Worshippers of Cthulhu Steam Charts & Stats

Fun city builder game. Just don't expect the richness of the "Anno" series. Right now there is just not enough going on while you either wait for ressoureces to pour in for the rituals, so most of my time is actually spend idling...which is just not fun. I sincerely hope for more stuff to do besides the redundant city management which gets very micro intensive in the late game (e.g. giving each pilgrim his associated special job). I am acutally not quite sure what the game wants to be. For a city builder the color palette and building variations are just not interesting enough. For a lovecraftian game, there is not enough interaction with the dark gods.

They had me with the name Cthulhu! It has a great depth of the lore, nice graphics and good mechanics. And it seems they've spent great deal of care and time to artworks and stories too. If you're a Cthulhu follower, this one should be in your top 3 Cthulhu games.

seen it on a stream once and since I am a huge fan of occult-like games, I had to try this! I am not disappointed, story is quite fun and I enjoy the ability to zoom in and see life.

I really like it, it's nice and chilled and the graphics and atmosphere are really good. I found it quite challenging as someone that hasn't played Anno or anything like that but the game does for the most part explain everything clearly. The ritual markings are a cool feature and the third person sacrifice mini game were something I did not expect, but as high priest it's good to take charge. Worth picking up.

So far so good for early access. I'll update this review after the full release to encompass my thoughts on it. The gameplay, stylization, and world building is amazing in this one. The city builder gameplay almost reminds me of "Against The Storm", where you are racing against the clock (optionally in this game) to appease a higher power and meet their expectations, or suffer their wrath, plus it does actually have RTS elements, although in a limited form like "Kingdoms and Castles". Your people even have a cool mechanic where they level up in the job they specialize in (which you can choose at will by carving a symbol onto their flesh) and it makes them produce more money (Faith) and work slightly quicker. There are definitely some pretty obvious hall marks of being a pre-release game, like how the prophet guy that acts as your tutorial looks like something out of an old 2000's game, and some other strange models. But I wouldn't worry about that, models are easily changable and honestly, thankfully low on their priority list. Unlike most companies, these devs listen to their community's feedback, and also seem to have a concise action plan to add on content, then fix the bugs, and rinse and repeat until they finish the story line, then go back and polish the rest of the game. It's so refreshing to see, when most companies nowadays try to either flat out ignore their own player base, or get those development steps mixed up, and gaslight themselves into thinking that's how it should be. Most of the quality of life in this game has been either from community ideas, or complaints. Personally, my only complaint is since each house can only have one person, you run out of space stupidly fast with housing, would like to see maybe a 4x4 house that can have two people, and a 5x5 that can have 4 in the future or something, for a truly monstrous city, with hundreds to worship The Fallen One.

is fun but majority of the islands you have will just be houses and houses and guess what, more houses

This game is super addictive. A bit strong in some points, like carving runes in the back of followers, but I am really enjoying it! I cannot wait to see the finished game!

I like the game overall, but it is very much still under development with features being added and new campaign missions being developed. It is very similar to Anno but heavily stripped down. I love the atmosphere of this game and its research mechanics. You change what your worker's specialty is by carving a symbol into their back, for example. I also like that the campaign characters are contemptuous to underlings and deferential to superiors. The events are delightfully spooky (I got the dog achievement). I'm curious about where the story will lead, as the campaign is currently not finished. The graphics are beautiful. When I list these many criticisms below, it's something for the developers to notice and work on, not deal breakers. That said, I think my biggest criticisms are: -no permanent naval units unless you use custom settings --don't have to be combat vessels, just something that isn't on a timer --collecting resources in the water --colonizing vacant islands -low faith (currency) generation and high costs just pad out the game time -Military units (horrors) --You have 4 options for units at this time --have rising costs as you keep summoning the unit (which you'll have to do) --continually lose health --you don't really need high population caps. 2-3 waves of 2-3 horrors will win most battles/invasions, since enemies don't rebuild --the unit that is described as "fast" is slower than the unit that is described as "slow"; the UI should be fixed. -Ceremonial Hall --Apparently no effect from the color of powder you choose for the immolations --Being able to visit the sacrifice area in 3rd person feels a little pointless at this time ---add customization options in 3rd person ---place to modify your cult's characteristics/beliefs in the future? -Combat --only entails the destruction of coastal defenses and naval battles, like Anno --require you to mass resources and launch an overwhelming assault, then wait a while before attacking again ---fits with the theme of an insular cult only striking when advantageous, but it'd be nice to have more options --land invasion or mass psychosis of inhabitants would be cool ---tentacles sabotage your islands and you fix the problems by making choices to get rid of the tentacles. Having a dedicated building, like a police station, to fight them automatically would be nice -The second mission in the campaign has --the only reward for conquering all islands was an ambiguous cutscene ---would've been nice to stop getting raided, or get a huge faith payout -Edicts --tend to have permanent effects that aren't defined numerically (IE: edict increases faith generation and consumption of resources, but neither is quantified) --option to spend resources to undo edicts in the future? -Supply Chain --Does not specify inputs/outputs for buildings until built -Patron --the only patron you get is Cthulhu and you have to maintain his patience or you lose ---Yes, I read the name of the game --I'd like an "Age of Mythology" patron mechanic that lets you choose different gods for different gameplay styles/perks ---Different campaigns in the future?

Worshipers of Cthulu. MEH. Best part of the game is carving symbols on the backs of NPCs. The rest of the game doesn't inspire, it's the same rehash of "have food, wood, and special buildings", and solve quests and do things to appease the dark gods. Whatever.

Great game, developers update it constantly.