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Gameplay

Cult Survivors is a rougelike survivor type game where your goal is to defeat enemies and bosses while leveling up with the goal of surviving 20 minutes. With each run you will gain meta currency that you can use to become stronger for future runs.

Overview

Recruit followers and guide them to the right path. Choose the teachings that best fit your cult. Collect ancient knowledge to better equip yourself for your future attempts. And survive the onslaught of other cults and their leaders trying to take you down! If you survive long enough you will be the last cult standing!

Features

23 unique followers
15+ passives to tailor your run
Meta upgrades to increase your strength run after run
More than 12 unique enemy types and 5+ bosses to fight

Founder of the Final Cult Early Access Update #1

Hello Founders!

As mentioned in an earlier post this week we are moving the game into the Early Access stage! With that move comes a pretty substantial update to the game as well! We have added a lot of new content and even a new game mode! For more details on these things please read below:

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Third Map: We have added a third map to the game! The new map is set in a city that has recently been hit by an apocalyptic event, causing you and the enemy cults to fight for control of the abandoned and empty city.

This map is different not only visually than the other two but also features an infinitely long but narrow road
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This adds a new challenge for players that will require them to change how they play
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Cult Families by Map: We have made it so maps now only spawn certain families.

Each map now has two cult families assigned to it to pull enemies from
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For bosses, the first two bosses only will spawn from the assigned families, but the final two bosses will be randomly chosen from all the other cult families
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For the final boss, since we only have one currently, it will always spawn that one but once we implement more then this will be based on the map and families as well
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New boss: We have added a new boss for the chronically online family! For the longest time it only had one boss so this one has been planned for quite some time. It has many unique mechanics that are completely new so we hope you have fun.

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New game mode: We have added a 10 minute game mode!

This is a faster paced game mode that is more challenging to complete as enemies and bosses are spawning in more quicker
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This mode is an alternative to the 20 minute game mode for when you want to play a quicker game and are on a time limit!
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Some Minor Changes:

We have improved performance slightly for late game! We will continue to try to improve performance further in upcoming updates.
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Fixed a game crashing bug when using lightning magic and taking the Arcane Mastery boss passive.
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Some other minor fixes as well.
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[ 2025-06-26 15:17:06 CET ] [Original Post]

Founder of the Final Cult Early Access Update

Hello Founders,

While todays update does not include patch notes (hold tight those are coming soon!), todays updates are still pretty substantial! We would like to announce that Founder of the Final Cult is entering the Early Access Stage! The game will be available in Early Access on the June 26th with a pretty big update coming along with it! This also means that the demo will stay up but will not be updated further anymore.

[ 2025-06-22 00:04:57 CET ] [Original Post]

Found of the Final Cult Update 0.17.0.4

Fellow Founders!

Today we launch a pretty substantial update that changes the game in a significant way! We have changed the leveling up of your followers to make it more streamlined. This has resulted in major changes to the balance of the game for thing such as: enemy health and damage, follower damage, and boss health. Additionally we have reworked all the followers ascensions now and made them more unique and powerful! Finally we have also reworked status effects and overall increased the ability to spread status effects.

For additional details, please read below:
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Follower level up change:

We have cut the amount of times you need to level up a follower to reach its ascension by one.
This allows us to make it so leveling up happens less often and there are fewer disruptions to the gameplay.
As there are fewer levels before ascensions each level up feels more impactful to each follower rather than a small increase.
These changes also allow the player to have more time with ascended followers as you will reach ascensions sooner than before.

Ascensions Rework:

We felt the ascensions werent really packing a punch in some cases and for some followers one of the ascensions was clearly the better choice than other, so we have reworked nearly all the ascensions.
All ascensions are now strong and vastly unique from each other.
This allows for what we intended to do with ascensions in the first place, to customize your followers how you want them to play in the run.

Status Effect Rework

We have reworked status effects and how the status effect system works as we thought it was a little bit complicated.
All status effects now are stackable, with more stacks leading to stronger effects, or in the case of bleeding the status effect triggering.
It is now easier to apply status effects as well, as most followers have upgrades or ascensions that apply status effect with some even applying multiple stacks of it in one go.
This standardizes how the status effects work, but also gives them a scale where if you have little status effect application on a run you wont notice it, but if you invest into status effects on a run you will see just how strong they can be!

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Some Minor Changes:

Rebalancing of experience gain and leveling up as a result of the changes made to followers level up.
Rebalancing of the enemies scaling and boss scaling as a result of player level being lower. The scaling has been made a bit more aggressive as the leveling up system has slowed down but became more powerful.
We have fixed a few bugs!

[ 2025-02-02 20:12:13 CET ] [Original Post]

Found of the Final Cult Update 0.16.3.0

Fellow Founders!

We are excited to launch another major update for our game that adds to it in substantial ways! We have added achievements that reward you for completing certain milestones now in the game. We have reworked the library fully so it is now more impactful for each upgrade you take. Additionally the library now has bits of lore for you to enjoy and get an idea of the world you are trying to establish your cult in. Shields have been reworked now and changed dramatically as well, to make them feel more impactful. And thanks to our Sound Director we have been able to add a bunch of amazing sounds for all effects in game and background music to the Jungle map.

