Free Major Update to Cult of the Lamb Out Now

At last week’s Indie World Showcase, Nintendo presented the trailer for Cult of the Lamb‘s first major update, “Relics of the Old Faith”. It launched on April 24th and is heavily packed with fresh content. Developer Massive Monster listened to fan requests and went all out to create this patch not as paid DLC but for free. Praise the lamb!

Peek at the trailer and see what’s new in the game:

Players who previously cleared the base game of Cult of the Lamb are still in for a treat. The fun might never stop with new challenges, lore, and post-game tales to dive into. Read a snippet of the patch notes from the official website below.

Cult of the Lamb 1.2.0 “Relics of the Old Faith” Patch Notes

New Content

Added a new storyline which begins after completing the base game.

Added 37 new Relics with various powers which must be collected by the player.

All 5 Weapons got a new Heavy Attack and Level 2 Heavy Attack.

Added new Sermon upgrades that unlock extra damage, Relics, Heavy Attacks, and a new ability to reroll your Weapons and Curses on Crusades.

Added new Crusades, which are encountered after the base game.

Added 13 new Encounters with various Characters and cutscenes.

Added many new Combat rooms, with new traps such as rivers, swinging axes, etc.

Added Fish, Meat, and Relic rooms.

Added 6 new Enemies to fight in new Crusades.

Added 16 new Minibosses to fight in new Crusades.

Added 4 new Bishop transformations to fight in new Crusades.

Added Chemach – a new Character who deals Relics.

Added ??? – a new Character who provides quests and opens a shop that accepts God Tears.

Added Forgotten Commandment Stones – a new resource used to unlock Doctrines you didn’t choose in the past.

Added 6 new Necklaces to obtain in ???’s shop.

Added 7 new Tarot Cards to collect.

Added 2 new Critters – Jellyfish in Anchordeep and Relic Goat from Relics.

Added 4 new Buildings – Kitchen, Shared Shelter, Crypt, and Morgue with some having additional upgrades.

Added 11 new Followers obtainable in various ways through gameplay, and 7 previous Twitch Followers obtainable through ???’s shop.

Added 2 new Twitch Follower Forms only currently obtainable as Twitch Drops for Steam (will be available for other platforms in the future through normal gameplay.)

Added 6 new special Followers – Leshy, Heket, Kallamar, Shamura, Baal, and Aym.

Added new quests, including some secret quests.

Added 5 new Fleeces – obtained through various quests and combat.

Added Purgatory – a new way to fight in Dungeon Gauntlet and Boss Rush. Use Fleeces to fight in new ways against bosses from the base game.

Added the ability to re-fight Baal, Aym, and The One Who Waits in Purgatory.

Photo Mode

Added a Photo Mode that allows you to tilt, change height, and focus, and take Photos while pausing the game.

Added a Gallery to view your Photos taken while using Photo Mode.

Added Edit option in Gallery that allows the player to add, scale, flip, rotate and undo Stickers.

Added 88 new Stickers, with the ability to Clear and Undo.

General

Can now toggle a setting to display follower names above their heads.

Tutorial tooltips can now be navigated with the mouse.

Tutorial tooltips now show button controls.

A Permadeath Mode has now been added, unlocked after finishing the base game once.

Cult of the Lamb‘s “Relics of the Old Faith” update is now live on all current platforms (Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X, and PC via Steam). Massive Monster confirmed that there will be another major free update arriving midway through the year focused on cult management above combat. Disciples of the lamb can look forward to that.

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