Welcome to Idle Cult Empire, a tycoon-style experience where you build and expand your own mysterious cult empire. Step into the role of an idle evil genius and take control of a hidden underground operation, where your goal is to rise to power and dominate the world. Blending elements from idle games, simulator games, and tycoon games, Idle Cult Empire offers a dark and engaging take on building games and long-term simulation games.
In Idle Cult Empire, you begin as a small cult leader with a limited following. Your mission is to recruit new members, perform rituals, and unlock forbidden knowledge to grow your influence. Manage resources, automate processes, and transform your cult into a thriving business empire. With clicker mechanics and support for offline idle games, progress continues even when you’re away.
As your empire grows, you’ll make strategic decisions involving money games, expansion systems, and resource management. Control large groups of followers through strategic mob control, operate secret facilities that resemble a controlled prison, and expand into multiple locations. Dig beneath the surface using mining games, idle miner, and digging games mechanics to uncover rare materials and fuel your rise to supremacy.
Idle Cult Empire combines idle progression with active choices. Conduct experiments, automate rituals, and unlock powerful upgrades as your influence spreads. Manage unusual areas like abandoned sites, forests, or a corrupted junkyard, and expand production chains inspired by lumber idle systems. With themes touching on cultist simulator, evil hunter, and demonized idle concepts, the game delivers a dark but playful atmosphere. Shape your followers’ destiny in a light god simulator style as you build a powerful empire.
Featuring atmospheric visuals, immersive sound effects, and steady progression, Idle Cult Empire keeps you engaged for hours. Expand across regions, unlock new abilities, and optimize every system to become a true top tycoon. Whether you enjoy tycoon games, simulation games, or slow-burn idle experiences, there’s always something new to build and improve.
If you love growing an empire from nothing and watching it thrive through automation and strategy, Idle Cult Empire is ready for you. Are you prepared to claim control and guide your cult toward total domination?
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This was a fun experience. I really like the dungeon system, they recently reworked it. It’s pretty basic, but you fight stages and use orbs to open them for gear. You make orbs in the overworld, where you have a match board and buildings around it that produce resources and can be upgraded. Then you use those resources to progress chapters. It kinda has an element of NecroMerger mixed with fairly surface level mechanics that aren’t normally in a game like NecroMerger. It was but I think I beat it already? It feels short. My chapter progress is full and stopped at chapter 18. I hope the devs make updates and improve systems more. The dungeon system rework was really good. We need more like that!Side note, the cash shop has probably the worst value for what you get that I’ve ever seen. Things that are really to get have really high prices. It didn’t really make sense to me since I got to the last chapter fairly fast. I didn’t need to buy anything but I wish there was a way to remove the optional ads for 2x idle time rewards. It’s always weird when games has ads for rewards and don’t allow a permanent buy to skip ads and get the rewards.
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vA Poison
I came back here to change my review. I had originally put 5 stars as I was early into the game.This is clearly a game that started with a genuine interest in building a good game, and then was quickly forgotten about in preference for a money shill. There are so many ads I frequently find myself simply closing the game to avoid watching them. In a 10 minute session of playing the game I spend about 4-5 watching ads. Granted, you can spend $10 to remove the ads. But they still shove monetization efforts in your face beyond that. It's truly a shame that such a good idea was wasted on an obvious grab for money. There's also an extreme lack of effort in certain areas. Such as the music. There is 1 15 second loop of music that plays throughout the game constantly no matter what you're doing. There's literally no escaping it. I started muting the music entirely and playing in silence or listening to my own music. It really kills the vibe. Not to mention, certain resources like the orbs that let you progress through the dungeon do not properly accumulate like the rest of the resources. Neither while you're in the game nor out of it. Putting more than one of your cultists to accumulate them is a literal waste yet they offer you the opportunity to let you place several. Mind you these cultists are very important for gathering other resources and you have relatively very few at all times. If you're looking for an incremental game, look elsewhere. This is an advertisement with a game hidden around it.
Update forcing me to quit
Keganb10
I’ve gotten to the point in the missions and levels that the only way for me to progress… is by leveling up my managers. What happened to the dungeons? I’m incredibly weak and not moving or fighting like I was…. Suddenly I’m 8mill and the map requires 170mill??? How the heck am I supposed to get that much if I can’t even fight?Please fix asap as it’s the only thing I can do at the moment to finish my nexts tasks.(upgrading managers) otherwise I’ll never be able to fill the quota…. Might as well quit the game since I can’t progress…. Was 4.5 star game for me. I’ll go back if this gets addressed. Otherwise I’m over it. Been same level for almost 2 months because of the rediculous jump in the mission requirements. Was hard enough and now it’s harder…
Stuck
ThrashedKiller
The new updates make the game unplayable. One of the first ones that expanded things you mine changed what was needed to progress to the next chapter. I wasn’t able to mine the element or upgrade the area to unlock the place to mine it. I had to delete and restart. The second time I had to restart I couldn’t get past a screen explaining how to do something that I already did. Again I had to restart. NOW it’s happening again. It’s talking about upgrading orbs percentage to have a higher chance to unlock stronger equipment. For some reason when I press the upgrade button nothing happens. It doesn’t upgrade, the screen doesn’t fade. It doesn’t even have a way to just close the window if I don’t want to upgrade. The game is a decent farming game, decent progression speed. It used to be quicker which I liked, but what ever. If the creators stop making game breaking updates that force you to restart I wouldn’t complain about anything. Until then I say don’t even bother with the game until it’s done.
Bug Fixes and Improvements, thank you for playing Idle Cult Empire - Evil Tycoon!
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Seller
Lion Studios Plus LLC
Size
382.8 MB
Category
Simulation
Compatibility
Requires iOS 13.0 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 13.0 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 13.0 or later.
iPod touch Requires iOS 13.0 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
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Languages
English and 7 more
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