Three Moves Ahead 440: Cultist Simulator

Three Moves Ahead

Idle Thumbs

Strategy, Games & Hobbies, War, Strategy Games, Games, War Games, Video Games

4.8 • 532 Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2018

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Cultist Simulator is a game - maybe - that revels in its own vagueness. Not knowing what it's about or what you're supposed to be doing at a given time seems to be the point. There's a story in there somewhere, but will you be able to find it? Rob, Cassandra Khaw, James Persaud, and Troy "A hedonist club is a good place to spend money and meet people, but the bookstore is better" Goodfellow dive into the eldritch horrors of neatly arranging cards on a table and wondering what it's all about.

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0:00.0	Good evening you are listening to Three Moves Ahead, and I'm your host, Rob Zakney.
0:03.5	And on this dark and foreboding night, we have Three Moves Ahead founder, Troy Goodfellow.
0:09.0	Hello, everyone.
0:10.7	And today we're joined by horror and games writer, Kaskaw.
0:15.1	Hello.
0:16.6	And finally, we have Paradox's James Persad.
0:20.7	Hello.
0:22.1	And today we're going to be talking about the Weather Factory's cultist simulator,
0:26.8	which was sort of designed and largely written by Alexis Kennedy, formerly of
0:32.1	Fail Better Games, lead writer, I think, on a Sunless Sea, and someone that we've had on the show before and whose work we've, I think we're on record as generally enjoying.
0:44.9	And this is the first game from the Weather Factory.
0:50.4	And Cultus Simulator is a...
0:53.6	And here we come to the first issue.
0:56.0	Troy...
0:57.0	What is Cultus Simulator?
0:59.0	How do we define this odd doc?
1:02.0	A Cultus Simulator is a...
1:08.0	card-driven strategy story generator.
1:12.6	I'm probably the best way to put it.
1:19.5	It is a solitaire game where you have a bunch of different decks of cards.
1:24.9	Some of the decks are, in fact, rooms, and you play other cards into those to generate resources that you then spend on other more advanced actions. There are four basic
1:29.8	resources, passion, reason, health, and money. The goal is to, if there is a goal, is to found a
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