Call of Cthulhu®

The story kept me guessing what sort of messed-up horrors Edward would stumble upon next in his investigation on the island of Darkwater. The cast of characters was fascinating and unsettling, and the ending captured the essence of a classic Lovecraftian tale perfectly. The game really nailed that atmosphere! That said, it has its flaws. Some puzzles weren’t clear, and I struggled most with the lamp puzzle in the hospital. I’m not against challenging puzzles, but dying twenty times to the Shambler pushed me to look up a guide, which I see as a negative. Puzzles should challenge, not frustrate to the point of breaking immersion. Despite that criticism, I still recommend it-though maybe wait for a sale.

An unforgettable experience!!! Call of Cthulhu combines incredible atmosphere, a gripping story, and mindbending mysteries. The RPG mechanics are solid, and the Lovecraftian horror really pulls you in. If you're into dark, immersive stories with a touch of madness, this one's a must-play. Highly recommend!

Very good and interesting game, it's not really scary beside maybe 1 or 2 sections of the game.
However, the end sequence and the last act was somehow lacking and felt rushed compared to how the earlier stages of the game were designed, and I felt that some characters ending were also not finished.
I recommend this game, however not for the full price, maybe wait for some discount

its like watching a good b-movie.
definitely get it on sale, its flawed, but i enjoyed it!
dark adventure game, with some stealth

This is a mixed recommendation - no spoilers.

General thoughts:
The story is good with lots of interesting characters and a wonderfully fleshed out world to explore. If you are looking for a well-told lovecraftian story, then you will probably like this game.

I say probably, because the game is too faithful to the table-top rpg. Every interaction in the game is dependent on random chance that you are locked into because the game saves after every roll.

Random chance:
What this means in practice is, that even if you want to play a certain way, you may/will be locked out of at least parts of it by dice rolls since everything you interact with will roll a die against your ability in the skill associated with the check.

So if you have 95% in a skill and are a god in pshycology, then no matter if you are analysing something trivial, there still is a 5% risk of you failing the check locking you out of either lore or a part of the game since that check might have lead to some choices later.

Yes, you can max out SOME of your skills, so you get 100% on your rolls. But two of your skills (and one of them is perhaps THE most interesting one for a totally different way of playing) you cannot max out using skill points, but are locked behind an infuriating mix of 1) character creation point allocation and 2) random chance in-game finds determined by a different skill, that takes a while to max and 3) you actually finding the level-up items.

So if you want a full occult or medical playthrough, you need to put all (or just about) of your staring points into the one skill you want and then max out your "special item spawning skill" (special items are only in the game world if this skill rolls a success). Without doing this, you will be locked out of later checks and even if you do this, you may be unlucky and not have an item spawn in your playthrough (unless you know where the item should be and then save-scum until it appears.

In short: If you want a specific playstyle, Go 100% into it from the character creation and onwards. Especially if it is medical or occult.

Final thoughts:
Seen as a one-off story game, where you just let things happen and don't worry about what you experience, then this is a fun game. I enjoyed it. But since the game story actually does feel different if you lean into something like occultism or avoid/embrace insanity, then it becomes infuriating, that this choice of story path is somewhat out of your hands.

TL;DR:
Good story game for a single semi-random playthrough. For replayability it is bad because it relies on random chance, so you cannot really choose the path you want.

It was good I played it in one session for 7 hours nonstop. But the ending was very disappointing. I checked all 4 endings and all of them were lacklusters.

If you're a fan of the source material, this will be a relatively fun interactive trip through Lovecraft's world. If you're not a fan already, it is hard to recommend this game. By modern (based on when it was released) standards this misses on almost all marks as a "video game." If you think of it more as an interactive novel, it's a little more forgivable but still fails to fully deliver on its promise.

Meh. The ending was disappointing and I'm not particularly inspired to replay it for the other endings. The payoff for the final choice I made was over in a flash, and I feel like I put 14 hours in for cutscene that might as well have been included in a teaser trailer. The first half of the game was decent, but at a certain point I just wanted it to be over.

