IIRC the run where you don’t start with any health, you’re not meant to have any.
You can create health by studying with 2 vitality, but I believe you only get vitality from using Health in another action.
IIRC the run where you don’t start with any health, you’re not meant to have any.
You can create health by studying with 2 vitality, but I believe you only get vitality from using Health in another action.
Oh.
OH!
Yeah that’s exactly what I meant…certain starting professions have no health AT ALL…and I die by illness.
Incidentally it was BY FAR my best run…my eyes where like O_O all the time after ‘the thing’.
Not sure how to survive but I guess there are other methods to prevent illness?
Not sure about preventing it, but you can treat illness by dreaming of the illness (resting) and throwing some money at it (for medicine).
Dread has been my nemesis. Can never time the counter right.
I’m on the fence about how I feel about this one, but I don’t think I can stop until I’ve unpicked all the mechanics. I might be here a while.
I’m doing my best to not watch a video, but really enjoying the stumble so far. Discovering the pause button made things far easier, at least.
I don’t know how to do anything.
Congratulations, I think that makes you a Cultist Simulator expert.
This thing sounds completely mental.
It just explains nothing. Confusion through obfuscation.
There are a couple of vids on YouTube that explain the mechanics without spoiling anything.
[This might be considered a victory]
Well played game. I’m not even mad.
So hard and complex. I used to play on the plane, but was a week between games and I lost continuity
Cultist simulator (despite the lame name) is one of the best and most original games I played in recent years.
It really clicked with me.
Besides Elder Sign Omens (a completely different game) it’s also the best Lovecraftian game I ever played.
Everything in the game, from the cards, to the sounds, to the music, to the vagueness of the initial playthroughs set perfectly the mood of a early 900 foggy London or Boston.
Yesterday I almost won (or so I think, I was SO CLOSE), the play through lasted 30-40 mins.
I started razor focused on some key elements I knew from previous playthroughs would get me on ‘something’ while building up stats and getting all sort of items meanwhile.
Felt like an RPG. Almost no verb was left alone, timers always active (you lately discover, or so I think…never won mind you, it’s way easier to build up in early stages than in late ones).
To people interested in the game, don’t get discouraged by the ‘game tells you nothing’ comments.
It’s only partially true.
After 3-4 deaths (a matter of 1-2 hours, maybe less) the mechanics are pretty evident and the game DOES explain things in the descriptions and in the card icons.
Yes…it doesn’t tell you precisely: You need this to do that etc… but that’s part of the game.
I’m the ‘You find a magical sword that seems to do something’ more than ‘You find a +4 magical sword that gives +8 only against goblins at full moon’ type of gamer, so YMMV.
In the early phases there isn’t instant death so the game lets you experiment a bit, and find what does what.I don’t have great memory but if I managed to understand how to build up health, passion, reason, or complete rites…everyone can do it.
After the initial phase, and after some events happen, the narrative really takes the stage, and it’s pretty glorious.
Some advices from a total newbie (I didn’t even know about the game existence till 10 days ago):
Just my two cents…back dying.
If you’re feeling like you’re stuck on a hamster wheel, you need to experiment. Looking stuff up undermines the design.
I ran into the same issues playing on PC. I’ve found the mobile version helps me maintain continuity because I play more often. The UI isn’t ideal on a phone, but it’s definitely usable. I just pause more often than I might otherwise to look at a bunch of different cards before making a move.
Ok I’m intrigued. Downloading!
Just scored my very first (minor) victory.
I feel like a little Cthulhu.
What a game.
I had a technically super successful start with loads of money, health, books, lore, skills, and yet terrible luck actually starting a cult. Absolutely swimming in resources and yet barely able to get off the ground.
I just did my most succeful unsuccessful run.
Tried THREE times to pass the Stag Door but couldn’t find the right answer to the riddle, despite 3 successful expeditions and many injuries and dead cultists. Tried even to cross the Woods but lost my sanity there.
I was trying to recover and find the answer to the riddle in an ancient monks monastery, but apparently killing everyone there wasn’t good with the Bureau.
Still, I learned SO MUCH in this run it’s ridiculous.
Huge flight tomorrow, and thanks to you yahoos I bought this. Hope the plane has charging ports.