DCOTE is based on the story 'The Shadow Over Innsmouth' by H.P. Lovecraft, although it borrows from some other elements of his short stories and also from secondary sources like the horror pen & paper RPG 'Call of Cthulhu'. You play Jack Walters, a former detective turned PI with a weird and mysterious past who is called upon to investigate the disappearance of a store clerk from the isolated and sinister port town of Innsmouth. The investigation takes several bizarre and frightening turns, and the unpleasant and alien history of Innsmouth is gradually uncovered throughout the stages. This game is billed as 'survival horror' but plays more like ...  Read the complete review

Little alarm bells started ringing in my head when I first heard that there was going to be a game based on the work of horror author H.P. Lovecraft. Not because I have a deep-seated hatred for Lovecraft's work - in fact, I'm something of a fan - but because his work is notoriously hard to translated into any other format than the written word. Yes, Re-Animator was a good film, but that was a fairly loose adaptation of a fairly non-typical Lovecraft story. The problem is that Lovecraft's never really describes of the horrors that crop up in his stories. Rather, the horror is left to the reader's imagination, the author generally talking about the creatures from his ...  Read the complete review

Call Of Cthulhu: Dark Corners Of The Earth is a 2006 first person horror/adventure/puzzle game from Ubisoft. It plays with some nice ideas and is pretty innovative in its design. There are a number of things that let it down but overall its pretty playable. ***STORYLINE*** The plot is based on the HP Lovecraft story of the same name, and despite adding in a lot more characters and locations, is heralded as the most faithful game based on one of Lovecraft's stories (There have been a few.) It's the 1950s. The player assumes the role of a private investigator, looking into the disappearance of one Brian Burnham, who was last seen in the coastal ...  Read the complete review

Howard Phillip Lovecraft, with his work on the Cthulhu Mythos, remains one of the most influence authors of all time. His stories of the Eldritch horrors of the cosmos whose very existence can cause insanity shall always have a significant impact in popular culture. So it seems unlikely that there are actually very few games set in the world that Lovecraft has made. Many games contain references such as "The Eye of Cthulhu" in the PC game terraria, the Necronomicon making an appearance in the DS game Scribblenauts and the excellent Eternal Darkness would never have existed if it weren't for Lovecraft; but an actual game that fully embraces the Cthulhu Mythos ..  Read the complete review