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Cult strategy game Solium Infernum returns, from the makers of Armello
The RPS-beloved turn-based strategy game Solium Infernum is back from the dead. Announced earlier today on stage at EGX London 2022, Armello creators League Of Geeks will be resurrecting and reimagining the game in 2023. Originally released in 2009 by solo dev Vic Davis and his studio Cryptic Comet, Solium Infernum cast you as an Archfiend hoping to stake a claim for Satan’s empty throne. With a strong emphasis on political intrigue and Machiavellian backstabbing over taking things by force, this strategy game from hell was a firm RPS favourite back in the day, spawning an eight-part diary series of the team’s play-by-email multiplayer adventures. Alas, it never quite found the audience it deserved back in the early 2010s, eventually causing Davis to shut up shop completely in 2015 and pursue a career in tabletop.
League Of Geeks are here to change that, though, and after speaking with studio director and co-founder Trent Kusters (both at EGX earlier today and during a hands-off presentation of their pre-alpha demo late last week), it’s clear the team have taken great care in bringing Solium Infernum up to date for modern audiences. It leans into all the same kinds of mind games as Cryptic Comet’s original, and its simultaneous turn structure is still very much intact – just with lusher 3D visuals, and all-new, revamped menu screens. And it looks devilishly good.
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Cult of the Lamb recruited over one million followers within one miraculous week
Massive Monster and Devolver Digital have announced that over one million have joined the Cult of the Lamb.
The unholy congregation swelled to this robust number within one week.
Despite such devotion, the flock has seen its fair share of struggles with all manner of bugs and other infernal complications – all of which must be abolished.
Cult of the Lamb animals want to eat poo, and that’s fine
The Cult of the Lamb poo fascination is an odd one, and it’s yet another quirk that marks the title as one of 2022’s best roguelike games. Turns out that there’s some scientific proof in your cultists’ obsession with all things ew, meaning that Devolver have actually done a pretty good job of showing off what it would be like to lead an animal army.
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Cult Of The Lamb: Best Weapons, Curses, And Tarot Cards
Massive Monster’s Cult Of The Lamb is an adorably berserk addition to the roguelite genre and what it’s become. It’s inherently Devolver as it harvests the best bits of Enter The Gungeon, Stardew Valley, and The Binding Of Isaac, and to everyone’s surprise, launches them all into a cult management sim. There are cute NPC followers, farm plots, gravesites, fighting pits, brainwashing rituals, and an evil fox in a cloak, and it’s all underscored by an action-RPG combat system that’s deeper than it first appears.
Cult Of The Lamb’s weapons are offered at random and the same goes for curses (i.e. magic spells) and tarot cards (i.e. modifiers) which add variety to crusades and the quest to dethrone the four Bishops. The first two are upgraded with Faith and a separate skill tree that unlocks different types (Godly, Vampiric) and status effects (Freeze, Poison) while tarot cards can be obtained through missions, purchased from item shops, and stacked with others mid-crusade to create the best run possible. The RNG can be deafening as merchant NPCs like Clauneck would rather let fate decide, but here are our picks for the best weapons, curses, and tarot cards to wield while you’re away from your flock.
For more tips, rituals, and sermons, read our Cult Of The Lamb review.
Yes, you can pet your dog followers in Cult of the Lamb
I discovered this while collecting tithes
You can pet the dog in Cult of the Lamb, but that’s your lot
Yes, you read that right, you can pet the dog in Cult of the Lamb, Devolver’s new vaguely Satanic roguelike game. Question is, though, can you show any of the other troops in your animal army affection?
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The best Cult of the Lamb weapons and how to upgrade them
Wondering about the best Cult of the Lamb weapons? With RNG heavily influencing your progress through this roguelike game, you won’t have a lot of choice over which weapons you wield against the four Cult of the Lamb Bishops and their followers. However, once you know which ones are better than others, how to increase your damage, and how to improve your weapon pool, you’ll be spilling your enemies’ blood with ease.
As you start a crusade, you’ll be offered a weapon and, before long, a curse. That starting weapon is randomly generated each time though, and is lost when the crusade ends. As you defeat dungeons, you may be rewarded with a new weapon choice. Similarly, as you venture through various paths, you might come across a Merchant room, also offering you new weapons to take with you. Since you only carry one weapon (and one curse) at a time, it’s good to know what you’ve got – and what you want. For more information on the different rooms you might find in Cult of the Lamb, take a look at our beginner’s guide before reading on for the best Cult of the Lamb weapons available.
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