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Seize forbidden treasures. Summon alien gods. Feed on your disciples. Cultist Simulator is a game of apocalypse and yearning. Play as a seeker after unholy mysteries, in a 1920s-themed setting of hidden gods and secret histories.
720 hourly samples, with the daily peak drawn over them. Weekends are shaded.
104 months, December 2017 to September 2026. The highest number of people in the game at once, each month, on a time axis -- a gap in the record stays a gap.
The highest number of people in the game at once, each month. Four, because four is as far back as the source keeps anything finer than one figure a month.
31 days, each one the highest figure that day. The source keeps no hourly detail this far back. Weekends are shaded.
31 days as the curve, each the highest figure that day. Behind it, 438 hourly samples from 13 Aug, which is as far back as the source keeps every hour. Weekends are shaded.
12 days as the curve, each the highest figure that day. Behind it, 282 hourly samples. Each dip is a night. Weekends are shaded.
Cultist Simulator was released on 31 May, 2018.
| Language | Full audio |
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| English | |
| Simplified Chinese | |
| Russian | |
| German | |
| Japanese | |
| French | |
| Spanish - Spain |
A blank audio cell means full audio was not marked in the returned language list.
83 achievements in total.
50 developer announcements, May 2022 to Oct 2025 · times in UTC
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…
AK"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…
Arabella Dusk"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…
Arabella Dusk- Some beta Spanish loc fixes - Fixed font on Chinese menu screen proems
Patch notes“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…
Arabella DuskFirst things first: Cultist Simulator is 50-70% off as part of the Lovecraftian Days sale, so now's a great time to get any DLC you haven't yet tried, or to encourage a would-be cultist to take the plunge into the invisible world. For those…
Arabella Dusk"The language is knotty, poetic, wilful. It'll take some untangling." AK and I are currently focused on Travelling At Night, the last of our Secret Histories games. But we still love Cultist Simulator - the one that started it all - and…
Arabella DuskMerry Christmas, everyone! We're rounding off the year with a live AMA on the Weather Factory subreddit, starting in about half an hour. Come talk to us about anything Cultist Simulator, Secret Histories, what's really underneath the Weary…
Arabella DuskMajor news! We're announcing our next game, set in - and probably our last in - the Secret Histories universe. Meet Travelling At Night, a dialogue-driven choices-matter combat-free CRPG in the tradition of isometric greats like Disco…
Arabella Dusk"Chitinous cities embrace the Change, or struggle against plagues of leaf and amber..." AK here. It still tickles me how few people realise Weather Factory is literally just two people (plus, ofc, trusted freelancers). I answer support…
Arabella Dusk"Serena and Azita discuss the exploits and the disappearance of the Diarist, the Lantern-long who as a mortal was named Lars Westergren. 'He was a monster,' Serena acknowledges, 'but he was our monster.'"…
Arabella Dusk"The Wood opens around me, but with my new eyes, I see another path now..." OK, this quote from Cultist Simulator is possibly one of the grimmest things AK ever wrote in the game (the 'Marinette ending' from The Dancer DLC. IYKYK). But I am…
Arabella DuskChel's patch notes: Fixed an Apostle legacy bug that made it impossible to heal followers wounded by an enemy Long - but only if you were playing a localized (non-English) version of the game. No words enough to convey how hard the Devil…
Patch notesFirst things first: Cultist Simulator is today's Daily Deal, at a deepest-ever (and frankly insane) 75% off. Check it out, and watch the ever-marvellous Systemchalk Broadcasting live on the store page now.…
Arabella Dusk“In the Mansus, the Hours strive one against another. As the struggles are resolved, they iron out the impossible, exalt the possible, tie the fraying braids of what has been into one golden ribbon of future. Everything is resolved. History…
Arabella DuskHOTFIX: lore consumed on influence upgrades, sorry!
