Cultist Simulator

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• Patch Notes·7 Oct 2025Official

  Update 2025.8.f.4 "FULGENTIUS"

  2025.8.f.4 FULGENTIUSFixed a bunch of Steam Deck issues that slowly accumulated over time (and resulted in Steam Deck version becoming effectively unplayable).In-game input hints now properly update once the relevant keybinding changes.Consistent font size for all input hints.The Mansus screen can be navigated with the keyboard.Fixed some errors in Russian localisation.Fixed the incorrect display of certain alphabetic characters.Unity security update.So this is another round of Chel's usual crypt-keeper updates. But the headline points are(a) Steam Deck controls now work properly again, sorry! - and(b) an apologetic security update from Unity!--I'll talk briefly about the security update, because you've probably seen, like me, a steady flow of updates in your Steam library, and most people are a bit vague about what it entails.The short version: it's a vulnerability that seems to have been in Unity since 2017, but no one seems to have noticed or used it because it's pretty niche. So you probably dont have much to worry about even in unpatched games. The long version: I'm not a cybersecurity bloke, but broadly as I understand it, here's how it worked. There were command line flags in any game built with Unity that could be used to tell your game to load arbitrary code, for example:cultistsimulator.exe -overrideMonoSearchPath "C:\\somefolder\\ransomware.dll" Of course someone has to (a) get the code on to your machine or a local network path, then (b) convince you to run the relevant command line, which isn't straightforward. But on Windows, it's quite easy to register an application to open any URL in a specified format, like thissteam://getSteamToDoSomeConfigActionSo attacker tricks you into (a) registering "cultist://" as a schema and then (b) gets you to click a link like thiscultist:// -overrideMonoSearchPath "aSimpleHttpURLWouldntWorkButAttackerCouldPotentiallyGetCreativeToMakeYouDownloadAFIle"Windows tells Cultist to start running and supplies the -overrideMono...
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• Announcements·5 Jun 2025Official

  Spanish and French OUT NOW!

  "Somehow I can read the words in sufficiently bright light… There's something about the sounds that sharpens the soul." {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/31397842/2b7d60e52f3838c814554c363194310da223af35.png Like the title says: Cultist Simulator and all DLC is now fully playable in beautiful, beta’d French and Spanish! Thank you so much to everyone who helped test the game in either language over the last month. We really appreciate it. We’re running a Daily Deal on Cultist Simulator - our deepest ever discount of 75% off - to welcome any new players who’d like to peel back the skin of the world. So if you know any French or Spanish speakers - or simply any likely cultists who haven’t yet dared to try this game - please spread the word! https://store.steampowered.com/app/718670/Cultist_Simulator/ For everyone else, we are *also* running a flash sale on the merch shop this week, meaning you can get The Lady Afterwards (the Cultist Simulator TRPG), the Tarot of the Hours and many other occult delights for 30% off all week. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/31397842/0e8fb0302a413faa42b1c576869065bdf7174d95.png Enjoy, and thanks again! To any new players just beginning their journey to the House Without Walls, remember: “Each hour has its colour. Each flame has its fuel. Dream furiously.” Love, Alexis and Lottie
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• Announcements·30 May 2025Official

  The Skeleton Light

  "It's not a loop - it's a spiral!" That's Alan Wake, in Alan Wake 2. If you try to attribute the quote in the normal way, you get this: "It's not a loop - it's a spiral!" - Alan Wake, Alan Wake 2 which looks ineluctably like a typo. Anyway, spirals. Tomorrow is the seventh anniversary of the release of Cultist Simulator. A couple of thoughts about how we got here from there, and how we got there from somewhere else. When I started making Cultist, I'd never coded anything in Unity at all. hadn't done any actual coding since I built the Fallen London CMS (once nicknamed 'Jonathan' and later rechristened StoryNexus). Once that was up and running, I focused on writing interactive narrative inside that CMS. Which did have loops, ifs, variables, a lot like a programming language - but a very soft-cornered, simple, limited one. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/31397842/7332344dc49616e9c7e256ed4722a517e823c513.jpg It occurs to me that it might seem odd for a programmer to go from using a versatile and powerful programming language to using a soft-cornered, simple one. One reason is that I wanted, from the start, to build a system that let a team work on expanding a big organic narrative - hence 'storylets' - and I knew that most people who wrote for Fallen London wouldn't be programmers. But there are two other reasons I want to talk about. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/31397842/8f55699b63712060abe064c11f6c79dffefa359b.jpg The first is that I like the player to be able to build a mental model of what's going on inside the game. Game mechanics can be poetic, in the way a skeleton watch is poetic. If the framework is simple, or even elegant, you can make that poetry visible by making it visible through an interface that works like clear glass - or at least a translucency through which you can see the glow of differently coloured lights. The second is that the constant shift back and forth, between the writer-designer's stance and the coder's stance, makes one's brain ache. Ambiguity, surprises, the u...
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• Patch Notes·21 May 2025Official

  Small loc fixes

  - Some beta Spanish loc fixes - Fixed font on Chinese menu screen proems
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• Announcements·1 May 2025Official

  Spanish and French available in beta

  “The language is knotty, poetic, wilful. It'll take some untangling." Hello cultists! It’s been a while, but we’re back with our promised new translations for Cultist Simulator. The game and all its DLC are now fully available in French and Spanish. Both languages are currently in beta here on Steam, and we’ll release them fully (i.e. tell Steam French and Spanish are **officially available**) early next month, after we’ve had some time to test them against the scariest Foe there is: YOU. From today’s update, anyone whose OS is set to use French or Spanish will automatically have their chosen language selected when they load up Cultist Simulator. But anyone can select any language from the ‘Languages’ button on the main menu. (So French and Spanish speakers can always switch back to the original English if they prefer, too.) {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/31397842/229c5b36d8bf52cafa526410cb5d2242c2e8ea2d.png Players are the best translators because so much of Cultist Simulator depends on beautiful language and specific, referential lore. So if you are fluent in either French or Spanish, we’d love you to play the game in its new form and let us know if there are any oddities or errors. If you find any typos or mistakes or have any other feedback, please send them to support@weatherfactory.biz. There may occasionally be matters of opinion (for example, which specific translation is the most appropriate for an original English term), but player feedback from people who really get the game and the lore is always incredibly useful. Thank you! The beta will last for one month, before launching fully in early June. Thank you for your patience, and French and Spanish speakers, we hope you approve!
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