Cult of the Lamb

In Cult of the Lamb, you play a lamb who is saved by The One Who Waits (an imprisoned deity) instead of being sacrificed. The catch? You have to build him a cult and take down the Four Bishops in order to release him. The player must tend to followers, ensuring they are housed, fed, living in a clean environment, and happy — all while fulfilling side quests, building up Lamb's power, and fighting through multiple levels to defeat enemies. The game includes cult imagery, rituals, sacrifices, and tarot cards. Followers resemble various animals, ranging from cats and dogs to rhinos and giraffes.

• Release date: 08-11-2022
• Developer: Massive Monster
• Publisher: Devolver Digital
• Platforms: MacOS, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Windows PC, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S

Triggers for this game

Animals & Wildlife

• Arachnids

  Can capture spiders and insects as 'morsels' for food. The Silk Cradle level is full of spiders and other arachnids.

  • Can't be avoided

• Birds

  As followers or in the background

  • Can't be avoided

• Cats

  As followers

  • Can't be avoided

• Dogs

  As followers

  • Can't be avoided

• Fictional Creatures

  Enemies

  • Can't be avoided

• Insects

  Can capture spiders and insects as 'morsels' for food. The Silk Cradle level is full of spiders and other arachnids.

  • Can't be avoided

• Misc. Animals & Critters

  Followers are various animals, including giraffes, foxes, donkeys, pigs, birds, and more.

  • Can't be avoided

Crime

• Assassination

  Lamb must take out the four other cult leaders (the Four Bishops).

  • Can't be avoided

• Being Held Against Will

  The One Who Waits (the deity Lamb is working for) is chained up.

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• Fights

  • Can't be avoided

• Guns & Shooting

  In some levels, Lamb will acquire a blunderbuss gun.

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• Human Trafficking & Forced Labor

  Followers will ask to be spared and brought into your cult. However, this may not fully feel consensual and could resemble trafficking and forced labor.

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• Murder

  • Can't be avoided

• Torture

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Death & Loss

• Abandonment

  • Can't be avoided

• Death of Friend

  Followers will age and die. They can also die from illness, overwork, accidents, and murder.

  • Can't be avoided

• Death of Loved One

  Followers will age and die. They can also die from illness, overwork, accidents, and murder.

  • Can't be avoided

• Death of Spouse or Partner

  Followers will age and die. They can also die from illness, overwork, accidents, and murder. You can marry as many of your followers as you like, meaning you will lose partners throughout gameplay.

  • Can't be avoided

• Death of Wild Animal

  Enemies

  • Can't be avoided

• Family Estrangement

  Followers who start to question the cult will leave if you do not manage their crises of faith. They may show up in later levels to fight you.

  • Is avoidable

• Suicide

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  Some major bosses have followers who commit suicide to give them more power in the cut scene immediately before you fight them. These cut scenes can be skipped.

  • Is avoidable

Disturbing Sounds & Sound Design

• Bone Crushing

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• Clicking Sounds

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• Distorted Voices

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• Scratching

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• Screams

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Drugs & Alcohol

• Alcohol Consumption

  Can build a 'drinkhouse' for your followers with beer and wine. Doing so will lead to them getting drunk quickly, fighting, and vomiting. Can avoid by not building the 'drinkhouse' or not using it.

  • Is avoidable

• Drug Addiction

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  A character named Sozo becomes addicted to mushrooms. You can stop working towards his quest at any point to avoid this.

  • Is avoidable

• Drunkenness

  Can build a 'drinkhouse' for your followers with beer and wine. Doing so will lead to them getting drunk quickly, fighting, and vomiting. Can avoid by not building the 'drinkhouse' or not using it.

  • Is avoidable

• Intoxication

  Can use mushrooms to brainwash your followers. Must be done at least once to fulfill a side quest.

  • Can't be avoided

Financial & Resource Management

• Gambling

  Can gamble on the game Knucklebones.

  • Is avoidable

• Homelessness

  Will rescue individuals who have nowhere else to go and whose homes were destroyed.

  • Can't be avoided

• Income Management

  Need to watch your income, as you need gold coins for various tasks, recipe ingredients, etc.

  • Can't be avoided

• Poverty

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• Scarcity

  Need to watch your income and resources, as you need each for various tasks, recipe ingredients, etc.

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Gore

• Animal Violence

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• Blood

  • Can't be avoided

• Cannibalism

  Can choose to 'recycle' dead followers into meat for meals.

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  If you plant the mushroom from Sozo's corpse, he will grow back into Sozo. After this, he will ask you to find his friends... whom he will promptly eat. You can avoid finding his friends with no harm done to your gameplay.

