DO NOT BUY Cult of the Lamb

Hello and welcome back to a new video game

review. So recently I've been playing this

new roguelike game called Cult of the

Lamb, and as an avid fan of roguelike

games, I just knew I had to play this

game. Unfortunately, so far it's been

rather disappointing and sort of lacking

in luster. So this game is pretty much

what you'd expect from any other kind of

roguelike game. If you've played Dead

Cells, Hollow Knight, Binding of Isaac,

or Hades, or any kind of game like that,

you would know exactly what this game is

all about. And in the same way as any

other roguelike game, the gameplay is very

basic and very simple. Basically, you have

to progress through these different rooms,

these different dungeons, which are filled

with different kinds of enemies, and you

have to try your best to avoid their

attacks and preserve your own health bar

so you can keep progressing until you get

to the end boss of the map. And the

problem with the gameplay in this game is

it's very basic and very bare bones. You

only have 2 buttons for attacks, so you've

got the X button for basic attacks and

then you've got the Y button for your

special attacks, which requires some kind

of resource called fervor, which you build

up by defeating enemies. And you'll get a

few different choices of weapons. There's

a sword, there's an axe, there's like a

claw weapon, but they all basically do the

same thing. And the combat will just

involve just smashing the X button all of

the time. There's not really much

complexity to the combat system. There's

no blocking, there's no parrying or

counterattack. You get a roll button,

there's no jumping, and you'll just be

spamming the basic attack over and over

again and maybe doing some special attacks

now and then if you feel like it. But

there's no combos, there's no light

attacks, no heavy attacks, no real

charge-up attacks with a basic melee

weapon. You do get some abilities that you

can charge up, but that's about it. And

unfortunately, I just found myself to be

feeling pretty bored most of the time

during the action and the combat, and

that's a real shame because the game is

mostly built around its combat. I did find

some of the boss battles to be a little

bit exciting, but only because I had only

one health bar left. I had only one heart

left, so it was very risky and I felt like

I could have died at any moment. But

because I managed to dodge skillfully, I

managed to take down these bosses, and

that did feel kind of satisfying. But the

bosses are very basic and they only have a

few attack patterns. They don't really do

anything unexpected and they just follow

this routine which is extremely

predictable. I never really felt very

challenged by any of the bosses, and I

just felt like it was hack and slash, not

really requires much tactics or planning.

Just kind of roll out of the way of their

attacks and kill any spawns that they

might spawn, and that's it really. None of

the bosses were very hard to take down.

Didn't really feel like much of a sense of

accomplishment after taking down the

bosses. After playing a game like Elden

Ring where all of the boss fights were

really challenging and sometimes it could

take you hundreds of tries to even take

down a very powerful boss, The bosses in

this game just felt kind of bland, dull,

and uninspired. I didn't really feel this

sense of achievement after taking down any

of the bosses, and I feel like that's a

real shame because I think if you take the

gameplay mechanics from Elden Ring and the

gameplay concept of Elden Ring and you put

it into a game like this, even if it is a

very simple looking, very flat looking

basic game, it doesn't really have to have

amazing graphics. But if it took some

notes from Elden Ring, I feel like this

game could have felt extremely addictive

in its gameplay. So it is a bit of a shame

that they missed something that could have

made this game really spectacular. I would

have liked to see maybe more weapon

varieties— shields, two-handed weapons,

maybe faster weapons, maybe dual-wield

weapons. So apart from the standard

hack-and-slash combat, which you'll be

doing for quite a large amount of time in

this game, what else does this game have

to offer? And that's where this game kind

of has something unique that sets it apart

from all of the other roguelike games. So

in most other roguelike games, you have a

base, a home base where there's some

shops, some NPCs where you can buy stuff

from and upgrade your skills. Well, this

game doesn't really have that. It has

something else. It has a kind of

base-building gameplay mechanic where you

can build buildings and have your own

camp. It's called a cult. That's why the

game's called The Cult of the Lamb,

because you have all of these followers.

You can rescue them from the maps and you

can bring them back to your camp and they

become your follower, your disciple. And

then you basically just build buildings.

You have a church and you have

resource-collecting outposts where you can

assign workers to, and that's kind of an

interesting addition to the game. And

there is quite a lot of things you can

unlock. There's loads of different

buildings and resource-collecting outpost

stuff, and there's a huge technology tree

and building tree that's all locked in the

beginning of the game. And you need to

collect huge amounts of resources, wood

and stone, to build stuff. And you also

need to collect berries and food and

eventually grow a farm so you can feed

your followers. And the gameplay does

become to get a bit addictive, not because

the combat is fun or anything, but mainly

because there's so many things to unlock.

And I do feel like I really want to unlock

this stuff and keep growing my base, keep

growing my colony, keep growing my cult

and increasing the size of it and

increasing the number of followers I have.

And the only way to do that is to keep

building stuff, and the only way to build

stuff is by collecting resources and

getting gold and currencies. And the best

way to do that is to keep growing the

amount of followers you have by unlocking

more followers from the fighting combat

maps and also collecting the resources and

gold along the way when you're fighting

enemies and then bringing it back to your

base camp and then storing it or using it

to build more stuff. And this gameplay

loop does result in some pretty addictive

gameplay. You do really feel like you want

to keep playing and playing and playing

and collecting more and more resources so

you can make sure your followers are well

looked after and to make sure your cult is

growing, to make sure your base is growing

and doing well. But after a while, it does

become to get a bit mundane and tedious.

And you do feel like you're just kind of

grinding. The gameplay isn't really

exciting. The gameplay just tries to get

you addicted and hooked on trying to grow

your base. It doesn't really make you feel

like you're having a really good time.

It's kind of like it's using MMO tactics

to get the player hooked. So you get a lot

of quests where you've got to collect

items or you've got to defeat some boss in

an area or collect some gold or collect a

lobster to hand in to a fisherman. It is

very MMO-esque in the way you've got these

quests and there's lot of different things

in the game, such as you've got a church,

you've got sermons, and you've got

rituals, and you've got doctrines. And you

can collect these points that allow you to

upgrade your cult so you can unlock more

buildings. There are a lot of things to be

able to be unlocked, and there's a lot of

different kind of currencies and resources

you need to be able to unlock everything,

which results in making you just want to

play the game more and more so you can

keep unlocking stuff. But I can imagine

losing interest in this game very quickly

after I've unlocked the majority of stuff,

because after you've unlocked everything

and you feel like there's not really much

improvement you can do on your colony or

your cult, I don't really see what else

there is to do in the game. I don't really

feel like the gameplay would keep me

coming back just so I could fight enemies

because, like I said earlier, the gameplay

is very bog-standard. There's not much

depth to it and it's just way too basic

for me to actually think that the gameplay

and the combat is worth sticking with the

game after I've finished everything else.

So for those reasons, I don't know if I

could recommend this game as it is in its

current state. State. I would have to give

it a 4.2 out of 10. Maybe wait until

there's more DLC and they've added more to

the game, but right now it does feel a

little bit too barebones for my liking.

As of right now, I am currently enjoying

the game, but I feel like that enjoyment

is not going to last for a very long time.

Maybe this game would be good for some fun

for maybe a week or weekend if you've got

some spare time and you don't really have

anything else to do, but apart from that,

I don't really see this game lasting you

much longer. Than a couple of weeks.