The boomer shooter renaissance continues to ferment and flourish with nice new video games annually, and a selected spotlight of final yr was Cultic. PC Gamer affiliate editor Ted Litchfield referred to as it “one of the best shooters of 2025” that, even among the many Dusks and Turbo Overkills of the world, “distinguishes itself by executing everything at a very high level.”
And there’s been no higher time to strive it than proper after Christmas—er, “Cultmas”—as the sport’s vacation replace got here with a bunch of modifications and a bonus map referred to as “I’ll Be Home For Cultmas.”
As for the modifications I discussed, there’s been a slew of optimization tweaks and modifications to stability—burn harm has been completely reworked, for instance, now dealing direct harm moderately than requiring a hidden ignite meter to be depleted first. The patch notes state it needs to be simpler to “hose enemies with damage while burning to melt them even faster.” How Christmassy!
I worry I could by no means make amends for all of the boomer shooters I’ve missed at this level, however possibly that is factor. Even if all of us agreed to cease making videogames tomorrow, I’d in all probability nonetheless degrade into mud from outdated age earlier than I run out of nice video games to play.
Cultic and Cultic: Complete Edition (the latter of which incorporates each chapters and constitutes the complete recreation) are in the stores on Steam. The second chapter, launched in 2025 as DLC, shouldn’t be required to entry the Cultmas map from the “new game” menu.