  • Is avoidable

• Guts

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  Have to collect various body parts (hearts and eyes) from the bosses you kill for later tasks.

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• Viscera

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Horror Themes

• Black Magic

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• Demons & Devils

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• Ghosts & Hauntings

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• Jump Scares

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• Mind Control

  Bosses occasionally bring your followers into battle, using mind control to force them to attack you while apologizing. The only way to end this is to kill them.

  • Can't be avoided

• Monsters

  • Can't be avoided

• Possession

  Bosses occasionally bring your followers into battle, using mind control to force them to attack you while apologizing. The only way to end this is to kill them.

  • Can't be avoided

• Witchcraft

  • Can't be avoided

• Zombies & Undead

  Can raise followers from the dead if you develop certain skills.

  • Is avoidable

Law Enforcement

• Capital Punishment

  Can set up prison and capital punishment systems.

  • Is avoidable

• Prison & Incarceration

  Can set up prison and capital punishment systems.

  • Is avoidable

Mental Health

• Grief

  Can be lessened by choosing disciplines that help followers believe in an afterlife.

  • Can't be avoided
  • Has options to lessen

• Relationship Management

  Must manage your relationship with your cult members.

  • Can't be avoided

Non-Sexual Abuse & Violence

• Altercations

  • Can't be avoided

• Assault

  • Can't be avoided

• Bullying

  Can bully followers who are afraid of Lamb or choose to reassure them instead.

  • Is avoidable

• Hunting

  Fishing is required in several side quests.

  • Can't be avoided

• Magical Violence

  • Can't be avoided

• Manipulation

  • Can't be avoided

Phobias

• Arachnophobia

  • Can't be avoided

• Emetophobia

  Followers will randomly vomit when unwell, intoxicated, or have eaten something icky.

  • Can't be avoided

• Hemophobia

  • Can't be avoided

• Megalophobia

  • Can't be avoided

• Merinthophobia

  The One Who Waits (the deity Lamb is working for) is chained up.

  • Can't be avoided

• Misc. Phobias

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  Zelophobia: Fear of jealousy (if marrying multiple followers), Wiccaphobia: Fear of witches and witchcraft, Pharmacophobia: fear of drugs, Ostraconophobia: Fear of shellfish (when you fish), Ichthyophobia: Fear of fish, Hamartophobia: Fear of sinning, Batrachophobia: Fear of amphibians

  • Can't be avoided

• Necrophobia

  Many dead bodies. Have to prepare them for burial or 'recycling' into compost or food.

  • Can't be avoided

• Nyctophobia

  • Can't be avoided

• Ommetaphobia

  As a side quest, you can collect The Eye of the Witness (one in each world). These just appear following the second boss battle in the world and taking the eyes out isn't shown. If you choose to go through the levels following the initial boss battles, you cannot avoid this and must pick up the disembodied eyeballs in order to return to the cult.

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  END BOSS SPOILERS: If you choose to not submit to The One Who Waits, the final boss battle against him involves his three eyeballs popping out, chasing you, and attacking you. You also see his face with empty eye holes. This can be avoided by choosing to submit to him.

  • Can't be avoided
  • Has options to lessen

• Thalassophobia

  • Can't be avoided

• Traumatophobia

  • Can't be avoided

Physical Health & Body Issues

• Cooking System

  Must feed followers. Eventually, you can build a kitchen so they can cook for themselves, but you will have to set up the recipes they cook each time.

  • Can't be avoided

• Pain & Physical Suffering

  • Can't be avoided

• Progressive Illness

  Followers will get ill. If they then are not allowed to rest or are not cured, they will continue to get sicker and will die.

  • Is avoidable

• Reproductive Health

  Can choose followers to mate. If you do so, you choose the child's traits and name. You also tend to the egg in the hatchery and then give the child reassurance as it grows.

  • Is avoidable

• Terminal Illness

  Followers will get ill. If they then are not allowed to rest or are not cured, they will continue to get sicker and will die.

  • Is avoidable

Politics

• Dictatorship

  • Can't be avoided

• Fanaticism

  • Can't be avoided

• Political Imprisonment

  Can imprison and 're-educate' the followers who go against you.

  • Is avoidable

Religion & Sects

• Cults

  • Can't be avoided

• Fictional Religions

  • Can't be avoided

• Ritual Sacrifice

  • Can't be avoided

Sex & Erotica (Consensual)

• Implied Sex

  Can choose followers to mate. They go into a tent and nothing is shown.

  • Is avoidable

• Kissing

  Can smooch your spouses.

  • Is avoidable

Traumatic Events

• Accidents

  • Can't be avoided

War & Military

• Bombing

  • Can't be avoided

• Fictional War

  • Can't be avoided

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