Cult of the Lamb added a “Sins of the Flesh” update, which comes on the heels of the rollicking success of
Baldur’s Gate 3 as a welcome move for sex in games.
THE PITCH IS straightforward: What if this video game had sex?
Fortnite needs sex.
Among Us needs sex. Every game deserves a sex update,
so the meme goes. In November,
Cult of the Lamb, Massive Monster’s adorable, animal-themed roguelike about building and maintaining a cult, got in on the action: “We will add sex to the game if we hit 300k followers by the end of the year,” the game’s official account
tweeted, in the style of the meme’s pseudo-horny forefathers. Now they’re making good on that promise.
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A valid concern, and one the team addressed. The game is rated T, so suitable for anyone age 13 and up. Giving it an M, or 17-and-up rating, could’ve lost the game potential players. When Massive Monster announced the update,
the company promised the rating wouldn’t change, even though, as Wilton puts it, the “absolute piling on of love and attention” that came after the announcement “definitely made us stop and focus on the potential of what we could get away with if we added in a quick ‘sex update.’”
It’s tempting to read into the update’s additions or pull some sort of social commentary about sex and its role in cults, but Wilton is straightforward about its place: “We're totally not going that deep. We just want everyone to have fun.” Will mankind achieve a
futuristic utopia now that
Cult of the Lamb has sex? Doubtful, but maybe in the game’s world it can do some good.