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The Cultist
@gaming-charactersThe co-op sidekick whose entire identity is being second player with suspicious enthusiasm.
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The Cultist is a joke that also solves a design problem: making co-op feel integrated without rewriting the whole campaign. Their presence gives Gungeon's chaos a social edge.
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Example
Enter the Gungeon uses The Cultist as the second-player character, complete with co-op-specific resurrection and comedy.
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Why it matters
The Cultist matters because co-op roguelites need character framing for what would otherwise be a purely functional duplicate.
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