The game is okay, but just okay.

Get it at a discount. Cool story, okay graphics. as you can see i finished in about 14 hours. The upgrade system doesn't really provide much benefit, the game plays out the same regardless except for some unlocked dialogue and story flavor like pages and artifacts which have some good context. And while it's an investigation game there's not really much to uncover, the few puzzles that the game provides are fairly easy but entertaining none the less, and the survival aspect is, well, not really relevant.

Definitely more of an interactive story with game elements rather than a game itself. No replay value imo unless you want to, just to see what happens for completion sake, since you can replay the endings from your last save after the end of the game. There are four different ones and you can read the requirements online. i got three, just kinda feeling out the game and that was enough for me. all in all it's like a 6/10. nothing to really tell your friends about, but good enough to pass the time.

Pretty ok game. Some mechanics are janky and graphics not that good.

Not working on Steam Deck, despite verified badge. Loads initial cutscenes (with sound), then main menu (without sound), selecting New game is followed by the infinite load screen. Tried different Proton versions, etc.

is good
got weak parts where it's difficult to know what to do that should have been worked on more in dev
but overall a good game and worth the money especially when on sale

When I bought the game I was not expecting it to be that good. It was on sale. I do not regret it a bit. The game is great,I enjoyed it a lot. :) I need more games like this. ^^

My one and only FPS type of horror game that meet what I want and makes me want to plays more
The other thing I like from this game is the feel when I got stuck and have no clue to finish the mission, rather than quit, I keep playing and searching for the walkthrough to find out what I missed...

Game crashes as soon as you load in. I even tried three different ways to fix this but nothing worked.

Absolutely stunning adaptation of Lovecraft's Literature. Great gameplay, visualization and depiction of the slow but sure fall into madness.. Playing as a private investigator supposed to solve a murder mystery also adds a nice spin to the story. The fact that all the characters have a lot of depth makes the story even more interesting.

Really enjoyed this; plenty of gameplay variety, wonderful atmosphere and a compelling story. The level in the Sanders Art Gallery and some the Cthulhu RPG elements were excellent, particularly being able to use Mythos knowledge to translate or observe extra details.

I was loving this game until I hit a lantern maze puzzle that was so frustrating and inexplicable that I quit. What were the game designers thinking? Why not stick to the game's strength, which was atmospheric storytelling?

I recommend this game if you want about an hour of great gameplay interrupted by a mind-numbing maze puzzle that will probably cause you to rage quit.

Update: I finally calmed down and got past the maze puzzle. The game becomes good again although not as good as it was at the beginning.

The first two hours or so of the game are a suspenseful detective story, but by the end it has devolved into a very trippy experience.

The game isn't long enough for you to really put the skills you invest in to use.

There are alternate endings depending on the choices you make, so there is some replayability, although you'd have to do the damn maze again.

Overall I recommend it for the first two hours or so alone.

God damn this story is cool, a little confusing at some point which is frustrating as you feel like youre missing something. But once you realize thats the point it gets really enjoyable

Great game. Wonderful storytelling with some interesting gameplay. However, I do find at times that the immersion dies a little when you hit dead ends and have to constantly backtrack to find that one thing, or a area is really tough and you have to keep trying again. I also feel that no matter how you play, you'll always end up with one ending or the other, but not sure. Guess another play through will tell.

Not too bad although the ending(s) leave much to be desired imho. There is a multiple-choice system that allows you to pick how you progress and ultimately which ending you get. There is a also a multiple-slot game load system but no way to save/load over a decision you make so you're always stuck with that outcome. It needs work.

Beautiful and twisted and intriguing and insane, all at various times throughout...

Worth a playthrough if it's on sale but honestly if it's full price i'd probably skip..

I picked this up for a few dollars on sale (3.99 USD). Overall it was entertaining for the sale price point but I would not recommend paying full price. For me by the end it was more of a let down.

I would have preferred the game to be shorter and more inspired. Once you get past the first half or so things start to get repetitive and "gimmicky." There is only one real monster you face and his entrance and set piece are absolutely terrifying and well executed. After that things tend to get watered down and more simple/uninspired. I am not sure if the developers ran out of ideas or rushed to finish the product.

There were a lot of things that seemed to have great potential but ultimately seemed kind of pointless. The dialog options based on abilities seemed like an awesome idea but I didn't feel it added to anything except your character just saying something different. The options really didn't reveal anything useful or interesting.

The sanity system sounded cool and seemed alright. I found it way too easy to stay relatively sane though. I would have liked to the see the game make sanity a center point more than some of the other features. The game should have been more focused on a loosing battle with sanity making it very difficult to read situations. Seemed like I could always chose the sane choice no matter what. I didn't feel the pressure was enough.

Overall I'd say this game is for the casual player who isn't looking for a difficult ride. I found it very easy to complete and little challenge in the way of puzzles and investigations. Not really my style, so I can't recommend it I will go back to playing the classic from 2005.

The Call of Cthulhu provides an immersive atmosphere that draws one forth like the words of an enjoyable book. So far there is only one potentially mind retching dilemma to deal with at the beginning, and the rest is an immersive story of horror. This game involves finding clues, having some conversations, and reading notes from a journal in order to solve a great mystery. There is hiding and creeping and puzzles to solve that involve finding objects to place and use.
It can be played over again with different choices.

I'll be honest, there are points where it is really rough around the edges. Buggy interactions, design decisions that don't make sense, non sequitur dialogue, player choices don't really seem to matter, etc.

But, that being said, I really enjoyed this game. Enough to play through it twice. I think it does justice to the Lovecraft Mythos and the story and gameplay are generally very interesting.

Best game about cthulhu that i have every played. Good story and great atmosphere. Graphics look good enough that you wont get disgusted by them!

Atmospheric linnear adventure. Great blend of action and familiar Mythos themes. The story is good and they do a great job of illustrating the claustrophobia and other bouts of madness. It is a linnear story though and requires you hit the right key actions (or run into them) to make it all work.

Bought on sale for 4 bucks. It feels like a visual novel with a few decisions here and there, some solvable puzzles and 1-2 stealth scenes. I liked the atmosphere, eerie visuals and soundtrack. On the other hand there is not much "gameplay".

I'd give it a 6.5/10, so thumbs up.

Don't bother buying this game it continuous to crash moments after starting. I couldn't get through the intro and have tried 3 times now. Doesn't even matter if you adjust the settings, say, lower the graphics or of the like. It'll still shut down. Save your money and don't but it! Which really sucks because I'm a big fan of H. P. Lovecraft and wanted to play this game.

0/10 - Can't play it

Bought the game on sale. I can see why it was 80% off. It crashes within seconds of starting a game and even crashes if you hang out in the menu playing with options.

Forums mention something about the engine being incompatible with new generation Intel processors?

Amazing game. Feels like one of those you want to finish and replay to see if other choices will affect the story. Strongly recommend

4 hours in as of right now.
Chapter 6 from 14.
This game has so much story and narrative. it's really fun.
As a H.P. Lovecraft fan I did enjoy it extra!
If you pick it up on Sale of fullprice both are worth!

Will update once I finish

It's not a walking simulator, but it's not a game with lots of puzzles and challenges either. There are a few action sequences and timed challenges, but it's mostly about investigation.
The story and atmosphere is solid Cthulhu, and I'll give the game 7/10 altogether.

If you are a fan of Lovecraft books, and have played the Dark Corners of the Earth or any of the Chaosium RPGs for Call of Cthulhu, this game is very much for you. Try wining via different sanity paths.

+ Story is a faithful adaptation of the Lovecraft novels.
- Gets very disjointed and hard to follow during the latter parts.

