Cultist Simulator
Fair · Roguelike · 2018
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $19.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 19.4h
- Value
- $1.03/hr
- Reviews
- 80% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 1280x768 minimum resolution, post-2012 graphics hardware, 502 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
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.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $4.99. That was June 2024. It has been discounted 61 times in the 8 years tracked here, typically at 50 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales.
On value it sits in the top 47 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 82 percent of its genre. On the same math BOOK OF HOURS ($24.99, scores 77) and Sultan's Game ($19.99, scores 91) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
The press gave it 71; the people who bought it give it 80 percent. A 9-point gap in the buyer's favour.
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 7 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written June 2024 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 46 percent of the 754 reviews written there were positive, against 80 percent overall, and those are 7 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 19.4 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 110, 5.7 times as much.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, so it runs on the handheld without fiddling.
The drop-off
59% 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
321 players online when we last checked, on Sep 27, 14:46 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Great Lore. Really feels like madly researching forbidden knowledge while trying to stay kinda sane and out of prison even when it's just cards and text.
I can go endlessly about how I love this game. The start is strange and foggy and I died a lot. Lessons: don't starve, get your psycho Ok, watch out for too many evidence. In the middle I went hard into guides and really grasped a couple of really slippery things (maybe a little more text on the cards would've helped). Yeah, midgame could feel grindy, but man I love the tempo. I can watch something alongside with...
if you like walls of text and waiting on timers this game is for you. if you actually wanna play a game this can barely be considered one. im sure if you waste 50 hours of your life just brute forcing the game you might figure it out on your own, but i could find literally infinite ways to spend my time better.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
Cultist Simulator scores 54/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/718670/cultist-simulatorReviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 17, price as of Oct 1.
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