History VideoGame / CultOfTheLamb

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** In terms of AnimalMotifs, sheep are often used to represent mindless followers. This sheep is a cult leader gathering followers of their own for a sinister purpose. [[spoiler:You can choose to play into the Lamb's animal stereotype or avert it further, depending on your ultimate response to The One Who Waits at the end of the game.]]

* MindlessSheep: Inverted. The titular Lamb is the leader of the cult, while their followers of all other animal species are the mindlessly obedient ones.

* EarlyGameHell: While not as bad as other examples, there is a decent amount of struggle to be had in the early game. When you start off, your followers are essentially a pack of wild animals living in a hobo camp who are dependent on you for your every need: feeding them, sheltering them, cleaning up their poop, maintaining their faith, etc. While that might not sound so bad, those demands can take valuable time away from dungeon crawls, which are the only way of obtaining the much needed resources required to make your cult flourish. If you ignore your followers for the sake of crusades, they will turn on you very quickly, and odds are you won't have any way of dealing with them apart from blatant murder in the early game. Until you can get some actual infrastructure going, you'll be spending more time coddling your cultists than smiting heretics.

* AntiGravityClothing: For a loose definition of clothing, the trailer for the ''Sins of the Flesh'' update shows the naked cultists with leaves covering their genital areas, but nothing holding them in place.

* ImAHumanitarian: The Lamb is perfectly capable of using doctrines that [[CannibalClan turn the cult into cannibals]], feasting on the flesh of other animals and gaining benefits from it. At the cost of increased chances of sickness, they will actually ''increase'' their faith and devotion to the Lamb.

* AntiGravityClothing: For a loose definition of clothing, the trailer for the ''Sins of the Flesh'' update shows the naked cultists with leaves covering their genital areas and nothing holding them in place.

* ExpressDelivery: In the trailer for the ''Sins of the Flesh'' expansion, two cultists go into a mating tent and [[SexyDiscretionShot fool around in it for two seconds]] before emerging with an egg.

* FantasyGunControl: The ''Sin of the Flesh'' expansion officially abolished it by introducing a blunderbuss with regenerating ammo for the Lamb to wield.

** Starting January 24, 2024, anyone who owns both ''Cult of the Lamb'' and ''VideoGame/WizardWithAGun'' will unlock the Sytherman's Outfit costume and Red Crown weapon for the latter game.

** ''VideoGame/PartyAnimals'' brought the Lamb into their game as a unlockable character.

** The minibosses are all named after demons from the Literature/ArsGoetia, as are the friendly [=NPCs=] Forneus and Clauneck.

* AmbiguousSituation: When you take the "Belief in Life After Death" doctrine, the death animations change appropriately. Are you altering the appearance of the cult's magic to to your stated beliefs... or did you just [[ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve will an afterlife into existence simply by declaring one to exist?]] [[spoiler:If what the Mysterious Mystic in the ''Relics of the Old Faith'' expansion says at the end of the game is to be believed, the latter is what's happening, since they mention that the Lamb's influence is shaping, not just the laws of this world, but also the laws of the next.]]

* AmbiguousSituation: When you take the "Belief in Life After Death" doctrine, the death animations change appropriately. Are you altering the appearance of the cult's magic to conform to your stated beliefs... or did you just [[ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve will an afterlife into existence simply by declaring one to exist?]] [[spoiler:If what the Mysterious Mystic in the ''Relics of the Old Faith'' expansion says at the end of the game is to be believed, the latter is what's happening, since they mention that the Lamb's influence is shaping, not just the laws of this world, but also the laws of the next.]]

* MindlessSheep: Inverted. The titular Lamb starts a cult and has to imprint and reinforce conformist beliefs in all of his followers. He is also doing this all on the direct orders of an EldritchAbomination [[spoiler: which at the end of the game, you can choose to stay faithful to, or betray at the last second]].

* DevelopersForesight: It is entirely possible to fight the Bishops out-of-order, depending on how long you choose to accumulate your follower count, and each Bishop's dialogue and interactions with the Lamb will change in small ways to reflect the order they're fought in.

* DevouredByTheHorde: When performing the Gluttony of Cannibals ritual from the ''Sins of the Flesh'' expansion, one of your followers will be ganged up by the rest and eaten on the spot.

** Similar to the above, Helob eats people and will share his finds with the Lamb, allowing them to potentially save that Follower from being eaten. The Lamb can then, with the right Doctrines, kill them to eat their meat or carve up their body after a natural death, [[spoiler:or give them to the Fox who will eat them alive.]]

* VirtualPaperDoll: You can customize your cultist's appearance upon initiating them into your cult.

''Cult of the Lamb'' is an action-adventure/strategy/life simulation game developed by Massive Monster and published by Creator/DevolverDigital. It is playable on PC, UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch, UsefulNotes/PlayStation5, UsefulNotes/PlayStation4, UsefulNotes/XboxSeriesXAndS, and UsefulNotes/XboxOne.

* PlotLock: Subverted with the four bishops. Contrary to what many players would initially assume, you don't HAVE to kill any of the bosses to access the other dungeons; you only have to meet the required follower count to unlock each door. This can result in some level of [[SequenceBreaking sequence breaking]] if you choose to take the bishops out at random as opposed to the order intended by the developers (Leshy, Heket, Kallamar, and Shamura); granted the developers did account for players doing this based upon specific dialogue changes so it's arguably [[DevelopersForesight Developer's Foresight]]. However, this is played straight with the final boss [[spoiler:Narinder]] who requires you to defeat all four of the bishops in order to unlock the door to their domain.

The 16th of January, 2024 introduces the "Sins of the Flesh" update. The update adds in new content that features a new progression system for followers (allowing them to ascend to disciples), a new weapon type in the form of [[ShotgunsAreJustBetter Blunderbusses]] and the ability for your followers to procreate and have offspring to indoctrinate.