Cult of the Lamb Reviews
Cult of the Lamb wonderfully fuses together management simulation elements with fast-paced action roguelite combat. If the colourful artwork alone isn't enough to entice you to try out this phenomenal game, then the fantastic narrative about indoctrinating cute animals into your cult might just do the trick.
Cult of the Lamb is a fantastic new indie title from Devolver Digital that revels in the absurd nature of its setting. The art style is amazing, and generally, everything about the premise and atmosphere is phenomenal.
Cult of the Lamb does exactly what it promises. While it touches on a subject quite sensitive to many, the way it approaches religion and sects is remarkable.
Review in Greek | Read full review
Cult of the Lamb is a naughty and evil game that had me laughing and enjoying myself the whole way through. If you've ever dreamed of creating your own personal animal cult where it's perfectly fine to brainwash, cannibalize and unnaturally resurrect your followers—this is the game for you.
There are strokes of a masterpiece in here, with excellent music, whimsical characters, starkly themed visuals, just enough narrative push, and management tools that allow for the player to really experience their own story. If you don't optimize the fun out of Cult of the Lamb, there's an incredible amount of it to be had.
Cult of the Lamb is a veritable “standout title” providing a solid first impression, one which eventually grows into a fun, addictive and enthralling journey from beginning to end – thanks to the mixture of genres keeping the game fresh. Overall, the game is so much more than just the sum of its parts. Whether joy is derived from exploring the dungeon or preferring to expand and manage the cult, each aspect is compelling and dense enough to remain exciting and surprising – even after many hours of play time. It might be too on the nose to refer to Cult of the Lamb as a ‘cult classic’, but this is precisely the impression the game imbues on those who play.
After Nobody Saves the World, Cult of the Lamb brings us a must-have experience for fans of adventure, management and roguelikes.
Review in Portuguese | Read full review
My time with Cult of The Lamb was a delight. I have recommended it to a lot of my friends already. Massive Monster and Devolver Digital are likely to grab a stack of awards for this “Cult” hit. I award Cult Of The Lamb the Thumb Culture Gold Award
Cult of the Lamb could have been the best game of the year with only two incredibly satisfying and entertaining systems, but unfortunately it has succumbed to bugs and lack of content.
Review in Spanish | Read full review
Devilishly cute and hilarious! That is the best description for Cult of the Lamb. This Roguelike uses several gameplay elements that also turned out great. Are you a good leader or do you sacrifice everyone for your sweet revenge?
Review in Dutch | Read full review
Its mixture of fast-paced rogue-like action and deliberate cult management works wonders, delivering crunchy, high-stakes combat and rewarding, open-ended simulation gameplay.
Cult of the Lamb is a very complete game, full of life, enemies, rituals and loads of activities to do and places to explore. The cult creation theme fits perfectly with the rogue-like idea and manages to make a surprisingly positive mix-up. Despite some bugs and glitches that can easily be fixed through small updates, the whole contrast between the positivity of the characters and the village environment combines very well with the negativity of the rituals and the creatures that want to kill us. This makes Cult of the Lamb an excellent game and recommended by us.
Review in Portuguese | Read full review
Cult of the Lamb is exactly what it sells itself as.
In the end, I can say ‘Cult of the Lamb’ is a funny, cute, and highly enjoyable game that makes me want to sell my soul to ‘The one who waits’. Its ability to be action-packed with a peppering of a building simulator gives players the best of both worlds. Now excuse me, while I figure out how to start my own cult.
Cult of the Lamb was one of those games that I just couldn’t put down. I completed it in about seventeen hours, but each time I played it started as intending to play for an hour and then not realizing that hours had passed. The combat is fun and always feels fresh. The base-building aspects give tons of choices in how you grow. More important, Cult of the Lamb ties these together in a way that kept me wanting that next improvement or to defeat the next stage.
Unless you’re a well-meaning-yet-misguided parent from the 80s who magically found themselves transported to the year 2022 (in which case there are other things I would be worrying about), you really have zero reason not to play this game. Cult of the Lamb is the evil-worshipping, cult-building, god-slaying video game with a perfect creepy-cute aesthetic that I never knew that I wanted—and I’m so incredibly glad that it exists.
Dividing its time beautifully between rouge-like dungeon crawler and cult management simulator, Cult of the lamb is everything you would want and need from the mix of genres. A fantastic soundtrack and incredibly moreish gameplay, this is a big recommendation for anyone who is in awe of the vibrantly cute aesthetic it presents. While it’s currently harrowed by some glitches preventing certain aspects of gameplay from shining, once these are ironed out this could easily be ‘Game of the Year’ material.
The marriage of roguelite and management makes Cult of the Lamb a real surprise. Beautiful to look at and challenging to play, Massive Monster's title is a lot of fun thanks to a good balance between its two natures.
Review in Italian | Read full review
Massive Monster has evolved through its games until they find themselves comfortable with an artistic style that they have polished since The adventure pals and that reaches a good level of evolution with Cult of the Lamb, giving the game a characteristic personality that stands out from the first preview . The idea of unifying two different types of gameplay suits the title very well, keeping you busy at all times and with a full mental to-do list. The symbiosis, also achieved through a correct story, does not allow a pause for monotony and keeps you entertained at all times. It is clear that many players will come to the game for its aesthetics and its crazy proposal, but they will end up playing it for the love that each of the sections exudes. It's a shame the performance issues I've found in the PS5 version, I hope future patches can fix them.
Review in Spanish | Read full review
Cult of the Lamb takes elements from well-regarded franchises on the market, such as The Binding of Isaac and Animal Crossing, and applies them in a game that takes us back to the dubious humor of Happy Tree Friends. In addition to offering hours of content, even if based on grinding, and several customization options for both faithful and doctrines and other improvements, the title brings an impeccable audiovisual presentation that manages to seduce us into being part of this strangely cute satanic cult. On the other hand, performance on Switch hurts gameplay, which, by itself, can become repetitive over time. Therefore, until these specific flaws are corrected, it is difficult to recommend the Nintendo hybrid console.
Review in Portuguese | Read full review