Community5 Jun 2025Spanish and French OUT NOW!"Somehow I can read the words in sufficiently bright light… There's something about the sounds that sharpens the soul." 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 Simul…
“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**)…
First 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 of you who are more Grail-aligned, we're also running a 20%-off-almost-everything in the merch shop , just because we can . Now, some LORE. Be warned: minor…
"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 want to support it as much as we can. So I'm delighted to announce that we're bringing two new, full translations of all 160,000 words to the game: French and…
Merry 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 Detective's helmet, etc. In case you missed it, we announced our third and final entry into the Secret Histories universe yesterday: Travelling At Night ,…
Major 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 Elysium , Planescape: Torment , and Fallout 1+2 . "Europe, 1948: myth-scarred ruins, night-sky abysses. Chitinous cities embrace the Change, or struggle against…
"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 emails every week addressed to 'Dear Support Team'. We get speculative applications from people who want to intern with us and don't realise we work out of a fla…
"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.'" Just a lil' cross-promo post to let you Cultist players know that we've just launched a major expansion for BOOK OF HOURS , which adds a novel's worth of new stories (and, obvs, ★☆ new lore ★☆…
"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 repurposing it to herald to a good thing and that good thing is some secret Cultist Simulator news! Namely: Cultist Simulator 's coming to console! Screens…
Chel'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 worked to make this bug possible. - Some sounds - namely, a card dropping in a slot, and a game speed being changed via a hotkefy - were not playing since god…
First 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. Oh! And all our merch is 25% off for the weekend , to celebrate Cultist being culty. Happy Friday, everyone! In other news, AK posted this to the subreddit last night: "Celebrating the compl…
“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 becomes the past…” “…There are, however, exceptions.” It’s Cultist Simulator ‘s sixth birthday today, so let’s make an exception for her. This quote is from…
- 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 format is 'group.order' - ex. 'a1.z1'. Controls the order of Aspects appearance in card and situation info. Aspects are first sorted by 'group', then by 'order'…
It'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! 🎄🎁 (There are some real-world Weather Factory gifts, and at least one Cultist Simulator -related treat - though the in-game items are all in BOOK OF HOURS .) Each day we'll open a door containing treat…
- 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 localization of Skills' descriptions, and other minor problems in various locs. - Fixed empty description in Starvation verb. - Yet another fix for GOG achievements…
- 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 closed. - Small rework of the influences' upgrade and subversion: - Interactions with Contentment are less erratic. - The Lore slot doesn't spoil lore fragments' d…
Our 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 now . Manage an occult library in BOOK OF HOURS , where you can’t be murdered by Dread! You may be interested in the weeklong Perpetual Edition deal, the same d…
- 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 inside verbs - became also invisible on the table - but, like, confusingly invisible. Now visible again, as they always were. - Fix for cards sometimes thinking…
"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 28th, once again. So I thought I'd pop in briefly to share our beautiful, melancholy new trailer for BOOK OF HOURS , the next game in the same universe as Culti…
"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 IGNI RUM IMUS NOC TE ET CON SUMI MUR -" Game dev, unlike jobs in Cultist Simulator , is not "an arrangement to exchange one's life for money". It's something…
ORACHE, 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 have a beta update for BOOK OF HOURS to get out too! a quick gloss on Chelnoque's update notes below: - Sometimes Biedde's Blade was inflicting a normal woun…
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) want to join in! (Anyone who enjoys Cultist Sim is likely to enjoy BOOK OF HOURS . AK will probably not approve of my saying this, but It's sort of a holiday for stressed out CS players - it's the same Lovecraftia…
This 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.
There 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 five times the size of Cultist Sim when it's finished. We're releasing the first playable demo next week as part of Steam Next Fest. It'll be available from…
Welcome 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 : (What would you call that colour? Dark fuchsia? Bloody burgundy? Clarified vermilion? Peaceful Grail?) Now! here's is the reason I've marked this as a Major Update. It's only relevant if you use…
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