Patch notes- Steam Deck support! A nice excuse to add a QoL/accessibility feature here and there. - Added 150% UI scale. - Added a Font Size setting. May lead to stranger looks on higher ends. - MODDING: 'Sort' property for Elements, a string, the…
Patch notesIt's the first of December, and we're trying something NEW this year! BOOK OF HOURS seems such an obvious fit, so starting from today we're running... ...a 25-day advent calendar of Hush House! 🎄🎁…
Arabella Dusk- Fade during an autosave is made gentler and more gradual to prevent the feeling of flickering on high saving speeds. - Dropping cards on other cards while multi-dragging led to unexpected situations. - Fixed a confusion in German…
Patch notes- Made it more clear that allies can't kill the Foe in Exile. - Fixed 'Our Enemy's Identity' description. - Fixed an assortment of memory leaks. - Cards in verb slots and outputs don't play their decay animation if the verb window is…
Patch notesTHIS UPDATE JUST PUTS A 'BOOK OF HOURS IS OUT NOW' BUTTON IN THE MENU I'M SORRY I CAN ONLY EVER TYPE IN ALL CAPS EVER AGAIN
Patch notesOur new game in the Secret Histories universe - that’s the one Cultist Simulator started, with the Hours and the Principles and the Suppression Bureau and the early twentieth-century occultism played out in text-boxes and cards - is out…
Arabella Dusk- Black rectangles were appearing briefly instead of card labels in verb slots. - HOTFIX: Verb text scrollbars weren't appearing and/or acting irrationally sometimes. - At some point, cards that were supposed to be invisible - but only…
Patch notes"Marksman, detective, renegade. He has always been a quiet man, but since he left the Suppression Bureau, he has grown even quieter, and terribly still - except for his fingers and for his eyes, always in restless motion." It's June the…
Arabella Dusk"I don't recall exactly what occurred, last night, in the beating black between the trunks of the trees, where winged things moved beneath my hands. But now this morning my brain fizzes with fragments: IN GI RUM IMUS NOC TE ET CON SUMI MUR…
Arabella DuskORACHE, aka 'saltbushes', is one of the less interesting-looking plants we've chosen as a version name. So the picture above is atriplex hortensis, aka 'red orache'. Here's the patch on the beta branch now. Shorter update than usual cos I…
AKhttps://store.steampowered.com/app/1028310/BOOK_OF_HOURS/ Our next game is BOOK OF HOURS, a spiritual successor to Cultist Sim. We've just started a BoH closed beta, and figured some Cultist Sim players might a) not have heard of it and b)…
Arabella DuskThis is the least interesting patch ever, folks. I've literally just put the beta link for BOOK OF HOURS in the title menu, and moved some stuff about.
Patch notesThere is never only one History. We've used the mechanics and the world of Cultist Simulator for our next game, BOOK OF HOURS - but we've added more graphics, more lore and, well, more everything: we think BOOK OF HOURS is going to be about…
Arabella DuskWelcome to the first charming flower pic of 2023. As regulars will know, we're currently naming all our updates after flowers, occult or otherwise. This is the Danish Flag cultivar of nemesia strumosa…
AKThere are now a hundred and forty mods on the Cultist Simulator Steam workshop. The number’s exploded since we enabled DLL modding – that is to say, we allowed modders to run their own code as part of a mod, changing fundamental game…
Patch notesPhalaenopsis, better known as the moth orchid. It's a flower that looks like a thing with wings. The etymology means the name means literally something like 'mothy'. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/31397842/a7d3eeb36fb51d6e276a8d0b18f386e320fed689.jpg…
AKWe love mods and the people who make 'em. There are 136 mods in the Cultist Sim Workshop (!), someone turned CS's tabletop into Super Mario, and a while back we wrote a how-to guide to help modders get started. The more mods in Steam…
Arabella Dusk{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/31397842/2985228e2ab026a33d5613fd6eb93dacee939f52.jpg LONGIFLORUM: the Easter lily, the trumpet lily, the lily Aurelian. "Consider the lilies of the field; they toil not, neither do they spin" - it was longiflorum that…
AKMPC x The Lady Afterwards edition now available! The Mysterious Package Company's beautifully reimagined edition of The Lady Afterwards is out now! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/31397842/20199f1cec4a732817581ac4225c1ec4df5a820d.png It builds on our…
Arabella Dusk"You’ve been summoned to Alexandria, a city of coloured lights and curious histories. An old friend needs you to track down a woman. She’s probably in trouble. Probably trouble herself. Plus ça change..." We're working with the Mysterious…
