Sunless Sea is also an amazing Lovecraftian game. Also on sale right now.
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Would add The Void for movies and Dredge (which is on sale) for games.
ETA: In other media, The Lovecraft Investigations is a full cast audio drama re-imagining of several Lovecraft stories. Recommended!
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Another cool game I'd recommend is Dredge. It's not too much horror, but there is definitely some fear factor in it. The lore of the game is simple, but going in the game blind feels real nice because the game is built on the sense of unknown.
Dark Corners of the Earth is awesome. The newer one kinda sucks.
Also Carrion is not Lovecraft inspired... It's inspired by John Carpenter's The Thing. You essentially get to play as The Thing. But it is still hella good.
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Movies:
Necronomicon: Book of Dead (1993)
The Color Out of Space - Die Farbe (2010) - I liked it
Color Out of Space (2019) - great movie
In the Mouth of Madness (1994) - Loved it
The Island of the Fishmen (1979)
The Resurrected (1991) - wrong year on the graphic
Underwater (2020) - I liked it, had a game-like quality, reminded me of SOMA
The Endless (2017) - also liked it
Annihilation (2018) - great movie once you realise you shouldn't treat it in a literal way, but extremely symbolic
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Games:
Call of Cthulhu - poor adaptation imo
Call of Cthulhuยฎ: Dark Corners of the Earth - oldish, hard to get into
The Sinking City - there is also a remaster, there were some problems with publisher being utter cunts, so idk if it's not better to pirate
Conarium - Loved it
Stygian: Reign of the Old Ones
CARRION - hour long, not very lovecraftian
Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft - free
Bloodborne - ps exclusive
Borderlands 3 - graphic mentions a dlc, this seems forced here
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SOMA - might be the best horror I've ever played
Euclidean - game about falling
Cyclopean: The Great Abyss - retro crpg
Sunless Skies: Sovereign Edition
Static Dread: The Lighthouse - lovecraftian "Papers, please"
How about some interactive fiction games? Check these out for starters:
Anchorhead https://ifdb.org/viewgame?id=op0uw1gn1tjqmjt7
The King of Shreds and Patches https://ifdb.org/viewgame?id=9ntef9expou18abv
Coloratura https://ifdb.org/viewgame?id=g0fl99ovcrq2sqzk
Ps. Really nice list & graphic, thanks!
also if you're looking for board games:
- Mansions of madness
- Arkham horror 3rd edition
- Arkham horror the living card game
Shout out to The Endless and all the Benson and Moorhead movies. They are so good.
Also Prometheus is pretty much In The Mountains of Madness, but in space instead of in Antarctica.
Great list. Some additional good titles are:
The Call of Cthulhu (2005) - Independent silent film adaptation produced by Sean Branney and Andrew Leman and distributed by the H. P. Lovecraft Historical Society
The Whisperer in Darkness (2011) - From the same producer with the look of a 1930s-era film
CTHULHU (2007) - Not really an adaptation, but more like an original view of the thematic elements of the Cthulhu Mythos.
The Shunned House (2003) - A low budget movie produced by Ivan Zuccon
Documentary - Lovecraft: Fear of the Unknown (2020) | Guillermo Del Toro - old post with links
Dont play Conariun on steam. Dunno about other platforms but it has a game breaking bug about halfway through. I left a review on steam about it but yeah. You can't progress cause you get stuck in a room and can't move forward to the door.
Bug was reported as long ago as 2017. It's still not fixed. I'm still mad. It was shaping up to be super interesting.
The sinking city has charm but I got bored and didn't finish it. The detective mechanic was tedious.
The Cthulhu game was decent and I played it thru.
Two other games not on the list.
The Sherlock Cthulhu was pretty solid.
Still water wakes the deep- is stellar. Chefs kiss. Fantastic.
I want to put Clive Barker's Undying up here. For me, it perfectly captures the vibes of Lovecraftian stuff Clive is an avid enjoyer of. And, well, it's just a solid game that had some very memorable moments.
Does anyone have any books to reccomend? I've read H.P. Lovecraft but don't know of any other authors using the IP.
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The empty man is a fun movie.
You should give prisoner of ice a try if you haven't already.
Stuart Gordon is the GOAT!!!
I think the Far Harbor expansion of Fallout 4 could fit too
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