The killing has long since begun in Among Cultists!
Fans of deduction and bluffing games like Abysmal or Werewolves of Bleak Forest can look forward to new fodder: with the release of Among Cultists a new gloomy social deduction game in which you have to unmask the traitors in your own ranks. At the same time as the basic game, two expansions will also be released, each with a new game board and surprising challenges. The Halloween game night can come!
How to play Among Cultists?
In Among Cultists: A Social Deduction Thriller you’ll take on the role of investigators and cultists and try to achieve victory for your team. Before the game starts, you’ll get random roles and team assignments: As an investigator of a secret society, you’ll try to thwart the dark ritual of the cultists by identifying and eliminating them before they can finish it. You’d better avoid other characters, because every encounter could be your last! Indeed, the goal of the traitors is to get rid of the investigators.
Only if you manage to expose all the cultists or restore enough rooms before time runs out, you can save the venerable university.
Among Cultists: A Social Deduction Thriller
“How bad is it?” the man in the brown trench coat with a pitch-black eye patch asked in the doorway of the foyer, as he surveyed the room, which was festooned with mysterious runes, only to answer the question for himself afterwards. “I can see: significantly worse than I thought. Does it look like this everywhere?” – “Yes! Every room. I wonder what it’s all about? What on earth do these cultists want? They’re insane!”
The man with the eye patch went to a dresser and poured himself a whiskey. He emptied the glass in a single gulp without pulling a face, then put it back upside down on the dresser, above which pentagrams in blood-red color watched ominously. “Get out of the university! Who knows what else will happen tonight. We cannot guarantee your safety.”
In the social deduction game Among Cultists you take on the role of investigators and cultists and try to achieve victory for your team.
Before the game starts, you’ll get random roles and team assignments: As an investigator of a secret society, you’ll try to thwart the dark ritual of the cultists by identifying and eliminating them before they can finish it. You’d better avoid other characters, because every encounter could be your last! Indeed, the goal of the traitors is to get rid of the investigators.
Only if you manage to expose all the cultists or restore enough rooms before time runs out, you can save the venerable university. But beware: they are already among you … and the killing has long since begun!
The extensions
The game plans of the two expansions provide new surprising challenges and even more strategic depth.
Down Into the Abyss
In the depths of the ocean, a life form unknown to us has been discovered. The creature is larger than anything that has ever existed on Earth … and it appears to be asleep. However, since the discovery is too deep for us to research here without complications, a huge, top-secret research facility was unceremoniously built on the neighboring islands. But no sooner was the plant completed than a jet-black shadow spread between the islands … and the horror took its course.
The expansion Down Into the Abyss for the social deduction game Among Cultists includes a new game board and thus brings special challenges in preventing the cultist ritual.
Want more from Among Cultists out of it? Forget about vacation feelings on this new map: the varying obstacles will drive you crazy. Tentacles ahoy!
Mountains of Chaos
Generations ago, these mines were sealed. All the miners who worked here were taken by madness, and no one was ever to dig so deep for valuable minerals again. To make sure that this place remains hidden, each generation attached locks of their time to the access shaft: seals, runes, traps. All to enclose the shapeless… in the mountains of chaos.
The expansion Mountains of Chaos for the social deduction game Among Cultists includes a new game board and thus brings special challenges in preventing the cultist ritual.
Want more from Among Cultists out of it? This new map takes you deep underground into an abandoned mine with elevators. Or deepen your game session with the optional profession module.
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