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Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth (2005)

Headfirst Productions

PC (Microsoft Windows) · Xbox

3.51 from 270 ratings

1242 members have it in their collection · 19 playing now · 660 backlogged · 129 wish listed

How long? Main story 8h · with extras 11h · 100% 12h (from 6 logged playthroughs)

Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth combines an action-horror game with a fairly realistic and immersive first-person shooter, with good stealth elements. The game is based on the works of H. P. Lovecraft, author of "The Call of Cthulhu" and progenitor of the Cthulhu Mythos, and in particular the game is a reimagining of Lovecraft's 1936 novella The … Read more
Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth combines an action-horror game with a fairly realistic and immersive first-person shooter, with good stealth elements. The game is based on the works of H. P. Lovecraft, author of "The Call of Cthulhu" and progenitor of the Cthulhu Mythos, and in particular the game is a reimagining of Lovecraft's 1936 novella The Shadow Over Innsmouth. Set mostly in the year 1922, the story follows Jack Walters, a mentally unstable private detective hired to investigate a disappearance case in Innsmouth, a strange and mysterious town that has cut itself from the rest of the United States. Read less
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Details

Developers
Headfirst Productions
Publishers
Bethesda Softworks
Genres
Adventure, Puzzle, Shooter
Themes
Action, Horror, Science fiction, Stealth, Survival
Series
Call of Cthulhu
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Release dates

  • Oct 24, 2005 (Worldwide) Xbox
  • Mar 24, 2006 (Worldwide) PC (Microsoft Windows)
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Rating distribution

5 stars
45
4 stars
92
3 stars
97
2 stars
29
1 star
7
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Begbie

Status Begbie Jan 7, 2016

Very intense experience but buggy as fuck. Nevertheless i gave the game 5 stars because it has so many good ideas, i never saw in any game, for example the mind-feature, when the protagonist Jack sees too many disturbing things, he aimes for his head and pulls the trigger - Game over lol! I would say its a must-play for …

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Very intense experience but buggy as fuck. Nevertheless i gave the game 5 stars because it has so many good ideas, i never saw in any game, for example the mind-feature, when the protagonist Jack sees too many disturbing things, he aimes for his head and pulls the trigger - Game over lol! I would say its a must-play for Lovecraft-fans, for everyone else its worth playing, when you have a high frustrating-tolerance. BTW one of the hardest games i ever finished.

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Torgo

Status Torgo Aug 5, 2015

Alright, after sinking more hours into this game now I understand why everyone complains about it. I admit it, regardless of my rose-tinted Lovecraft glasses, the game is broken. It's sad though, because it comes so close to being a great little game and it just falls short.

It seems like it was rushed at the last minute. There's a …

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Alright, after sinking more hours into this game now I understand why everyone complains about it. I admit it, regardless of my rose-tinted Lovecraft glasses, the game is broken. It's sad though, because it comes so close to being a great little game and it just falls short.

It seems like it was rushed at the last minute. There's a few areas of the game that obviously didn't even see basic playtesting. For example, a puzzle says "put today's date in as the safe combination" but they used the wrong date. Simple things like that.

A couple other sections are atrocious. There's a few stealth sections that are borderline impossible to complete. The mechanics just needed to be tightened up a bit. The sneak button just doesn't do anything except slow you down.

The game-breaking bugs are OK, I'm fine with that. It's a 2005 game so it's bound to have problems on modern systems. Besides, a few little community fixes and she's right to go. But really if the developers were given a weekend with the code to just tighten it up a bit it would have been fine. It's a shame, there really hasn't been a good Lovecraft game to do the source material justice.

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Torgo

Status Torgo Aug 4, 2015

I'm a huge Lovecraft fan but I've never had a go at this game. I spent 3 or 4 hours playing the other night and it's actually quite good. Sure the graphics are showing their age and the voice acting is atrocious. But I have a soft spot in my heart for the blocky half life 1 era visuals. And …

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I'm a huge Lovecraft fan but I've never had a go at this game. I spent 3 or 4 hours playing the other night and it's actually quite good. Sure the graphics are showing their age and the voice acting is atrocious. But I have a soft spot in my heart for the blocky half life 1 era visuals. And so far the story and general design of the game is quite good. The mechanics are really interesting too, it's reminiscent of Amnesia, except 4 years earlier. I think Amnesia actually borrowed some ideas from this game!

Perhaps I'm blinded by my love for anything Lovecraftian. But I'm definitely enjoying this. It's actually really nostalgic to play a game from this era. They've nailed the atmosphere too, the game is really creepy. The cultist townsfolk wander around dark alleys muttering to themselves with their googly eyes. You hear the cold New England wind blowing along the Innsmouth cobblestone streets. Wonderful stuff.

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