For all its faults, Cults & Daggers is an interesting and fun take on turn-based 4X games. It's got a great premise, multiple roads to victory, and a rule set that isn't crazy tough to learn. It's surprisingly fun managing the operations of your pet religion, sending marching orders to your disciples, and preaching to or manipulating cities, and quashing the Old Gods.

It's not perfect. In fact, the events summary at the beginning of each turn is particularly horrible for such a critical part of the game's interface. It could have used a nice scrollable and easily digestible format of events that you can read through. Still, just on uniqueness of premise and solid, challenging strategic play, I'd say it's a good buy for fans of turn-based menu-driven strategy games looking for something different.