Cult of the Lamb
Worth it · Roguelike · 2022
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $24.99.
- Length
- 14.7h
- Value
- $1.70/hr
- Reviews
- 96% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, GeForce GTX 560 Ti (1024 VRAM); Radeon HD 7750 (1024 VRAM), 4 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
Start your own cult in a land of false prophets, venturing out into diverse and mysterious regions to build a loyal community of woodland Followers and spread your Word to become the one true cult.
What drives the score
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The value story
The lowest price on record is $9.99, set in January 2026. It has been discounted 35 times in the 4 years tracked here, typically at 50 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 6 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 7 percent on value. It is pricier than 92 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 96 percent. Among the games that feel like it, PlateUp! ($19.99, scores 87) beats it on value, while it beats Neon Abyss ($19.99, scores 69).
Critics scored it 82. Players sit 14 points higher at 96 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 19 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written January 2026 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 81 percent of the 3,304 reviews written there were positive, against 96 percent overall, and those are 3 percent of everything written about it. It sells extras on top of the sticker price (cosmetic, finite spend); the score docks it lightly for that.
HowLongToBeat players log 14.7 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 30, 2.0 times as much.
4 years after release it still had 1.5K people in it at once.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 14.7 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
95% start to 1% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
1,535 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
Cult of the Lamb is a Great game. This is because it's two Good games bolted together. Half the game is a short-run rogue-(very)-lite, with responsive gameplay where you go and fight varied bosses. The other half is a lite town management game, where you have to keep people fed and faithful. Both of them are fun, but not complex. The rogue-lite is 10 minute runs with one attack and one spell. There's a range of...
Solid game. Decent combat. Fun upgrades. Cool aesthetics. Start of base management was enjoyable, but it becomes a drag in the expansion. End game loop becomes tedious. Too much time spent doing the same thing. Rituals specifically need a skip option. *Update* Rituals NEED a skip option for the visual. Absorbing faith needs a skip. Sermon needs a skip, as in it is instantaneous. Giving small/large gifts needs a...
With the standard of a rough like, I would say this game is easy, it has some mechanics which makes the game so simple but the calm of managing your cult between round makes the game so satisfying. The base building lend itself so well to the action since you get buffs based on your progress, and the with each run your able to gather materials and followers, there is also a good chunk of content after the game has...
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Cult of the Lamb scores 84/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1313140/cult-of-the-lambThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 12, price as of Sep 24.
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