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• MOST FUN SLAY THE SPIRE SEEDS SIMULATOR

Your cultists are ultimately the most important aspect. It will be down to you to decide how you rule over your recruits, whether through the soft touch of embrace and affection, the hard vice of oppression and obedience or a delicate mix of the two. Have yourself a dissenter, spreading opposing messages to your teachings throughout your flock? Sacrifice them to send a message to those thinking of doing the same and collect on their soul to grow your own strength.

Morale running low around the camp? Throw a dance party around a bonfire to restore +30 faith. Low on food? Performing the fasting ritual will lock your follower's hunger levels allowing you to restock. The temple will also be home to all manner of satanic rituals to gain various buffs or benefits, often to ease moments of hectic gameplay. Harvesting their faith will allow you to unlock more HP, better weapons and better curses (spells) to take on your crusades. This is your cultist's place of worship and where you will perform daily sermons in order to maintain the faith of your flock. Next on the list is building your temple. The first thing you will be tasked with building is a cooking station to clumsily prepare meals for your flock by way of a very basic mini-game which increases in difficulty as you prepare more exotic meals. To the left of the shrine is your crafting station used to build all manner of items to sustain your cult and decorate your grounds. Here is where you will welcome your latest recruits into your cult. To the right of that, you will find the summoning stone. An empty Stone Circle lies in the centre on which you will soon stand your very own shrine where your followers can worship you. Amongst the overgrown trees and rubble are a few key elements. Soon after you will be presented with the empty grounds which is to be home to your cult. This serves as a short but ideal introduction to combat and dungeon running. I'm satisfied to report that despite their vast differences Massive Monster have sown these gameplay elements together to work in unison as each one compliments the other resulting in undeniably rich and addictive gameplay that in the 20 hours it took to complete the main scenario, never once loosened its grip.Īfter the game's brief story introduction, you meet the mysterious Ratau who guides you to safety through the forest.

MOST FUN SLAY THE SPIRE SEEDS SIMULATOR

Farming/life simulator and procedural dungeon crawling. It's all of the above and more that come together to make something that is visually stunning and a world that is a pleasure to spend time in.Īs mentioned before there are two main gameplay styles.

It's more than just this though, it's the way the shadows move across the characters, the subtle animations of moving objects, the depth of field effect that embeds the 2D objects into the 3D environments, and the slight shake of the screen whenever an action is performed.

The character designs are impeccably executed, ranging from goofy cublings right up to hideous monstrosities yet all the while maintaining a level of endearing cuteness that feels on par with games like Animal Crossing or Ni No Kuni. The hand-drawn, 2D cut paper animations coupled with the dark yet vibrant and oversaturated colours walk the line between alluring and creepy. Cult of the Lamb boasts some of this year's best and most profound graphics and presentation. Trust me when I say that despite the game's simplistic-looking nature, there is a hell of a lot to contend with here. Your cult and its members live at a sanctuary that you will need to upkeep by gathering resources from dungeons, delegating jobs to your followers and looking after their health and wellbeing. All the while rescuing others from slaughter and re-educating those about your doctrines by way of violence. In order to do this, you are expected to run procedurally generated dungeons slaying naysayers and tearing down the four bishops who oppose your new master.

You are tasked with indoctrinating cute woodland animals and creatures into your cult to do your bidding, grow your following and ultimately stake your claim as the strongest and most powerful cult in all the realms. Their latest game Cult of the Lamb sees you take control of a lamb sent to the slaughter, only to be saved from abolition by a mysterious demon and sent back to the mortal realm to build a cult in his name. Yet fears of imbalanced gameplay, excessive mechanics and two extremely high benchmarks to meet haven’t scared away Australian developers Massive Monster. Many seasoned developers would chortle in the face of an indie newcomer who would dare to attempt to meld a roguelike dungeon crawler and a farming/life simulator together.