Cultistorm is the expression of our respect and love for H. P. Lovecraft. It is more than just an ordinary board game – this is a Lovecraftian gaming experience with literary and musical dimensions. Our theme choice was motivated by a deep commitment to the work and heritage of H. P. Lovecraft. We want to create an excellent board game for those who know and love Lovecraft, and we would like to make Lovecraft’s work known to those who are board game fans.

• A highly interactive gaming experience offering unique cooperative game mechanics where every player is of equal importance.
• Scalable difficulty: the game’s setup options allow players to adjust the difficulty of the challenges they will face (this feature is included in the base game).
• Narrative Expansion and Script Book: the true jewel of Cultistorm is a hardcover book containing 500+ pieces of high quality weird fiction, illustrated with colourful full-page artwork. The Narrative Expansion is a story-driven game mode in which the stories impact the game itself.
• Solo Expansion for those solitary detectives who wish take up the fight on their own.
• Campaign Expansion: seven connected and increasingly challenging scenarios introducing new game mechanics.
• Overlord Expansion: this adds a sixth player who takes on the role of Lovecraft himself. As a puppet master, this player controls the cultists, and thus the whole game.
• Nine minor expansion modules: each of these introduces new game mechanics, increasing the replayability and difficulty of Cultistorm. Most modules can be played simultaneously.
• Five standalone minigames: we are currently designing five completely different minigames in the universe of Cultistorm. We plan to make them available for purchase individually or as part of the free Stretch Goals for our Collector Pledge.
• Game Night Expansion (as add-on): this unique and innovative expansion provides the possibility of combining up to six separate Cultistorm games into one epic story. A common fight, in which the choices of the different teams can impact each other. This expansion was developed specifically for clubs who organise board gaming events.
• Hardcover Short Story Collection: the stories were specifically written for the game by a group of fifteen experienced authors with a vast knowledge of weird fiction writing.
• Cultistorm Soundtrack by Graham Plowman: crafted especially for Cultistorm by one of the most renowned composers of the genre, this album gives you something to listen to as you uncover the twisted secrets of Arkham.
• Metal Investigator Badge: ree gift for every Collector backers.

Why are we launching a new campaign on Indiegogo?

Cultistorm ran a successful campaign during May 2019. Nearly 1,000 awesome backers pledged their trust and support. We have already prepared and produced the Base Game of Cultistorm. These games are on their way to our backers at the time of writing this. We are also going to showcase our game at Essen Spiel ‘19. The second and third boxes (Deluxe Expansions and Collector Box) are expected to be mass-produced and shipped in May 2020.

So why did we start this campaign on Indiegogo?

1.) Cultistorm deserves to be acknowledged by more people!

First of all, we would like everybody to know about Cultistorm. There are many people who might have missed our Kickstarter campaign. Cultistorm was designed by a highly dedicated team who have put a lot of effort, creativity, and love into this game. We firmly believe that we have created a unique and exciting game set in the Cthulhu genre.
The co-operative game mechanics, the massive content, lots of expansion modules, the beautiful art and illustrations, the short story book and the illustrated narrative storybook with 500+ scripts, the thrilling yet authentic music album by Graham Plowman composed specifically for our game, and finally the stand-alone minigames make this project truly unique and give meaning to our slogan: “More than an ordinary board game”. 

2.) Unlock a lot of Stretch Goals

In our previous campaign we barely started to unlock our stretch goals because we had a very high (and realistic) funding goal, which we could only reach some days prior to the end of the campaign. However, we did not spend all that time to come up with all those awesome stretch goals, just so that we could scratch those ideas… We truly want everybody to get as much free content as is humanly possible to pack into one box, but for this to happen we need more than 1,000 people. So come and join us on this quest.

3.) Brand new minigames

Last but not least, we are also designing five standalone minigames set in the universe of Cultistorm. We would like to offer these to you either for individual purchase or by getting them as free stretch goals as part of your Collector Pledge.

IMPORTANT: Every stretch goal unlocked here will be added either to the Deluxe or the Collector box of EVERY game. So those of you who have previously backed us on Kickstarter will also get the stretch goals unlocked here. We want to reward the brave investigators who spearheaded this project and made it possible for us (and for you on Indiegogo) to be here today. Those of you who are about to join us will of course get all the content unlocked up until the very end of our Kickstarter campaign, maximizing the content of your pledge. This is the reason for our low funding goal and this is how we can make this campaign a win-win for everybody.

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We have designed 5 completely different minigames  set in the universe of Cultistorm. In each of them, Cultists and Investigators have to compete against each other, but always in different ways.

Face-2-Face we specifically designed with Essen Spiel ‘19 in mind. This game will be available for purchase at our stand, but those of you who miss out on it can purchase this game as an Add-on for 10 USD.
 

Exclusive Add-on:

Special Stretch Goals:

The other four minigames are planned as unlockable stretch goals for this campaign. If we manage to unlock them, all of them will be added to EVERY COLLECTOR BOX free of extra charge. Base Game and Deluxe Game backers can still add these games to their order in the Pledge Manager afterwards. However, only Collector backers receive them for free if they are unlocked.

Face-2-Face: This is a 2-player deduction game specifically designed for Essen Spiel ’19. It has a play time of 10-15 minutes. In this game, an Investigator and a Cultist have to face each other. The goal of the Cultist is to use his intuition to summon his dark master, whereas the Investigator has to rely on his deduction skills to stop the Great Old One from entering the game. Face-2-Face is a fast-paced game with a good flow. We highly recommend switching roles after the first game to experience how it feels to be in the shoes of your opponent.

