Worshippers of Cthulhu Steam Charts & Stats

Finished the first part of the game, and in my view, with all its flaws, it's a great addictive game in lovecraftian themed games set. management, events, environment, the horrors, the supernatural, the evil, the madness, it's all here, in a colony of cultists. Some things are annoying ike managing housing. and satisfying all the petty needs of these cultists, specially based on things like distance to buildings. i think it gets repetitive too. but if you enjoy colony sims, lovecraftian themes, the supernatural, this is game that i think you can enjoy.

With everything this game gets right, there is one major flaw in it's design, one true sin that any game should ever make.... It's boring. It has some questionable design choices here and there. Like how you have to summon monsters to do naval fights, which isn't inherently bad but they have timed life for some reason. The npc will not stop yapping about incoming dangers and I couldn't find a way to turn that off. There are a few more choices that I don't personally enjoy that don't outright ruin the experience but that's not what kills it for me. "The killer?" you may ask, is rather simple.... Managing your people. The resources are fine, having an assortment of different islands that manufacture some resources better then others is fantastic but the people.... The goddamned people..... Each hosing building you construct houses one person. That's a design choice, one that I disagree with for the simple notion of it doesn't make the game better, it makes it more tedious. However, even that I can get past but here is the kicker. You have different tiers of resources that have to be managed by people of that tier and ONLY of that tier. If you upgrade all your people to tier 2? Then no one can work the tier 1 jobs. The problem is the same with tier 3. So, you have houses that house ONE person and you have to have people of all the different tiers..... It's a logistical nightmare, not a fun puzzle to be solved. Couple that with the fact each person has a preferred job and you have to manually move them across each island and you're left with this nightmarish abomination. Now there are other things that compound these problems further but I don't think THOSE things are a problem, they just highlight the absolute abomination that is the population management. If you had districts for each tier of population, with each building housing more then a single person then it'd be infinitely better. Maybe make it so you can set the preferred profession in the buildings so you can have the right workers on the right islands easier. However, this is not the case, it is a poorly designed nightmare that doesn't respect your time. TL;DR Poor population management options and a tiered resource system feed into a loop of endless monotony that doesn't respect your time.

As of writing this review there are 4 chapters, chapter 2 has a completion rate of 9.2% , chapter 3 of 1.9% and chapter 4 for of 1.5%. And there is a reason for that: The gameplay is just as horrible as the monsters you try to summon. The idea is great, but everything else sucks. EVERYTHING

shallow version of anno 1800 with a lovecraft gimmick. was fun drawing into peoples backs with a knife i guess.

I bought this game in a heartbeat when I found out that it existed, I fell in love with the idea of a building sim built around Cthulhu and the greater mythos. That said, the game just kind of falls short in every way. It's a building sim that leans closer to generic than inspired, it feels like it wants to be Against the Storm, but the UI and game play doesn't allow for that kind of simplicity or approach. It's a slog to get through and the rewards don't really feel "rewarding." You could argue that's the whole point of existential horror and Lovecraftian storytelling, but if Bloodborne can enlighten you and make you feel worthless at the same time, then the bar's already set pretty high as a storyteller. It was fun for maybe an hour or two, then it became monotonous and labored. I hope that this game eventually gets some QoL updates or other kind of streamlining. I'm 15 odd hours in, in the middle of chapter 3, and I started getting achievements that less than 10% of other players have gotten, and they were just basic things like "place X amount of buildings," or "kill X amount of creatures." The drop-off is very high, hopefully this game has a promising future.

Not a bad city-building time killer. I think that this game has much more potential than currently implemented, some parts of it still feel "raw" and "early-access", - but overall, I enjoyed my playthrough.

The game is... okay. It's a city builder with some RTS elements, but each chapter has a unique mechanic which can interrupt the "city builder" feel since you need to focus on the special mechanic. There is a sandbox mode as well, however. It has some fun moments but it's marred by needlessly overly complex systems which make it feel a bit tedious. The game uses the source material to good effect on occasion, I hope the dev team adds more of that in the future. It's also got a confusing problem, when you finish your objectives in a chapter you get a 'you're done' screen, you can continue on the map but any special mechanics will usually still be in effect. Confusingly you need to go back to the main menu ("the hub") to resume the story. I found this jarring each time. [spoiler]The end cutscene suddenly lost all voice over and had a very unfinished feel.[/spoiler]

everything takes too long. From the gameplay to the time it takes to load it is just a slog. (there is a reason most people don't finish the game)

Quickly becomes boring, repetitive and the waiting times stretch forever, like Cthulhu's slumber.

