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Recommended
0.0 hrs last two weeks / 221.9 hrs on record (103.3 hrs at review time)
Posted: Dec 12, 2023 @ 6:11am
Updated: Dec 12, 2023 @ 7:56am

This is a game for a very particular type of person, the type who likes to pour over the same paragraphs a few times for clues and take too many notes and stubbornly work things out by themselves (moreso at their own relaxed pace than one might have with Weather Factory's previous title, Cultist Simulator, which had much more peril in its course of W.I.O.Y. (also known as work-it-out-yourself, a new acronym that as of this typing I am no longer trying to make 'a thing')). This is definitely a game for the spreadsheet lovers, and the venn diagram intersection between that type of shut-in library nerd and those with an almost academic approach to digesting cryptic, weird fiction and interpretations of history and theology, a similar yet distinct type of shut-in library nerd (and oh, what a specific treat that type of nerd will have, with writing so clearly based on a deep understanding of real-world history, ancient theology and post-Renaissance occultist philosophy, built upon as foundation for an emergent and beautiful little fictional setting cooked up for our plates, the emergence of which I shall no longer speak on as it is rather wonderfully discovered for oneself, though those players of Cultist Simulator will be quite familiar with some established tenets and very unfamiliar with these newer ones).

Anyhow, it just so happens that I am so specifically that kind of shut-in library nerd, and if you are also of like mind, or of some sort of mind in the vague periphery of that, then this is not just a good fit for you, it is most likely a perfect fit for you. Go in with blindfolds on, candles lit and curtains drawn, and you will be shortly left asking why on earth no one else has tried a game like this before, and also rather quickly, why on earth no one else has been quite this good at it.
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