Honey, I Joined a Cult

Honey, I Joined a Cult

Skip · Strategy · 2022

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

SKIP IT.

It scores 34, under the fair line, at $5.49.

Length
14.4h
Value
$0.38/hr
Reviews
72% positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Length
14.4h
main story (HowLongToBeat)
Completionist
43.1h
100% (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
$0.38
price ÷ main-story length
Price
$5.49
as of Oct 1
Reviews
72%
1,937 reviews, as of Sep 26
Metacritic
72
critic score
Players
150K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2022

Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250, 1 GB or AMD Radeon HD 5750, 1 GB, 451 MB of storage. Windows only.

It's time to start working towards that ultimate goal of enlightenment, faith and money…lots and lots of money! Become the ultimate tycoon - create, customise, and manage your own cult whilst listening to funky music. Welcome to Honey, I Joined a Cult!
Description from the Steam store page.

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

Raising the score
Value$0.38/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Engagement2% finish
How far players actually get (achievements), a top-end bonus
Holding it back
Reviews72% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
For context
Length14 hours
How much game you get. Hours feed the value per dollar
Reach150K+ owners
How many own it, by SteamSpy's estimate (an old snapshot). Context here: this game's score does not use it
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds9 of 664 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

The value story

It has never been cheaper than $5.49. That was June 2025. It has been discounted 47 times in the 5 years tracked here, typically at 50 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales.

Value puts it in the top 38 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 93 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, SimAirport ($24.99, scores 51) beats it on value, while it beats Naheulbeuk's Dungeon Master ($24.99, scores 31).

Steam's global achievement data puts about 2 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 14.4-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. 9 of the 664 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written September 2021 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 58 percent of the 215 reviews written there were positive, against 72 percent overall, and those are 16 percent of everything written about it.

Finishing takes 14.4 hours; clearing it takes 43, which is 3.0 times the campaign.

The drop-off

45% start to 2% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

Steam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. On a 14.4-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements

Players

13 players online when we last checked, on Sep 28, 06:48 UTC.

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

What players say

There are far better sim games than this. there is no active mod support or community support like with many other titles so what you see is what you get. It gets really really grindy in mid game and really starts to lose its charm
SlickyDeeNot recommendedafter 9.3hJul 2026Read on Steam
Very, very shallow attempt at a Prison Architect type game. It is an interesting setting, but there is almost no content.
AzureNot recommendedafter 12h20 found this helpfulRead on Steam
This is fun asf I love it ngl :3 the whole cult thing has mt interested and I like it
R00ST3RRecommendedafter 16h2 found this helpfulRead on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

Cite this score

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Honey, I Joined a Cult scores 34/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/841190/honey-i-joined-a-cult
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Reviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.

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Critics vs players0
Critics
72
Players
72
Critics and players agree on this one.
Metacritic critics · 1,937 Steam player reviews

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperSole Survivor Games
PublisherTeam17
GenreStrategy
Released2022
Achievements31