What are some good games in the style of HP Lovecraft?
I know a few:
>Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth
Great, atmospheric game but the shooting is pretty bad. 8/10
>Shadow of the Comet
An adventure game that is pretty ridiculous and not really that scary. 6/10
>Alone in the Dark
Early 3D game that inspired Resident Evil. Historically interesting but hasn't aged too well. 7/10
A lot of games claim to be "Lovecraftian" but they just have psychological elements in them or a sanity meter.
Most of the secret world. and bloodborne. thats it
I forgot about Bloodborne. 10/10 game if it ever ran on a PC.
racist chud
use "Cosmic Horror" instead of "Lovecraftian"
Hey look right here it's s one of those things filled with vice guys
Classic.
moronMAN!
moronman probably enjoyed seafood, I wonder how Lovecraft would have felt about that
Eternal Darkness and Cultist Simulator aren't lovecraftian in the literal lore sense but capture the style and atmosphere well.
"No one lives under the lighthouse"
This. Make sure to play the original version of the game, though. (Can be found under "Betas" if you've got the Steam version.)
Also, try "Dagon" (effectively a kinetic novel, but a good one), "The Terrible Old Man" (a short but good adventure game) and "The Last Door" (both games).
What's the difference between the versions?
Because they changed the entire endgame, including the ending. Worse, they tried to explain things that didn't need to be explained (a cardinal sin for any Lovecraftian experience.) It also lost much of its atmosphere, which was the game's greatest strength.
I still recommend playing the final version, but not as your first playthrough.
Thanks anon, appreciate the explanation. I usually dislike remasters and remakes in general, so I was ready to follow your recommendation, but was curious on the exact reason.
>Make sure to play the original version of the game, though.
why is that?
Black Souls. Though you don't realize it at first.
Darkest dungeon 1
Darkest dungeon 2 not as much as 1 tho.
The sinking city
Real life.
Bloodborne
Dark Wood
Don't starve
Winnie the Pooh's Home Run Derby (Japanese)
Lol that's a terrible "lovecraftian" game, it's exactly what OP complained about.
>filtered by the first boss
embarrassing
I beat the game twice, on top of the DLC. Cope more.
If you did you'd show more insight
No, because I actually read Lovecraft, unlike you who is most likely a secondary.
>didn't react to the keyword and showed his hand
lol I knew it, you're too easy
besides, I've read a few of his books and I've also played ten or so campaigns of Cult back in the early 00s, I know what I'm talking about. Bloodborne is a great interpretation of his ideas
And I knew you were going to turn into an autist over insight and eyes so I deliberately ignored it to see you sperg out. Funny how that works, huh?
>Bloodborne is a great interpretation of his ideas
Lol, good joke.
>say I like game
>that's a sperg out
oh woe you got me
Nice non argument but that wasn't about your taste in games but about your obsession with focusing on what you mentioned to be a "key word". Learn how to read, ESL.
also
>read a few of his books
>played cult
So basically a secondary. Thanks for the confirmation.
as someone who has read all of Lovecraft's stories, and every single one of his written letters, I think Bloodborne does Lovecraftian much better than other games. You strike me as some kind of trolling tertiary.
Assuming you're someone else, I'd have to call you a retard, in which case you calling anyone else a tertiary is laughable. If you're the same guy then you're clearly shit posting since you would have just jumped from "I read a couple of his stories in the past" to "I read all his stories and his written letters and his conversations with Derelith and and Bloch".
>assuming
>doesn't even have the extension installed
fucking quaternaries, I swear
>obsession
I mention something once to see if you played the game like you said you did. You hadn't, so I called you out
ESL?
Yeah you're an ESL for thinking anyone was shitting on you for liking the game. How you reached that conclusion is beyond me, maybe you should work on your reading comprehension.
>for thinking anyone was shitting on you for liking the game
How did you arrive at this conclusion? I was commenting on your usage of 'obsession' after I mention a term a single time.
I'm starting to doubt your claim of having read his stuff based on your reading comprehension.
