When the game begins, you are introduced to a simple web of upgradeable abilities, some of which you could spend character points on (earned throughout gameplay) and some of which could only be upgraded through finding collectible objects in the environment. The other central tenet of the game are its role-playing elements, which feel bizarrely under-explained and confusing in their application. They’re not unenjoyable, and the game’s moody atmosphere and gloomy charm kept me plenty interested even if the brain-teasers were never particularly puzzling. Puzzle sections are generally short and none gave me significant trouble-they’re mostly linear affairs of finding which gear turns which crank to raise the rope to get the ladder to find the key kind of affairs. He is tasked with solving the murder of the Hawkins family, and specifically of Sarah Hawkins, mother to Simon Hawkins and a renowned painter in her own right.Ĭall of Cthulhu has the pacing of an adventure game but very little of the grace of one. He’s a detective, but one so traumatized by his experiences in World War I that it’s been hard for him to take cases, preferring to self-medicate with whiskey and sleeping pills in his office. He has a long coat, dark hair, dark eyes, and a certain penchant for liquor. You play as Edward Pierce, who fits the mold of a stereotypical Lovecraft protagonist.
I’m not familiar with the tabletop game, but I did play a bit of Arkham Horror, and at this point the general Lovecraft mythos is enough in the cultural zeitgeist that many of the locations and themes of Call of Cthulhu felt familiar enough.
And that’s not altogether a bad thing, as Call of Cthulhu is a pretty engaging horror for its rather brisk runtime, stringing together a murder mystery with an expected dash of Lovecraftian elements, only mired by its occasional stabs at more action-focused gameplay.Ĭyanide had a lot to live up to with this title, as it’s not just based on Lovecraft mythos but specifically on the 1981 tabletop role-playing game of the same name. Made by Cyanide Studios ( Styx, Space Hulk: Deathwing) and published by Focus Home Interactive, it feels like a game from another era: a callback to the lower-budget action adventure games of the early 2000s. Call of Cthulhu is a throwback in more ways than one.
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