Have not played it yet but from screens & descriptions the MMO "The Secret World" appears quite Lovecraft inspired.

Still not as goofy as the source material. :p

Not really. It certainly has a overarching horror theme, but little can be tied to Lovecraft. It's more a mashup of many different horror and consparicy scenarios.

The Director of Scratches is bringing up a Lovecraftian game and I think he can pull it off.


You liked Amnesia and Scratches and oh you ARE a connoisseur you know The Cat Lady and Corrosion, too?

Here is your fix:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/agustincordes/asylum-kickstart-the-horror

Ayslum is already Greenlit on Steam but the Kickstarter is going for another 6 days.

Looks cool! Is there a place to get this besides Desura? I don't want to install yet another game client =/

Luckily, you don't have to install Desura to download it. Just login to your account there, and there should be a standalone installer for you to download :)

Is that thing with the tentacles you kill in the 'Blast Chamber' level of Half Life an Elder God? There's a boss fight with a Hydra iin the original Fable that's similar too
(really reaching here...)

Ah very cool, going to download it now!


I'm surprised nobody has mentioned World of Over-Eight-Years-Old-Craft (Warcraft). The old gods and some of the achievements are fairly direct Lovecraft references (ex: there's an achievement called "In His House He Waits Dreaming").

Most of Lovecraft's fiction singled out spellcasters from fantasy stories and vilified them in relation to Christian ideals.

So instead of say, a Tolkien-Like Story where a Necromancer was just one of the party out for the same cause, Lovecraft's whole focus would be on just that Necromancer, back at his workshop in the village, fending off mob-rioting locals while attempting to get new spells under control.

You do know that The Necromancer of Tolkien is a very evil entity, right? He is not 'one of the party' but the ultimate enemy of the whole world.

Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth was excellent in both the suspense and action parts, at least until the refinery part. Then the game forced too much sneaking upon you, as well as fights against respawning enemies. Still, the first third of the game makes it worth the title of one of the best Lovecraftian games out there.

Sherlock Holmes: the Awakened is a bit disappointing if you're looking for Cthulhu lore.

I completely agree, the first part of the game was amazing.

There's also Necronomicon - The Dawning of Darkness which is an adventure game.

I've been trying out Call of Cthulhu: The Wasted Land, and so far, I sadly can't recommend it. It's a buggy mess that crashes every five minutes, even after the patch that was supposed to fix this (I'm playing the PC version, maybe the Android one is more stable). The interface is also maddeningly unresponsive - trying to select and manuver one guy in the middle of a tight cluster is so aggravating that I had to roll a sanity check.

Even if the game worked properly, though, there are still other issues. For one thing, this is supposed to be a tactics game, but enemies (even human ones) tend to bamf into existence beside you when you reach predetermined points, and can immediately attack you. There's no way to tell where this will happen or what's going to jump out at you, making this a tactics game that's less about tactics and more about trial-and-error repetition. And finally, there's the atmosphere... it's the one thing they needed to get right, and it's just not working for me. It almost feels like they couldn't decide whether they wanted to do moody period horror or pulp magical supergerman adventure, so they tried a bit of both. And they just aren't working together.

If I can get the game to be more stable, I'll try to finish it and report back if my opinion changes, but so far it's a big disappointment. Which is too bad - I really wanted to like it.

You get what I'm saying though - The stories took citizens view of a mage, enchanter, sorcerer, etc. residing in their town.

Yes, I know what you mean. Only the Necromancer was not a good example ;-)