Unfortunately, the second wave never spawned and I was just locked in the room until I backed out to the main menu.
In this scenario, you’re supposed to fight three waves of enemies to free the victim.
For example, I got locked into a room with a sacrifice victim. That’s important to note because I did find some gameplay glitches that could completely halt my progress. Now, the build of the game I got my hands on is not the final version. Even failure means bringing back a few new things to your cultist hub, so you don’t feel roadblocked when you encounter a particularly difficult boss fight. This formula is incredibly addictive, because you’re pretty much always making progress. However, these cultists also have needs - such as hunger - that you’ll have to take care of to prevent them from leaving your commune. Your cult members can be put to work gathering resources, or they can be commanded to worship you, which generates another type of resource called Devotion, which allows you to unlock more buildings on a skill tree. You will have to start that run over again, but the penalty for death is low enough that you can feel like you’re progressing even when you die.Īnd if you rescue a poor creature that’s otherwise going to be sacrificed, you can recruit them to join your cult. If you die during a run, you will lose a percentage of the items you gained on that run, but you’ll still get to keep the rest. Yes, the goal of the game is to start and manage a cult. In between runs, you return to a hub area, where you spend your hard-earned resources building and upgrading various structures, as well as assembling your cult. There are other rooms that are designed around particular resources - one room might be rich in stone, while another one might have a ton of berries to collect. Some rooms have sets of tarot cards, allowing you to pick one to equip its benefit for the duration of the run. This part of the gameplay loop feels a little bit like The Binding of Isaac, though you’re armed with a melee weapon by default instead of a ranged one (you will get ranged abilities later on). Cult of the Lamb is a roguelite that sends you into randomly generated rooms filled with monsters.