That's it, fun bantz. I'm going back to playing ToTK, feel free to ignore or have the last word buddy
Well the more you seethe over this the more obsessed you seem to be since you're the one not letting it go. You still had a poor reaction to your "key word" and brought up you liking the game when it was never a factor. Seriously, work on your reading comprehension, it will do you good.
Is this a bot? Whoever wrote it needs to tune the repetition of terms and phrases, it's reiterating and copying a tad too much for it to seem natural. Well made though
Holmes the Awakened
Stygian, but it's VERY unfinished and that's it lol
super mario 64
Rimworld with the call of cthulu mods. Darkest Dungeon maybe?
Blacksouls
Darkest dungeon
Bloodborne
bump
There is a relatively recent indie one I liked, dreams in the witch house. It's a point and click game. I recommend saving every few days so you don't fuck yourself over when you get too low on resources like I did.
I thought that game was great. Feels good when you find the rat dead.
Yup that one was pretty good, the mix between point&click adventure game and RPG was interesting
Imagine being pleb enough to read all of Lovecraft yet shit on Bloodborne.
best Lovecraft story is the one with the guy in the u-boat who is staring at a cave outside the viewport
Demon's Souls
Signalis is also very good
>A lot of games claim to be "Lovecraftian" but they just have psychological elements in them or a sanity meter.
No one in the modern day can do Lovecraft right because they miss how it relies on feeling small, fear of the unknown, and fear at lack of control and inability to understand something. Cthulhu as written by modern writers may as well just be another Kaiju
That is why I detest nearly everything that gets tagged as Lovecraftian, because it most often ends up being solely about muh eldritch monstrosities. A lot of the horror in Lovecraft stories come from the discovery of millennia old conspiracies of intergalactic proportions, which drive the protagonist mad by making him feel utterly powerless and hopeless against their sheer magnitude.
>A lot of the horror in Lovecraft stories come from the discovery of millennia old conspiracies of intergalactic proportions, which drive the protagonist mad by making him feel utterly powerless and hopeless against their sheer magnitude.
No it doesn't. only a small number of Lovecraft's protagonists go insane. It's why 'le insanity' is such a shitty representation of his writing or alluding to him, because he barely used it. He focused more on fear than anything. Not insanity.
Depends on what you understand by going insane. Only a few of his protagonists fully lose their marbles and turn into babbling messes but most of them become paranoid with fear at the least.
>Depends on what you understand by going insane.
>Only a few of his protagonists fully lose their marbles and turn into babbling messes
This is going insane.
>but most of them become paranoid with fear at the least.
This is not going insane.
So you know what insanity is?
I do.
Play Sucker For Love the closest you will get to a good Lovecraftian horror
https://jurn.link/tentaclii/index.php/2022/03/19/some-notes-on-the-cole-letters/
3rding BLACKSOULS and BLACKSOULS 2.
Best story I've seen in a game in a very long while.
SAVE ME moron MAN SAVE ME
eternal darkness
bloodborne
every other "lovecraftian" game is pretty much relegated and reduced to pic related
What about games in the style of Clark Ashton Smith?
>genuine horror of sea food
Considering the octopus monsters and fish people, this is really funny.
I find Lovecraft's daily life to be just as interesting as his fiction.
Every recommendation I would have given has been mentioned, so I will simply say Quake because it was obviously Lovecraft's intent for Shub-Niggurath to be telefraggable.
>Sunless Sea/Sunless Skies
>Nobody Lives Under the Lighthouse
>Pathologic 2
>The Void
>Darkwood
>Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth
It also has some catastrophic bugs and the sneaking is tedious, looks great though. Check out The Shore, beautiful game, best played at night in a totally dark room with headphones.
Persona 2
>'Lovecraft' game
>Protagonist goes insane cause REASONS
Call of Cthulhu would have made a better movie than a game, not that it's bad its just sort of pointless as a game?
Sunken City seems really cool but I was never compelled to put a ton of time into it
Sunless seas and skies rule, seas might be the better game but skies is more optimized and better looking
GTA San Andreas
Where did this obsession with muh insanity came from? Is it just writers shitty excuse to end the story?
