Top 15 Call of Cthulhu Alternative and Similar Games | Dec 2024

Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth is a 2005 first-person survival horror video game developed by Headfirst Productions and published by Bethesda Softworks, in conjunction with 2K Games, for the PC and Xbox systems. The Xbox version is officially compatible with the Xbox 360 in certain regions. The PC version was published in 2006.

The game is based on the works of H. P. Lovecraft, author of The Call of Cthulhu and progenitor of the Cthulhu Mythos. It is a re-imagining of Lovecraft's novella The Shadow Over Innsmouth, also containing elements from the Call of Cthulhu role-playing game campaign Escape from Innsmouth. Although the story diverges in several places and features a different protagonist, several levels in the game mirror passages from the The Shadow Over Innsmouth. A major sub-plot of the game is also inspired by Lovecraft's novella The Shadow Out of Time. ...

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