Posted on: April 26, 2025
ToddBodog
Verified ownerGames: 68 Reviews: 12
pretty cool
anything HP Lovecraft is going to be based on good horror, enjoyed taking down the cultists.
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Lovecraft's Untold Stories
Description
Lovecraft’s Untold Stories is an action roguelite with RPG elements. You explore randomly generated levels based in H.P. Lovecraft stories, fighting cultists and all kinds of monsters from the Mythos, improving your weapons and gear, solving puzzles and challenges, and looking for clues and knowledge to defeat the Great Old Ones and the Outer Gods.
Lovecraft’s Untold Stories is based on H.P. Lovecraft’s stories. You will experience first-hand the cosmic horror created by the genius of Providence. Every character will go through an investigation that will take them through different locations, from the creepy old Victorian mansion to the abandoned hospital where forbidden experiments take place or the jungle where lost tribes celebrate forgotten rituals, just to name a few. Levels are randomly generated: it will be a different experience every time you play. Also, they vary depending on the character you’re playing with. Look for items and clues to unlock secrets and new stories!
You can play as 5 different characters, each with a different playstyle and storyline. A private detective, a witch, a thief, a professor, and even a ghoul—each with different stats, weapons, and combat moves, creating five entirely different gameplay experiences. The Detective offers a balanced playstyle, with average Health and Stamina. The Professor is a specialist in ranged combat, with less Health and a special shield granted by his weapon, the Tillinghast. The Witch does a lot of damage, has teleport abilities and elemental shields of fire and ice, but also a very low Health. The Thief is a specialist in melée combat that takes advantage of its stealth to maximize her damage. The ghoul does a lot of melée damage, has a high Health and regenerates itself, but can’t use medkits at all.
The truth of the dark horrors that inhabit the universe is unbearable for any human mind. In the end, you can’t win against the Old Ones. Madness or death await you. But maybe you can delay the inevitable… If you face the Great Old Ones without any knowledge about them, you will go mad just by looking at their hideous features. But spread across every level you will find special items with information about the Great Old Ones. The more you know about them, the stronger your mind shall become – but knowledge is not easy to find, and if you are not thorough in your investigation you might get to the end of a storyline without finding everything that is to know. You will have to play with all the characters if you want to find all the information about every Great Old One!
Insanity crawls behind every corner for those who face the Mythos. In your investigations, you will face different situations where you have to choose what to do – make the wrong decision and you will start losing your mind. In order to face the Great Old Ones, you need knowledge, and to find it you have to explore – but the more you explore the more events that shake your sanity you will find… Those who go mad under the influence of the Mythos take their own life to escape the eternal terror they are now looking at. Not all hope is lost, though – there are some ways to recover your sanity…
LIVE H.P. LOVECRAFT’S STORIES
Lovecraft’s Untold Stories is based on H.P. Lovecraft’s stories. You will experience first-hand the cosmic horror created by the genius of Providence. Every character will go through an investigation that will take them through different locations, from the creepy old Victorian mansion to the abandoned hospital where forbidden experiments take place or the jungle where lost tribes celebrate forgotten rituals, just to name a few. Levels are randomly generated: it will be a different experience every time you play. Also, they vary depending on the character you’re playing with. Look for items and clues to unlock secrets and new stories!
5 CHARACTERS, 5 WAYS OF FIGHTING THE MYTHOS
You can play as 5 different characters, each with a different playstyle and storyline. A private detective, a witch, a thief, a professor, and even a ghoul—each with different stats, weapons, and combat moves, creating five entirely different gameplay experiences. The Detective offers a balanced playstyle, with average Health and Stamina. The Professor is a specialist in ranged combat, with less Health and a special shield granted by his weapon, the Tillinghast. The Witch does a lot of damage, has teleport abilities and elemental shields of fire and ice, but also a very low Health. The Thief is a specialist in melée combat that takes advantage of its stealth to maximize her damage. The ghoul does a lot of melée damage, has a high Health and regenerates itself, but can’t use medkits at all.
DISCOVER THE SECRETS OF THE GREAT OLD ONES
The truth of the dark horrors that inhabit the universe is unbearable for any human mind. In the end, you can’t win against the Old Ones. Madness or death await you. But maybe you can delay the inevitable… If you face the Great Old Ones without any knowledge about them, you will go mad just by looking at their hideous features. But spread across every level you will find special items with information about the Great Old Ones. The more you know about them, the stronger your mind shall become – but knowledge is not easy to find, and if you are not thorough in your investigation you might get to the end of a storyline without finding everything that is to know. You will have to play with all the characters if you want to find all the information about every Great Old One!
