Out of the Shadows

It's been a month since Shapeshifter came out and we've been hard at work to keep up the momentum and finish the game. We've been in early access for a year, but the light at the end of the tunnel is almost here! Just a few more weeks and that tag will be gone from the game. We're talking full release!

The final monster for The Monster Within is almost here, the Cultist! This won't be the final update, but it will be the last big content release. Maybe. We'll see what the future holds but we here at GMO Free Games are kind of monster'd out after working on this project for almost three years at this point.

So who is the Cultist? She's a character we've saved for the end because she's kind of complex. Like Werewolf she has two forms, pure and corrupted. But unlike Werewolf, you don't choose when you switch back and forth.

Instead, each turn you'll gain corruption. You have cards that reduce it, but if you don't eventually she'll be overcome with the ancient, evil energies she's been fighting against and become it's servant!

When that happens, all Cultist cards change. Different art, different effects, different costs, it's like become a completely different character. Instead of reducing corruption, you get payoffs for fostering it. Pure Cultist is a day focused character, while cultist is night/monster based. You can try to stay untainted, or intentionally let corruption build up to get to the corrupted form faster. Maybe you'll buy certain cards when pure you don't need right then, but will have beneficial effects when corrupt. There's all sorts of ways to play it!

Also coming in the final update is the final four mashup monsters. Doppleganger (Parasite-Shapeshifter), Mummy (Warlock-Cultist), Homunculus (Mad Scientist-Wraith), and Lunatic (Cultist-Werewolf)

There's a lot of work still to be done here. The delay with Shapeshifter messed up our timelines a lot. Worst case, a few features will be missing from the full release we'll patch in later. But we're pretty committed to getting it our for Halloween. Thanks to everyone who has played and enjoyed the game this past year, we're almost to the finish line!

Art by Digsaw.