A quick update to let all you occult enthusiasts know that our long-awaited Tarot of the Hours is now live on our Etsy store!

Cultist Simulator's tricksy pantheon of semi-gods can now be yours in a lovely 78-card deck that's so goth I went through about eight producers before I found one who could print 'em black enough.



Alexis and I are hard at work on Exile, which is shaping up to totally rework Cultist Simulator's mechanics and provide an entirely new mode of play. It'll be our largest bit of DLC to date, with multiple endings - some of which will be (relatively!) attainable like the main Forge, Grail and Lantern ascensions, and some of which will be as hard as winning New Game+.

Edge is the power of struggle and conquest, after all.



To confirm a few details:

• Exile launches on Weds 27th May at 6PM GMT / 10AM PDT
  
• It’ll release in English, simplified Chinese and Russian at the same time
  
• It’ll cost more than other DLCs, though we haven’t confirmed how much yet
  
• Perpetual Edition owners get it FREE

More info coming ASAP!

If you'd like to dive into Exile early, sign up to be a beta tester. The beta starts next month and will require you to swear an oath of eternal silence to the Wolf.

If Cultist Simulator's taught you anything, it's that it's totally fine to make promises to strange people you don't know. Right?

Happy Friday! Some new announcements from our latest blog.


We've just announced that - as you smart people worked out - the content we teased last sprint is indeed the Exile DLC, an upcoming new bit of content granting the long-awaited Edge Ascension of your dreams! Or nightmares. But pointy and fun?



The Exile DLC will launch on Wednesday 27th May, just in time for Cultist's second anniversary! Perpetual Edition owners will get it absolutely free, and we'll add it into the Anthology Edition for future newbie cultists.

We've opened sign-ups for Exile's closed beta, so if anyone fancies helping us with bug reports and feedback...



More info, screenshots and updates ASAP. I'm doing all the art next week. :D


If anyone here takes Cultist Sim with them with the mobile version, we've just been nominated for the IMGA Awards! Vote for us for the People's Choice Award, if you would like the blessing of the Lionsmith upon you. (Not to be confused with the Loinsmith, who's fun at parties but not particularly useful.)



We also announced that the Priest and Ghoul DLCs will come to mobile on Thursday 2nd April, so FINALLY you can paint in the colours of night and, er, self-flagellate via the App Store and Google Play.

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Finally, we have updates on the Tarot of the Hours (shipping soon!), Alexis Kennedy's new book (game dev be cray!), new Skeleton Songs (doppelgängers!) and more, all over on the blog. Enjoy!

Hey, Believers! We've just released a hefty sprint update with a couple of KEY CULTY THINGS I'd like to highlight.


I can't go into details right now, but we've confirmed we're working on a new bit of Cultist Simulator content currently titled 'Exile'. I'll talk more about the specifics in a couple of weeks, but prepare for some new, tasty ways to die horribly in the bowels of the Mansus. HYPE! ♥






We've revamped our upcoming game, BOOK OF HOURS, quite significantly. We've moved away from Cultist's minimalist tabletop, much though we love the baize. Think gentle sim with an occult twist, written by Alexis Kennedy and, er, with a dash of Wes Anderson?! Or just wishlist it here and be my hero.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1028310/BOOK_OF_HOURS/




I've been battling tedious reality on this one, bouncing between different printers like a flea on a space hopper. But while I work out exactly how to print black ink on white cards without them looking dreadful (SOUNDS EASY, DOENS'T IT? WELL IT ISN'T), we've released all artwork for the 78-card deck. See if you can follow our thinking on face cards' hierarchies!

All this and more - medieval Skeleton Songs, class-4 laser printers, and biz deep-dives - over on the blog. :)

"I know the ink that you describe. It exists. I shouldn’t tell you even that, and for the sake of our friendship I ask you to burn this letter after reading. The ink is called here 'encaustum terminale' and it is a great treasure of the House."

A brand new letter has come to light, from a mysterious 'F.' to Christopher Illopoly. It sheds light not only on the 'secrets of inks' but on the Hours, the Librarian and Christopher's own heart, too.

Check out the originals and their transcript on the blog.

Happy Year of the Rat, everyone! Everything culty is on sale right now, including the base game, the OST and all DLC. If there's anyone considering buying for the first time, the Anthology Edition is an excruciatingly great deal in a sale!



The Dancer DLC is now also available on the App Store and Google Play, along with all the latest PC updates and Russian localisation. So if you fancy taking your cult on the go, now's a very good time indeed.



In other Cultist news, we've made a pretty exciting decision in-studio that I'm not able to disclose right now. Not even to you, double-Douglas! But maybe the following will give you a clue.



Today we've also released our VERY FIRST podcast episode, in our new series called Skeleton Songs. Featuring Alexis Kennedy and myself on a variety of gothic topics in games and literature, all revolving around the weird stories and little-known facts that fell through the cracks, and we discovered while ferretting about making Cultist Simulator.

Search for 'Skeleton Songs' on all the usual places - Apple Podcasts, Spotify, etc - or listen to the first episode on our website here.



Finally, I've teased the new direction we're taking BOOK OF HOURS in our first work-in-progress GIF, which you can see over on the blog. Any guesses what this means for the redesign...?

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1028310/BOOK_OF_HOURS/https://store.steampowered.com/app/1028310/BOOK_OF_HOURS/

Happy 2020, everyone! Here's a quick update on Weather Factory's plans this year.




We finally announced a release date for the Dancer DLC on mobile - it's coming NEXT WEEK on Wednesday 22nd January 2020. It'll cost £1.99 / $1.99 and come alongside a free update containing all the latest PC updates for the game and our recent Russian localisation.

