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Apparently my upload killed my texture quality. I've fixed it, I hope.
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In Dread God, you play as an evil deity attempting to use surreptitious influence upon the populace of a small seaside town, in order to build a sufficiently large cult and destroy the world.
Unfortunately, your cultists are bloodthirsty idiots.
Click on people to influence them, converting them to your cult. Be warned, though- you cannot influence someone who is being watched by another. Direct your cult by clicking on the ground- use them to break lines of sight, or just outright murder witnesses. Know that your cultists need no excuse to start outright attacking citizens.
Drag the world map with a right-click to adjust your view.
PLEASE NOTE: There appears to be a bug where the click effect will end up off centre. Because of the way the game handles clicking, please make sure to either play in a window, or at your screen's native resolution.
Downloads and Links
Ratings
 | Coolness | 59% |
| #100 | Innovation | 3.69 |
| #157 | Fun | 3.53 |
| #167 | Overall | 3.58 |
| #226 | Audio | 3.22 |
| #291 | Theme | 3.67 |
| #333 | Graphics | 3.33 |
| #400 | Mood | 3.09 |
| #549 | Humor | 2.52 |
Comments
Windows version - works for me. I will be playing this some more. Very original idea!
Awesome. Really interesting take, really interesting results.
That title looks amazing, but the rest of the art was lacking a little... Great game! Love it :)
Overall great game! Cool mechanic that worked nicely, everything went exactly as I expected. The game did end quite suddenly though, not sure if I won?
I really enjoyed this! My only complaint is the villager re-spawn rate. It took me a moment to figure out what exactly I was doing and by that time there were so many villagers it was impossible to pick one out, though that is minor and after I figured it out I was pillaging and converting right and left!
The red stuff that is supposed to line up with my mouse doesn't work. Maybe a scaling issue since the offset increases as the mouse moves to the right of the screen.
The clicking-thing is offcenter. The people and the HUD look awful, but the rest of the game was interesting. Fix those problems up, and this could be a very fun, maybe even sell-able game!
Fun toy! Bit of a feast-or-famine when it comes to difficulty -- I got quickly overwhelmed by the high spawn rate of the villagers, but when I figured out that I could 'claim' the NE docks, things got super easy. Not thrilled with the different pixel resolutions, but otherwise pretty good! :)
I wont open on the mac. Let me know when it's fixed and i will come back
Yea, OSX doesn't work, sorry. Let me know when there's an update.
oh, i love this little minions-cultists, it's so cute how they kill all people :D
i like it, i love to control the swarm of something!
nice entry!
love those little guys in robe. I guess if you fill cult bar to full you have won. Is that correct because my game just ended?
I've put up a new web version, and a new mac version- and yeah, the ending is a bit sudden.
The concept and the art is gold. Love the transform-into-cultist animation.
Lots of potential! creting an army of cultists is real fun, mwahahaha!! Would love to see this expanded on with shrines and upgrades!
It was a bit hard to move the camera with the right-mouse (mines a bit wonky) and I didn't really understand if at the end of the game I was winning (I presume I was because the cult bar filled all the way up but the way the music unwound I thought I might have done something wrong.) Other than those two gripes, great game!
Neat game! Took me a while to figure out how line of sight and such worked but once I figured it all out, the game became a lot more fun and interesting. Great entry!
Nice concept, cute graphics. Had to restart once I got the point - the world was over-run with do-gooders quickly. Evil and fun! Nice job.
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