If you’re partial to mountains of madness or things on doorsteps, this is your year. Cyanide’s Call of Cthulhu adaptation will release on 30th October for PC, Xbox One and PS4, publisher Focus Home Interactive has announced.
Charmingly subtitled “The Official Video Game”, the adaptation has had a rough time in development – it began life back in 2014 at Adventures of Sherlock Holmes studio Frogwares, known and feared for its teleporting Watson, only to fetch up in Cyanide’s hands after a reported two years of inactivity. Of course, it won’t be a proper HP Lovecraft adaptation unless everybody involved with the project vanishes in eerie circumstances save for a single QA tester who spends the rest of their days babbling about angles you can smell and colours you can taste.
I had a chance to see this at a Focus Home showcase a few months ago. The game stars private detective Edward Pierce, who travels to remote Darkwater Island near Boston, Massachussets to investigate the deaths of an entire family – and, presumably, stick it to any aeons-old tentacle beasts that happen to be in the neighbourhood.
Source: Eurogamer Doom-haunted Call of Cthulhu game finally gets a release date