If you don't own Cultist yet on mobile, get 'em below so you're ALL READY to peel off your skin next week.






https://store.steampowered.com/app/1028310/BOOK_OF_HOURS/

After a brief hiatus, I'm delighted to confirm BOOK OF HOURS is back! We're doing some initial prototyping before we have more we can say about the specific features you can expect, BUT we're still expecting to release in 2021 and you'll be able to follow open dev on our Twitters (@factoryweather, @tronbevan, @alexiskennedy) in the meantime.

There'll also definitely be some form of early beta / playtesting, so keep your ears to the ground if that's your sort of thing.






Excitingly, we're starting a new podcast this year! In the next week or so you'll be able to listen to Skeleton Songs, a story-focused gothic-y podcast of forgotten narratives and forbidden tales that we may or may not have made up. It'll focus on games and literary stuff, so if you're the kinda eloquent player who likes a game like Cultist Sim, you're likely to enjoy Skeleton Songs too.

I'll share a link to it when our first episode is live. :D


Indie games be cray! Alexis has been in them for a decade now, through two companies, three significant indie successes (Fallen London, Sunless Sea, and now Cultist Sim) and some mad, dark parts of it too. The industry is often a bit of a black box to people not inside it, so Alexis is writing a book on his experiences with all his best anecdotes thrown in.

More on that when we have release dates for ya.


There's a lot in the above, but you can always check out our ongoing roadmap for a sprint-by-sprint plan of what's coming, when. It's fairly bare right now because we're so early in BOOK OF HOURS' development, but it'll get juicier and juicier over the coming months. :)

Today we're releasing Russian to the whole of Cultist Simulator. The base game and all its DLC - adding up to over 140,000 words - is now playable entirely in Russian, on Steam, GOG and Humble, with no need to faff around with beta branches anymore.

Once you’ve downloaded the latest update, you'll be able to switch between English and Russian via the 'Languages' button in the top right-hand of the title screen. We recommend starting a new game after switching languages, as switching mid-game can cause some text to display oddly. AND NOBODY WANTS THAT, DO THEY.

If you’re a first timer, take a look at our Beginner’s Guide to give you a bit of a head start.



If you run into any problems, email support@weatherfactory.biz and I’ll reply in English - or, if you force me, in terrible automatically translated Russian.

And I will love you forever if you spread the word amongst any Russian-speakers you know that Cultist Simulator is now extremely Russia-friendly. Thank you!




For those of you who don’t speak Russian and don’t care too much about this release, DON’T FEAR! Anyone who has a smartphone may be interested to hear we’re part of Google Play’s Cyber Week sale, which means we have dropped to an extremely insane price of £1.99 for the duration of the sale.

That’s around 0.0018p per word which is game developer for ‘oh my God, what am I doing’. But hey, it’s a great deal nonetheless!

We’ve matched this sale on the App Store too, so iOS users, get in on that sweet, sweet under-priced action. 🍏

Happy Friday, Believers! I'm just cross-posting a few lore-ful drops from the Weather Factory blog.

Firstly, we've announced a new item we'll soon be selling on the Church of Merch shop: a TAROT OF THE HOURS. A tarot deck is probably the most requested item of merchandise so far, so hope you like it! It's currently at the test-print stage, but we'll shout as soon as it's available to buy. We haven't yet revealed who the Pages, Knights, Queens and Kings are, but I'll be publishing any correct guesses I see here or on the blog in our next update...



We also discovered a letter from a mysterious Ms D, to one of the curators of Hush House. Thought the deeper lore-hounds amongst you might be interested.



You can take a look at photographs of the originals, OR read a slightly more accessible transcript of the letter, over on our blog.

(This letter includes a lot of Cultist Simulator lore, but is specifically part of the BOOK OF HOURS world. So if you're not following that already, do!)

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1028310/BOOK_OF_HOURS/

Happy Unity Day, everyone! I’m not sure how unified everyone is about wanting to play Cultist Simulator in Cyrillic, but HEY, NOW YOU CAN. Cultist Simulator’s 140,000 words can now all be turned into RUSSIAN by switching over to the Steam beta branch called 'gateofhorn'.

You can access this beta branch by:

• right clicking on 'Cultist Simulator' in your Steam library
  
• clicking ‘Properties’
  
• clicking on the 'Betas' tab
  
• selecting 'gateofhorn' from the drop-down menu
  
• clicking 'Close'

Your version of the game will then update and you'll be able to switch to Russian via the 'Languages' button in the top right-hand corner of the main menu.

Please report any bugs you find to support@weatherfactory.biz. This is the first time we’ve released this translation, so there are bound to be some errors. And we are totally unable to fix them on our own. 😅 So any and all help is gratefully received!

Once we’ve given this localisation some time to bed in, we’ll release Russian fully across Steam, GOG and Humble on Monday 25th November. :)

Leave us a nice review if you enjoy the game, and tell your friends about it! Thank youuuu. 🙏

Russian is finally here! We’ll be releasing a Russian language option to a Steam beta branch on Monday 4th November, to say YAY UNITY DAY. 🤝



You'll be able to access this beta branch by:

• right clicking on 'Cultist Simulator' in your Steam library
  
• clicking on the 'Betas' tab
  
• selecting 'gateofhorn' from the drop-down menu
  
• clicking 'Close'

Your version of the game will then update and you'll be able to switch to Russian via the 'Languages' button in the top right-hand corner of the main menu.

Once we’ve had a few weeks to deal with bugs, we'll then release Russian to everyone on Steam, GOG and Humble on Monday 25th November 2019. Russian on the App Store and Google Play versions of Cultist Simulator will follow afterwards...

If you’ve been holding off on playing until Russian language was available, Monday 4th November is your day! Please tell your Russian-speaking friends and help us spread the word. 💖