Approached by an ageing businessman by the name of Stephen Webster, who won’t take no for an answer, you find yourself investigating the mysterious death of Webster’s only daughter, Sarah Hawkins, as well as her family.Ĭall of Cthulhu paints a brilliant picture of the times, a clear divide between the rich and poor, the fortunate and down trodden, the blessed and the cursed. As you soon find out, that is the least of his concerns. Players assume the role of Edward Pierce, a war veteran turned private investigator with an alcohol and sleeping pill problem. I’m happy to report that is not the case with Cyanide’s 2018 release of Call of Cthulhu, and that my nervousness has been replaced with a kind of paranoia about dark rooms, mirrors and living so close to the ocean.
And whilst that sounds cool, it’s just not Call of Cthulhu. I was nervous it would be a high action shooter like DOOM where the protagonist just blasts away Deep Ones and Starspawn with a sawn off shotgun. When I learnt back in late 2014 there was going to be a survival horror video game in this world, I was excited but also wary. I couldn’t get enough of what is known to fans as Lovecraftian lore. Something about how everyone near to the stories eventually went mad made such compelling tales. I was about 13 when I first read Call of Cthulhu by HP Lovecraft and 16 when I played the tabletop RPG that would further inspire variations of board games and card games. Games such as World of Warcraft, Mass Effect, Bioshock and many more have borrowed so heavily from the stories surrounding a deep slumbering evil, covered in tentacles with an insatiable hunger. The thing that had me most excited to play Call of Cthulhu was that gamers have felt the influence of this lore for a long time, across dozens of titles.
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