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Cult of the Lamb

Start your own cult in a land of false prophets, venturing out into diverse and mysterious regions to build a loyal community of woodland Followers and spread your Word to become the one true cult.

Action AdventureRoguelikeSimulationStrategy

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Would you recommend it?
Player score
9.6/10
128,972 reviews
Released
2022
Developer
Massive Monster
Platforms
2 systems
Critics
82
Steam Deck
verified
Download
4 GB
We have not written a full review of this game.This is a catalogue entry: everything below comes from a source we can link, checked on a stated date. There is no score and no verdict here, because we only publish those after a reviewer has played the game and written it up properly. Our team may well have played this one. Until someone writes the review, we are not going to imply a verdict we have not put our name to.

What is Cult of the Lamb?

Start your own cult in a land of false prophets, venturing out into diverse and mysterious regions to build a loyal community of woodland Followers and spread your Word to become the one true cult.

Description as published by the developer on its own store page, read 30 August 2026. It is marketing copy, not our assessment.

The record

Catalogue facts
First released11 August 2022
DeveloperMassive Monster
PublisherDevolver Digital
PlatformsXbox Series X and Series S, Steam Deck
GenresAction Adventure, Roguelike, Simulation, Strategy
Languages14 supported

Source. Catalogue facts from Wikidata Q108273566, seeded 30 August 2026. Store data from Steam, read 30 August 2026.

How was Cult of the Lamb received?

Players96%positive of 128,972 · Overwhelmingly Positive
Metacritic82critic aggregate, PC
Achievements57on Steam

Method. Player figures are Steam's own totals for the PC version, read 30 August 2026. The Metacritic score is the one Steam publishes on its store page and can lag the site itself. Metacritic page. Neither is our opinion. We have not published a review of this game.

Accessibility

7 declared features

Seeing

  • Camera Comfort

Hearing

  • Custom Volume Controls
  • Stereo Sound

Input

  • Full controller support
  • Keyboard Only Option

Difficulty

  • Adjustable Difficulty
  • Save Anytime

Method. Features the publisher declared on its own store page. A declaration is a floor, not a review.

What does it support?

Technical support
CapabilitySupport
Controllerfull support
Cloud savesYes
Cross-platform playNo
Mod supportNo official workshop
Online playSingle-player only
In-game purchasesNo
Steam Deckverified
Download size4 GB
Add-on content7 DLC listed
Age gateNone

Content descriptors

  • General mature content

Method. Read from the publisher's Steam listing on 30 August 2026. Describes the PC version. Console versions differ.

What does it cost?

$24.99

Steam price in US dollars, read 30 August 2026. Prices move hourly and vary by region. Check the current price.

Is Cult of the Lamb worth it?

96% of 128,972 Steam reviews are positive, which Steam rates Overwhelmingly Positive. It costs $24.99 on Steam, and critics score it 82/100.

That is the data, not a verdict for sale: whether it is worth it depends on the price you pay and what you want. Players do report problems — see the reported-problems section below before buying. We have not published our own review of this game.

How long is Cult of the Lamb? How long to beat it

Total play time for Cult of the Lamb is about 30.1 hours to do everything, and around 14.7 hours to reach the end of the main story. These are player-submitted times from HowLongToBeat, not our own, shown with the number of players behind each.

Cult of the Lamb length by how much you play
How you playHoursPlayers logged
Just the main story: straight through the critical path14.7h745
Main + the extras: story plus the side content most people do20.2h1,104
Completionist: everything: 100% the game30.1h438

At its current price of $24.99, beating the main story works out to about $1.70 per hour. That is the price divided by the hours, a value read and not a verdict: a longer game costs less per hour, which is not the same as being the better game.

Source: HowLongToBeat community submissions, read 2026-10-19.

Cult of the Lamb system requirements

The minimum requirements from Cult of the Lamb's Steam page. These are what it takes to launch and be playable, not to run at high settings.

Cult of the Lamb minimum requirements
Memory4 GB RAM (other games at this level)
ProcessorIntel Core i3-3240 (2 * 3400); AMD FX-4300 (4 * 3800)
GraphicsGeForce GTX 560 Ti (1024
Storage4 GB (more games this size)
System64-bit OS required

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Where Cult of the Lamb sits on the grid

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Players. The share of Steam reviews marked positive, pulled toward the catalogue average in proportion to how few reviews stand behind it. A game with 200 reviews moves a long way toward the average; one with 200,000 barely moves at all. Without this a title sitting at 100 percent on nine reviews outranks Half-Life 2 at 98 percent on 278,000.

Popularity. A blend of two things that are not the same. Audience is how many people wrote a Steam review, which is a floor on how many played it. Reach is how many language editions of Wikipedia document the game, which is cultural footprint rather than sales. A game can score high on one and low on the other: a huge free-to-play title has audience without reach, and a landmark console exclusive has reach without a Steam audience at all. Where both exist they are averaged; where only one does, that one carries it.

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  • Fetched from live third-party data. Player sentiment from Steam, critic aggregates as published on store pages, prices checked hourly, attention from Wikipedia. Each figure carries its source and the date it was read, and we do not adjust any of them.

Estimated sales for Cult of the Lamb

These are estimates, not reported figures. Massive Monster has not published unit sales for Cult of the Lamb, and nobody outside the company can measure them. What follows is arithmetic on the review count, with the method printed below so you can check it or reject it.

3.9M–7.7MEstimated copies soldon Steam, lifetime
$32M–$128MEstimated player spendbefore Valve's cut
$22M–$89MEstimated to the publisherafter the 30% platform cut

How this was calculated

Steam sales track review counts closely enough that dividing one by the other across games with published figures gives a usable multiplier. This is the standard method for estimating sales from outside a publisher.