+ The investigation and its mechanics, such as crime scene recreations and skill checks, are interesting.
- It sadly has no impact on how the story plays out. Some plot points revealed through investigation are pulled out of thin air.

+ RPG element with competence points is very engaging and lends itself to replayability. The same goes for the game's sanity meter.
- Story is too railroaded to make the most of these concepts.

+ Voice acting ranges from excellent (ex : panic attack scenes) to passable.
- Dialogue can be unnatural (ex : sailors swearing like old timey pirates... in the 20th century) to totally ridiculous (latter chapters of the game. IYKYK), many times it seems like the voice actors have no context for their lines as characters will whiplash from sounding totally traumatized in scenes of deep madness to suddenly sounding completely unfazed. Also, the Rlyethian that is spoken doesn't sound as alien as an eldritch, forgotten language should, it just sounds like English speaking people reading consecutive consonants, which I'm not sure was the intent in the original novels by H. P. Lovecraft.

+ Environments are gorgeous, beautifully conceived, detailed, rife with details and lovingly created (runes details). Many custom assets. The last gameplay segment is honestly breath taking in beauty and scale.
- Character models can be uncanny, animations are way too expressive and often remove all immersion.

+ Heavy inspiration was taken from Amnesia, which is a good thing.
- The stealth gameplay segments are very inferior to Amnesia's to the point of frustration. There is also, surprisingly, a shooting segment : the player is given a gun with about half a dozen bullets and will find no additional bullets for it until the end of the game. This part is reminiscent of prototype Unity games, with random enemies sprinkled throughout a level, some even having synchronized animations. Totally unnecessary.

+ The horror is extremely well conducted and immersive. Creatures are exquisitely detailed and shown just enough to remain horrifying.

- Puzzle segments were alright but nonsensical at times (likely in reference to "unknowable" parts of the mythos). Felt like an afterthought.

- Grammatical mistakes and miscellaneous errors in the subtitles and item descriptions give an impression of unprofessionalism to the game.

- The endings are totally unrelated to the requirements to get them. I followed a guide and still couldn't unlock one of them, frustratingly. I had no desire to play the same game four times, and given that only 3% of players have found one of them, I imagine most other people don't either. In the end, I just used some save files available online to achieve all endings.

- Some achievements don't seem to unlock as they should.

Overall, the game is quite enjoyable to play. Subsequent playthrough will make it apparent just how little depth there is to the many choices, decisions, dialogue options and investigation avenues offered to the player, which is quite disappointing and frustrating given the promise the game's concept shows. The love that the team had for the game shows through the minute details, such as grammatically accurate Rlyethian that translates to actual psalms of worship. Custom dialogue depending on the player's decisions also shows a great attention to detail. It's a shame this level of care isn't as prevalent in other, more apparent areas (the animations can be especially egregious), or even extended to actual player agency in the story. The only impact a player can have in the game is a superfluous and cosmetic one, which ties ironically well into the game's overarching themes of fate.

The game is good for what it is. I enjoyed it. Though, definitely get this game on sale.

Very creepy and dark game. Having just finished reading some HP Lovecraft stories this game certainly fits the theme well.

Not quite AAA graphic level, more like an Indie game. Gameplay as smooth, with a lot of eerie sound effects.

It is a first person survival horror/investigation/role playing (in that your path and answers affect gameplay later on) adventure game.

Not something to play prior to bed, unless you want

Muy bien logrado en cuanto a inmersion y atmosfera. Me recuerda bastante a la saga de Sherlock Holmes pero con el toque lovecraftiano sin dudas.
Los personajes, los escenarios, el sonido, todo es integramente desarrollado para llevarte a una experiencia autentica y atrapante.

