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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Entertainment
Patrick Lum

Global success of Cult of the Lamb showcases Australia’s video games development talent

A still from Cult of the Lamb
A still from Cult of the Lamb, a video game by Melbourne-based studio Massive Monster Photograph: Massive Monster

There’s a whole marketing industry out there trying to persuade the world to buy Australian lamb. But our latest international success story is a bit more digital – not to mention eldritch – than meaty.

Cult of the Lamb, a video game about indoctrinating cute animals into your dark sect and then sacrificing them for greater power, has topped the sales charts on release (temporarily overthrowing the latest Spider-Man game on PC) and has hit more than a million units sold in a week, according to its publisher.

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