The Beauty Cult's NECTARMANCER

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• Announcements·21 Aug 2026Official

  MUSIC IN NECTARMANCER

  Nectarmancer has a unique world, and it needed a unique approach to music to best serve what we're creating. Join us on a quick dive into the instrumentation and music styling for the OST.SynthsThe U.D.O Super-6 is a lush binaural analog synth that has a massive stereo field, it gets used in every single track for both pads, basses and leads.Other synths used include a very real Prophet 08, and a Digitone IIDrums & PercussionA Brazilian Serdo drum gets used to help make everything sound more organic. It's a great bass drum with metal sides that can also be played.VoxTo further organify the sound, we use real vocals on all the tracks. They get pitched up and down and receive a tremendous dose of reverb and are often used as the basis for ambient tracks. We've also used actual children to record children's choirs when possible.All music is made and performed by humans on real instruments. While computers are used for mixing, the actual sound generation comes from hardware instruments.We expect the OST to be available for purchase along with the game, but we don't have any concrete announcements to make just yet.Join our Discord to playtest with us!https://discord.gg/9TUUbe3xB
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• Announcements·31 Jul 2026Official

  ALL ABOUT COMBAT - SHOOTING STUFF

  As a Nectarmancer, your survival depends on both melee and ranged combat, this post is all about some of the delectable plants you can shootSeeds = Bullets, and all the bullets in the game are unique, grown from your own plants and taking on their traits. While you can plant your seeds into the ground and grow them into more bullet factories, you'll eventually have to use them against your enemies.The Spike Shoot is a really fun piercing weapon, line up enemies and watch them get pierced.The Candle Sprig is your simple explosive weapon, while explosions start small and simple, the plant can be cultivated to have extreme room-killing explosions, explosions that don't hurt you, and pressurized explosions.The Snake Bite makes for a good spread weapon, and is great at pushing back large waves of weak enemies like plant-eaters. It's also great to trait-up with both explosives, piercing, or more projectiles/spread!Repeater Grasses function as tiny baby machine guns. They do great with Piercing, Explosive, and Gaseous traitsBreath Steal is one of the few ways to heal yourself. Hit an enemy with this seed to mark it with Breath Steal, and then Needle it for a small heal.Bounce Flowers provide lots of tactical and positioning advantages in combat and shouldn't ever be underestimated!Join our Discord to playtest with us!https://discord.gg/9TUUbe3xB
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• Announcements·15 Jun 2026Official

  PLAYTEST COMING SOON!

  We're hard at work wrapping up our Alpha milestone, and we'd like to get YOU to playtest it! We've added a new big green button to our page! Request access now and in a few weeks you'll reaping and sowing as one of the last nectarmancers ever.💖 Don & Zac @ The Beauty Cult
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• Announcements·27 May 2026Official

  All About NECTARMANCER

  Greetings from beautiful Oakland, California! The Beauty Cult is just Zac and I (Don), and we've been so fortunate to be able to dig into making this crazy game of ours. It's been a long-time coming, but we'd like to share some details about what this game is as well as some development updates.Nectarmancer is a Gardenvania, that means that you explore a big seamless open world (like Ori, not like Blasphemous), doing acrobatic combat and unlocking new abilities that help you explore new areas and incentivize re-exploration. The world map is dense, and secret-laden, which is important for making re-exploration feel good and rewarding. But that's just regular metroidvania stuff that players should expect, as a gardenvania, much of Aisa's (that's you, the Nectarmancer) combat power comes from the plants that you grow. Each seed is totally unique and can either be shot as a bullet or shot into the ground and grown into a bullet factory. If you're running through The Wilds and run into a swarm of pixies, it would make sense to just shoot your low-value seeds at them and move on. But if you're exploring a new area and stumble into a room that hits you with waves of enemies, you should plant a few high-value seeds into the ground to help replenish your stock as combat progresses. Likewise, you should carefully plan your loadouts when attempting boss fights. Additionally, plants have a list of genetic traits on them that change how they behave. The Piercing trait lets you hit multiple enemies, while the Volatility trait will create explosions on impact. When you plant a seed into the ground, the traits of that seed are passed on to its children. Nectarmancer has MANY traits, and the first skill the player unlocks, Nectarmancy, lets you add traits from your inventory to seeds. We're very happy to let the players create nukes that will clear out entire rooms (and probably kill you), as well as plants that can hack the economy with incredible Nectar production.We've been worki...
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• Announcements·16 Mar 2024Official

  NECTARMANCER @ DAY OF THE DEVS, SF!

  Hi all! We're happy to announce that we'll be bringing The Beauty Cult's NECTARMANCER to day of the devs in San Francisco. It's a free public event and there are some truly excellent indie games available for people to play. You can even come and try to win a totally sick Beauty Cult hat (it's sick). The event is Sunday March 17th, and we'd love to see you there! More Info: Day Of The Devs Information
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