Arabella DuskThe expansive gentleman in the picture below is (probably) the naturalist Pehr Kalm: {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/31397842/2fa16741ee63235407b214d39d6522aefacad8be.jpg He was a widely-travelled eighteenth-century Finnish naturalist, and the genus…
AKHappy Friday, everyone! I hear you like the secret gods known as the Hours, and AK is good at tantalisingly not revealing much about them. So I just wanted to share a quick update on the Lucid Tarot, our upcoming tarot deck for BOOK OF…
Arabella DuskTeeny hotfix for lore upgrades
Patch notesILEX is not a wild goat. That's 'ibex'. Ilex is holly: a glossy, pretty plant that takes no nonsense from anyone, with glossy, pretty berries that occasionally murder people. And it means Christmas. I'm very fond of holly. I'm also very…
AK(guest-starring Chelnoque again) - Yet another round of card-handlery tweaks: - Cards put more effort into finding a landing zone as close to the hover position as possible. - Card ghosts sometimes ended up in a wrong position (and…
Patch notes- New modding feature: configurable local achievements - Verb windows display cards, aspects and deck draws more cleanly and more clearly. - Influences are properly removed on a skill upgrade. - Fixed dropzones sometimes blocking…
Patch notesIf you're wondering what an eryngo is, it's one of these. Handsome things. They have umbels, and they're cousins to the carrot. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/31397842/0ee07ce295349e420cadd58d6dc213c46e3bc149.jpg I've seen a handful of reports about…
AKDahlias. The Aztecs ate them. Mexico selected it as the national flower. And PG Wodehouse named Bertie Wooster's favourite aunt after them. Here she is in full cry: "To look at you, , one would think you were just an ordinary sort of…
AK- You can now set gridsnap to 'no gridsnap' again. Welcome, children of the Moth - Magnet-grabbed cards now return to their original position afterwards (e.g. when the detective gets lost post-suspicion, he won't) - Weird dropzone ricochet…
Patch notesFixed a gridsnap bias that favoured left/top row. Damn that's better. Fixed a blurry text issue on cards Fixed frequency bug in card shuffle. Particular thanks to Chelnoque and Clocq (no relations) on this Added workaround for crash bug in…
Patch notesHAPPY BIRTHDAY, CULTIST SIM! We're running a Midweek Madness sale throughout this week, where you can get everything Cultist Sim-y for basically dust and a broken ha'penny (50-66% off everything, to be exact). So that's Cultist Simulator…
Arabella DuskI've put a patch on beta that fixes the two really annoying leftover placement issues. One was the INSISTENT DROPZONE, where if you dropped the dropzone on top of existing cards, it would want to be picked up before it let you pick them up.…
AKYERMA is an opera based on a really savage play by Federico Garcia Lorca, about childlessness and murder. Lorca was one of the best-known sons of Granada, the very beautiful, very steeply sloping Spanish city where I lived two decades ago.…
AKCARD PLACEMENT - fixed a bug where dropping the card while the ghost was moving could leave the card stranded between the grid. CARD PLACEMENT - added some camera angle correction. CARD PLACEMENT - made the grid a bit more insistent CARD…
Patch notesEverything Steam lists as add-on content for this game, newest first. Prices are left out on purpose: the store answers this page in one currency and it is not the reader's.
| Name | Platforms | Released |
|---|---|---|
| Cultist Simulator: The Lady Afterwards | WindowsmacOSLinux | 18 Nov 2021 |
| Cultist Simulator: The Exile | WindowsmacOSLinux | 27 May 2020 |
| Cultist Simulator: The Ghoul | WindowsmacOSLinux | 30 May 2019 |
| Cultist Simulator: The Priest | WindowsmacOSLinux | 30 May 2019 |
| Cultist Simulator: Original Soundtrack | WindowsmacOSLinux | 22 Jan 2019 |
| Cultist Simulator: The Dancer | WindowsmacOSLinux | 16 Oct 2018 |
What Steam runs, and with what. Straight from the app configuration.
| Description | Executable | Arguments | Platform | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Launch | cultistsimulator.exe | windows | ||
| Launch | OSX.app\Contents\MacOS\Cultist Simulator | macos | ||
| Launch | CS.x86_64 | linux |
The folders Steam Cloud syncs. The root is a token Steam uses for a location on your own machine, not a path this page can know.
| Root | Folder | Files |
|---|---|---|
WinAppDataLocalLow | Weather Factory/Cultist Simulator | save.json |
WinAppDataLocalLow | Weather Factory/Cultist Simulator | restart.json |
WinAppDataLocalLow | Weather Factory/Cultist Simulator | config.ini |
WinAppDataLocalLow | Weather Factory/Cultist Simulator/Backups | *.json |
WinAppDataLocalLow | Weather Factory/Cultist Simulator | save.txt |
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