Cultist Simulator News

In line with Steam's Tabletop Fest 2021, Cultist Simulator's TRPG The Lady Afterwards is OUT NOW! But it sold out in 60s so we're offering 500 pre-orders via our website here.



The Lady Afterwards is a luxury boxed tabletop game inspired by classics like Chaosium's Horror on the Orient Express. It's a non-linear, combat-light, story-centric tabletop RPG for 2 - 8 players set in the Secret Histories - the world of Cultist Simulator - where hidden gods watch over a Lovecraftian world of apocalypse and yearning. It's been designed to offer an accessible experience to people who've hesitated to played TRPGs before, but to offer plenty of meat to tabletop aficionados too.

Each box includes everything you need for an evening of occult Egyptian noir, such as a full scenario and rulebook, 18 hand-stamped clues, a pocket tarot deck, full character sheets and pins, a large map, two sets of antique dice, and more!

See a full list of contents and see all our beautiful photos on our shop, and watch us chat through a very chill, candle-lit unboxing session here. We're only releasing 100 boxes in this first run, though if it sells out in a trice we have contingency plans ready!



For anyone who misses out - or for anyone who prefers their TRPGs digital - we're releasing a digital-only version on Thursday 18th November, on our shop, Steam, and various online RPG sites like DriveThruRPG. If you want to be notified when that's available, make sure you're signed up to our mailing list!

(The boxed edition includes the digital edition, so you can play with friends who live close and friends who live on the other side of the world.)





Celebrating The Lady Afterwards' release, Cultist Simulator is 40% off in the Tabletop Fest! This includes all DLC, and means the Anthology Edition is currently an alarmingly good deal at 55% off. Cult your hearts out!

To celebrate The Lady Afterwards and Tabletop Fest, we're releasing some freebie character sheets for D&D and 1920s Call of Cthulthu games. Download 'em here!



Steam also invited us to create a whole Cultist Simulator Game Profile, which we've designed around being actually in the House Without Walls. Check it out - and maybe buy it with your Steam points! - in the Steam Points Shop.







We’re running a developer AMA on the Weather Factory subreddit today from 6.30PM BST / 10.30AM PDT. Join us to celebrate The Lady Afterwards‘ release, ask us about That Damned Library Game and wonder at AK’s ability to avoid answering lore questions!

We’ll keep the AMA ticking over the whole weekend, so if you can’t make it today, feel free to leave a question and we’ll answer as and when.

We’ll be back in person on the subreddit on Monday 25th October at 4PM BST / 8AM PDT to wrap the AMA up. Hope to see you there!

Happy Tabletop Fest! We'll have a lot of things to reveal tomorrow which we can't talk about now. But we can invite you to chat to us live on our subreddit, for a celebratory weekend AMA!

• Starts: Thursday 21st Oct @ 6.30PM BST / 10.30AM PDT
  
• Ends: Monday 25th Oct @ 6PM BST / 10AM PDT
  

Join us to talk Cultist Simulator, BOOK OF HOURS, The Lady Afterwards, AK's game design book or whatever you damn well please. (Though please note AK doesn't answer lore questions! So no 'Who is Salt?' or 'Tell me about the Blackbone', though he could probably be induced to draw a Raw Prophet having a snooze.)

AK and I will be there in person at the start and end of the AMA, but we'll also pop in to answer questions in between - so come talk to us in real time, or leave a question for us to answer later on. Hope to see you there!

Veteran player Systemchalk - one of our earliest adopters, the man with the velvet voice, and possibly the only person who's actually beaten New Game+ - is once again tackling Cultist Simulator as part of Steam's Tabletop Fest.

We'll have a bunch of exciting things to announce at the start of his stream, so hope to see you there!

"You’ve been summoned to Alexandria, a city of coloured lights and curious histories. An old friend needs you to track down a woman. She’s probably in trouble. Probably trouble herself. Plus ça change.

Mirrors glitter at the Cecil, Berbers whisper in the El Bab Cafe, and statues keep their secrets in the cold depths of the bay. Something’s in motion, from the Arab Quarter to the Rue des Soeurs. Somewhere, the Serapeum stirs. The Hours have taken an interest.

Cherchez la femme, the saying goes. But what does the lady look for?"

Cultist Simulator's long-awaited tabletop RPG is finally here, in physical and digital form!






The limited physical edition launches on Thursday 21st October at 6PM BST / 10AM PDT. We're only making 100 boxes, so keep a sharp look out! (Though we have contingency plans if they sell out in an instant.)

We can't share many photos without spoiling the game, but here's a smattering of non-spoilery previews:



You can play (almost!) all of Cultist Simulator's characters: the Aspirant, the Bright Young Thing, the Dancer, the Detective, the Exile, the Medium, the Physician and the Priest. Every character has a unique character sheet and questionnaire, helping you flesh out your creations. The above is the Exile's questionnaire. DOES CRIME PAY?



Each box also contains eight unique character pins in silver and gold.



The events of The Lady Afterwards take place in Alexandria, Egypt in 1920-something. You'll need a detailed map of the city, its main attractions and some genuine photos from the era to get you in the zone.



