{"rewrite":{"id":"r_d8b97bc1df9b0b2f0929fdc3","clusterId":"c_693d984d654b3e070bd6bf7b","slug":"the-rising-cult-sets-closed-beta-for-this-year-ahead-of-2027-release","model":"deepseek-v4-1-flash","headline":"The Rising Cult Sets Closed Beta For This Year Ahead Of 2027 Release","summary":"Slitherine will publish The Rising Cult, a tactical strategy game from Finland's Kuuasema, and has partly updated its Steam store page. The game is a retitled version of Cthulhu Keeper, announced in February 2025, and is set in a 1920s city where the player leads a cult working toward the resurrection of the Old Ones. It is scheduled for release in 2027 with Japanese interface and text support, and a closed beta test is planned within the year.","whyItMatters":"The retitle and the closed beta plan put a concrete timeline on a project that has been public since February 2025 under a different name, and the Japanese-language support signals Slitherine is courting the same Steam audience that carried Dungeon Keeper-style games in Japan.","webCardHtml":"\u003cp\u003eThe store page update confirms the name change from Cthulhu Keeper and lays out how the game plays. Players run an underground cult in a 1920s city, recruiting people cast out by society and sending followers with special abilities into city districts while avoiding police, private detectives, and rival cults. A tactical pause lets the player issue orders to several characters at once.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEnemies can be killed, or broken through fear using monstrous creatures and supernatural powers, then turned into followers or used as sacrifices in rituals. Between missions the hideout expands through recruitment, forbidden research, and monster summoning. District infiltration carries roguelite elements, with exploration changing based on player choices.\u003c/p\u003e","blueskyPost":"The Rising Cult is the retitled Cthulhu Keeper, so the closed beta this year is the first real read on a project Kuuasema and Slitherine have already reworked before launch.","twitterPost":"The Rising Cult is a renamed Cthulhu Keeper. The closed beta is the first public test of whether the rework lands.","threadsPost":"The Rising Cult carries a new title, but it is the Cthulhu Keeper project Kuuasema announced in February 2025. The closed beta this year is the first outside read on whatever Slitherine changed in the rework, well before the 2027 release.","newsletterBlurb":"Slitherine has partly updated the Steam page for The Rising Cult, the Kuuasema-developed strategy game previously announced as Cthulhu Keeper. 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