Thread 714763440

Is it good?

No. I wish it were tho.

>>714763440 (OP)
Meant for women who usually only play Solitaire or other windows free games

Yeah, once you understand the mechanics.
It takes a couple of tries to have a good run.
I'm too ADHD brained to play the game as intended, I plan a route and try to replicate it using the lore I've learned.
I like that game, it carried me through some sleepless nights.

It's fun for one run, then you move on to Exile.

>>714763440 (OP)
I prefer the sequel Book of Hours since it's laid back and chill.

>blue table in a pitch black room
>fill it with little cards to micromanage
Boy howdy I sure feel like I'm a cultist making my own cult and summoning horrors and evading the law

>>714764150
Its just boring, there are no ways to lose no time limit nothing, just Minecraft of stacking cards

>>714763440 (OP)
it's awful

>>714763440 (OP)
It's great, but why would you ask the question here? Nobody on /v/ plays games. Certainly nobody here plays CS.

>>714764627
I'm not playing it because I need a thrill from a card game of all things. It's relaxing to make a pot of tea and sort books.

>>714764150
Incredibly boring

>>714765295
But I love CS, 1.6 was the best

>>714763440 (OP)
of the games with this gameplay style, this is probably one of the worst. Part of that is that it was one of the earlier examples and other games learned a bit from its mistakes, but a bigger part of it is just that the devs aren't very good

>>714765339
You could just have a tea and sort books by going to work in library and getting paid for it in real life

>>714765339
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1574580/Strange_Horticulture/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2885870/Strange_Antiquities/

>>714763440 (OP)
no because the game expects you to constantly spin plates to survive while you figure out the fun stuff.
and then in some cases if you spin the plates too well you lose in a separate way.

>>714763440 (OP)
it's fun but it takes too much time. I have played it seriously multiple time but I only learn so much in one 8 hour sitting then I stop for the day and forget everything until the next time and have to start over again...
I have 26 hours in the game and I never succeeded as I always have to start from scratch...

>>714763440 (OP)
It's fun to start with and figuring out all the secrets and mechanics. But end game is miserable and tedious. Once you know what you are doing the game is basically pointless. Don't know why they even bothered with DLC characters.

the lighthouse institute shit fucking sucks, I'm going to grow grey hairs waiting for enough incidents to happen to get all these retards inspired

>>714765538
What did you think my day job was?
>>714765793
Art style isn't nearly as good. Thanks for the recs though.

>>714765958
just occured to me that I should probably take notes about interactions instead of hoping that I eventually remember everything

>>714763440 (OP)
It's one of those games where half the fun comes from figuring it out, then once you do know what to do it just feels like a checklist.

Anyone here play the Exile Apostle mods (Apostle Obturant, Proterant, Contemnant)? They look insanely well made, are they good?

>>714763440 (OP)
Cat Best girl

Sometimes I want to play this game again. Then I remember the book grind.
And then I remember the motherfucking influence grind/juggling to close the game out.
I wish this game was better. It's like 2/3rds there.

>>714766974
Shit's so close yet so far. I wish it were more like a "cult simulator" than a cultist one tho.

>>714766974
You don't actually need more than the library's books to beat the game, influence juggling is annoying though, glad he learned at least that much for the next game.

It is extremely unique and interesting. It doesn't always hit the mark, but I loved it. If you lose the game in the endgame multiple times (or replay the game often), the flaws might become pretty obvious

>>714766362
it's cringe "le ebil nazis" shit

I reached the point where only thing I could figure out is either grinding higher levels of lore cards, going on raids and beeing on brink of going insane/getting arrested
I dont get it

>>714763440 (OP)
I tried this steaming hot pile of shit thinking it would be a Underhand (goated mobile game) copy, and got the most complicated and boring shit ever

>>714765430
cs2 would be good if not for the vast amounts of cheating shitters

>>714767720
At a certain point in a standard playthrough you reach the point where yeah you are basically grinding lore cards and trying to get higher tiers of raids. But the ascension rituals aren't too pricey and are generally easy to do without have maxed out lores. You are likely at the point where you can complete the game if you just started going for it.

>>714763440 (OP)
/v/ tricked me into getting the one with the books, whatever it was called, it's so boring and tedious I accidentally went over 2h playtime trying to get ANYTHING to happen and couldn't get a refund.

Oh snap they made a tendie simulation game?

>>714763440 (OP)
If you want to play a game where you simulate being a cultist, no not really.

If you want to play a game where you simulate micromanaging a spreadsheet, then sure it’s ok

>>714767880
You can beat the basic victories without even starting a cult if you know the shortcuts, the majority of stuff you can do is just making the process simpler.

