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My Life as a Cult Leader

Orcsoft · Kagura Games · 2023-03-24

SteamGOG

AdventureIndieRPG

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Text

Releases: Mar 25, 2023 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

After you lose your job and apartment, you're left with nothing. Forced to spend the night on a cold park bench, you curse your fate, only for a beautiful woman calling herself Shima Itsuki to appear and ask you to be a cult leader...

79%
positive of 255 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$14.99
steam price (US)

When a terrible turn of events causes you to lose your job and get evicted from your apartment, you're left with nothing to your name. You find yourself on a cold park bench, miserable and exhausted with nowhere else to turn. As you curse your fate, dark thoughts cloud your mind, wishing things would turn out differently. Suddenly, a mysterious woman approaches you, introducing herself as Shima Itsuki and asking you to take over as the new leader of a cult. She explains that their current leader is dying and needs you to act as a substitute. With nothing to lose and an empty stomach to fill, y(Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 20 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~3/week).
  • · Review velocity down 23% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 43% of 15,020 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 5.1k–11k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 255 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$14.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $11.19 at GOG (2026-03-27)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $14.99 · on sale 30 of 50 observed days · $3.80 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

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393920232026Week of 2023-03-01: 39 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$14.99$11.192023-03-252026-09-102023-03-25 — best price $13.492023-05-16 — best price $11.992023-06-30 — best price $11.992023-08-07 — best price $11.992023-09-26 — best price $14.992023-11-28 — best price $14.992023-12-21 — best price $11.242024-01-25 — best price $11.992024-02-22 — best price $14.992024-03-21 — best price $14.992024-05-08 — best price $14.992024-06-12 — best price $11.242024-07-20 — best price $11.242024-08-26 — best price $11.242024-10-08 — best price $14.992024-10-28 — best price $11.242024-11-26 — best price $11.242025-01-14 — best price $14.992025-03-03 — best price $11.242025-04-14 — best price $14.992025-05-28 — best price $14.992025-07-14 — best price $11.242025-08-13 — best price $11.242025-09-11 — best price $14.992025-10-10 — best price $11.242025-11-17 — best price $11.242026-01-06 — best price $11.242026-02-04 — best price $14.992026-03-11 — best price $11.242026-04-09 — best price $11.252026-05-01 — best price $11.252026-06-02 — best price $14.992026-07-20 — best price $14.992026-09-10 — best price $14.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam CloudFamily Sharing

3 supported languages: English, Japanese, Simplified Chinese

Player tags

RPGJRPGNSFWAnimeIndieHentaiMatureNudityAdventureSingleplayer

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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