Little Ritual: This is also a 2-player game, but this one is a co-operative game. The Investigators must use their joint powers to stop the Cultists’ mad ritual. The game uses completely different mechanics from those in Cultistorm for utilizing the skills of the Investigators and generating skills for the Cultists.

Traitor: This is a 5–10-player social deduction game where we take part in the dark and secret activities of a Cultist sect. The members of the sect have to embark on expeditions to find artifacts that will help them to open gates to otherworldly dimensions. What the Cultists do not know is that two brave undercover agents have infiltrated their ranks. They must sabotage the Cultists’ plans without being found out.

Persecutors: This is a 2–5-player co-operative game where the Investigators are exploring a randomly generated map. Each location on the map offers some kind of action to the players, but also contains many dangers. The Investigators must find the cultists, while they themselves have to escape from the Mi-Go which is devouring their last shreds of sanity.

Alone in the Dark: This is a single-player logical game where the player has to solve the mystery of sealing the otherworldly gates. The game gets harder with each passing round.

COMING SOON...

(After we reached our Funding Goal)

Illustrated Script Book – with 500+ flash fiction stories

We have devised an efficient way to enhance your immersion in the Lovecraftian atmosphere of Cultistorm: we bring you a Script Book with 500+ flash fiction stories from the weird fiction genre. Every character and location (whether from this world or another), the investigators, the cultist sects, and the different events all get their own stories. You can also read a story before an encounter with a cultist – not only will this intensify your gaming experience, it can also have a direct effect on the encounter. The narrative gameplay with the Script Book makes Cultistorm a deep and truly story-driven adventure.

The Script Book will come as a beautiful hardcover book with full-page colour illustrations.

Hardcover Short Story Collection

We want to make the game as immersive as possible. Instead of adding flavour texts to cards, we are compiling short stories with the help of a team of talented weird fiction writers. To accompany the game we offer a complete volume of short stories, which is worthy of Lovecraft’s literary heritage and the genre requirements he created. The short stories are directly connected to the different casts of cultists, locations, and Great Old Ones appearing in the game, creating a detailed world and a rich backstory on a scale quite unusual in the realm of board games. 

Soundtrack album – with music by Graham Plowman

If you feel like listening to some music while reading or playing, you can turn on Graham Plowman’s album, which he created especially for Cultistorm. Graham is perhaps the most acknowledged composer of the Lovecraftian subculture. He creates his Lovecraftian atmosphere with a mixture of symphonic orchestra and choir music, using instruments from Lovecraft’s own time. His music is powerful, authentic, and of incredibly high quality.

Before you continue to read this page, why not listen to the track below? Turn up the volume and let Graham Plowman’s fantastic music transport you into the universe of Cultistorm.

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We would like to offer a very special opportunity for the most dedicated of Investigators: joining one of the most dangerous operations of the Agency and fighting as an undercover agent within the ranks of the Cultists.

You can join this mission by pledging for the special “Undercover Agent Pledge” – but places are limited!

The first 13 brave fighters will have the chance to join the ranks of the undercover agents. We will require mugshots from the participants, to be illustrated by our graphic designers. In this way you can become part of the Cultistorm universe via the 13 undercover Investigator cards. The aim of this pledge is straightforward: we want to allow our fans and backers to support us to a bigger extent via this pledge.

What you get with this pledge: 

• Collector Pledge
• An additional Collector Pledge as a present
• Free Reinforcement Has Arrived Add-on
• Free Game Night: Lovecraft Country Add-on
• A unique Cultist card with your own portrait
• Your very own short story in the Script Book
• Free shipping
• All unlocked Stretch Goals

We promise to release official rulebook translations in German, French, Spanish, Italian, and Hungarian. These will be made available as PDF downloads.

These review videos have been made with the Prototype version of Cultistorm. The actual game has improved in many ways since. The Base Game is being released at the same time as we start this campaign. We are going to upload review videos with the final version of the game as soon as we can.​

Risks & Challenges

A huge, cross-cultural, and ambitious project like Cultistorm will require tremendous efforts from our team. We are passionate and committed to this project and we are constantly learning and developing ourselves for the benefit of our games and backers. We promise to keep you informed on the project with regular and frequent updates so that you can always be sure of your investment.

Sandor Szucs, designer of Cultistorm, won the first Hungarian game designing competition held by Piatnik in 2014. Co-Founder of Purple Meeple Games, Zoltan Aczel founded the GÉMKLUB Board Game Publishing company, which represents numerous international publishers in Hungary (e.g. Asmodee, Blue Orange, Czech Games, Gigamic, Portal Games, Rebel, Rio Grande, Thinkfun).

The estimated delivery date for this project is May 2020, but keep in mind this is only an estimate. Also, due to the logistics of international shipping, backers in different regions of the world may receive their rewards sooner than others. We have done our best to minimise this as much as possible and we are always happy to refund pledges if for some unforeseen reason the game cannot be delivered at all.

REFUND POLICY

We offer a full refund, including fees, for up to 14 days after the project ends. After the 14-day-period and until we pay for the production agreement with the manufacturer, we offer a no questions asked refund minus Indiegogo and payment processing fees (which we cannot recover). Once we have paid for the production agreement with the manufacturer, we do not offer a refund. If we fail to fulfil your game, you are entitled to a full refund, including fees.

All refunds after the 14-day-period may be processed via reversed payment through Stripe to your credit card, at our discretion. Refunds within 14 days are issued through payment reversal via Stripe to your credit card.

This project is funded in USD. All refunds will be issued in USD, minus applicable indiegogo and payment processing fees depending on the time of your refund request.