Game Info
Year
2022
Players
2-6
Age
14+
Playtime
25 min
Complexity
1.5/5
Collection
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Description
Lead your cult against others to collect magical artifacts and summon powerful deities to become the one true cult.
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The Board Game Garden Rules Teach at 1:33 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Compact, travel-friendly box with a quick 15–30 minute play time.
- Accessible and easy-to-learn rules, making it friendly for new players.
- Strong card-drafting mechanic with satisfying decision-making similar to Seven Wonders and Sushi Go Party.
- Vibrant, quirky art by Dakota Cates that reinforces the cult-theme humor.
- Replayability across rounds and the option to shorten the game to a single round.
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- Cult-themed world with deities, sacrifices, and card-based rituals.
- A quirky, occult-themed card game where rival cults compete to control altars across a compact box.
- humorous, colorful, tongue-in-cheek.
Comparison games
- Seven Wonders
- Sushi Go Party
- Planted
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Card Drafting — Players start with a hand of 13 cards, pick one, and pass the rest to the cultist on their left, creating a continuous draft flow across three rounds.
- direct inter-player interaction via spells — Spell cards allow acts like swapping, copying, or discarding cards in opponents’ altars, creating direct disruption and strategic counterplay.
- Hand Management — Strategic decisions about which card to keep, play, or pass, guided by the altar composition and opponents’ displayed choices.
- sacrifice and deity mechanic — Sacrifices unlock powerful deities; players must meet sacrifice requirements and eventually sacrifice those items to activate deity effects for points.
- set collection / altar building — Points are earned by placing cards into your altar, with scoring based on the types of cards (items, zones) and how they interact with deity goals.
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Quotes (from this video)
- I am so excited about this game; I think it is such a great little compact game that you can bring anywhere you can teach anyone it's such an easy one to play
- Dakota's art is also like just so fun and so quirky
- I love the theme; you typically don't see cult-themed games; I think it is so cool and colorful
- I have a second copy of Cultist Chaos to give away to one of you
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The Board Game Garden Discussion at 12:02
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Pros
none
Cons
none
Thematic elements
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Card Drafting — draft cards to assemble a cult board with thematic humor
- card drafting / tableau — draft cards to assemble a cult board with thematic humor
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Quotes (from this video)
- I am a crazy board game gal
- we are going to Mexico for like a Christmas vacation
- I am so, so excited to play all these
- I would love to know other ones for us to pick up and try
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The Board Game Garden Discussion at 3:03 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- straightforward rules
- family-friendly mischief
Cons
- not a heavy strategy title
Thematic elements
- mischief, magic
- two to six players, cultish mischief
- lightly thematic
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Card Drafting — draft cards and place in front; pass some to either left or right
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- I'm so excited for this one I did read the instructions or the rules for it it seems like a pretty straightforward game
- this is a game that I've been wanting for a very long time because obviously the theme really speaks to me
- I'm so excited to try this out
- On Tour is a roll and write and I am a huge fan of Roll and Write
- the art is fantastic it is for two to four players
- holy crap this is a big monstrous box
- I feel like we have so many new games to play
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