Call of Cthulhu®

The games have the same merits and flaws that other Cyanide games I played, which means good background and story but with a gameplay which does everything it can to spoil your experience. So in this game, how does the gameplay spoils everything? Well, the game is mainly an exploration game, but with an autosave system and cutscenes which will effectively stop yout exploration then autosave you to prevent you from being able to come back before the cutscene. Combine that with the scarcity of occult items and now my full occult run is ruined and I have to choose between continue to play the game with a gimped character (as I sacrificed everything to a goal now impossible to attain) or to run another entirely new game which means hours of play lost.

This game had a lot of potential, being based on a well-established table-top franchise. What you get though, is essentially an atmospheric walking simulator with some stealth elements mixed in. It has a disjointed quality to it, as if the authors wanted to throw in as many Lovecraft references as they could, nevermind its effect on the plot. Ultimately, if you want to experience a bit of existential horror, there are better and less expensive titles on GOG that you can check out.

Gog-galaxy installs this game in the same folder as Call Of Cthulhu 2006. As a result you will get non-working Call Of Cthulhu 2006 and Call Of Cthulhu 2018 :)

It breaks my heart to review this game so badly, but i cannot recommend this to anyone, even at a discount (unless it eventually gets crazy cheap). As the story progresses, you feel like you´re watching it unfold more than participating in it, and in some games, that works well because the story captures you in such a way that it doesn't matter. Unfortunatelly, this game is the equivalent of using street view on Google Maps, but the streets are a shady Lovecraftian town... And that's it, that's all it's got for you. Some prompts pop up eerly informing you that what you just did will "affect your destiny", but there's like 4 endings. It feels so underwhelming, despite having some great visuals and some good ideas. There's this section where you solve a puzzle inside this weird dream state and they use some perspective tricks that you have to figure out and it looks so good and abstract, really made me feel like i was in an alien lovecraftian world of deep greens and slimy floors. But that's the thing: there was ONE part like that, ONE puzzle. The rest of the game consists of rubbing your mouse against everything until you find the object that progresses the plot. The characters talk to eachother like they're close and personally invested in one another, but it falls completly flat because you don't feel like that, you meet these people and then spend so little time with them that you any impact of something happening to them is lost. The RPG elemnets are also so unecessary and basically only open a few dialog options. Do not buy this game expecting something memorable or thrilling, I love Lovecraft, his mythos, and i enjoyed somewhat the Bethesda CoC game. I liked this game's visuals and some aspects of the sound design, unfortunatelly, that's not nearly enough for a recommendation.