Best Lovecraftian Games ?

[DrunkGecko]

Bloodborne and Dredge.

It pisses me the fuck off that it took multiple replies for Bloodborne to get mentioned lol

 

[_Lorenzo_]

I would mention the successful Koudelka/Shadow Hearts [Sacnoth] series (especially the first two...).

 

[Spyrone]

*scrolls through list*
*No board games listed*

I offer the following board games:
Arkham horror can be played with friends or solo
House on haunted hill is a good one for friends
Call of cthulhu is a horror themed pen and paper
CthulhuTech is Eva/Gundam meets cthulhu

GURPS Cthulhupunk comes to mind for me as well. I also really want to mention Eclipse Phase despite it definitely not being Lovecraftian, as despite that it has one of the scariest Cosmic Horror settings I can think of thanks to all it's horrors sounding plausible (especially all the creepy exoplanets in Gatecrashing, I mean holy shit it makes an alien intergalactic Facebook fucking terrifying).

 

[Octopus]

Eclipse Phase

Can confirm Eclipse Phase is a top tier TTRPG if anyone's into that stuff. The vibes, immaculate.

I find it interesting that the common pop culture message of Lovecraft is main character goes insane, ah! despite that only happening in two of his Mythos stories I can think of; Rats in the Walls, and Dagon. The MC came close in Call of C'thulhu, but I wouldn't say he went insane. There was also Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermaine and His Family (the title just really rolls of the tongue), but I don't think that's part of the Mythos at all. The stories describe and mention insanity a lot and its accurate to say the whole shtick is incomprehensible eldritch affront to nature makes people spooked, ah! so I guess it became the defining feature of the stories to most people. I've always found it interesting as Lovecraft aficionado, is all.

All my picks have been said already, so I'll just back up Shadow of The Comet, Alone in The Dark and Dark Corners; I think those are my holy trifecta of Lovecraftian games.

 

[Waffles's iconWaffles]

All my picks have been said already, so I'll just back up Shadow of The Comet, Alone in The Dark and Dark Corners; I think those are my holy trifecta of Lovecraftian games.

I REALLY need an Octopus review of both Shadow Of The Comet and Dark Corners Of The Earth (this one specially) -- very few people can make them justice, and I fully trust your ability to do just that.

 

[Octopus]

I REALLY need an Octopus review of both Shadow Of The Comet and Dark Corners Of The Earth (this one specially) -- very few people can make them justice, and I fully trust your ability to do just that.

Funnily enough I have been thinking of doing an article on at least one of those for a Halloween-ish season thing, and your article on Dark Corners did bring it back up in my mind...

It'll come out after my next one, so maybe like three years tops.

 

[werewolfx]

I got a quick review of Dark corners of the earth: "A buggy mess that fails to capture the essence of shadow over innsmouth" but in all fairness it's not their fault as it was pushed out too soon.

 

[dropsmegamega]

I got a quick review of Dark corners of the earth: "A buggy mess that fails to capture the essence of shadow over innsmouth" but in all fairness it's not their fault as it was pushed out too soon.

honestly it seems to me like their vision was pretty flawed from the very start, like the game doesn't even know what it wants to be most of the time

 

[werewolfx]

honestly it seems to me like their vision was pretty flawed from the very start, like the game doesn't even know what it wants to be most of the time

that was also a huge problem, it wanted to be a horror game but also an action shooter with action set pieces? but also a mystery game.

 

[Octopus]

The game's got some issues for sure, but I think the atmosphere through out still holds up. The insanity mechanic is well implemented and a good adaptation from the source material. Its also really only like 50% a Innsmouth adaptation considering how different it is outside of the initial set-up, considering the completely new MC, ending twist and even most of the events throughout after the hotel. I'm also glad there's some action even if it is a little much at times, given how entirely dry Shadow Over Innsmouth the story is; it's probably my least favourite Lovecraft story personally, it's 75% exposition dialogue being said at the MC, 20% really boring action as Lovecraft was pretty bad with that, then 5% the twist everyone remembers over the rest of the story.

 

[NovumVeritas]

I would say Eternal Darkness (at least for me)

 

[Waffles's iconWaffles]

It'll come out after my next one, so maybe like three years tops.

Nice, nice.

Orders were given ;D

You take your time, bro. Your stuff is always worth waiting for.

 

[Spyrone]

Can't believe I forgot Dusk, especially considering Nyarlthotep is the final boss: