4.5/5 ★ – Just_Deli's review of Cult of the Lamb.

I have become a sucker for good looking survival/crafting games. But at the same time I have also become a real sucker for good rouge-lite games. After playing the likes of Hades, Curse of the Dead Gods and Slay the Spire I have developed an appetite for good Rouge-likes. So what happens when you mix both of those games into one and give it a beautiful cartoony art style. You get Cult of the Lamb. This is my game of the year if another game about being a god also didn't launch this year. I will start with the art style because that is one of my favorite things about it. You can't look at this game and not be absorbed by its eye-catching cute cartoon style. The game is colorful and so pleasing to the eye. On top of that, the animations and the way things just interact with each other works so well, and it just makes you feel like you are playing something truly created with passion. This games blends the rouge-like gameplay into a crafting/village management sim putting you in place as the leader of your own animal cult, managing your villagers, crafting food for them to eat, cleaning up their poop, upgrading your character, dealing with disputes among your followers and then sacrificing the ones who beg you to eat the poop dish. Not only is there a great rouge-like here where your lamb is tasked with fighting through the 4 different worlds to defeat a godly creature and its minions after they tried ridding the world of lambs. But then in between runs you can talk to your own minions, craft new buildings that help develop you cult into a stronger force, which in turn upgrades you on your runs through the dungeons. You can make new food recipes that give new buffs to your villagers, send them on missions for resources, and make them clean up their own poop. This game really just nails everything it looked to accomplish and excels in everything. I managed to 100% this game as well with the most challenging achievements being the no-hit boss kills. The developers over at Massive Monster have made it known that there will eventually be added content, maybe DLC , maybe an expansion, either way I will be there for it ready to start cleaning up follower poop once more. This one is $24.99 and I can't recommend this enough.