I'm not unhappy

[Robin Banks]

Hi there,

just got this achievement but I don't know what actually happened. Why does the game end here?
Been overworked or what? Don't get it...

[cswiger]

You can decide to live a normal life instead of being a cultist and achieving ascension :

https://cultistsimulator.fandom.com/wiki/Endgame_conditions#Mundane_Minor_Victories

[Robin Banks]

ooohhh lmao... didn't really do that on purpose, just went to work and put some passion in, didn't know I'd decide to live a normal life that way lol omg.. okay, fine. Thank you!!!

A lot to learn about that game I guess....jeez

[cswiger]

Most welcome. Since I just finished a game myself, here's a screenshot of the layout I use:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3097870086

(And one can infer something about the Sensation ascension also. :-)

[Pavalery]

Bloody hell I just wanted to grind out my stats before doing the rest of the game and ended up with this bs

[The Queen Salis]

Originally posted by Pavalery:

Bloody hell I just wanted to grind out my stats before doing the rest of the game and ended up with this bs

You didn't pay attention to actually read the text, sweetie. This is somewhat on you.

[Sliverhawk19]

At least you got an achievement.

[Robin Banks]

Lol kinda true
But I dislike things that I don't understand though

[Nathan Pascal]

Since this thread was brought back from the tides of time anyway, I might as well add to this discussion. I wrote something like this before here in the forums, but "I am not unhappy" is perhaps the most chilling line in the entire game for me. How did I originally phrase it?

"The office job from Cultist Simulator [...], it drains your ambition, your very soul, with each passing day at work, lures you in with easy recognition and monetary rewards, until you might just break and leave the dangerous and volatile pursuit of the esoteric arts behind for its promise of stability and certainty. Slowly, gently, until you grow old and die, your life and dreams been taken away by nothing more than mundane necessities and comforts. There is nothing less eldritch than this, and still it makes me afraid much more than anything[...]."

And reading how people accidentially slip into this ending, while I sympathise with the frustration caused by it, is just such a beautifully constructed pitfall that mirrors quite nicely the concept itself, not going out with a dramatic crescendo, but to fade away without even noticing until it is too late, just because it was - for a moment - convenient to not pay attention and just let yourself carry by the flow. I wonder if all of this was intended.

[The Queen Salis]

^ This is the reason I love this ending's existence. It was so haunting to get it.