Finally, about 70% of the contents of the box! I can't wait to photograph the whole thing together. For now, you can read more about The Lady Afterwards here.



We’re running an AMA on the Weather Factory subreddit on Thursday 21st October at 6.30PM BST / 10.30AM PDT. Join us to celebrate The Lady Afterwards‘ release, ask us about That Damned Library Game and wonder at AK’s ability to avoid answering lore questions!

We’ll keep the AMA ticking over the whole weekend, so if you can’t make it on Friday feel free to leave a question and we’ll answer as and when.

We’ll be back in person on the subreddit on Monday 25th October at 4PM BST / 8AM PDT to wrap the weekend up. A weekend-long AMA!!!! No, we don’t have anything better to do with our lives. 🤩



Steebies? Freams? Whatever their name, we're releasing a bunch of fun free things on Steam to celebrate Cultist's evolution into a tabletop game. Right now they're a mix of freebies, semi-freebies, a special Skeleton Songs and some news – so keep your eyes on our Steam page, developer page and/or social media. If you’re signed up to our mailing list, you’ll get it all direct to your inbox.



We've uploaded a new and only slightly borked build of Cultist Simulator, reflecting months of back-end work we've been doing to prepare the codebase for BOOK OF HOURS. It's about an 80% complete rewrite, but there are a couple of important things to note:

• The modding community has been asking for a DLL loading hook, for a long time. It’s in there, and it might even work. Check MODDING_README.TXT for details.
  
  
• There's no backwards save compatibility right now. To fix some horrible, stubborn save bugs that have been in there from the beginning, we needed to change the format completely. We'll (95% certainty) write a save format converter before it gets to the beta branch.
  

This is particularly relevant for those who've contributed to our Steam Workshop or downloaded a mod. (We have jolly modding plans for BOOK OF HOURS, and our work starts with Cultist Sim.)

The new build is on the GATE_OF_IVORY_ALPHA_UNSTABLE branch, and AK wrote a horrible blog about it talking about “a sort of quasi-digestive self-immolation” because of course he did. Please send bugs and feedback to [email protected]. Thank you! ♥



Finally, we're big on mental health (cf. “Everything is remembered somewhere” or “Living with depression that isn’t yours”). Today is World Mental Health Day, so we’re donating 100% of our revenue to mental health charity Mind.

If you’d like to donate by buying Cultist Simulator for a friend, today’s a good opportunity to make a difference!

Now... GET HYPE FOR THE LADY AFTERWARDS!

Cultist Simulator's indebted to weird fiction, and weird fiction's indebted to H.P. Lovecraft. So we're celebrating his birthday with a Lovecraftday giveaway! The prizes are:

GRAND PRIZE: Illopoly's Pack and Sibyl's Leaves fortune-telling deck (worth £80 / $110!)





2 RUNNERS UP: Adept's Bequest (worth £50 / $70!)



10 WILDCARDS: Cultist Simulator Steam keys (worth £15 / $20!)



There's 10% off everything in our shop, too, for the duration of the giveaway.

Enter via Twitter, Facebook or Instagram, with full details and FAQ here. Good luck! 🐙



In case you missed our recent updates, Lady Afterwards development continues apace. We shared a lot of Lantern-lore, which may change the way you feel about Cultist's Diarist. PEOPLE WHO DON'T WANT MANSUS-SPOILERS, DON'T HOVER OVER THE BELOW! For everyone else, Lantern-long...

…can send dreams to trouble an enemy. The better idea the fulgent has of the enemy’s nature and real-world location, the more likely they are to find them. [Each of these is a bonus from Trivial to Major.]

– If the fulgent knows what city the target is in, that’ll help. If they know their address, that’s much better. If the fulgent has visited the address, that’s best.

– If the fulgent knows what the target might dream of – their hopes and fears – that’ll help. If the fulgent knows what the target has been doing recently, who they’ve met or what they’ve eaten, that’s better. If the fulgent has met the target recently, in dreams or in the world, that’s best.

– If the target has fulfilled potential requirements for entering the Mansus – e.g. someone’s been murdered in the room recently, or if they’re a Know – then they’re more vulnerable. If they’re in the Mansus, they’re most vulnerable.

– However, if the target has fulfilled requirements for entering the Wood, they’re safer. These include cutting a lock of hair; wounding the sole of the foot; or sleeping in the presence of as few colours as possible other than white and black (including hair and clothes).

– The more light there is in the place the target sleeps, the more likely the fulgent’s sendings are to find them.

Fulgents can enter a mirror, lens or light-source in the physical world: a process that has been called ‘transinhabitatation‘ by the Church of the Unconquered Sun, ‘alighting‘ by the Tragulari, and ‘scrining‘ by the Obliviates. An inhabited item of this kind, then, is a ‘scrine‘…

+10 Fascination.

Here're some WIP photos of The Lady Afterwards limited boxed edition, as it comes together:







We'll announce an official release date for The Lady Afterwards soon. Keep your eyes peeled, and make sure you're signed up to the mailing list! Happy culting, Believers.