Seeing players build and maintain their own sinister cult comprised of woodland animals, the different possibilities and avenues available to the player are practically endless. James Pearmain, the Art Director for Cult of the Lamb, recently spoke with Game Rant to highlight the different ways in which players can choose to lead their cult, both good and evil, and how these choices directly impact gameplay.
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Good Versus Evil in Cult of the Lamb
Despite the consistently sinister themes and aesthetics that run throughout Cult of the Lamb, the gameplay is not limited to leading your flock through fear and intimidation. James Pearmain stressed the importance that the developers placed on ensuring the game had this variety of approaches, with the ethos in which a player chooses to lead altering how a cult develops and how followers regard the player.
Dealing With Wayward Cult Members in Cult of the Lamb
With how a player’s choice to instill fear or hope within their cult directly impacts how the cult advances, certain approaches are predictably not going to sit well with every single cult member. As the core tenets of the cult shift and adapt with the player’s decisions, some followers may become disgruntled and begin following “false prophets.” While not having to be identified via a Town of Salem-esque mechanic of social deduction, how the player deals with these led-astray cult members will have great influence on the cult as a whole.
As you progress through the game you will set new doctrines for your cult, and be given a choice between 2 different doctrine unlocks. Will you choose the wedding ritual and marry a follower, or the ritualistic fight pit and have 2 followers battle to the death? Will you choose the ability to inspire your followers and have them generate more faith, or the intimidate ability and scare them into working harder? The decisions that you make will help determine what kind of cult leader you become.
The range of gameplay that these unique mechanics foster is one of the most attractive elements of Cult of the Lamb, and one of the core features that set the title apart from other roguelikes. With how bold the merging of two relatively far-apart genres already is, the sheer level of craftsmanship and detail that has been put into both of them within Cult of the Lamb has predictably made the game extremely popular among roguelike fans.
Cult of the Lamb is available now for PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.
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