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Cults and Daggers

58% positive of 48 Steam reviews

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Released
2015
Steam Deck
Not tested
Platforms
Steam

Made by Chaphat.

About the game

Cults and Daggers is a strategy game set in the time between the death of the Buddha and the birth of Christ. You create your own religion and fight a secret war for the soul of the world. The game includes, spies, assassinations, double dealing, occult forces, martyrs, prophets and blasphemers.

Tagged by players

  • Strategy
  • Grand Strategy
  • Turn-Based Strategy

What players say

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What players say

  • Not recommended
    Overall the game feels very unpolished, with event notifications scattered all over the world map, messes of text piling up in one spot, and a lack of any sort of in game tutorial or instructions. While I found the idea interesting, the game was frusturating to follow, and also nearly pre-emptively decided who would win any age (the seven rounds the game is divided into) after the first, as it would play through…

    2.9 h played when written. 26 found it helpful.

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  • Recommended
    For all its faults, Cults & Daggers is an interesting and fun take on turn-based 4X games. It's got a great premise, multiple roads to victory, and a rule set that isn't crazy tough to learn. It's surprisingly fun managing the operations of your pet religion, sending marching orders to your disciples, and preaching to or manipulating cities, and quashing the Old Gods. It's not perfect. In fact, the events summary at…

    5.8 h played when written. 23 found it helpful.

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