Posted on: May 23, 2025

TheRealCanadianRage

Jeux: 378 Avis: 15

I couldn't enjoy it

Well, I had been thinking about purchasing this game and being a fan of the Sherlock Holmes series (which I got from Steam, prior to finding out about GOG) a fan of detective games, HP lovecraft and period pieces I figured I might enjoy this. I'm not saying it's bad-the graphics are nice, the atmosphere is good, the music was good; the gunplay sucks (but that isn't anything new with Frogwares games) but I just find it very boring and the navigating around the map can be annoying. From a technical standpoint: upon booting this game up, the first thing I noticed, was choppy video. I checked to see my drivers and everything was up-to-date and it was. I shut off the V-sync and the motion blur; which solved the problem. Why on Earth is motion blur even a thing? So, I'm playing it this afternoon and suddenly: it locks up midway through an animation and will not move. I can't exit out of the game, can't even bring up the task manager to force it down, so I soft-booted my pc instead. After this: I decided to apply for a refund. God bless GOG and their policy--they're far better than Steam. Is it a good game, is it a bad game? I can't honestly say. Maybe it's just me; maybe I'm getting too old for gaming

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Posted on: October 13, 2024

JonTheHuman

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Jeux: 285 Avis: 12

Good, could have been great with tweaks

I'd say this the clear second best Lovecraftian game, that I've played, behind Bloodborne. Incorporating a multitude of Lovecraft's stories, from direct references to neat little nods. Detective work is pretty standard fare but works really well in the setting and the flashback mechanic where you piece the event together was fun touch. Early on I was expecting to get annoyed with having to go to the various archives (news, police, city hall, hospital) but it's actually great for character immersion. Overall the writing that's there is solid and better than the usual overdone cliches of the genre and the environmental storytelling is really good, especially in the side quests. The city was a great idea and the atmosphere is top notch, although it could have gone further with the various factions considering how many macabre lookin cultists are openly walking around. Most of the music is good and fits, it's pure bliss when that smokey noir jazz track hits while wandering the city and I wish there could have been more songs like that. Combat is nothing great but can be a good and/or satisfyingly tense time. I discovered early on you can essentially stunlock enemy attacks, save for the largest baddie, with melee to save on expendable resources. Hopefully in the sequel they cut the size of the map in half and make each district more varied in appearance because while what we got is aesthetically great it's way too massive to the point of visual redundancy when the size serves no purpose beyond infrastructural realism. You can only enter a handful of places per zone and most of the interiors are copy-pasted with only minor variation, the first side quest interior I went into was an exact copy of the first main quest residence. The fast travel system also suffers because of the size when you're forced to re-walk/jog through familiar neighbourhoods with nothing to do instead of being able to just open the map and travel to previously discovered places.

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Posted on: December 6, 2024

stevec

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Jeux: 223 Avis: 1

Nice mixture of clues and combat

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Posted on: January 23, 2025

RMB220

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Jeux: 43 Avis: 1

holy moley

sharks and guts just all over the shop!

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Posted on: February 4, 2024

georgi.zh

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Jeux: 466 Avis: 8

Previous review said it all

It is an OK game. It overuses a lot of its environments, only 4 types of monsters (with some variety) and has repetitive gameplay loop and combat. For me the enjoyment came mainly from reading the notes in the secondary quests. The new Call of Cthulhu was a lot more polished, but this one was a little more engaging for me. It is worth 10euro when you get it on sale. You will get what you paid for, but it won't leave you screaming for more. Dark Corners of the Earth was a game that can't find its match to this day...

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