Cultist Simulator News

Verb dropzone, smoother animation, a bunch of fixes to positioning logic. If the beta version featured your cards fleeing the board, this will discourage 'em.

The Lady Afterwards is our Cultist Simulator-inspired TRPG set in the Secret Histories, a 1920s world of apocalypse, yearning and the Hours. The boxed edition sold out in 60 seconds - and then the pre-orders we hastily put up for sale sold out in 72 hours. But the unlimited digital edition is out now, and everyone can get their hands on it with our shiny new Steam bundle!





The Lady Afterwards: Digital Edition is available as a 'Complete the set' bundle with Cultist Simulator, giving you 15% off both games. If you already own Cultist Sim, you'll just be charged for The Lady Afterwards. This is the first time a developer has ever released a digital TRPG like this on Steam, we think!





The Lady Afterwards: Digital Edition includes everything you need to play this Cultist Simulator tabletop RPG, all in PDF form. Specifically, that's:

★ The Secret Histories Rule Book, a ~50 page TRPG scenario set in 1920s Alexandria

★ The Lady Afterwards Game Runner’s Guide, a ~30 page mechanics primer

★ 18 clues, including telegrams, lovers' notes, photographs and more

★ 8 customisable character sheets with personalised questionnaires and Egyptian connections

★ A Game Runner's Journal to keep track of players, game-states and evidence

★ A full-colour A3 map of contemporary Alexandria with real 1920s photographs

★ Access to a custom-built mood-music playlist of 1920s songs



A lot of love went into making this - we hope you like it! ♥



AK wrote a recent update on Cultist Simulator's new gateofhorn beta branch update, and we've been quietly revamping the BOOK OF HOURS roadmap to give an accurate idea of what development you can expect in 2022. We'll release that roadmap in the next few weeks, so keep your eyes peeled...

I've been reworking the whole Cultist Simulator codebase so I can use it in BOOK OF HOURS too. And also so that I can provide some additional modder support, and fix a rare but nasty bug in the old save system.

If you've been paying close attention, you'll have seen updates being released on to the alpha branch (aka gateofivory), very quietly, like a semi-retired widower-spy releasing messenger-bats at twilight. These updates are now on the beta branch (gateofhorn). Here's what you should know if you want to go in there:

1. The card placing system is completely reworked. Tokens now have a shadow that shows you where they'll go. Verbs won't move cards out of the way. There are some graphical rough edges which I still need to smooth out.
   
2. there's a new, more robust save format that should be resistant to the very occasional save corruption in the older version. It should transparently import your old save at game start. It will keep your old save, renamed, so you can always revert to the main branch.
   
3. there's an improved console and some new modding features, in particular the ability to load your own custom binaries. Which is very exciting for those into that sort of thing, and will sound so much blah to everyone else, I know.
   
4. Bugs. The usual beta health warning. There'll be all kinds of oddness with localisation updates until I merge everything back in.
   

any questions? one at the back there? is there any new content? no, sorry! This is the big disadvantage of loc: the content is basically frozen unless we want to annoy China, Germany, Japan and Russia by not translating new content, or go through a four-strand loc process every time. Hang on for BOOK OF HOURS, which is all new content.

It would also be remiss of me not to mention that Lottie's extraordinary one-shot Cultist Simulator RPG, [i[The Lady Afterwards, sold out in physical form almost instantly but that the digital/pdf version will be available from November 18th... in the usual TRPG PDF places but also here on Steam. There'll be a Tabletop Bundle with Cultist Simulator - a complete-the-set bundle, so if you already own CS, you can pick up a copy of TLA without paying for CS twice.

Dream furiously, all of you -

AK

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!