Cultist Simulator News

Hey everyone! Today we’re launching our Japanese and German beta. That’s over 160,000 forbidden words localised into two totally new languages, probably with a few typos and mis-translations at least. So please: help us make these translations shiny and great!

• Navigate to your Steam library and find Cultist Simulator
• Right click and select ‘Properties…’
  
• Select the ‘BETAS’ tab in the top of the pop-up window and choose ‘gateofhorn’ from the drop-down menu
  
• Click ‘CLOSE’
  

If you weren’t on the beta branch already, you should see Cultist Simulator begin to update. When it’s finished, open the game. You should see Japanese and German in the ‘Languages’ menu.

Please remember to start a new game when you change language. If you change languages in the middle of a run… well. I hope you brought a top-tier rite and a bucket of luck.



Please email any bugs you find to [email protected]. Feel free to submit bugs of any kind (visual, mechanical, language, etc), though we ask that you only include one bug per email. If you find lots of bugs, send us lots of different emails!

Please include a screenshot of the issue if you can, so we can see the problem just as you do. Thank you! 🙏



There are likely to be problems with key-mapping in Japanese (we don’t actually know what keyboards Japanese players use), and of course there are likely to be the occasional missed reference or janky translation in both languages.



We’re releasing final Japanese and German to Steam, GOG and Humble on Thursday 29th October. So please: tell your friends and help us make Cultist Simulator shiny and joyous in time for Halloween! 👻

Happy October, everyone! This is the month of ghosts, ghouls and gruesome things, so what better time to release the EXILE DLC in simplified Chinese and Russian?!

Thank you for being so patient while we finished translating. The latest update of Cultist Simulator now includes full simplified Chinese and Russian, so you can play the whole game start to finish in either language.

To start an EXILE legacy immediately, simply click on the ‘DLC & Mods’ menu on the title screen and select ‘The Exile’. If you don’t see ‘The Exile’ as an option, check that you’ve purchased The EXILE DLC or that you own Perpetual Edition. If you still have problems, email [email protected].

If you find any bugs in the Chinese or Russian versions, please email them to [email protected]. And remember: start a new game after changing languages. If you change languages in the middle of a game, things might… explode.

Finally, tell us your favourite Chinese and Russian streamers so we can offer them Cultist Simulator keys! We’d love to grow our communities in those languages, but need your help to do it. So tell us your favourite streamers, and tell your Chinese and Russian friends that Cultist Simulator is now 100% translated and ready for them to play!

Thank you, and dream furiously. 🕯️

I've just rolled out STEAM WORKSSHOP INTEGRATION to the main branch... along with all the other beta changes since August. This means:

- improved modding framework
- Unity version update, which will probably fix various niggling technical issues
- perf improvements
- custom keybindings

Also I attached a picture of a cat to this update, because I can, and because it's his birthday.

I now have just a couple of features to add and a medium-sized list of bugs to fix before this can go to the live branch. The list of bugs will probably grow over the weekend, of course. Thanks, all, for your help so far.

A quick update for y'all from today's sprint round-up.





We're pushing Steam Workshop from beta to the main branch next week, on Thursday 10th September. Hold on to your modded hats, everyone!

We're also finally ready to release EXILE in simplified Chinese and Russian. That'll go live on Thursday 1st October.

Annnnnnd, we're also rolling out full-game Japanese and German. We're going to run a beta first to catch as many loc bugs as possible - that'll launch on Thursday 8th October. If you know anyone who speaks Japanese or German, please encourage them to pick up the game in October and help us make Cultist's translations top notch!

We'll then release full, shiny Japanese and German on Thursday 29th October, just in time for some other Halloweeny fun. 👻





They're now all designed and ready to go - just waiting on a test deck. Here are some final mock-ups, and a teaser for how the 100% definitely accurate system for predicting the future with them actually works!





They'll be up on the Church o' Merch ASAP, and I'll let you know the release date as soon as I know it.





Next sprint is the Weather Factory cats' birthday, so that's obviously the most important thing. Sulo and Chi will be TWO which is the same age as Cultist Simulator. What non-Euclidean coincidence is that?