While my cult was only taking baby steps into the land of sacrifice and rituals, I was pleased to learn that the base-building side of your cutesy cult will actually offer a surprising amount of depth. So you can marry one of your followers or sacrifice one ….or, have two fight to the death.” “When you go back to your base, you kind of have all these different decisions to make,” Pearmain explains, “You can hold sermons to draw power from your followers, you can build a shrine where followers can worship, and then there’s also rituals that you can perform. It was simple survival game stuff, but Pearmain promises the base building aspect will evolve into something pretty meaty, allowing you a surprising amount of choice over how you mould your own personal brand of cult. My demo saw me using my two fleeting followers to build a stove, while commanding them to chop down trees for wood. Action levels see you recruiting new cult members by rescuing them from deadly dungeons, before returning to an RTS-style hub world where you build up your cult’s base of operations.

Much like a deranged influencer sim, Cult Of The Lamb is a game all about accruing followers. “We were inspired by things like Midsommar, and The Witch – and wanted to kind of juxtapose that vibe with our cute, colourful, art style.”Ĭult Of The Lamb.

Unsurprisingly, horror films were a huge inspiration for Cult Of The Lamb. “As soon as we had the idea of the cults, we knew we wanted to bring in horror elements as well” reveals the game’s art director, James Pearmain. The catch? It’s now up to players to start a cult in your new demonic deity’s name. As a screen-filling demon whisks us into the void, I pledge allegiance to him and my life is spared. Thankfully, as I prepare to become a literal lamb to the slaughter, I make a mate. Put in the hooves of a lamb sentenced to death, things aren’t looking great for our wool-wearing protagonist. Sporting a gorgeous paper-like artstyle that looks like Tearaway on a three-day comedown, creepy cardboard cutouts and defeated facial expressions are the order of the day. Sitting down with a 30-minute demo of the game at London’s W.A.S.D, it’s hard not to be charmed by Cult Of The Lamb. READ MORE: ‘Moss: Book 2’ review: a spellbinding fairy-tale bursting with VR magic.

Offering up a compelling blend of roguelike dungeon-crawling action and a deceptively deep base-building metagame, this is the roguelike for anyone who thought that Pikminwould work better if it was satanic. Equal parts cuddly and terrifying, Cult Of The Lamb is the latest release from Enter The Gungeon and Hotline Miami publisher Devolver Digital, and based on what I’ve played so far, it’s shaping up to be a banger. Yet in the woodland critter-starring Cult Of The Lamb, ritual sacrifice looks pretty darn adorable.

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