The latter doesn’t sound very helpful but this generates Devotion.

Each cult member that you recruit will contribute to the running of your settlement, be it by gathering resources, helping with maintaining the farm or spending their entire day worshipping a shrine of the lamb. The bosses you beat at the end of a run can also be converted to your cause once defeated. Once all of the enemies in the room have been dispatched, you can walk up to the rescued character and send them back to your settlement. As you’re crusading, you will come across potential cult members in need of rescuing from a group of zealots. This is where the town management and survival sim aspect enters the fray. Once you return from a crusade, either by beating a boss or getting beaten down yourself, you’ll end up at your cult’s settlement. The combat is actually quite great and since the runs are pretty short, it never feels overwhelming. These cards grant buffs to the lamb for that run and can actually increase your chance of survival should you pull a particularly powerful card. You’ll also encounter a tarot card reader who offers you the chance to draw one card each time you meet them. Most of the time, these seem to have better damage output but in the event of it having similar stats, it may have a special perk such as poisoning struck enemies. While you do start off with a fairly basic arsenal, there are opportunities to pick up better weapons towards the end of a dungeon. This all depends on your chosen difficulty, however, so if you’re finding it too easy, you can definitely dial it up a bit. Plus, if you do happen to perish during a run, the punishment isn’t too severe as you only lose a few units of your collected loot. The combat is pretty satisfying though and strikes a good balance of providing a decent challenge while not being overwhelming. They never feel too long and are great for collecting loot, which can then be spent on developing your settlement. In the early going, a single run can take up to ten minutes and may stretch up to fifteen minutes once you’ve defeated a prophet or two. During your crusades, you’ll encounter paths which can lead to a new follower, health drops or spots to forage for resources, depending on your choice.

You also have the ability to dodge, allowing you to roll through attacks, which is indispensable for avoiding taking damage. The roguelike part of the game is fairly standard fare: you enter a dungeon of sorts equipped with a melee weapon and curse with limited use and must defeat the enemies in each room across a map that is randomly generated. The best part is that these play into each other very nicely. When it comes to the gameplay, Cult of the Lamb is a combination of an action-adventure roguelike and a town management and survival sim. It’s not a bad thing though since the gameplay is excellent and the little bits of the story does a good job of keeping you engaged. Through interactions with characters and the heretic prophets, you get to learn more about the world and past conflicts, however, it does take a bit of a back seat to the gameplay. The story is fairly intriguing from the get-go and unravels slowly over the course of the game. Shortly after escaping, the lamb settles at the ruins of an old temple to start their cult and ultimately, defeat each of the heretic prophets. Upon dying, it appears before a strange deity known as “The One Who Waits”, who tasks the lamb with starting a cult in their name before reviving them. Brought before four heretic prophets, the lamb is the last of its kind and is sacrificed. Cult of the Lamb sees you playing as the titular lamb, who’s in a bit of trouble.

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