Eh It's aight wait for a sale

This is a nice walking simulator +.
You walk here and click on that.
Look for that and click on it.
You have full control up wasd... sometimes.
You have an inventory for some reason that I haven't discovered yet. I think I need more points in my investigating stat.
You have points to add to stats. Sometimes your stats are used.
Walk there and click the thing.
I had a girl friend.
She left.
I had another.
She was nuts.
I had a bro.
He was bro.
Saw first girl friend.
Then I didn't anymore.
Saw second girl friend.
Less pretty than before.
Clicked.
The end.

I give the ending an "oh... ok," out of ten.

It was fun though. Story was fun.
Went for a walk.

Quick Review Notes up front:

Overall time to complete - 9.6 hours
35/49 achievements earned.
Endings observed, 2.

As I descended into the mystery clouding Darkwater island I couldn't help but think of some sort of mash-up of Fallout 4's Far Harbor, The 7th Guest, Alan Wake, Amnesia's Dark Descent, and perhaps a 90s Sierra Point and Click Adventure. A fun mix, in a linearly progressing game that allows exploration in each chapter to find clues and allow the game to tell its story.

I am increasingly familiar with the term "Walking Simulator", and have heard it used to describe this game. Perhaps that is accurate. The gameplay mechanic here is rather simple. Mazes, puzzles, and mysteries await myriad darkly lit macabre settings. Checkpoints are frequent and difficulty overall is low. There were a few sections that required multiple automatic reloads back to the checkpoint.

Game length at <10 hours felt about perfect for the tale to be told. Collectors could replay and try to find all the clues / endings, although that seems like a tedious and unrewarding activity.

Horror / Lovecraft fans should appreciate the game contained enough bottled tension and terror to make the use of jump scares sparse, but exceptionally effective. This reviewer appreciated that the eldritch horrors described remain mostly unseen, allowing your imagination to do much of the real dirty work. Personally, I enjoyed a playthrough at night in a dark room to complete the experience.

Allow yourself to experience the Call of Cthulu and know that some things once seen cannot be unseen.

A combination of walking simulator and point and click adventure game lacking in puzzles.

Do you like clicking on stuff and watching cutscenes? Well, that's almost all of the "gameplay" I had in those first three and a half hours. Otherwise I had dialogs and a single puzzle I had to figure out myself. I just played The Sinking City and thought that was a shallow game, but boy, it's still much better than this interactive fiction with irrelevant RPG stats tacked on.

If you like to play games just for the story, you may give it a shot (althout we all know what's going to happen, apparently there is only one story Lovecraftian games can tell). I love Lovecraft, but prefer to have more... well... "game" in my games.

Player agency would be needed to call this a game, but even as an "experience" it falls short of telling a compelling story. The worst part about it is that there was clearly potential here as the first half is rather good at what it does, but unfortunately, it falls apart and doesn't manage to pick itself up later.
I would forgive it all on the premise of some genuinely crafty moments that really manage to capture Lovecraft vibes, but I feel too cheated and tricked by the one-time short segment of the game in which you get to wield a gun. It made it blatantly clear that every part of this experience that is supposed to make it a "game" was completely out of the player's hands and basically playing itself. It is a walking simulator in disguise, and yes, while I can appreciate how finely it ties into the theme of the story, it also is inconsistent with it, as the only real player input will ultimately change the ending, albeit not through the player's understanding and will, but through absolute guesswork. I am a horror writer myself and as such it is trivial for me to see through the deception of "choice" the player has here. You could argue that the player's actions directly influence the outcome, but so does a monkey that randomly pushes buttons in a lab. Without logic or patterns to support the decisions, you can hardly call it a "choice".
Making anything "lovecraftian" is not an easy task, and it is no wonder that so many fail to do it properly. I just find it interesting that it is always works that are directly tied to the Mythos that fail the most, but works that have no connection to H.P.Lovecraft's stories manage to pull off some great "lovecraftian" vibes. Some notable examples would be Bloodborne, Amnesia: Dark Descent, Subnautica, Silent Hill 1, and to some extent Soma and Alien: Isolation and the VR game Cosmodread. It seems H.P's stories simply wouldn't make for good games. But the games that have their own story and setting and are simply inspired by Lovecraft are usually good. That's because what's important here is not to throw around the words R'lyeh, Cthulhu, Arkham, Innsmouth... but to, first and foremost, make a good and interesting game to play, and THEN sprinkle it with some good Lovecraftian horror.

