What are some good games in the style of HP Lovecraft? I know a few:. >Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth

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.

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  1. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Most of the secret world. and bloodborne. thats it

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      I forgot about Bloodborne. 10/10 game if it ever ran on a PC.

  2. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    racist chud
    use "Cosmic Horror" instead of "Lovecraftian"

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous
    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      Hey look right here it's s one of those things filled with vice guys

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous
      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        Classic.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      Black personMAN!

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        Black personman probably enjoyed seafood, I wonder how Lovecraft would have felt about that

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous
  3. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Eternal Darkness and Cultist Simulator aren't lovecraftian in the literal lore sense but capture the style and atmosphere well.

  4. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    "No one lives under the lighthouse"

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      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).

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        What's the difference between the versions?

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          >Make sure to play the original version of the game, though.
          why is that?

          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.

          • 10 months ago
            Anonymous

            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.

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        >Make sure to play the original version of the game, though.
        why is that?

  5. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Black Souls. Though you don't realize it at first.

  6. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Darkest dungeon 1
    Darkest dungeon 2 not as much as 1 tho.
    The sinking city

  7. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Real life.

  8. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Bloodborne
    Dark Wood
    Don't starve
    Winnie the Pooh's Home Run Derby (Japanese)

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      I forgot about Bloodborne. 10/10 game if it ever ran on a PC.

      Most of the secret world. and bloodborne. thats it

      Lol that's a terrible "lovecraftian" game, it's exactly what OP complained about.

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        >filtered by the first boss
        embarrassing

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          I beat the game twice, on top of the DLC. Cope more.

          • 10 months ago
            Anonymous

            If you did you'd show more insight

            • 10 months ago
              Anonymous

              No, because I actually read Lovecraft, unlike you who is most likely a secondary.

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                >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

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                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.

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                >say I like game
                >that's a sperg out
                oh woe you got me

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                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.

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                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.

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                Assuming you're someone else, I'd have to call you a moron, 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".

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                >assuming
                >doesn't even have the extension installed
                fricking quaternaries, I swear

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                >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?

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                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.

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                >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

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                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.

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                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

  9. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Holmes the Awakened

  10. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Stygian, but it's VERY unfinished and that's it lol

  11. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    super mario 64

  12. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Rimworld with the call of cthulu mods. Darkest Dungeon maybe?

  13. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Blacksouls

  14. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Darkest dungeon
    Bloodborne

  15. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    bump

  16. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    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 frick yourself over when you get too low on resources like I did.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      I thought that game was great. Feels good when you find the rat dead.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      Yup that one was pretty good, the mix between point&click adventure game and RPG was interesting

  17. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Imagine being pleb enough to read all of Lovecraft yet shit on Bloodborne.

  18. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    best Lovecraft story is the one with the guy in the u-boat who is staring at a cave outside the viewport

  19. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Demon's Souls

  20. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Signalis is also very good

  21. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    >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

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      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.

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        >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.

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          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.

          • 10 months ago
            Anonymous

            >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?

            • 10 months ago
              Anonymous

              I do.

  22. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Play Sucker For Love the closest you will get to a good Lovecraftian horror

  23. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    https://jurn.link/tentaclii/index.php/2022/03/19/some-notes-on-the-cole-letters/

  24. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    3rding BLACKSOULS and BLACKSOULS 2.
    Best story I've seen in a game in a very long while.

  25. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    SAVE ME Black person MAN SAVE ME

  26. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    eternal darkness
    bloodborne
    every other "lovecraftian" game is pretty much relegated and reduced to pic related

  27. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    What about games in the style of Clark Ashton Smith?

  28. 10 months ago
    Anonymous
    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      >genuine horror of sea food
      Considering the octopus monsters and fish people, this is really funny.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous
    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      I find Lovecraft's daily life to be just as interesting as his fiction.

  29. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    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.

  30. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    >Sunless Sea/Sunless Skies
    >Nobody Lives Under the Lighthouse
    >Pathologic 2
    >The Void
    >Darkwood

  31. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    >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.

  32. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Persona 2

  33. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    >'Lovecraft' game
    >Protagonist goes insane cause REASONS

  34. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    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

  35. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    GTA San Andreas

  36. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Where did this obsession with muh insanity came from? Is it just writers shitty excuse to end the story?

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      It comes from Lovecraft's own experiences. He was prone to nervous breakdowns.

  37. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    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.

  38. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Fear & Hunger mostly presents its (old) gods well, as in leagues above anything a human could stand up to.

  39. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    >buy a lovecraft book
    >suddenly there's a lovecraft thread
    stop spying on me

  40. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Influenced by The King In Yellow, Signalis.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      What does that book have to do with Lovecraft?

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        thematically similar, signalis is also inspired by lovecraft

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        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

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        Robert W. Chambers was a huge inspiration for Lovecraft.

  41. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Sunless Sea and Cultist Simulator.

  42. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Eternal Darkness
    Darkest Dungeon
    Sunless Sea
    Fear and Hunger 1+2
    Cultist Simulator
    Dusk
    Bloodborne
    Grim Dawn

  43. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Novels are not like video games at all

  44. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    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

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      Frick forgot the image

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      Frick forgot the image

      Fantastic game, but I wish there were more of it. Does it have workshop integration yet?

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      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.

  45. 10 months ago
    Anonymous
  46. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Bloodborne and Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened are good ones.

    The Sinking City was alright but not my cup of tea.

  47. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    bloodborne

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      Yang looks like that??????????

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous
  48. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Forgive Me Father
    Cultic
    Project Warlock
    Paradox Vector
    Hrot (slightly)
    Wolfenstein 2009 (but you can't buy it lol)

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      > Forgive Me Father
      I really liked it although I'm not particularly into shooters. I hope they improve on it for FMF2.

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        raw gunplay was good but I dislike the upgrade system

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          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.

  49. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    >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

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      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.

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        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

  50. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Oh no... this attractive woman desperately want me to frick and mate with her for eternity, save me Black personMAN MY SANITY POINTS ARE DECREASING REEEAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      Tragically underrated movie

  51. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    you cannot communicate the feeling of Lovecraft's writing effectively through gameplay or a visual medium

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      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.

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        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.

  52. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Just give me a game where I can jump off the moon with an army of cats

  53. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    If you have no problem with MS Paint games then "The Consuming Shadow".

  54. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Mundaun

  55. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Signalis

  56. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    >"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)."

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      Am I illiterate

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