For additional details please read below:

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Achievements and Unlocks

We have added a new achievement system to the game that will lead to you unlocking whole sorts of things such as passives, boss passives, backgrounds, and other secrets for you to find out! These achievements will be based on various things such as damage dealt, killing certain enemies, and defeating bosses. We feel this system adds another layer of rewards for our fellow cult leaders.

Library Revamp

The Meta progressions and its screen has been fully revamped! The Meta progression screen is referred to as Ancient Library and the upgrades are now scrolls. The individual amount of Meta upgrades have been lowered but each upgrade is more impactful now. Additionally, each upgrade now also reveals a bit of the lore of that upgrade and the world that you are trying to take over with your cult!

Shields Revamp

Shields have also been fully reworked now. Shields now drop from enemies instead of being picked while leveling up and now are usable only once! Additionally shields are now unlocked in the Ancient Library at tier 3. We have buffed the shield abilities and added more shields variants so they also feel more impactful.

Sound Design

We have added a substantial amount of sounds to various things in game such as enemy hit sounds, weapon sounds, pick up sounds and more. These sounds add significant depth to the game and we will be adding more in future updates. Additionally, we have also added background music to the Jungle map and it is a certified banger!

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Some Minor Changes:

We added new backgrounds that can be unlocked through achievements and reworked some of the old ones that felt weak.
We changed XP scaling to slow leveling up.
We changed Boss HP scaling as well so its not as punishing but the bosses still feel tankier as you go along.
We have also fixed quite a lot of bugs as well.

[ 2024-10-14 05:49:28 CET ] [Original Post]

Founder of The Final Cult Update 0.9

Fellow Founders!

We are excited to bring you a major update that changes our game substantially in many ways! We have added a handy tutorial system that will help all the new Cult Founders understand what it takes to lead their cult to glory. We also reworked the lighting and colour system within the game to help with tracking your character and enemies and reduce visual noise. We noticed that the melee followers were inconsistent and thus reworked them. For detailed information please read below:

General Changes

Tutorial:

We noticed that when you are playing Founder of the Final Cult for the first time it can be a little overwhelming and confusing. So to help new players out we added a small but helpful tutorial that will explain the basics of the game. This tutorial will first appear when you start your first ever run in the game. But dont worry if you forget or zoom through it! When you are in a run, you can pause the game and there will be a help button that will bring up the tutorial again.

Reworked Lighting and Colour:

We have fully reworked the lighting and colour system in game so that the action is much easier to follow now. Everything within the game now has an outline to help track it better, such as your character, your followers' attack, enemies, enemy projectiles, and etc. Additionally we have reworked the lighting on everything so that it fits visually better on both maps thus making it help with tracking and reducing the visual noise in late game.

Melee Followers Rework:

We noticed that the melee followers were inconsistent across their category and compared to other followers so we reworked their attack logic to hopefully make them easier to understand and therefore use. Before their attack would follow their movement and as result make it hard to line them up to hit enemies. Now their attack will complete one swing from when the attack started even if the follower has moved. Therefore it is easier to know when the attack starts and what it will hit.

Minor Changes

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Win Condition for 20 minute gamemode has changed: Once the timer reaches 0:00 you must also kill all bosses on screen to win the run

There is an attack bar under each recruited follower that indicates when an attack will go off

Followers are now evenly spaced around you

Pick-up visuals have been reworked for Exp Scrolls and Knowledge Fragments: Pick-ups no longer grow in size. A colour scheme has been added to indicate the quantity/quality of the pickup

Character movement rework: Moving around the map should feel more natural and less twitchy

Added a Boss Spawn animation to better indicate the new threat

Bosses and enemies rebalance: Bosses now have a lot more hp and more damage dealt to players, Regular enemies now have more hp and damage dealt to players, Enemies no longer scale their movement speed as time goes on

Added new customization in the menu options allowing players to adjust the following: Screen Shake, Enemy HP bars, Damage Numbers, Particle Intensity

Adjusted tooltips for better visibility

Added helpful tips on the pause screen

Explosion damage is now more consistent

Follower tags now indicate what tags were added (gold) vs what a follower starts with

Entering any inputs on the intro screen will now skip to the main menu

Renamed Shop to Library

Changed the first variant of the axe follower
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Bug Fixes

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Fixed followers incorrectly showing tags that they do not have

Fixed how follower tags are updated, they are more consistent now

Fixed bug that allowed recruited followers to be banished

Fixed lag spikes caused by particles from enemies dying

Fixed a bug that made it possible for enemies and bosses to push players into walls and prevent movement

Improved overall performance

Fixed controller support in the library

Fixed mouse visibility when using a controller

Fixed game not automatically pausing when controller disconnects

Fixed game not automatically pausing when opening the Steam overlay
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[ 2024-08-25 20:02:52 CET ] [Original Post]

Cult Survivors Page Launch

Hello new and old Followers,

We are excited to announce that the steam page for our first game is now live! And to celebrate that we have playable demo for you all to enjoy thats available now!

In Cult Survivors, your goal is to survive the onslaught of cultists and cult leaders that are trying to take you and your cult down! Recruit your very own followers and guide them to their ascended state to help you survive! Improve your cult passively with minor and major teachings. Use ancient knowledge, earned every run, to make your cult stronger permanently.

We are diligently improving and adding onto the game so please wishlist it to follow the development and be notified when Cult Survivors is ready to launch!
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