TL;DR:
If you are looking for a stealth horror game, or a survival horror game with first person shooting and inventory management, or a game that is actually scary do not buy this. If you want a game that's kind of a walking simulator, where you talk to a lot of npcs, investigate stuff by interacting with various things, is very cheap on sale (according to steamdb it goes for like 5 bucks), and experience a horror story that's not really scary imo buy this game.

If you are wondering if this game is similar to that OTHER Call of Cthulhu game which was Dark Corners of the Earth... ehhh not really gameplay wise? Although there are some similarities, both star a detective and you are in a port town.



Well straight up one of the major issues with the game is that it crashes when ever you try to play it. If you actually want to buy this game and you run into crashing issues just follow the steps below in this link.
https://support.gog.com/hc/en-us/articles/360019775837-Game-does-not-launch-Intel-10th-gen-CPU-or-newer?product=gog

From what I understand apparently the game doesn't like running on newer CPUs. Kind of inexcusable imo to have a game that was only released back in 2018 to not work properly on modern hardware. People shouldn't have to come home from working 8 hours at their job or from school and then come home and buy a modernish game that doesn't work and have to look online on how to get it to work. It's much more excusable for much more older games to not work on modern hardware, but whatever. Also fyi if your game is still crashing ignore the step in the link that tells you to reset your computer after entering and saving those system variables. For me personally for some reason they kept going away after I reset my computer, but the game ran fine with no crashes after entering the variables and not resetting.

Personally I actually didn't really like this game, but I felt compelled to finishing it and I am giving it a positive review mainly because I think it's not really a bad game, you just need to have a mind set that this game is actually more of a "walking simulator" with talking to a lot of npcs and investigating by interacting with objects. I think the overwhelming majority of the game is mostly talking to npcs and interacting with things. Well I guess you could argue if this game is or isn't a walking simulator, a lot of the time you are in a openish zone or map or whatever you call it where you can walk around and talk to various npcs and do some snooping, but the game is still fairly linear.

There is "stealth" in this game, I went into buying this blind expecting (and wanting) a game with intense stealth horror similar to like Amnesia or Outlast, but only to be very underwhelmed and dissatisfied. What I got was a horror game that I didn't think was very scary with very minimal stealth sections and superficial stealth mechanics. There is quite literally imo only one "real" stealth section in the game, and by that I mean a part in the game where you are in a map where you are stuck with enemies that patrol around or they are actively try seeking you and you have to stay away from them while trying to do objectives. There is one part where you are stuck in a medical prison area and need to create a distraction from guards blocking an exit. That part is quite literally imo the truest stealth has ever gotten in the game because the guards have patrols and will examine and chase you down if they think they saw you. There is even hiding spots, all though running away from the guards is very easy. It takes a while for the guards to actually spot you though, they get a white icon over their heads if they think they spotted someone and its fairly easy to move away from them to remove that icon. One issue I had with that section was that apparently there are multiple ways in distracting the guards from their post. One of them was to activate an electric chair which I found first, but instead of doing that I somehow did the distraction where I busted some pipes. I didn't realize that got the guards guarding the exit attention so I went around wondering why I couldn't interact with switches to activate the chair until I looked it up and apparently the prompts for activating the switches goes away if you managed to get the guards distracted some other way.

