Game

Call of Cthulhu

2018 · PlayStation 4 · PC (Microsoft Windows) · Xbox One · Nintendo Switch · Role-playing (RPG) · Adventure

67IGDB player score
155 ratings

Previously Take

That 67 average hides a game its 155 fans would defend to the death. Horror that commits — thriller atmosphere, real dread, and scares that aren't cheap. No multiplayer, no problem — the campaign carries the whole thing.

About this game

Developed by seasoned studio Cyanide, Call of Cthulhu is an RPG-Investigation game with psychological horror and stealth mechanics, set in a deeply immersive world. On a mission to find the truth behind the death of an acclaimed artist and her family on a backwater island, the player will soon uncover a more disturbing truth as the Great Dreamer, Cthulhu, prepares its awakening...

In 1924 Boston, private investigator and war veteran Edward Pierce is a troubled man, plagued by disturbing nightmares he tries to dull with drink and pills. He takes on what seems like a routine case, looking into the deaths of the Hawkins family, who perished in a mysterious mansion fire. The only real clue is an unsettling painting made by the wife, Sarah, shortly before she died. The trail leads Pierce to Darkwater, a remote and superstitious island community wary of outsiders, where his investigation begins to unravel far stranger and darker truths.