Call of Cthulhu

Call of Cthulhu opens with you, detective Edward Pierce, alighting on the docks of Darkwater Island. The boards of the pier curl with age, crusty townspeople stare at you from shadowed doorways, and the corpse of a whale lies swollen on the seaside – it’s appropriately Lovecraftian (which is sensible for a Lovecraft adaptation). You’re there...

“95% of the game is characters talking to each other and solving problems”, says Call Of Cthulhu pressman Ben Barret on this stream of its first hour. I didn’t count on to kick off Monday by wishing the actual world was extra like a Lovecraftian horror detective RPG, however right here we’re. This isn’t our...