A shallow but decent city builder, the issues I have are with its interface and management. It's not super user friendly at this point and that is the reason for the not recommended. If the user interface is improved, I would love to change my review to 'recommended,' because this game does deserve it. It may not be the deepest or most interesting city builder, but it promises to let you inflict eldritch horrors on your enemies, and for that it delivers. I just need it to get out of its own way. PROS: aesthetic, research tree is easy to understand. The minigames vary in enjoyment. Unleash eldritch horrors on the world - at its core, that is an incredibly fun concept, and the game does deliver on it. CONS: research tree doesn't seem super deep, you're not given the tools you need to manage properly, a couple things don't make sense. The primary difficulty I've had with it so far is literally just the menus being a pain in the ass, which is.... not the difficulty I want in a game. Things I would like to see changed/fixed: - More screen overlays! I want a screen overlay that highlights levels + specializations of followers on their houses. Just different colors over their dwellings and the icon of their spec would be nice. I can barely remember my own name, I cannot be expected to remember which Zebulon Whitshitter is the one I want upgraded. - Another screen overlay showing differences in zealotry/faith generation per household would be nice. - The current differences between leveled houses are not visually distinct enough. Some of us are visually and intellectually impaired. (It's me. I'm the problem.) - It's stupid I can't move an upgraded follower into a non-upgraded home. I dont' pay anything to upgrade the home. And if I *am* having my followers glimpse beyond space and time to witness forbidden truths, why doesn't that upgrade stay after they move house? I'm not paying any resources to upgrade the house itself, and if i was, why can't I just pay that again to make two upgraded houses instead? - I want a non-paged, scrolling list of followers across all islands. Right now we have options for each individual island, which is a good start, except they're paged. Pages are bad. Pages interrupt my train of thought. I hate having to flip back and forth to keep track of how many followers of a specialization I have on multiple islands. Give me better spreADSHEETS your eldritch god demands BETTER SPREADSHEETS. - Having to manually press buttons to carve idols to gain research points is dumb. I am a cult leader. Why can't I automate this with the slave labor of my underlings? That's what I keep them around for, isn't it? From a lore perspective, the biggest issue I have is with the Cthulhu patience meter. Cthulhu is, according to the Call of Cthulhu itself, one of the "Great Old Ones who lived ages before there were any men, and who came to the young world out of the sky." Within the mythos of Cthulhu, it's arguable the Great Old Ones don't even really notice humanity or human lifetimes. He's not going to get impatient on a mortal scale. Bro can wait five more minutes while I wrangle Skibididiah into making some wagyu. However, I understand the importance of the patience meter from a gameplay perspective. I think that it would've made more sense if this meter was spun a different way, one more consistent with the mythos. For example, I think it would work as more of an "enemy awareness" or "countdown to attack" meter, and if it runs out Hastur's cronies show up and annihilate us causing an unavoidable game over. To be honest, I turned the Cthulhu patience meter off because it didn't justify itself as a logical mechanic within the lore of the game. I need your worldbuilding to be internally consistent. It's a me problem, I'm autistic like that (and in general). But I do like that they give you the option to turn it off! I totally would've quit and returned the game if the Great Old One turned into a pissbaby throwing a tantrum because he wasn't freed in the next 5-7 business days. I have some smaller lore concerns. Some of them come across as just sloppy? For example, one event has a man gone insane and whispering prayers to Dagon, who is not Cthulhu. Like, Dagon is not even the same race as Cthulhu, and we all know how fixated good ol' HP was on races. (Just look at what the cat was named.) Anyway, point being - how are we expected to summon a Great Old One if my harebrained underlings can't even pick the right cosmic fishgod? As I said above, if this game was made a bit more user friendly, I'd be happy to recommend it. The devs have made a gorgeous game and I know I just spent a lot of time on its downsides but that's because the interface is getting in the way of me having fun with ruling over a beautiful little cult in this beautiful little game.