Culdcept is a strategy developed by Omiya Soft, released 25 December 2003 on PlayStation 2.
What Culdcept is
Culdcept is a strategy game developed by Omiya Soft and released in 2003. It was published by NEC Interchannel. It is available on PlayStation 2 only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Culdcept is a turn-based strategy video game developed and published by OmiyaSoft for the Sega Saturn. It is the first game in the Culdcept series. It has drawn comparisons to other modern strategy titles, and also shares features with non-video games Monopoly and Magic: The Gathering. The game was initially released only in Japan for the Sega Saturn and PlayStation. A remake for the Nintendo DS in 2008 was released by Sega as Culdcept DS. Another remake for the Nintendo 3DS was released by Nintendo in 2012. The game was re-released under the name Culdcept the First in July 2026, the first time it was published in the West.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Culdcept holds a critic score of 89 out of 100. That places it above 92% of the 3,250 rated strategy games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2003 averaged 69, so it scored 20 points above the year average.
What it launched against
Culdcept launched on 25 December 2003, within three weeks of Baten Kaitos: Eternal Wings and the Lost Ocean, Zuma Deluxe, Sonic Heroes and NFL Street. It reviewed better than all of them.
Released around the same time: Baten Kaitos: Eternal Wings and the Lost Ocean, Zuma Deluxe, Sonic Heroes, NFL Street.
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