Call of Cthulhu®

Well all things considered, I was entertained. The story was good and I enjoyed it quite a bit. Graphics and Gamplay was okay. Liked the fact that it bascially is a first person adventure game, with some smiple puzzels. So an okay , and in my opinion it delivered a compelling and a little cryptic story.

I enjoyed it, I feel like it is kind of a hybrid adventure/horror/rpg that kept me paying until I finished it. Te story was interesteing enough to keep my attenion and it had enough decision making that kept me wondering if I was choosing correctly. It is light on the RPG aspec but all in all a fun game, especially at 50%. I would recommed to any call of cthulu fans.

If you like Lovecraft, get this game when it's cheap. Not really worth the full price. Good atmosphere and some interesting ideas but a bit questionable gameplay decisions at times...

I am a huge Lovecraft fan, but Call of Cthulu was a letdown in almost every way. The story and setting were really drawing me in, but there are just too many issues with the gameplay itself. The game has a hard time deciding which game it wants to be. Sometimes it's an investigation game, sometimes it's a stealth game, sometimes a puzzler. A game can be all of those things, but none of the parts feel like they make a cohesive whole. I stopped playing the game in Chapter 6 during a stealth section that has to be one of the more poorly designed stealth levels I've ever played. The worst part BY FAR is the IDIOTIC save system. There are no manual saves, the game autosaves at chapter breaks, or after performing certain actions in a level. However, for the latter, there is no telling which actions will prompt a save, meaning there's also no telling what you have to redo/refind if you get a game over. I've lost progreess over and over when I was interrupted during a play and had to go back to the random point the game decided to save at. This game could have been so good, it gets a lot of the feeling of a Lovecraft story right. The execution is just terrible.

Story is OK, audio/visuals are good, gameplay is what you expect from a 1st person horror. Overall quite descent, could be a solid 4 of 5. However inconsistent dialogs make zero sense most of the time and just dont connect with the game plot and twists at all. They ruin the whole story progression completely. Half of the replics are out of sync with previous events and second half lead to dialog progression that is completely out of sync with original starting replic. Someone clearly tried to seem much smarter then he/she is. If you could remove 80% of the dialogs the game could actually way more enjoyable.