Posted on: June 26, 2025
velkymx
Games: 69 Reviews: 4
Excellent Hidden Picture Style Game
Reminds me of all of the clue games
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Call of Cthulhu®
Description
Call of Cthulhu, the official videogame inspired by Chaosium's classic pen and paper RPG, brings you deep into a world of creeping madness and shrouded Old Gods within Lovecraft's iconic universe.
1924. Private Investigator Pierce is sent to look into the tragic death of the Hawkins family on the isolated Darkwater Island. Soon enough, Pierce is pulled into a terrifying world of conspiracies, cultists, and cosmic horrors.
Nothing is as it seems. Sanity is an irregular bedfellow, all too often replaced by whisperings in the dark. Strange creatures, weird science, and sinister cults dominate the Cthulhu Mythos, intent on realizing their mad schemes to bring about the end of everything.
Your mind will suffer - between sanity and psychosis, your senses will be disrupted until you question the reality of everything around you. Trust no one. Slinking shadows hide lurking figures… and all the while, the Great Dreamer prepares for his awakening.
Call of Cthulhu ©2018 Chaosium Inc. Call of Cthulhu is a video game published by Focus Home Interactive and developed by Cyanide SA. “Call of Cthulhu” is a trademark of Chaosium, Inc. All trademarks or registered trademarks belong to their respective owners. All rights reserved.
Popular achievements
The amulet of the Ancients
Lay your hands on Algernon Drake's treasure
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The Outsider
Banish the creature for good
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The White Ship
Learn the secret of the Scylla
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Beyond reality
Accept to read an unholy book
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From Beyond
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The Thing on the Doorstep
Banish the Dimensional Shambler using only one dagger
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A brilliant mind
Use the globe to open the secret passage
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Detective Edward Pierce
Reach the level of Expert in a skill
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Memory
Explore the memories of the Hawkins family
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IGN
8.6/10
Call of Cthulhu's engaging mystery and intriguing utilization of RPG mechanics make it one of the more enjoyable Lovecraftian games in years.
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5/10
Call of Cthulhu is a mostly competent, occasionally chilling adventure ruined by unspeakable horrors.
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59/100
A mediocre detective game with predictable stealth and a surreal story that runs out of steam near the end.
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Posted on: August 27, 2025
blacklow1066
Verified ownerGames: 86 Reviews: 1
Bowser 2018
Great game , multiple pathways to choose direction of game . Not easy by any means
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Posted on: September 30, 2025
Pet4rM
Verified ownerGames: 8 Reviews: 1
Not great!
Game is too dark, some puzzles are just illogical or take way too much time to figure out with no or minimal clues.
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Posted on: October 12, 2025
Fabrizio_Costantin
Verified ownerGames: 4 Reviews: 1
this is top game
i used to play cthulhu when i was young - top games
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Posted on: October 4, 2020
xeniac
Verified ownerGames: 714 Reviews: 21
a nice Adventure for HPC fans
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.
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