Cultist Simulator News

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! ♥

Hey everyone! Ever wished you could bring the apocalypse on the bus? Or murder your micromanaging boss without getting out of bed? Now - hooplah! - you can, as Cultist Simulator's live on the App Store and Google Play today!

For a week we're also offering a 30% off discount, so if you wanna bring your cult with you on the go, now's the time.





You can also read a little about us from the front page of the App Store, as we're part of a feature on 'cool' Brits doing cool things in games. Check it out, iOS people!



(Apologies to Google Play-ers. Apple do not make App Store pages readable online, to our eternal regret.)



Fiiiinally, you may have noticed that we now have a simplified Chinese version of Cultist's Steam store page, and we offer a simplified Chinese version of the whole game on iOS! (We're unfortunately not able to offer Chinese via Google Play until the Chinese government reopens applications for foreign games publishing.)

I know a lot of you have been waiting patiently for Chinese to hit, so this will either allow you to play now or at least show you that we're working hard on translating everything to a high standard for PC. I'll release an estimated release date for both Chinese and Russian on PC in the near future.

In the meantime, hope you enjoy! :)

I can't believe I'm writing this, but... Cultist Simulator's been nominated for not one, but



We're up for both Debut Game and Game Innovation and both Alexis and myself were practically sick yesterday when the nominations were announced.

Check out the full list of nominations here!



Thank you to all of you who took a chance on a weird indie game about a lady pulling off her own face. Cultist has been in active development since launch, and the feedback you've given us - along with the love you showed along the way - somehow got us to the point where we have to dress up fancy and go to a BAFTA Games awards show to find out if we win.

You are the best cult.
Now, more info shortly on mobile launch, localisation and other Weather Factory projects. Check out our roadmap if you're interested in what's next for Cultist, and we'll see you soon!