El desarrollador de Cult of the Lamb dice que el roguelike es “al igual que el cruce de animales” excepto “mas realista, ya que no puedes comprar una casa”

Cult of the Lamb fans have been hit with “a dose of reality” by the roguelike game’s Twitter community manager, who’s compared the indie hit to Animal Crossing in a way that’s in equal parts hilarious and truly painful.

Over on Twitter yesterday, the official Cult of the Lamb Twitter account shared a new parody animation from YouTube canal 64 Bits, which reimagines Nintendo’s adorable cozy life sim series Animal Crossing – transforming it into something which looks and feels much more akin to Massive Monster’s roguelike. Obviamente, en realidad, the indie plays very differently to the likes of Animal Crossing: New Horizons – they reside in totally separate genres, after all – but hey, you still get to live alongside a bunch of animal buddies, so that’s something, derecho?

The team behind the indie clearly thinks so, anyway, as the official account responds to the animation, en las arcadas en su juventud: “We’re just like Animal Crossing!” Sin embargo, there’s a caveat, and one that might hit a bit too close to home for many. “Except our game is more realistic, since you can’t buy a house.” Ay.

Basking in the chaos of the replies this tweet prompted, with some joking that it was “uncalled for,” the community manager simply doubles down further. “They told me to tweet something scary for Halloween, so I hit you with a dose of reality,” they explain.

Cult of the Lamb’s Twitter account has always been a bit of a wild place, por decir lo menos. El año pasado, the devs used it to proclaim that “we will add sex to the game if we hit 300k followers by the end of the year.” This goal was hit in a matter of hours thanks to the thirst of the roguelike’s community, y Massive Monster really did deliver in the Sins of the Flesh update which launched a couple of months later and added the Mating Tent. I mean, fair play to the team for actually sticking to its word – I’m not sure anyone was expecting the devs to take it seriously.

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