Cultist Simulator

虽然我现在17个小时了感觉还没入门，虽然我目前唯一打出的一个结局是上班上疯了，但就算这样我也还是觉得这游戏很有意思，对神秘学和文字类游戏感兴趣的话不要错过。实在玩不明白的话可以去查攻略，不要和我一样当大倔种，纯自己摸索还是有点难了。

时不时就会掏出来消遣两把的游戏—— 给我最爱的密教补个测评 [h3] [b] 请注意，本游戏包含 [/b] [/h3] [list] [*][无新手指引的抓瞎前期 [*]大量复杂的神秘学词汇 [*]究极稀碎的叙事 [*]本质合成大西瓜 [*]怎么又被绝望/邪名/破产干碎档了 [/list] 如果你看完觉得能忍受上面的一切，那么教主，请开启你的007打工飞升生涯 密教模拟器注定会是一款两极分化的游戏，比较需要对上电波。关于很多人诟病的无引导，其实无引导正是这个游戏的核心理念和玩法，打开游戏你就会看见： “Explore. Take risks. You won’t always know what to do next. Keep experimenting, and you’ll master it.” 直面风险，探索前行。你不会总是能够知道下一步该做什么 密教游玩最精彩的前期，靠的就是一步步试，你不会知道这些组合、选择会导致什么结果，但是不要害怕，尽管大胆假设，小心求索，你会在不断的学习和重复中，做出最完美的规划。 我个人是不太喜欢肉鸽的，但是密教他在一定的随机性里，给予了大量的可控因素，运营起来后还是非常爽的。同时氛围感营造的也很好，文本没有文青病，可以看出考据功底，逻辑严密。 玩腻了本体之后，非常推荐购入流亡者DLC，同时创意工坊也有很多可游玩的mod，量大管饱 最后： [h3] 珍爱生命远离邪教，今天的教主又单飞了 [/h3]

Cultist Simulator's central mechanic is unique: figuring out esoteric dark arts by fumbling around with trial-and-error. It's actually extremely cool, and weaves the game mechanics tightly with the theme. It's a tough one, though, because eventually the magic wears off and it starts to feel like filing taxes with a gun pointed at your balls. To keep things vague, I decided against this game having real staying power after the most irritating experience it threw at me so far: a randomly unpreventable curse that requires a high-level ephemeral card to be kept around in anticipation of it via a mechanic that feels more like a glitch than witchcraft. That was a microcosm of the game's general lack of respect for your time. Too much time spent waiting for timers, too much punishment for failing to anticipate exact negative outcomes ahead of time, too much of the same ground retread when starting new runs. It's easily possible to spend 10 hours on a run, have your cult blow up because of a series of bad dice rolls, and then spend another 8 hours getting to almost exactly the same place you were before. Coming back to the curse: With obsessive planning and experimentation, I managed to prevent almost every possible problem that could death-spiral my cult, but had to pause when I saw that curse. Working backwards, preventing it reliably seemed so annoying that I decided to finish the run by save-scumming and call it a day. Still -- a lot of potential on display. This is Weather Factory's first shot at making a game like this, and Book of Hours probably does a better job.

才意识到一直没给密教留评论 MGN9.0，超主观评分，仅代表个人观点 1分扣在引导，上手需要非常高的学习成本，这一步应该卡死了相当多的玩家 理解能力，耐心，时间，甚至智商（？）任何一项欠缺都很难玩进去吧 我刚入坑时候也稀里糊涂云里雾里，但是暴毙几个轮回之后理解了每一种窘境的对策 接下来就变成定番爬科技树的感觉。正担心会否后续体验过于趋同的时候 三大使徒又带来了完全不同的体验 而后的职业dlc也每个都有每个的特色，非常引人入胜 BGM和美术风格也都很有特色，至于文本的韵味还是要感谢汉化组 此外最让我惊叹的还是完善的原创神话世界观 从零开始创造一个完备的神话体系是非常困难的，正因为有所尝试，才知道其中宏大 而密教原创的世界观，还有概念，是其他下三滥剽窃不走的 至于作者的人品问题，确实我也有所耳闻，想必这对于后续作品的本地化会造成不小的影响 行于夜发售的时候，大抵是要啃生肉了，能连续坑两次汉化组的作者确实贵物 但是如今讨论的是游戏，让我们人品归人品，作品归作品吧 只要能玩得进去，我认为这是堪称神作的存在 也是我无论如何都找不到平替的，桌面卡牌类的白月光 请无论如何都要试试，并且，愿你能沉浸其中

这是一款叙事卡牌游戏，如果你不关心叙事，现在就可以退出了

I feel like one of the definitive qualities of a good indie title is how weird it is willing to get. Cultist Simulator is different than anything else on the market, to the point where it's hard to point out a genre. This one is for the loreheads, assuming the loreheads also like stress, random and permanent deaths, and hours upon hours of lost progress for failing memory and attention mechanics (I will point you towards Book of Hours for a *substantially* friendlier sequel that does not require a Cultist Sim victory to play) Without going too deep into its structure, you have some nouns and some adjectives and a slightly increasing selection of verbs, and your goal is to assemble them into coherent sentences before finally determining just what the hell it is you are reading. Time is a factor but not an overly critical one, ticked away in minute intervals that feel unnecessary at first but soon serve to provide you breathing space to respond to crises, form strategems, break out of your routines and into new ones, and just live in your brain for a bit. As the game unfolds into a mass of ideas and a mess of cards, a narrative about investigating and understanding the occult transpires, while juggling waning sanity, looming conspiracy and a grind of a day job. It's really good, in the spirit and ancestry of the Fallen London/Sunless Seas games in its humor, darkness and esoterica - and like them it is a game with almost no graphics, just gentle abstractions and some text dripping with texture and flavor. When its good, the mechanics inform the narrative, when its bad, the narrative still prevails - though sometimes you might feel compelled to go wiki-diving to figure out how to read on without dying. I wouldn't say Cultist Simulator is a finished thought in all its respects (particularly as a prelude to Book of Hours, a different but similar follow-up with substantially less maddening stress and fatality) but it is entertainingly broken. If you come in it with a desire to just investigate the world from a position of innocence (Disco style), and uncover a world in fragments to piece it together as a whole (Dark Souls style), you're likely to have a good time.

建议找攻略，不然完全不知道发生了什么，沦为苦逼打工人，每天为糊口挣扎。[strike]（对，传的教派叫996） [/strike] 7/10