Idle Cult Empire - Evil Tycoon

Contains adsIn-app purchases
52.5K reviews
Content rating
Everyone 10+
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Content rating
Everyone 10+
Fantasy violence
In-game purchases
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About this game

Welcome to Idle Cult Empire, a tycoon-style experience where you build and expand your own mysterious cult empire. Step into the role of an idle evil genius and take control of a hidden underground operation, where your goal is to rise to power and dominate the world. Blending elements from idle games, simulator games, and tycoon games, Idle Cult Empire offers a dark and engaging take on building games and long-term simulation games.

In Idle Cult Empire, you begin as a small cult leader with a limited following. Your mission is to recruit new members, perform rituals, and unlock forbidden knowledge to grow your influence. Manage resources, automate processes, and transform your cult into a thriving business empire. With clicker mechanics and support for offline idle games, progress continues even when you’re away.

As your empire grows, you’ll make strategic decisions involving money games, expansion systems, and resource management. Control large groups of followers through strategic mob control, operate secret facilities that resemble a controlled prison, and expand into multiple locations. Dig beneath the surface using mining games, idle miner, and digging games mechanics to uncover rare materials and fuel your rise to supremacy.

Idle Cult Empire combines idle progression with active choices. Conduct experiments, automate rituals, and unlock powerful upgrades as your influence spreads. Manage unusual areas like abandoned sites, forests, or a corrupted junkyard, and expand production chains inspired by lumber idle systems. With themes touching on cultist simulator, evil hunter, and demonized idle concepts, the game delivers a dark but playful atmosphere. Shape your followers’ destiny in a light god simulator style as you build a powerful empire.

Featuring atmospheric visuals, immersive sound effects, and steady progression, Idle Cult Empire keeps you engaged for hours. Expand across regions, unlock new abilities, and optimize every system to become a true top tycoon. Whether you enjoy tycoon games, simulation games, or slow-burn idle experiences, there’s always something new to build and improve.

If you love growing an empire from nothing and watching it thrive through automation and strategy, Idle Cult Empire is ready for you. Are you prepared to claim control and guide your cult toward total domination?

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Build a cult empire and become a tycoon in the addictive idle cultist simulator
Updated on
4 Nov 2026
Available on
Android, Windows

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
  • This app may share these data types with third parties
    Location, Financial info and 2 others
  • This app may collect these data types
    Location, Financial info and 3 others
  • Data is encrypted in transit
  • You can request that data be deleted

Ratings and reviews

50.5K reviews
Chris Goatee
9 September 2026
I've been playing for awhile and I like the game but I ran into a problem at higher levels, the more things you uncover and have to keep track of and routinely do, the game starts running very very very slowly. I'm on chapter 18 or 19, have 31 followers, all locations opened, good progression in the battle arena too, but it's becoming less and less fun at this stage unless there's more optimization at this stage to make the app keep running smoothly, as it was when you first start it.
3 people found this review helpful
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Dexter Hyde
23 August 2026
Currently experiencing a soft-lock bug and reached out through in game support and no received any help. Ignoring the bug, I would still just rate it a 3 star at most. The ads in the game really disrupts the flow. On top of that, if you want to play any longer than 5-10 minutes, you have to watch like 10 unskippable ads to get scraps of resources that let you play 30 mores seconds before another forced ad. Games has great potential, but needs to be a little less invasive with the ads.
8 people found this review helpful
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Eathan Davis
23 June 2026
there's a lot of glitches and now it's kinda annoying to get the eye things for completing cravings especially in the late game before the last update it wasn't too bad it felt balanced when something was high tier and it took a lot of meat to get it you got a lot of the eye things but now I barely get 1 thousand for a lv5 and a lv3 of the rare drops it's just too hard to level things up because that's barely 1 upgrade because I am on the last chapter. I just want to finish the game.
4 people found this review helpful
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Lion Studios Plus
8 July 2026
Thank you for sharing your detailed feedback with us! We are sorry to hear the recent update has made progression feel unbalanced and frustrating, especially so close to the end. Please contact us via the Settings button in the app so we can take a closer look at your concerns.

What's new

Fixed a bug that caused some players to have a very long loading at the start that sometimes gets stuck