Developer Cyanide has hit the record button and proffered up a full hour of gameplay from its forthcoming Lovecraft-inspired horror RPG, Call of Cthulhu.
Cyanide’s Call of Cthulhu (not to be confused with the other Lovecraft game in the works, Frogwares’ The Sinking City) is the official video game adaptation of publisher Chaosium’s much-loved classic pen and paper RPG. As such, it prioritises deduction and detective work over guns and combat – after all, the series sensibly reasons, a pistol likely wouldn’t be much help against a formless elder being from beyond space and time.
Call of Cthulhu casts you as Edward Pierce, a hard-drinking private detective suffering from PTSD, who agrees to investigate the mysterious deaths of the Hawkins family at their foreboding, fog-swept mansion on Darkwater Island, Massachusetts. That, as you might imagine, involves hunting for clues, interrogating characters, and solving crime scenes – some of which you can see in the hour of gameplay below.
Source: Eurogamer Lovecraftian horror RPG Call of Cthulhu shows off a full hour of gameplay