Worship Cthulhu! The dangerous charm of the city construction sim 'Worshippers of Cthulhu” [gamescom]

At the Polish booth at gamescom 2024 held in Germany, a playable demo of the city construction sim "Worshippers of Cthulhu" (PC) developed by Crazy Goat Games was on display.

In ``Worshippers of Cthulhu,'' the player takes on the role of a high priest who has become fed up with humanity, which has experienced war for a long time, and has become devoted to the Cthulhu faith. When he and his followers rowed out to sea, they ran aground and found a mysterious monument on Dreamshroud Island, where they believed it to be a sacred place and decided to awaken the god Cthulhu and prepare for a change on a cosmic scale. is the story of this work.
When it comes to Cthulhu games, there are many adventure games in which the main character is exposed to madness and struggles between reality and delusion while fighting through "cosmic-level horror." In that respect, this work is a city construction simulation that approaches it from an unusual angle, building a religious city with people who are already ``dyed.''


As a full-fledged simulation, players initially create roads according to square grids, build sawmills and lumberjack huts, cut out the surrounding forest, and create houses for believers to live in. As the population increases, the required resources and buildings also increase.
The initial goal was to build an altar for sacrifice, but at this point the sacrifice was simply making an idol out of wood and placing it on the altar. When you pray, an octopus leg will come out of the huge hole underneath the monument and take away the wooden statue. As a result, they will receive the blessings of the Eldritch god and receive "abundant blessings," but it seems that the demands for sacrifices will gradually change.

The Crazy Goat Games development team including Janina Wojciechowska (center), who is developing “Worshippers of Cthulhu”

According to Janina Wojciechowska, a game designer at Crazy Goat Games, who introduced a demo of this work, this work not only has a campaign-like story that progresses, but also involves It is said that you can go on an expedition to an island and plunder it, thereby brainwashing suspicious people who come to investigate, or you can expand your power by creating a colony in a new land, making it a fairly large game. I'll see how it goes.
Also, if you check the interface, you can see the profiles of individual believers, and if their dissatisfaction increases, they will abandon their faith and run away.There is a lot of detailed management, so it seems like you can enjoy it thoroughly. Various Eldritch gods will appear, and as the story progresses, supernatural mysteries and the way the world is will gradually be revealed.


"Worshippers of Cthulhu" is scheduled to be released on October 22nd, and the interface and text will be in Japanese. A demo is currently available on the Steam store page, so try it out and add it to your wishlist if you like it.

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