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Lovecraft-Inspired Games (list of lists) [Videogame] (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/8149891

1 - 10 Best Lovecraft-Inspired Games According To Metacritic

  • Sundered: Eldritch Edition
  • Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners Of The Earth
  • Cthulhu Saves The World
  • Darkwood
  • Sunless Sea
  • Darkest Dungeon
  • Dusk
  • Bloodborne
  • Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem
  • Quake

2 - The 20 Best Video Games Inspired By H. P. Lovecraft

  • Amnesia: The Dark Descent
  • Blackout: The Darkest Night
  • Bloodborne **
  • Call of Cthulhu
  • Conarium
  • The Consuming Shadow
  • Curse of the Old Gods
  • Darkwood **
  • Dredge
  • Eldritch
  • Forgive Me Father
  • Gray Dawn
  • Lobotomy Corporation | Monster Management Simulation
  • Remnant: From the Ashes
  • Scorn
  • The Secret World
  • The Sinking City
  • Stygian: Reign of the Old Ones
  • Sundered: Eldritch Edition **
  • Sunless Sea **

3 - Top 10 H.P. Lovecraft Inspired Games (VIDEO)

  • Gatson of the Golden Lightning
  • Shadow Hearts
  • Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened
  • Amnesia: The Dark Descent **
  • Clive Barker's Undying
  • Bloodborne ***
  • Darkest Dungeon **
  • Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners Of The Earth**
  • Cthulhu Saves The World**
  • Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem**

4 - 10 Lovecraftian Video Games That Will Give You Nightmares (VIDEO)

  • Call of Cthulhu**
  • The Darkside Detective
  • Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners Of The Earth***
  • Darkwood***
  • Sunless Sea***
  • The Sinking City**
  • Stygian: Reign of the Old Ones**
  • Call of the sea
  • Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem***
  • Bloodborne ****

5 - The 10 Best Games Inspired by H.P. Lovecraft (VIDEO)

  • Stygian Reign of the Old Ones***
  • Sunless Sea****
  • Call of Cthulhu***
  • Conarium**
  • Eldritch**
  • Remnant From the Ashes**
  • The Sinking City***
  • Dredge**
  • Bloodborne*****
  • Amnesia The Dark Descent***

MY PERSONAL PICK

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I don't think Scorn belongs on any Lovecraft lists. Its main influence is pretty direct, namely H. R. Giger.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Yea, body horror and cosmic horror are quite distinctly different, too.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Giger and Beksiński.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

Gonna add SOMA into the mix. That game was intensely Lovecraftian. Hopelessness of man, hyper powerful monsters that cannot be killed, psychological terror, body horror, great shit.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

Big bump for Sundered if you like 2D Metroidvanias. I have played through it at least 5 times (you need to do it 3 times to get all the endings)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Loved Dredge. Can't wait for the DLC later this month.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Very nice to see The Sinking City included so many times. There was so much weirdness surrounding its release that I feel like it gets swept under the rug a lot. It's incredibly underrated in my opinion, and while not the greatest, it has interesting characters and story.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

You've got The Secret World on there already, but worth mentioning they did a remake: Secret World Legends. Whole ton of QoL changes, combat was revamped, but otherwise the same game.

Suuuuuper niche game, but if it happens to be your niche it'll become one of your all time favorites.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You forgot "Prisoner of Ice" and "Shadow of the Comet", the two Call of Cuthulu adventures.

https://www.gog.com/en/game/call_of_cthulhu_prisoner_of_ice

https://www.gog.com/en/game/call_of_cthulhu_shadow_of_the_comet

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Nice info ty

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

No, thank you for this list! I adore Lovecraft!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Returnal is a good one for this list as well, has everything you’d expect from a lovecraftian inspire game.