It comes from Lovecraft's own experiences. He was prone to nervous breakdowns.
World of Horror has you take on the role of a Lovecraft-style protagonist investigating the dealings of a cult that worships some barely-understood malevolent deity. Even when you win, you've only delayed the inevitable.
Fear & Hunger mostly presents its (old) gods well, as in leagues above anything a human could stand up to.
>buy a lovecraft book
>suddenly there's a lovecraft thread
stop spying on me
Influenced by The King In Yellow, Signalis.
What does that book have to do with Lovecraft?
thematically similar, signalis is also inspired by lovecraft
It's cosmic/existential horror. "In the style of" means similar to but not directly inspired by, imo. I think both of those works fit
Robert W. Chambers was a huge inspiration for Lovecraft.
Sunless Sea and Cultist Simulator.
Eternal Darkness
Darkest Dungeon
Sunless Sea
Fear and Hunger 1+2
Cultist Simulator
Dusk
Bloodborne
Grim Dawn
Novels are not like video games at all
World of Horror is equal parts H.P. Lovecraft and Junji Ito and I’ve really been enjoying it lately
Plus there’s mod support to add new characters, creatures, events, and stories
Fuck forgot the image
Fantastic game, but I wish there were more of it. Does it have workshop integration yet?
it's great. I just wish the dev didn't go awol for 9 months at a time. It blew up so he must be able to afford some codemonkey if he is too busy with his day job.
Bloodborne and Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened are good ones.
The Sinking City was alright but not my cup of tea.
bloodborne
Yang looks like that??????????
Forgive Me Father
Cultic
Project Warlock
Paradox Vector
Hrot (slightly)
Wolfenstein 2009 (but you can't buy it lol)
> Forgive Me Father
I really liked it although I'm not particularly into shooters. I hope they improve on it for FMF2.
raw gunplay was good but I dislike the upgrade system
Yeah me too. Some levels had a really great atmosphere and the OST is a banger. The madness mechanic made it even more fun. Also, I'm still not sure about the story although it's not really important in a shooter but a few things bug me.
The priest was an ex navy vet who went mad and was locked up in the asylum, right? He started hearing voices and managed to escape and killed everyone. So that means it was supposed to be all in his head. But with the upcoming sequel, they'll likely make it as if it was all real and he has to redeem himself somehow.
>A lot of games claim to be "Lovecraftian" but they just have psychological elements in them or a sanity meter.
So what is Lovecraftian then
indescribable horrors that are impossible to understand. it's not just about seeing scary things and losing your mind from the terror, it's about your mind trying to understand something it never can which consumes you and drives you mad.
How can you have something indescribable in a game
It will always have a visible model, make the same noises, have the same AI behaviour or abilities or whatever
What kind of game can ever encapsulate that shit
Oh no... this attractive woman desperately want me to fuck and mate with her for eternity, save me moronMAN MY SANITY POINTS ARE DECREASING REEEAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!
Tragically underrated movie
you cannot communicate the feeling of Lovecraft's writing effectively through gameplay or a visual medium
Nahhh
Even something as simple as the ceiling opening up in Dusk after you kill the Schwarzenegger boss was able to instil a sense of dread at the incomprehensibility and ramifications of what you're seeing but not quite understanding. Suddenly overwhelmed upon realizing there's so much more going on than what you initially thought.
And while more Satanic than Lovecraftian, causing the shotgun to infinitely respawn so you can break through the mirror in the first FAITH game created an utterly horrorifying sense of existential dread.
for me it was emerging from the cocoon as the second protagonist in SCORN, and seeing the world, or seeing the Parasite clearly for the first time and noticing the first protagonist's assimilated body and features.
Just give me a game where I can jump off the moon with an army of cats
If you have no problem with MS Paint games then "The Consuming Shadow".
Mundaun
Signalis
>"Between March and December 1936, Lovecraft wrote several letters to his next-door neighbor, Marian F. Bonner. The most frequent subject was the cats in the yards between their homes, dubbed by Lovecraft the “Κοµπων ’Αιλουρων Τάξισ” (Band of Elegant Cats)."
Am I illiterate