MADNESS AWAITS
Insanity crawls behind every corner for those who face the Mythos. In your investigations, you will face different situations where you have to choose what to do – make the wrong decision and you will start losing your mind. In order to face the Great Old Ones, you need knowledge, and to find it you have to explore – but the more you explore the more events that shake your sanity you will find… Those who go mad under the influence of the Mythos take their own life to escape the eternal terror they are now looking at. Not all hope is lost, though – there are some ways to recover your sanity…
KEY FEATURES
- Fight hundreds of different monsters from the Cthulhu Mythos in this intense action roguelite
- Explore Lovecraft’s stories: every character has a storyline that crosses randomly generated levels set in different locations from Lovecraft’s stories, such as the hospital, the jungle, or the port city just to name a few
- Face the Great Old Ones: Great Cthulhu, Nyarlathotep, Dagon, Shub-Niggurath, and Azathoth await you in special levels
- Investigate thoroughly: explore every corner to find secret levels and knowledge about the Great Old Ones
- Learn about the Mythos to fight them: to have a chance at fighting the Great Old Ones you need to acquire knowledge about them, or their mere presence will drive you insane
- Madness awaits: in the course of your adventures you will have to make some decisions, and taking the wrong ones will shake your sanity. If it gets too low, you will start losing your mind – and if you go mad you will take your own life to escape the horror
- Pick your hero: Choose between 5 different characters, detective, the thief, the professor, the witch, and the ghoul
- Different playstyles: every investigator has a different combat style and skills, but levels also vary depending on who you’re playing them with – so the gameplay experience is totally different
- Collect and improve weapons, items, and artifacts. Each character has a set of weapons and items, and there are hundreds of other items you can find and use!
- Look for clues and special items to unlock secrets and new stories
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Posted on: April 10, 2023
seeabove
Verified ownerGames: 208 Reviews: 6
flawed but still good
I've played this for a couple of hours, up until the end of level 3 (map 3). The graphics are perfect imo (some great retro pixel art), as is the sound and the whole sound fx. Additionally, the game creates a nice horror atmosphere and lets you really dive into the whole Cthulhu setting, i.e. universe. It does effectively live up to its literary origins. Moreover and most importantly, the whole time through, it wasn't any boring or frustrating playing but instead a lot of fun and a real time killer. So what's the problem? First of all, you find/get way too many seemingly useless items that never actually come in handy. This quickly creates confusion and, in the end, a cluttered inventory. Secondly, you can't go back to previous levels once you've left them, i.e. never enter the yellow light if you haven't completed the whole map yet. Furthermore, the controls are extremely clumsy and complicated if you play this on PC with a mouse and a keyboard. It's much, much easier and simply better to play with a controller (dunno if this is possible with the pc version though). I played it on a Switch, too, and the controls weren't hard or complicated at all but rather intuitive. Moreover, you can't save the game whenever you want or need to. Can be frustrating at times when you have to play the whole map all over again and all your previous progress is somewhat lost. Finally, the difficulty level starts getting quite challenging, starting with the third map. Tons of traps in the ground, numerous monsters and lots of dot-damage. That's actually a problem, too: The dots last way too long and often drain 50% of your health, even if you use enough medi packs. In the end, I still want to go on with this game coz it's simply a lot of fun. It's gonna take some time finishing it, but it's worth that time in my opinion.
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Posted on: December 7, 2022
SDK25k
Verified ownerGames: 72 Reviews: 2
Good game for a hard core gamers!
The game is wonderful, but the difficulty could make some people cry. That is why it has only 3*. The controls are incredible, the only game I know where the keyboard experience is as cool as a gamepad experience. If you love Lovecraft and fear no challenging game, try it! By the way, the Android version is super cool too!
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Posted on: September 29, 2022
jpuroila
Verified ownerGames: 196 Reviews: 4
Disappointing
I think it's fair to say that if your game that's supposedly about Lovecraft ends up having a level full of zombies and skeletons and werewolves, something has gone horribly wrong.
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Posted on: September 30, 2022
TheExistentialNerdTTV
Verified ownerGames: 335 Reviews: 5
Not perfect, but far from bad
Lovecraft's Untold Stories is an interesting title. It presents itself as a roguelike, but the maps are not procedurally generated. It attempts to implement the classic Lovecraftian tropes with varying degrees of success and mishaps. The game does do what it sets out to do. This is not meant to be a quick action title of Resident Evil like survival horror. This is more like if Alone in the Dark went 2D, and crowbarred in Eldritch horror. Honestly, I find the game fun, and interesting enough. I played it on Steam prior to my owning it here (a free give away thing). Regardless, it is a fun horror survival jaunt that isn't going necessarily scare you, but it should keep you intrigued.
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