Sales estimate working
Reviews on Steam128,972
Sales per review30 to 60
List price$24.99
Assumed average selling price33% to 66% of list

What this cannot tell you

Steam only. Console, Epic, GOG and retail sales are not in here. For a game that sold heavily on PlayStation this is a fraction of the real number.

The band is wide because the method is imprecise. Review rates vary with price, genre, launch era and how insistently a game asks. Published analyses put the ratio between 30 and 60 for paid games, and we show the whole range rather than picking a point in it.

The owner estimate above measures something else. SteamSpy counts accounts that have the game, which includes free weekends, bundles, giveaways and gifts. It sits higher than a sales figure for that reason, and the two are not alternative answers to the same question.

Revenue is the shakiest line. It assumes an average selling price well below list because most copies move in sales, and it ignores regional pricing, refunds, key resellers and whatever deal the publisher actually has with Valve. Treat it as an order of magnitude, not a figure.

If Massive Monster publishes a real number we will use that instead and say where it came from. Our editorial policy covers how we handle figures we cannot verify.

Cult of the Lamb price & deals: is it on sale?

We have one reading so far: $24.99 on 30 August 2026. Prices are checked daily from here, and this becomes a chart once there is more than one point to join. A single observation is a price, not a history.

Latest Cult of the Lamb updates & patch notes

Pulled from Cult of the Lamb's own Steam feed on 5 September 2026. Posts marked as from the studio were written by the developer; the rest are articles Steam syndicated from elsewhere. Every one links to its source.

  1. Patch Notes 1.5.26 · From the studio
  2. Cult of the Lamb x Two Point Museum Collab! · From the studio
  3. Happy Fourth Birthday, Little Lamb! · From the studio
  4. Announcing the Cult of the Lamb: Board Game! · From the studio
  5. Patch Notes 1.5.25 · From the studio
  6. Announcing the Cult of the Lamb: Design Works Book, Available for Pre-Order! · From the studio

What readers say about Cult of the Lamb

Reviews written by people who have played it. These are separate from the GamingPickz Score and are never averaged into it: that score comes from thousands of Steam reviews with a sample-size correction, and a handful of unverified ratings would distort it rather than improve it.

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Problems players report

We read the 300 most recent negative Steam reviews of Cult of the Lamb on 30 August 2026 and counted what they mention. These are complaints, not confirmed defects: we have not reproduced any of them, and a review describes one person's machine. What the counts tell you is which problems more than one person ran into.

  1. Crashes and freezes21 of 300 (7%)

    If it didn't crash so much, I'd recommend it.

    Steam review, 15 August 2026 · 61 hours played · 6 readers marked it helpful

    The gameplay is super fun, but I've never played a game that has lagged or crashed more in my life.

    Steam review, 10 August 2026 · 30 hours played · 5 readers marked it helpful
  2. Performance and stutter12 of 300 (4%)

    Doesn't run 60fps on the deck, great game tho but i wish they had a demo to test the game's performance, u can play at 40 to 45 fps but 60 is still way better

    Steam review, 17 April 2026 · 1 hours played · 1 readers marked it helpful

    Game runs fine otherwise, (smooth 60-80 fps!).

    Steam review, 23 January 2026 · 34 hours played · 1 readers marked it helpful

A further 8 reviews call the game buggy or broken without saying how, which is why they are counted separately rather than assigned to a theme. Counted by keyword across review text, so a review discussing two problems is counted under both. Read the reviews yourself.

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Games like Cult of the Lamb

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Common questions about Cult of the Lamb

What platforms is Cult of the Lamb on?

Cult of the Lamb is available on Xbox Series X and Series S, Steam Deck. It first released in 2022.

How much does Cult of the Lamb cost?

$24.99 on Steam in the United States, read on 30 August 2026. Prices move often and vary by region, so check the store before buying.

Do players recommend Cult of the Lamb?

96% of 128,972 Steam reviews are positive, which Steam rates Overwhelmingly Positive. That is players rating it, not our review. We have not published a review of this game.

What is the Metacritic score for Cult of the Lamb?

82 out of 100 for the PC version, as published on the game's own Steam store page. Steam can lag Metacritic by a few points.

Does Cult of the Lamb work on Steam Deck?

Valve rates Cult of the Lamb as verified on the Steam Deck, from its own testing. That means it works out of the box with no configuration.

How big is the Cult of the Lamb download?

4 GB on PC, from the storage requirement on its Steam listing. Console versions differ.

Who made Cult of the Lamb?

Cult of the Lamb was developed by Massive Monster and published by Devolver Digital.

Is Cult of the Lamb worth it in 2026?

96% of 128,972 Steam reviews are positive (Overwhelmingly Positive), and it is $24.99 on steam. That is the strongest signal we hold; "worth it" depends on the price you pay and what you want, so weigh the sentiment against the current price above.

Is Cult of the Lamb on sale?

Not at the moment. Cult of the Lamb is at its $24.99 list price on Steam, read on 30 August 2026. It has been cheaper before; the price history above shows when.

What are the system requirements for Cult of the Lamb?

At minimum, Cult of the Lamb needs 4 GB RAM, a Intel Core i3-3240 (2 * 3400); AMD FX-4300 (4 * 3800), a GeForce GTX 560 Ti (1024, 4 GB of storage, from its Steam listing. That is what it takes to launch and be playable, not to run at high settings. Check it against your own PC on the can-I-run page.