Kult (card game)

Kult is an out-of-print collectible card game published by Target Games and Heartbreaker Hobbies, based on the horror role-playing game of the same name. It was released in November 1995, and a single expansion, Inferno, followed in July 1997, adding 127 cards to a base set of 262. A Polish edition appeared in 1997. Each player chooses one of the Major Arcana, which stand for the Archons and Angels of Death, and each Archon card lists a special ability and four resource symbols. A player's area is made up of the Cast, the Hub holding the chosen Major Arcanum, and the Stage, four cards set around the Hub in a cross. The aim is to control the majority of the world's population by moving Population Markers from the shared centre into the Cast, then the Stage, then the Hub, which players do by playing character cards that open routes for the markers. Characters can fight, and the card with the lower combat value is discarded. Reviewers praised how easy the game was to learn while noting that its graphic occult artwork drew some controversy.