Four years of free updates turned a clever launch title into one of the most consistently loved games on Steam, cult included.
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Cult of the Lamb hands you a cult to run and a dungeon to clear, and neither half feels like the tutorial for the other. You're a sacrificed lamb resurrected by a trapped god, building a fanatical following in a cartoon-cute art style that keeps smiling through some dark, occasionally disturbing material underneath it.
Assign followers to farm and worship, hold sermons, indoctrinate the doubtful, and send your flock to fight when they're not busy building your shrine. Head into a dungeon after that and it plays like a tight, fast action-roguelite in its own right: five starting weapons, heavy attacks, a ranged Blunderbuss added later, and Tarot cards that reshape a run on the fly. The writing carries both halves, dark enough to justify the cult premise and funny enough that it rarely takes itself too seriously.
Massive Monster backed that combination with three and a half years of free updates instead of milking it. Relics of the Old Faith added a full post-game storyline and a boss-rematch mode in 2023, and Sins of the Flesh followed a year later with follower breeding and a disciple leveling system. Couch co-op arrived after that. Woolhaven, a snowbound expansion built around a spreading corruption mechanic, finally became the game's first paid DLC in January 2026, years after most players had already gotten their money's worth for free.
The dungeon-crawling is the part that hasn't kept up. Runs recycle the same handful of room shapes and enemy types more than a dedicated roguelite would tolerate, and once your base is built out, day-to-day cult maintenance can turn into idle busywork between raids. One outlet scored it a blunt 3 out of 10 over those same complaints, bugs included, though it's the harshest take by a wide margin among critics who mostly landed in the 80s. Four years after launch, Steam still rates it Overwhelmingly Positive at 96 percent, and the review count keeps climbing instead of trailing off.
Buy it. The cult management alone is worth the price of admission, and four years of free content before the first paid DLC earns Massive Monster the benefit of the doubt on Woolhaven.