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Waiting for some genius to calculate how many people this statistically means

Cultist Simulator was a disappointment after being hyped about it for a while. From the outside it looked like an addicting roguelike power fantasy type of game but it wasn’t. It’s a purposefully obscure game with no clear goal, which would be alright if there was some kind mystery to unfold or if the journey was enjoyable. There’s no mystery as far as I can tell, it’s all flavor text. The gameplay was interesting in the first few runs when I was still learning mechanics but after that it’s just tedious. It’s also really punishing if you don’t play carefully all the time. Other than the vibes/atmosphere I have no idea what anyone enjoys about it.

It still has idiosyncrasies that create friction. Looking like it’s from early 2000s is much less of a problem imo than confusing buttons and unintuitive workflows. E: It’s also strangely laggy and multimonitor support on wayland is still not fixed

I wasn’t meaning age verification in particular, Google deciding to mandate developer registration for Android apps and Samsung removing to option to unlock the bootloader on their phones also happened last summer

I wonder if in the future we’ll get to know exactly who pressed the digital freedoms crackdown button on the summer of 2025. Things were going backwards already before then but the sudden acceleration is curious and concerning to me.