Welcome to Culto, a cult management game!

Unspeakable Eldritch horrors have awakened from their eon-long slumber and are now trying to breach into our reality. As the only person who seems to pay attention to these kinds of things you took it upon yourself to delay the inevitable by appeasing these intruders with offerings and sacrifices.

But for how long can you keep it up?

Controls

WASD	Move
SPACEBAR	Interact
ESCAPE (ESC)	Open Pause Menu

How to play

In Culto your goal is to manage your cult's resources in order to be able to fulfill each day's Ritual's requirements.

At the start of each day a new Ritual is chosen. Your objective is to gather the necessary requirements throughout the day in order to be able to perform the ritual and to stave off the Eldritch beasts trying to breach into your reality.

In order to gather resources you can command your Cultists to perform tasks.

Each task takes a certain amount of Time and offers different Rewards upon completion.

Each day unfolds throughout the course of 5 minutes. For how many days can you keep this up?

Resources

• Money - The most basic of resources. Can be gathered by sending cultists to Work or Rob a Bank. Can be used to purchase Food or reduce Suspicion.

• Food - At midday every Cultist will consume 1 Food. For every unfed Cultist your cult's Faith will diminish. Can be gathered by sending cultists to Hunt. Can be bought with Money by sending cultists to go Shop.

• Prisoners - Worthy sacrifices. Can be acquired by sending your cultists to Kidnap, but this will raise your Suspicion. A Cultist can also be Emprisoned, making them a Prisoner.

• Cultists - Your followers. Cultists can be sent to perform tasks and gather resources. Cultists can recruit new followers through Preaching but this will raise your Suspicion. Cultists can be Emprisoned, transforming them into a Prisoner, or Sacrificed, granting you Food.

• Suspicion - Represents the Police's level of discontempt towards your actions. If the Suspicion meter gets filled up your complex will be raided and your cult dismanteled. Suspicion can be reduced by having a Cultist Bribe the police at the cost of Money.

• Faith - How much your followers believe in your cause. Naturally diminishes over time but can be reinstated by Preaching at the Altar.

Events

Three different events will occure during the day. Two Random Events and One Feeding Event.

• Random Event - Happen at 1/4th and 3/ths of the day. You will be presented with a random situation and must choose how to proceed. Each option provides you with different benefits and/or penalties. Choose wisely and take into consideration your current resources and the day's Ritual Requirements.

• Feed Event - At midday (1/2th of the day) each of your Cultists will consume One Food. Every Cultist that does not get fed will negatively impact your current Faith.

Preach

To reinstate and replenish your cult's Faith you must Preach. To do so you must interact with the Altar and type out the presented Eldritch Word. Be careful, however, as mispronouncing the given word will cause your cult's Faith to waver.

Installation

1. Download the .zip (no payment is needed or expected)
2. Extract the contents of the zip into a folder
3. Run "Culto.exe"

Credits

Game made by Diogo Silva

Sound effects obtained from https://www.zapsplat.com

Music ( "Just as Soon",  "I Knew a Guy", "On the Cool Side", "Walking Along") by Kevin MacLeod https://www.incompetech.com

Feel free to check out my other games  https://fenixds.itch.io !