The other "stealth" sections are VERY straight forward usually, for example I think the first time in the game where you have to I guess technically sneak is when the main character first runs into cultists. But the cultists are all conveniently facing in one direction paying attention to someone laying down on a altar, and then a guard is scripted to walk down one specific path to the other cultists allowing you to walk to the exit that he was guarding. Sometimes the game places enemies in spots purely just to make the player not go there and to direct them by sneaking in a very specific direction. One other stealth section involved with I guess the games first boss fight. You are stuck in a room with a monster and have to trial and error find a correct dagger to stab a painting. I could never sneak properly around the boss and thought it was kind of shitty how it patrolled the area so I just looked up online where the correct dagger was, ran to it and picked it up and then ran to the painting and stabbed it.

The stealth parts in the game genuinely made me feel kind of conflicted because I think they are pretty bad. It kind of makes me wonder if the game would have been a lot better without it and just was entirely a detective game that's kind of a walking simulator, investigating, and talking to npcs. From what I read online I think a lot of people who played this game didn't really like the stealth sections and much preferred the story parts.

The game also has "rpg" mechanics, randomly as you progress through the game you get points which can be distributed through some skills. The skills are usually used in the conversations for certain dialogue choices. If your skill is high enough the game allows you to choose new branches of dialogue when talking to npcs. At the beginning of the game it allows you to make a "build" by allocating points into the skills that the game offers. The only skills that the game does not give you points for free as you play through the game is medicine and occultism, those two you have to either read books you find throughout the game or by interacting with something that gives you points for those for some reason.

The game has four endings, depending on the dialogue choices you made through the game and some other actions you will get a different ending.

You do get a "gun" in the game, but you don't get it until quite literally at near the end of the game. When you do it's kind of weird how they handled the shooting. Basically when you get close enough to an enemy they get a fist icon over their heads and that indicates that the character you are playing can shoot and kill them. The shooting is purely auto aim so you always hit and kill the monsters in one shot, and in the map where you finally get the gun they give you more than enough ammo to the point where I only had like a couple of enemies I legit had to sneak past which wasn't very hard.

The other Call of Cthulhu game Dark Corners of the Earth imo is better than this game even though it's kind of jank. That game has stealth, gunplay, and in general feels more like an actual video game, this 2018 game I thought was boring. The weird thing about Dark Corners is that it's more of a Shadow over Innsmouth game than it is Cthulhu because you are primarily fighting fish people. This 2018 game has cultists which some of them have squidlike features, and there is a doctor similar to the one in HP Lovecrafts story Herbert West–Reanimator which was about a doctor who was obsessed with reanimating the dead.

Pretty good game and a good story. If you like psychological horror you must play this game.

I've always loved the world of Lovecraftian horror, so I figured this would be a no brainer. And it was! For being and older game it still has me sucked in. Some of the controls are a tiny bit funky and it took me longer then I'd care to admit to complete some chapters, but it's still proven to be an amazing ride!

Unplayable. Keeps on crashing! My pc ain't potato. This game crashes right when the intro starts.

This game was an experience. I am not well versed in Cthulhu lore, but it was nice to play once. I don't see myself moving to try and get all of the endings, I didn't feel attached to any of the characters.

It wasn't too difficult to play, though I did miss a lot of the lore and other collectible things because of brightness of the levels or being rushed.

Graphically it was pretty, even playing on high (If I tried the highest setting it'd crash the PC)...so I don't think I was missing anything due to graphics. Not very spooky, more...creepy I felt.

It is well worth it's main price of 19.99$, though a nice discount would make it even MORE worth it. Just wish I was more versed to understand what the heck happened, haha.

Good story and voice acting. I respect how they choose to implement the save game, but I don't like it at all. It's too restrictive. Sometimes you choose one of the available chats thinking you then choose another one, but you don't. The chat is over and the game is saved. Good luck... I understand that the developers want to encourage replayability, but this is not the way. It sounds like a waste of resources, because I'm not going to replay the game just to see the answer to an irrelevant question. I simply watch a playthrough and move on.

Aside from the save system, I enjoyed it.

Love the story and different endings that are possible! The game feels and looks lovecrafting!