Buy Cult Of The Lamb and its DLC for less than the base game

In 2022, one of the most unexpectedly big games of the year was a cute little cult simulator. Cult of the LambDeveloped by Massive Monster and published by Devolver Digital, it made a huge splash when it launched two summers ago, speaking to all the little freaks and deviants out there. The hybrid of Animals crossing-style daily tasks, recruitment and relationship maintenance, as well as Hades‘ roguelike design and fast-paced combat made for an immersive venture into the heart of evil. As it celebrates its second anniversary, you can get it and all the DLC released since launch extra cheap.

You can pick up now Cult of the Lamb with a 50 percent discount on Steam, PlayStation, Xbox, and Nintendo Switch. This means the base game and all major updates will cost just $12.49. For that price, you get a pretty substantial and fun adventure that will keep you busy for a weekend or so if you decide to marathon it. That’s pretty much how I played it when I reviewed the game, and it really lends itself well to the approach.

You get in, you get deeply lost in its approachable systems—like managing which cultists mine, tending to crops, and spreading the good word of the lamb—and 48 hours later you can be completely done with the game. It’s one of the slickest gaming experiences I’ve had in years, and the fact that it can be completed in around 20 hours is a godsend.

Cult of the Lamb combines the disgusting nature of cults (living sacrifices are made, and marriage to your subjects is also possible) with a cutesy, plush aesthetic with uncomfortably enjoyable results. The first time you swing an axe at an enemy it feels strange, but soon it starts to feel almost natural to behead heretics. You’re responsible for feeding your cultists, and if you happen to run out of food you can feed them their own junk or even the corpses that eventually start to pile up.

It’s all a bit scary, but the fact that Cult of the Lamb‘s art style makes light of the subject matter and communicates how willing we are to tolerate cruelty if it’s dressed up in a way that appeals to our sensibilities and desires. In a way, it’s the most unashamedly honest simulator ever, because why do we play these games if not to exert total, sometimes terrifying, control?

As if the base game didn’t have enough of that, Massive Monster has spent the last two years expanding on that dark fantasy. Since then, it’s added more story to the game, new costumes and forms your followers can take, more extensive weapons, and deeper mechanics like the sin system. Oh, and they’ve added breeding. This tweet from the team sums it up better than I can.

The latest update and DLC for Cult of the Lamb even turned it into a co-op game, so now you can join forces with a friend and commit heinous crimes against all kinds of living creatures togetherWhile most of the new content has come to the game via free updates, there are DLC packs that offer a lot of cosmetics and at least one or two of them have some added storylines. For $21.79 you can get Cult of the Lamb and all major updates, plus all DLC packs released for the game.

Considering the base title costs a flat $25, that means you get everything that’s ever been added Cult of the Lamb for less than retail price. I don’t know about you, but that sounds like a great deal and time to me.