I can see how the original release would have made for a tight and tense experience but with the Sunken Sins DLC that comes built in to the game the game is broken in a fundamental way.

The original premise of the game was that you had a village full of cultists tasked with purging the community of its sinners before their dark god returns in three years, each season you would have to sacrifice a villager and if the one you picked was guilty of a mortal sin then the backlash was minimal while if you picked someone guilty of lesser offenses the townsfolk would be outraged. If you played your cards right you had just enough guilty villagers to sacrifice one every round of the game, and picking the right people to minimize backlash against executions was a hard balancing act but also a concrete goal to aim for.

The Sunken Sins add on extends the length of the countdown from three years to five, but keeps the same number of sinners. If you play correctly then a little over halfway through the game you'll run out of people you're "supposed" to execute so you have to to start killing off those who are only guilty of lesser offenses, making the entire back half of the game a tedious exercise in keeping your various factions from rebelling due to you killing the "wrong" people.

The concept and presentation are great but the frustrating mechanics and and constant repetition maybe do a bit too good of a job of putting you in the mindset of a self-flagellating cultist desperately hoping for the arrival of their god to release them from their torment.

I can see how the original release would have made for a tight and tense experience but with the Sunken Sins DLC that comes built in to the game the game is broken in a fundamental way. The original premise of the game was that you had a village full of cultists tasked with purging the community of its sinners before their dark god returns in three years, each season you would have to sacrifice a villager and if the one you picked was guilty of a mortal sin then the backlash was minimal while if you picked someone guilty of lesser offenses the townsfolk would be outraged. If you played your cards right you had just enough guilty villagers to sacrifice one every round of the game, and picking the right people to minimize backlash against executions was a hard balancing act but also a concrete goal to aim for. The Sunken Sins add on extends the length of the countdown from three years to five, but keeps the same number of sinners. If you play correctly then a little over halfway through the game you'll run out of people you're "supposed" to execute so you have to to start killing off those who are only guilty of lesser offenses, making the entire back half of the game a tedious exercise in keeping your various factions from rebelling due to you killing the "wrong" people. The concept and presentation are great but the frustrating mechanics and and constant repetition maybe do a bit too good of a job of putting you in the mindset of a self-flagellating cultist desperately hoping for the arrival of their god to release them from their torment.