Lovecraft Would Dig these Video Games

[Newton Applefig]

The Witcher had at least one side quest in a swamp where people were calling up the "Deep Ones" and worshiping Dagon and Hydra.  There was other Lovecraftian referencing in that one.

Wasn't there an FPS where the whole thing was about Nazis summoning Mythos creatures a while back?

I know too there were some free to play mmo "turn based" web browser games that were either Lovecraft themed or outright based on the Mythos floating around.

I guess it depends on if the whole game is Lovecraft themed / inspired, or just small parts and throw away bits.  There are so many games that have sections that are clearly Lovecraftian or just in-jokes and mentions. 

By 'so many', I mean the list would be long and tiring to compile, so much so you might say "search for survival horror, and here are the games with NO references to the Mythos.", and it would be more efficient.

You know, people still make text based adventures today, just for fun.  I think more than a few of those are spook stories...  some of them have to be mythos based.

You know, technically, a BBS can be used to make a text based game, using the mechanical turk method.

In the Ziggzaggurath of Doggonet

"You are in a maze of twisty temple hallways, all alike.  You can smell unrefrigerated forgotten shrimp cocktails.  The horror is making you feel swoony. Your elder sine is non euclidean.  It is very dark. You will be swallowed by a Shoggoth."

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[Bulbatron]

Wasn't there an FPS where the whole thing was about Nazis summoning Mythos creatures a while back?

Sounds like you're describing Wolfenstein.  The idea is somewhat Lovecraftian, although I don't recall there ever being any overt Lovecraft references in the game (or any of the other games in the series, for that matter).

[Genus Unknown]

Wasn't there an FPS where the whole thing was about Nazis summoning Mythos creatures a while back?

Not an FPS, but you just described the plot of the first Hellboy movie.

[Newton Applefig]

Ah, I was looking and I stumbled onto Tales of Cthulhu, which is freeware FPS stuff.  I don't know if it's any good.

http://www.yog-sothoth.com/threads/10458-I-have-made-a-series-of-cthulhu-video-games

I don't know anything about it but the yoggies seem to have a thread.  The download links on it are dead, though.  But it looked interesting.

I felt I should look, there doesn't appear to be a Nazi Lovecraft FPS game.  Sorry if I got anyone's hopes up.  Possibly I was thinking of Return to CW, but that has Nazis doing orthodox demon summoning.

[TransconaSlim]

You all have to go here: http://ca.ign.com/articles/2012/07/07/slender-is-pure-horror   and download this free game called SLENDER.

"Based on the Slender Man mythology popularized through a Something Awful thread, and further spread through forum chatter, YouTube videos and even Minecraft, the game’s tall, unrelenting creature pursues you through the inky black of a fenced-in forest. Slender doesn’t bother telling you why you’re there or if it’s possible to escape. You’re given a standard video game goal – find eight pages – but the terror unlocked by discovering and collecting the pages obliterates the task’s comforting familiarity."

I've played it.  We got up to 6 pages before....

[Bulbatron]

I've managd to get 4 pages.  Creepy little game.  Definitely worth a look.

[LambethWarp]

I'm sure a lot of you have played CoC:TCoE but I've just started it and have begun a new thread if anyone's interested in discussing it in a bit more depth: http://hppodcraft.com/forums/index.php?topic=1261.0

As far as other games go, I played the original Halo years back and while it's mainly an action shooter with very little of a real horror element, it has a definite ancient-aliens storyline which is pretty much Lovecraftian by definition, isn't it? Seeing as how Lovecraft was (perhaps indirectly) such a big influence on purveyors of ancient-alien mumbo jumbo such as Hubbard, von Daeniken and Sitchin.

Also, I found the alien world that forms the latter quarter or so of Half-Life sufficiently spooky and weird that it could perhaps be called 'Lovecraftian', or something similar to it...

[Manndroid]

Come to think of it, the Zen levels (the name of the alien world) in Half-Life ARE fairly Lovecraftian. It's probably all in the weird use of physics.

[DeadRosencrantz]

This isn't supernatural, but check out Spec Ops: The Line. This game is a basically Apocolapyse Now set in the Middle East. The fact that you are looking for a John Conrad throughout the game is a nice shout out to Heart Of Darkness.

Anyway, the game is deep, dark, and unsettling.

[Bulbatron]

I don't play games based actual wars usually.  I haven't got any of the acall of Duty games.  The closest I've ever come to playing a war game is the Wolfenstein series, and that was really due to the fantasy/supernatural/horror elements.

However, I've been hearing good things about Spec-Ops: The Line, and that it is supposed to be deeper than the usual shooters of today, and quite unsettling at times.  So perhaps I'll give this a look.

[DeadRosencrantz]

I beat Spec Opps this morning. It was truly unique. Do yourself a favor, don't allow the net to spoil the twists. Also, give the game about five levels before you decide to quit.

[Bulbatron]

Couple of new Lovecraftian games on the App Store for iPad.

Firstly, Necronomicon - The Dawning of Darkness.  It's a point and click adventure game that was first released on PC and PSone, but it works fairly well on iPad.

Then, there's Frogwares Sherlock Holmes and H. P. Lovecraft mash-up The Awakened, which is, of course, a port of the PC version.  I've just finished it on iPad and I was really impressed.

[wyrmis]

Firstly, Necronomicon - The Dawning of Darkness.  It's a point and click adventure game that was first released on PC and PSone, but it works fairly well on iPad.

Was just wondering if you have played it out on the iPad to finish? I bought the Mac version, and it worked mostly ok outside of a couple of glitches up until you get into the underground sections. Found out there were a couple of puzzles that were either removed or glitched into a "finish" state. Then, what is likely to be one of *the* puzzles for the game seems unbeatable since when I finally got frustrated and looked up some hint of what I was doing wrong, the description was pretty much exactly what I had specified (this is how I found out about the missing bits, too).

[Bulbatron]

The Mac version appears to be a port of the iPad version, rather than, as would've been better, a port of the original PC version.  I have finished the game on iPad, but I'm not over-familiar with the game, so I can't give you exact details on how the puzzles work.  Some of them are a little fidgety though.  I can therefore however, reassure you that the iPad version can be finished, since I have done so.

Hope this helps answer your question.