name ONE good Lovecraftian game
Name ONE good Lovecraftian game
I remember every magazine gushing about Call of Cthulu: Dark Corners of The Earth when it came out
Shadow of the Comet
Prisoner of Ice
Alone in the Dark trilogy
Cthulhu Saves Christmas
irks me that they cancelled the sequel; Beyond the Mountains of Madness would have been amazing
Cultist Simulator isnt bad as long as you like cardslop
Deathstate
Because the game was good just long enough to get a reviewer to form a positive opinion, and then the game turns to complete dog shit.
Batman: Arkham Asylum
that does sound pretty great
There's no cthulhus rip off monsters but thematically this is very lovecraftian.
Dusk
Why is Cthulhu such a massive name in tabletop games(ttrpgs, board games, even fucking wargames) but such a tiny name in vidya
Because the moment you give the massive, seemingly unstoppable entity of unknowable horror a health bar, someone will inevitably try to find a way to kill it. Which is something that also happens in tabletop.
Because tabletop doesn't really adhere to the "show don't tell" rule that other gaming media does. You can't really SHOW people seeing a tentacle god that wants to subject them to an eternity of the worst shit ever and go insane from the how fucked they are when they finally wrap their heads around that. But dear god, you can sure tell it.
Arkham Horror the card game.
This.
It's not a 10/10, but it sure has SOUL.
Vidya is for sub 90 IQ players. Board games are for players above that.
Dredge is okay. A nice little weekend burner.
Two reasons.
The smaller reason is that cosmic horror is harder to show in visual media, so ttrpgs are uniquely suited for it as opposed to vidya. However, if you're like, a good dev, you can bypass this limitation.
The actual big reason is that Cthulhu is public domain. This means he's very cheap to put in your product, but this also means you can't own him. This is great for tabletop games, that have a way lower budget, but bad for video games, because video games companies really want to own the intellectual property they're spending millions of dollars on.
This is why the few Cthulhu games you do get are almost always, at best, AA, never AAA
Quake
lovecraft means only cthulhu
What's a game with Yog-Sothoth?
Not many people bother to remember shit like the Crawling Chaos, the King in Yellow, the black goat in the woods with a thousand young, or all the other outer gods he and other prominent American writers of the time were writing about.
I liked The Sinking City even if t's pretty janky at times. I hope the sequel will be good.
Black souls
Look outside is also pretty lovecraftian.
Unironically a lot of Secret World, the first location you go is literally Innsmouth. Game kinda sucks though and is extremely dead. Tbh I would enjoy a single player with ai bots version of TSW tho, like they have for WoW
Based oldfag, although I'd argue that only the first Alone in the Dark is genuinely good.
Dark Souls
Infra Arcana, but you won't play it
Cultist simulator
inb4 but where are muh tentacles
bloodborne
Eternal Darkness
Shadow Over Loathing is unironically the best
All these cultists
Man, I was sure everyone hated Cultist Simulator
We go into the circle by night, we are consumed by the fire.
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anthrocentric setting where human mythology, thought and imagination plays a core role in the cosmos
lovecraftian
no
Lots of madness driven by the unimaginable though. It's close enough. Closer than "Lovecraft? Cthulhu is pretty cool with his tentacles and frying minds whatever that means."
Well it wasn't ALWAYS like that. Humans are just that bad ass. Some humans thought about being gods so hard that they completely upset.. everything. You can really get some weird shit done if you dance hard enough.
Humans are just that bad ass
lovecraftian
Do you see where I'm going with this
Cult Sim is a good game(lore-wise, the gameplay is kinda meh to me but that's not really the selling point), but it's not lovecraftian.
And before you bring up Randolph Carter and his dreamland adventures, I consider Dreamquest of Unknown Kadath to not be Lovecraftian horror either, and just weird fiction that happened to be written by Lovecraft.
and just weird fiction that happened to be written by Lovecraft.
Funny how people think that anything written by lovecraft is lovacraftian horror. They would even misconstrue Sweet Ermengarde as cosmic horror as well.