June 7, 2023 - Day 158 - NewPlay Review
Total NewPlays: 175

Game: Honey, I Joined a Cult

Platform: Steam
Release Date: Nov 4, 2022
Library Date: Jun 7, 2023
Unplayed: 0d (0d)
Playtime: 19m

Honey, I Joined a Cult is a top-down tycoon/management sim, in which you create a cult.

When June's Humble Choice bundle dropped today, I went through and added the 5 games I didn't already have to Steam.

With the idea of reviewing the bundle over the next week.

This is a tycoon management game about building a cult. I really did not think this through.

For those of you new to my story, my family & personal history is intertwined with two separate cults. This game was starting off from a long way behind, and literally started causing me anxiety.

Firstly, the music. I didn't get around to turning it down, but disco funk is somewhere below Kenny G for me, and definitely didn't not enhance my calm, or gameplay experience.

Secondly, the game visually feels a bit like The Escapists but with vector art graphics instead of pixel graphics.

Finally, coming off a city-builder management sim last night into this was like jumping off a moving bullet train into a push wagon. It... was not pleasant.

I wanted to give this a chance, but at 19 minutes, it was all a bit too much, and I was out.

Honey, I Joined a Cult? Actually:

1: Nope

#HoneyIJoinedACult #TopDown #ManagementSim #HumbleChoice #MastodonGaming #Gaming #Project365ONG #Project365 #NewPlay

@Bogusmeatfactory Everything has a fishing minigame these days. Can you catch motes of the Holy Ghost and convert them into Roman followers by throwing them into the crowd?

(Honestly, I'd play a Messiah Simulator that let me create whatever cult I wanted with whatever means I please; #HoneyIJoinedACult and #CultOfTheLamb don't give enough flexibility for my needs ... Huh, maybe I should write that game, at least for #ttrpg .)