>>714767880
so entire point is to grind higher lore card to ascend to next levels, repeat until you beat the game?
...Im fine with not finishing it

>>714763440 (OP)
No it's a fucking shit game
The lore is fucking cool but you are better off finding a quest using it
The sequel is leagues better but not exactly a good game either

>see cool promo art on steam featuring a dark, edgy woman
>look inside
>it's always some fucking card game, boring strategy game or a visual novel

I pretty much agree with everyone that the game isn't good but I wish it were because it has the setting, atmosphere and lore is great.
Did everyone see that they're making their version of Disco Elysium? I'm quite hyped because I think they've got great material to work with.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2915730/Travelling_At_Night/

>>714764229
> I have literally zero imagination

(You)

The first time I beat Cult Sim I didn't know how to summon, so it seemed like I was just a schizo convincing a bunch of guilable people into breaking into warehouses and archeological sites.

>>714768597
>I defend shit because I'm a contrarian on /v/
I can imagine a better UI that's for fucking sure

>>714768484
Book of hours just left me pining for a more realized strategic layer from cult sim, so I'm not terribly hopeful for this one.
I also thought DE was shit but you're not allowed to say that on /v/
Hopefully they can deliver something cool regardless.

>>714768395
you should still give it a try, despite being a card game the lore, atmosphere and presentation is unironically great, one of my favorite OST's

>>714768739
Go on then

>>714766623
>Half the fucking endings where you romance some bitch in the cult has you get cucked
What did they mean by this?

>>714763440 (OP)
All games are time wasting sims but this one is the worst. Sadly you only learn that 3/4 throughout the game. Never finished. Literally went outside and had a walk and that was the right decision.

>>714763440 (OP)
It is good. It is incredibly grindy tough.

>>714768484
artstyle is actively draining the testosterone out of me
how could a man play this ?

>>714768643
lmao

For a game designer, Alexis Kennedy is great at designing everything but the gameplay itself. It's just different varieties of slow grinding loops and playing extra safe because every 5th option you take has something with random run-ending consequences that there's no way to foresee (he can go get FUCKED for the worms curse). However once you learn where the bad stuff is, you just grind and prepare then cruise through everything. Felt it with Sunless Sea, felt it with Cultist Simulator, didn't feel it with Book of Hours but that's because that game had no player tension whatsoever. Really a shame because the lore is interesting enough even Chinks ripped it off for their gacha games, but every time I load up one of his games, I suddenly remember the gameplay fucking sucks and the beginning of every single one is just grindgrindgrindgrind.

>>714763440 (OP)
Exile is the only good part of it. The rest of the game is just ass

>>714768643
>want to make a cool demonic cult
>end up just making a regular money laundering cult instead
many such cases

>>714769091
They have testosterone to lose and then some. You're just low test, so every last drop is actually important to you.

>>714769883
Hard to argue against that.

>>714769678
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcBYZ-rpO-Y

>Can't into gameplay
>Not even little, like The Horror at Highrook game or Mansions of Madness or any fucking board game for that matter
Maybe you should play some board games, Alexis, and see what works

>>714770482
>He thinks Alexis cares about fun gameplay

Game mechanics are merely a tool to create a world and to tell a story
Now go back to working at Glover & Glover, wagie.

>>714771329
Alexis should care about gameplay if he's going to make videogames due to his obvious inability to string a narrative along long enough to write a novel

>>714763440 (OP)
It just has too much grinding and micromanaging in it to be enjoyable.

>>714764229
>I'm in my own room, watching colorful pixels on a screen and pressing buttons
Boy howdy, this "videogame" thing sure is fun!

>>714763440 (OP)
The first time I played it I got stuck in a loop working minimum wage at a library and eventually died of pneumonia, 10/10

>>714767720
The raids are easy and effectively risk free once you've gathered most of the cultists, and they're where you get the vast majority of your progression and rewards. What were you struggling with on them?

>>714769310
The gameplay is the best part of both Cultist Simulator and Sunless Sea.
The whole thing that ascends his writing is that the gameplay directly ties into what the lore and story is. In CS you are an occultist unearthing obscure and dangerous knowledge, and you as a player accomplish this by accumulating obscure and dangerous knowledge of the weird and unintuitive ways the game works, and how you can subvert and manipulate it to your advantage. At first because you know nothing and the rules of the game seem random and frustrating, you can die or go insane at any moment. Eventually you learn to understand it and break the game over your knee, at that point it contains literally no threat whatsoever.