Cultist Simulator News

Hey all! Today we're finally releasing full simplified Chinese, after a successful month of beta testing. Cultist Simulator and all its DLC - adding up to over 140,000 words - is now fully playable in gleaming, delectable simplified Chinese.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/718670/Cultist_Simulator/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/871650/Cultist_Simulator_The_Dancer/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/871651/Cultist_Simulator_The_Priest/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/871900/Cultist_Simulator_The_Ghoul/

If you're new to Cultist Simulator, now is a very, very good time to nab the full Anthology Edition, which'll give you an extra 15% off everything anyway. GOSH.

With the latest update, you'll now see a new 'Languages' button in the top right-hand of the title screen where you can switch between English and simplified Chinese. We'll be adding a Russian language option in there soon, too - we'll announce a specific date for Russian release as soon as possible.

One thing to note: we recommend starting a new game after switching languages. Switching mid-game can cause some text to display weirdly, and Cultist Simulator's text is WEIRD ENOUGH ALREADY. :)



Anyway, to celebrate our long-awaited full Chinese release, Cultist Simulator is now 40% off on a Steam Daily Deal, so get this extremely good deal while you can! I hope to have more news about Russian - and possibly even some NEW CONTENT 😱 - for you soon.

It's here! Simplified Chinese is now live on Steam, via the beta branch 'gateofhorn'. You can access this beta branch by:

• right clicking on 'Cultist Simulator' in your Steam library
  
• clicking on the 'Betas' tab
  
• selecting 'gateofhorn' from the drop-down menu
  
• clicking 'Close'
  

Your version of the game will then update and you'll see a 'Languages' button in the top right-hand corner of the main menu. You'll be able to switch between English and simplified Chinese there.

Please send any bug reports you find through to [email protected]. This is a beta version of simplified Chinese, so there may be issues! We'll fix all bugs we find over the next month, before releasing full simplified Chinese across Steam, GOG and Humble on Wednesday 2nd October. :)

Leave us a nice review if you enjoy the game, and tell your friends about it! Happy Mid-Autumn Festival!

Afternoon, Believers! We've just posted a production round-up of what we're up to on our blog, so thought I'd crosspost a quick update on a couple of culty things. :)





It's not super detailed right now, because we're in pre-production on our upcoming culty game BOOK OF HOURS. But if you're interested in what we're doing next, and when you can expect things for Cultist Simulator, check out our roadmap. Ask us on Twitter (@factoryweather) if you have special requests!

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Firstly, we're finally ready to bring simplified Chinese to Steam! This'll launch in beta on Thursday 12th September, just in time for Mid-Autumn Festival. You'll be able to find it on the usual beta branch, 'gateofhorn', by right-clicking Cultist Simulator in your library, clicking on the 'Betas' tab and selecting 'gateofhorn' from the drop-down menu.

Russian's coming ASAP afterwards, and we may even have some news later down the line on other languages, too...

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We're also launching a Kickstarter for our next game, BOOK OF HOURS. Set in the same dreamy, merciless alternate 1920s as Cultist Simulator - a world we call the Secret Histories - you'll be able to nab BOOK OF HOURS' Perpetual Edition, your name in the game, pet statuettes and a bunch of occult library goodness should you so choose.

The Kickstarter's launching at noon on Tuesday 3rd September, so if you want to be kept in the loop, sign up to our mailing list and/or wishlist the game below. Hope to see you there!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1028310/BOOK_OF_HOURS/?curator_clanid=33119457

Hey Beloveds! I'm delighted to announce that our new and final planned pieces of DLC - the PRIEST and the GHOUL - are now live!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/871651/Cultist_Simulator_The_Priest/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/871900/Cultist_Simulator_The_Ghoul/

Just like The Dancer, these are story-packs that investigate some previously untapped areas of Cultist Simulator.

The Priest is all Knock, adding one new Legacy, two new Ascensions and the truly gruesome story of the Martyr of the Keys.

The Ghoul is all Winter, adding another new Legacy, two other new Ascensions and a suitably beautiful end of paintings, digging up and eating the dead, and the Elegiast in all his Wintry glory.

Perpetual Edition owners get both automatically and for free, of course! Everyone else, they're only £2.50 / $2.99 each, so pretend you're buying a really occult cup of tea...?

FOR THE AVOIDANCE OF DOUBT: TRANSLATION

Now that we have the full English content of Cultist Simulator, we'll be able to finish off our in-progress Russian and simplified Chinese localisations of the game.

We'll announce their release dates as soon as we can. Keep your eyes peeled!

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One particularly for new players! Today we also released our new Anthology Edition of the game, which includes:

• Cultist Simulator (all 110,000+ words of it)
  
• all three DLC packages (Dancer, Priest and Ghoul, adding another ~30,000 words)
  
• the delectable 15-track soundtrack
  

The Anthology Edition grants 15% off the whole caboodle, coming to a totally sensible price of £25.90 / $33.11. BRING THE DAWN, all in one handy-dandy package!

https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/10931/Cultist_Simulator_Anthology_Edition/

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Now that Cultist Simulator's coming to a close (apart from localisation!), we announced the next game we'll be working on: BOOK OF HOURS. Sign up to our mailing list to be kept up to date with development, and wishlist it below.

We'll be running a Kickstarter for it later this year, so Librarians, Lovers of Text and Long-children, keep a sharp lookout!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1028310/BOOK_OF_HOURS/

Happy Friday, Believers! I come with NEWS.



Firstly, Cultist is part of a big ol' narrative shindig on Steam this weekend! Look out for Ludonarracon on the front page of the store from 6PM BST / 10AM PDT today, running all the way through the weekend.

As part of LNC, we're going to be broadcasting our upcoming Priest DLC with the help of the delightful JimtheEternal and Systemchalk, both seasoned Cultist veterans who are able to

• play arguably the most horrible CS content Alexis has written to date
  
• not die immediately
  
• explain what's going on to people in chat at the same time

So tune in to them!

✨ Jim's on from 11AM PDT / 7PM BST
🌙 Systemchalk's live from 3PMish PDT / 11PMish BST

We're also going to be releasing a free demo of Cultist today, so now all your havering would-be cultist friends can try the game and see if they like it or not. Praise be to the Watchman, who'll get us all in the end.





Alexis and I are also being our big ol' goth selves and are on a live broadcast LNC panel on DEATH IN GAMES, along with the creators of The Stillness of the Wind and Little Red Lie. Find us on

📅 today!
⏰ 11.45 PDT / 7.45PM BST
💀 LNC broadcast + store page





If you missed our news last week, we've announced release dates for our upcoming DLC and a new Anthology Edition to mark Cultist's one year anniversary of sweet and fleeting life. There're more details in last week's sprint update, but the key points are:

📅 everything's launching on Thursday 30th May 2019, at 10AM PDT / 6PM BST

🐍 new stuff includes our Priest DLC, where you take on a long-awaited Knock ascension to become the Martyr of the Keys & also there are sneks

⚰️ also our Ghoul DLC, where a disgraced medium goes all Dorian Gray, hangs out in graveyards and develops gourmet, sepulchral tastes



Don't tell Alexis that's how I summarised his stories, and hope to see you in our LNC stream and/or on the 30th May! ♥