, unlocking cosmic secrets, summoning unknowable entities, and building a cult with vibes so strong they could power a lighthouse. Then the game punches you in the soul. You grind for hours to get a card that lasts 60 seconds and only works in one hyper-specific situation. Meanwhile, 47 mechanics are trying to kill you. Hunters, madness, dread, despair, starvation, bureaucracy, and the occasional dream demon all take turns kicking your progress into the abyss. Lose focus for one moment? Boom... your cult collapses and you’re back at square one with nothing but trauma and a vague memory of what might have worked. I wanted to love this game, but I had to quit playing it. The atmosphere is incredible, the writing is hauntingly beautiful, and the mystery pulls you in. But eventually, I realized I wasn’t playing... I was surviving. And barely. Not recommended unless you enjoy suffering as a hobby

This is a game about discovery, about trial an error, about knowledge and madness. Instead of looking for straight awnsers you should read and take notes. Grab a notebook and keep track of what you find important, what impresses you, what you feel you need to remember. This game is hard and can be boring, but you are slowly improving and adding more to your little notebook as you explore this atonishing world of wonder. After being confused, excited, bored, enlightened, tired, energetic you will eventually find your way to a major victory where you will then have the biggest treasure you've been building towards all this time: A notebook with a bunch of nonsense that will make people pretend they do not know you and will probably put you in a watchlist.

I really enjoy the vibe and storytelling. I don't much love the gameplay. Which as many have said, can be quite repetitive and punishing. Having the support at the app store tell people to use a fandom wiki is more sinful than anything you can do in this game.

Remarkably unpleasant on a number of levels. Let's go over some: Physically. The interface is so bad it will make you tense up until your neck aches; the ever-changing bits of vital information are [i]so[/i] poorly presented, and the need to zoom in and out as well as pan your view around - all in spite of this, for all intents and purposes, being a game of interacting with cards on a table. You will also need to [i]constantly[/i] re-arrange things due to the random order in which the game spits cards back onto the table after using them. Unless you enjoy an even [i]more[/i] disorganized and unreadable mess than the default layout already is, and quickly becomes, in spite of any amount of organizing effort on your part. Mentally. Your mind will strain with boredom interspersed with the tenseness mentioned above, as you wait and wait for one-minute events to finish so that you can then issue several commands to start them all over again as soon as possible. Example: You pay 1 wealth in rent every minute. A typical starting job earns 1 wealth per minute. You need wealth for other things. Eventually you can get a better-paying job (or just start your second character as the doctor, who has a 2-wealth-per-minute job with no strings attached). There's a "faster" speed setting. It is perhaps around 50% faster, which is still quite slow when, as mentioned, the base wait time is a minute long. That's not the only brain strain, of course. Boredom is one thing - a deliberate waste of your time. But there's also the [i]multi-part[/i] events. How these generally work is: You start the event. THEN the event tells you what you need to succeed at it. The event punishes you with part of a death sentence for not having what you needed. You may be able to counteract this but at the very least, it is very likely to waste more of your time on unfun busywork chores needed to get back to a state of relative safety from sudden game-overs due to sheer bad luck with the other little happenings that pop up with every minute you pay rent. Then you get what you need, do the event over again, but the thing you need has a ticking clock on it after which it vanishes, and guess what? You misjudged how long the event takes to get to the part where you insert the thing you need. Yes, you thing-you-need only had a 55 second duration left, but the event? Oh, the event has a 30-second "you begin doing the thing" part, [i]then another[/i] 30-second "you will need something soon" part, and after that? After that, you can insert the thing. Except you can't, because it evaporated five seconds ago. Fun, intuitive game design! Every game should feature useful things that are constantly disintegrating, am I right? Yes, some event components have clues to what the event using them will require. The rest? Not so much. So yeah, your mind will not enjoy this game experience. Emotionally. Whatever your character's path, it will involve, for instance... seeking "enlightenment" by turning yourself into a bony, saggy-skinned being of light. You do this by imprisoning your allies/followers, specifically, and "talking to them" in a prison cell, resulting in you absorbing their light or some crap. And, seemingly, nothing else remains of them. One follower in particular was described as "weeping in his cell" before our "conversation". Oh, we ARE clever with our cute little euphemisms, aren't we! Which leads me to a key assertion. A certain key developer on this game, who made off like a bandit as he left the Sunless Sea devs in the lurch, is a literal psychopath. The signs were there in Sunless Sea as well - another sadistic, unpleasant game with this sort of superficially interesting, poorly fleshed-out, unemotional, and above all [i]extremely[/i] pretentious writing (with incredibly innovative edgelord twists like 'cannibals everywhere' and 'human life is ever so expendable' and 'what if real life, but even more horrible'). I'm not joking. The man enjoys abusing the player. He enjoys abusing his characters. There is very little, if any, mention of caring or compassion in any of his games; less still of it being shown. Book of Hours breaks with this trend, a little - the influence of his spouse, I suspect. A tempering influence. So if you absolutely must play a Weather Factory game, make it that one instead. There's very little lore here that isn't also in Book of Hours anyway - many of the books and their texts, for instance, are copy-pasted altogether. Angry rants and personal attacks aside, this game is [i]very heartily[/i] disrecommended. Do yourself a favor and do not play it under any circumstances, even if someone pays you to.

Я ходил вокруг да около очень долго, в момент распродажи махнул рукой и решил купить. Я сразу скажу, что эта игра на любителя, на любителя настолок и ККИ, игроку непосвящённому здесь делать нечего, она вас попросту расстроит и не подарит удовольствия. Я же залип как собака, за два дня наиграв 15 часов не отлипая от компа. Поначалу ты не понимаешь вообще ничего — интерфейс как лист из старого гримуара, правила не объясняют, мир молчит. Игра услужливо сразу говорит тебе, мол, с первого раза ты ничего и не поймёшь, нужно несколько попыток. В общем, спустя пяток смертей я начал понимать что к чему, ну и нагриндил несколько редких концовок. Слово "нагриндил" здесь не просто так, потому что гринд тут жесток, беспощаден и, к сожалению, составляет львиную долю всего геймплея. И ты сидишь, тасуешь карты, пробуешь слова, как заклинания. И вдруг ловишь момент — понимаешь. И вот когда ты начинаешь понимать, гринд тебе уже не так страшен, потому что просыпается присущий карточным играм азарт. И с этого момента Cultist Simulator превращается из хаоса в магию. Сидишь, размышляешь, как достать очередной аспект, как провернуть ритуал, как не сойти с ума и не помереть с голоду между вдохновением и отчаянием. Да, Cultist Simulator — странная, нудная, иногда несправедливая штука. Но чёрт возьми. как же она мне зашла.

前期流程极度机械重复，主要玩法约等于合成大西瓜。但文本已经优秀到了美妙的地步，翻译更是锦上添花，我太爱了。已购入司辰之书，新作crpg也会狠狠期待的