Saturday Morning Gaming Post: The Apostle Update for Cultist Simulator
Back around Christmas time, I mentioned that Cultist Simulator was my favorite game of 2018. Well, it has since come out with a free (!!!!!) update to the game. The NewGame+ mode adds three new ways to play (after you beat the game). If you beat it to get the Enlightenment, Sensation, or Power endings, you can now play as an apostle of the guy or gal who got the Enlightenment, Sensation, or Power ending and you can help them ascend to godhood.
But the old cult broke up after the old charismatic leader entered the Mansus… and there are new enemies working in the shadows… and you still need to eat (which costs money), and study, and grow more powerful, and visit the dreamtime, and ransack old artifact sites.
It’s a completely different experience. It forces you to learn the game all over again, with new and different mechanics and new victory conditions. And you can do stuff like turn the old ransacked artifact sites into new headquarters. Which is cool.
If you enjoyed playing Cultist Simulator and then put it down, you should check it out and pick it back up and test out some of the NewGame+ games. If you’ve never played it before, it remains one of the most interesting games I’ve ever played. (If you enjoy board games with resource management, this is like playing solitaire with a tarot deck where you have to/get to deal with timers. It’s a surreal and fascinating gaming experience that is not for the faint of heart. Longer reviews available in the link above and here.)
Seriously, I would consider this game to be a bargain at full price and now that it’s effectively doubled the size of the game, it’s got even more value. (And pick up the DLC. While Enlightenment, Sensation, or Power games have a lot of overlap with each other, the Moth game has some serious divergences from those three. Well worth the three bucks.)
So… what are you playing?
(Featured image is Cultist Simulator’s promotional image.)
That game is almost as dangerous to me as the occult mysteries are to its PCs. Last time I picked it up I ended up having to make a major effort to ensure I was getting enough sleep, not starving to death, and working so I wouldn’t get fired, because it was that addictive.
So I am ambivalent about a NewGame+ mode, to put it mildly.
Just started Kingdom Hearts 2, which, unlike its predecessor, I’d never played before. Better graphics, more wacked out JRPG plotting, and a richer set of quacking war cries for Donald Duck, but there really doesn’t seem to be much to the combat. Maybe it will pick up later; the combat in the first game did.Report
In Red Dead Redemption, towards the end of the game, there is a side quest where you help a lady out. She’s had some hard luck and is in a bad spot and you give her a hand and leave her in a better place than when you first met her.
There is also a main quest. The main quest is one of dread and inevitability. One of those “it’s always darkest right before it goes totally pitch black”, kinda quests. When the dread quest gets offered to you, you have an option of swinging by the lady from the side quest first, one last time. You don’t do anything but have a small conversation. She gives you a kiss on the cheek. You tell her that you are pleased to have met her.
Then you go do the dread quest.
I’m in the middle of the dread quest now.
I want to go back to hunting deer and catching fish and playing dominoes with my friends.
But it’s too late for that.
It’s come to this.Report