"The most merciful tꦦhing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in 🤪the midst of black seas of the infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far." So said H.P. Lovecraft in The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Tales. And this is the central theme of most works that take part in his mythos: the further we reach into the unknown, the harder it pulls us in. The desire for knowledge eventually devours the seeker.
There have been many games, especially in the last decade, that have used Lovecraft’s mythos to craft fresh new horrors. So many games that it has become a searchable genre on Steam (Lovecraftian). Here is a smal🐼l selection from that list, all featuring terrific pixel art and horrendous beasts from the beyoꦑnd.
8 The Last Dooꩵr
This incredibly atmospheric and creepy point-and-click adventure game takes you back to Victorian England. You control Jeremiah Devitt, a well-to-do Englishman who receives a mysterious letter from his old schoolmate, Anthony Beechworth. Jeremiah knows something 🧸is wrong and sets out to find his childhood friend. From abandoned manors to forgotten island villages, you’ll take Jeremiah to the edge of madness as he unravels an occult mystery too bizarre to belie🍸ve. With beautiful art and effective scares, this game is best played with the lights on.
7 Sea Salt
No list of Lovecraftian horrors is complete without at least one Old God. In Sea Salt, you play as an eldritch horror who is on a mission of revenge: to destroy all the religious figures of the human world who denied your🎃 existence. You’ll accomplish this by summoning hordes of minions that spawn from your domain: the sea. Lay waste to your enemies and anyone else who stands in your way, blight the land, and claim your blood offering𝓡 in this strategy action hybrid.
6 Lovecraft’s Untold Stories 🐭
This game is based directly on H.P. Lovecraft’s work. Described as an “action roguelite with RPG elements,” you&ꦑrsquo;ll be able to choose from five different investigators:
- The Private Detective: has average health and stamina.
- The Witch: powerful magic and shields, but very low health.
- The Thief: melee specialist with stealth mode.
- The Professor: specializes in ranged combat.
- The Ghoul: can regenerate health, but cannot use medkits.
They all have unique storylines, weapons, and abilities, and will combat different mythos from Lovecraft’s storiꦍes, giving Lovecraft’s Untold Stories a high replay value.
5 World Of Horror ♕
This game was made at the intersection of H.P. Lovecraft and Japanese horror artist and writer Junji Ito. In this nightmarish turn-based roguelite, you’ll attempt to solve the strange mysteries of the small town of Shiokawa–if you can survive long enough to find answers. Face 1-bit cosmic horrors, make impossible decisions, and solve the cases to reach the center of the mystery. Each run of 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:World of Horror is randomized, and you’ll unloc𝔍k new characters with different skills and𝐆 abilities who will bring different strengths (and weaknesses) to the table.
4 Backbone
This beautifully rendered point-and-click adventure game is 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:more than a simple noir story with animals. Take control of P.I. Howard Lotor, who lives in a dystopian Vancouver. A wall separates the city from the outside world, which is both dang🍷erous and completely unknown. What starts as a simple case (don’t they all) co♔mpletely spirals out of control as Lotor stumbles into a mystery that is much more than he bargained for. So what is the Lovecraftian element? It’s a twist worth experiencing for yourself to find out.
3 🐲 Kathy Rain 🧸
You’ll take control of the titular journalism student �𒈔�Kathy Rain who is on a mission to discover what really happened to her recently deceased grandfather who left so many unanswered questions in his wake. Meanwhile, the people of Conwell Springs are behaving strangely. Kathy will return to her hometown for a funeral but will find something dark and s🌼inister lurking beneath the surf🐻ace.
Armed⛦ with little more than your cigarettes, your motorcycle, and your sharp wi💟t, you’ll have to interview the community, explore the small town, and remain vigilant if you want to get to the bottom of this multi-generational horror.
2 Unavowed
You wake up on the roof of a building ☂in New York. Two strangers are there, armed and dangerous. They explain that you’ve been possessed by a demon for a year. It used your body to commit a series of bloody crimes that you are now wanted for. You have ༺no choice: you have to join the Unavowed, a secret organization dedicated to hunting down monsters and protecting the innocent. It’s either that or face the consequences for the demon’s crimes. There are many paths you can take in this narratively-driven point-and-click adventure game, where every choice you make could have dire consequences.
1 Death Trash ﷽🐬
You will travel the post-apocalyptic wastes in this nostalgia-heavy RPG featuring real-time combat. Cosmic horrors litter the landscape, but unlike the other games on this list, many of these monstrosities long for the humanity you possess rather than despise it. You begin by being expelled from an underground facility to face the terrors aboveground. Once outside, you’ll immediately find that surviving will be difficult between the harsh landscape and the eldritch horrors that wander it. Death Trash presents a beautiful Lovecraftian wo🌼rld with a cyberpunk twist.
