====== Ritual ======
[{{ ritual.png|Ritual program icon}}]

**Ritual** is a [[breaker|breaker program]] which breaks 1\ [[:firewall]] for a cost of 1\ [[:PWR]], but also triggers a random [[:daemon]] when it is used. Ritual also has a passive effect which increases the probability of [[:daemons:#daemon reversal]] by 5%.

Ritual is exclusive to the [[:Nintendo Switch edition]] of the game, although it is also available when playing with the [[:mods:Switch Content]] mod.

===== Strategy =====

Ritual is a profoundly bad program, and you should not take it except as a [[:modes:challenge]]. If you do, you should install the [[:mods:Scrolling Daemons]] mod, because you will have so many daemons active, they won't all fit on the screen at once.

The problem with Ritual is that every time you use it, you risk a bad daemon like [[:daemons:Validate]], [[:daemons:Paradox]] or [[:daemons:Labyrinth]], and even when you get weaker daemons, their effects stack because you will get so many of them. As compensation for all the daemons, Ritual costs 1\ PWR less than [[Lockpick]], which isn't much help when you also lose PWR to [[:daemons:Siphon]] and [[:daemons:Modulate]], or you have use it more times because of [[:daemons:Rubiks]] or [[:daemons:Castle]].

If you are intent on using Ritual, you probably want to have [[:agents:Central]] on your team to benefit from her [[:augments:Antiviral Proxy]] augment, and find [[Brimstone]] to reverse more daemons, [[Bless]] to reduce the duration of daemons, or both. Otherwise, you should acquire a different breaker program as soon as possible, and use that instead of Ritual; and before you do, you should seriously consider //not// hacking devices like [[:mainframe devices:Security Cameras]] or the [[:mainframe devices:Power Supply]] connected to a [[:mainframe devices:Beam Emitter]] or [[:mainframe devices:Infrared Emitter]], because the penalty for just walking through is less than the daemon(s) you'd take from hacking them on average.

The one upside of Ritual --- if you can survive it --- is that more daemons and more [[:daemons:#Daemon reversal|reversals]] means more opportunities to trigger [[:algorithms:Fortune]].