Call of Cthulhu®

You have enjoyed a few stories form HP Lovecraft? you like walking simulators or japanes Novels? You might enjoy this game. You are an Expert in the myth of Lovecraft? This game will annoy you. You never heard of H.P. Lovecraft? This game will confuse you and maybe will harm your saninty. IMHO the game feels like an Cthulu Pen & Paper session with an rookie gamemaster using a good premade plot. The story, the island and many encounters are well made, but you don't really get the hang with your NPCs "friends" and your skills do not matter most of the time. I really loved the glooly doomy touch. After a few minutes i knew i was doomed on this forsaken island, while everybody else had hope in their hearts.

When it comes to general look and feel of the game it's competent. The areas look nice, gloomy and have character. It actually looks like something that would be nice to explore. This game has one major but, to be clear I'm a huge mythos fan and can forgive a lot but the writing is awful. Downright awful. To give you an example, during the intro someone comes in to talk to you. He makes hugely offensive statements and then just glosses over that. It's like watching an android. In later stages characters will go from angry and distant to emotional and scared over the time span of a sentence. It's just highly unbelievable and jarring to boot. Voice acting is great, but the material the characters had to work with is downright awful.

Very linear and short point and click... with a First person view and some xp to spend. Atmosphere is good and the story is ok but that's not enough.

The story and the game was globaly good, but the "technique" is very outdated for a 2018 game. If it was release in 2010 I may have a 5/5

Poor implementation of what could have been a great game.