Devolver’s Cult of the Lamb is one of the most well regarded roguelikes in recent years. Taking cute little creatures, both animals and others, and putting them in a cult dedicated to an “evil” force. The new DLC, Woolhaven, takes this all a step further alongside recent updates surrounding the game to fill it out into something much grander than it was before. Prepare to rejoin the cult, we’ve been waiting for you to return.

The animation is so cute!

Before you even start Woolhaven, you’ll need to meet some criteria in the base game, including just offering up some resources, and having completed the four main areas. You don’t need to “finish” the game, but you need to be at a point where it’s an option basically. Once everything is offered up to this new being that visits your cult, it’s time to begin. Woolhaven brings a new area, a whole new route to explore, and it brings Winter to my aptly named “Snow Cult.” Winter creates a whole new issue for your cult, causing your followers to potentially freeze to death. The only solution is to create a furnace with the new rotburn resource to power it.

Brr, its cold in here. There must be some devils in the atmosphere!

The first real experience once you enter Woolhaven is a whole cutscene dedicated to it. The animation for this is amazing, easily one of my favourite animated cutscenes in any game since the Studio Ghibli ones in Ni No Kuni. After this you’re faced with a new statue, surrounded by graves. Your goal through your adventures is to get offerings for these graves to bring back the spirits and make Woolhaven full again.

You will also need to rebuild the buildings that will give side missions and even little games to play. You can essentially tackle this however you want. Do you want to completely fill Woolhaven with nice flowers, rebuild everything, and explore the story? Or would you rather just fight your way through the mountain, pay minimal attention to any of it, and aim to defeat as many enemies as you can?

When someone says “my dog wouldn’t hurt a fly,” but its in a muzzle.

One big thing I found with Woolhaven is that it is actually more difficult than the base game. I replayed the main game going into this and died maybe twice, and both times were to The One Who Waits. Woolhaven introduces new enemies that take a little bit more concentration to not get hit by, new bosses that spawn more projectiles, and areas that might make it harder to see traps. None of it feels unfair though, it all just takes patience and attention, which is a reason to give this as much praise as I feel like I have. Everything feels thought out and built to be mean, but fair.

The GOAT is good at minigames.

If you even just LIKED Cult of the Lamb, whether you were interested in the actual “cult” part or not, Woolhaven is well worth diving back into the game for. New weapons, new enemies, new bosses, new cult members, and the GOAT cult leader. 

Cult of the Lamb: Woolhaven is available now on Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X|S.

Reviewed on Nintendo Switch.

A copy of Cult of the Lamb: Woolhaven was provided by the publisher.