The ScummVM Team is pleased to announce that Chamber of the Sci-Mutant Priestess — originally released in Europe as KULT: The Temple of Flying Saucers — is ready for public testing!

Step into the boots of Raven, a young man gifted with psychic powers, held prisoner deep inside the temple of an alien priestess. His companion, Sci-Fi, has been captured too, and to reach her, Raven must survive the five Ordeals that stand between him and the Chamber. Wits alone will not be enough: you will need to master eight distinct psi-powers, from the humble Solar Eyes to the brutal Extreme Violence, to outsmart the strange creatures of this surreal, post-apocalyptic world.

Originally developed in 1989 by the French label Exxos (ERE Informatique), with an art direction inspired by illustrator Philippe Caza, KULT is a genuine cult classic of European adventure gaming, remembered for its dreamlike atmosphere and its unusual, power-driven puzzles.

For this testing period, ScummVM supports the DOS versions — with CGA, EGA and Hercules renderers, playable in English, French and German — as well as the Amiga releases. The engine was reverse-engineered by bambarbee and brought into ScummVM during Google Summer of Code.

As usual, you will need the original game data files to play. To join the test, grab a recent daily development build, add your game directory to ScummVM, and play through the game. Please report any problems you encounter on our issue tracker, following our bug submission guidelines. Screenshots and saved games demonstrating an issue are always helpful.

Now steel your mind — the Ordeals await.