nerevarine2828: I beat Atom RPG for the second time after trying to explore every single questline I could. Whoo-boy... what a wild ride that was! I noticed that there seems to be a re-occuring theme of religious cults in the game. They seem to pop up everywhere you look. Here are the cults that I uncovered and some random thoughts:

-The Mushroom cult. The biggest central cult in the game. No way to avoid contact with this one.
-Devi Krishna cult. Not much of a threat, honestly, but the questline was pretty amusing.
-Random tin-foil hat cult. I kept running into these guys in the wasteland. Is there more to them, or are they just generic bad guys?
-Book burning cult. I thought there would be more of these guys, but once you have that fight with them, they're never seen again.
-Goat cult. I wanted to check out their cool goat statue, and they attacked me, so I had no choice but to defend myself.
-"Death" cult. This one was an interesting quest line. I killed the 3 leaders, but there was also some young goth girl in Peregon who was in the cult. Never figured out what I was supposed to do about her.
-Lenin cult. This one really made me chuckle. It managed to be a satire of both Leninism and Warhammer 40K.
-Rat cult. Throughout the game, there were intelligent rats, and at one point you find some kind of King Rat in a cave with a throne surrounded by paintings. A funny homage to Fallout.

That's 8 different cults! Am I missing any others?

nerevarine2828: Thanks for the reply, I had no idea about joining the death cult! The fact that they added this as an option as well as an exclusive companion is nuts to me. I think this is why Atom is currently my favorite game. All the hidden detail an inter-connective game play elements.

Oh, and here are possibly two other cults: the brainworm cult and the Hesperus star cult. However, the brainworms may be more of conspiracy and the red star may be some kind of mass delusion. Not sure if they fully qualify.