Lovecraftian Horror

Bloodborne's love letter to Lovecraft aside, are there any games that really capture the atmosphere of dealing with cosmic horror?

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Nah, but really Eternal Darkness

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>Lovecraft
He's so overrated.

Sunless Sea, as far as text-based roguelike games go.

>Bloodborne's love letter to Lovecraft

It's not a "love letter" when you just rip people off.

That's what FROM does, literally every game they have ever released has been a rip off.

Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the earth is pretty much a straight up videogame conversion of some of Lovecrafts stories.

Any preferable recommendations? I'm fond of the concept of the genre more-so than Lovecraft's actual prose.

I don't have a better preference I just not a fan of lovecraft. everyone seems to take stuff from lovecraft it's kind of getting old

That happens when an entire genre of horror is named after you.

Surprisingly.

Thomas Ligotti
Laird Barron
Vandermeer's Southern Reach Trilogy

His stories are edgy shit and from what I've read about the guy he was an absolute cunt irl
I guess Dead Space is sort of in that category lore wise

>Dead Space
I wish the games had more of a chance to explore some more the psychological aspects of what the marker has done.

It's a really good time waster did you give your soul to the demoness

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Not yet, but I did help spark religious war in a society of talking rats.

>Bloodborne's love letter to Lovecraft
Nothing of the sort happened.
Bloodborne has tentacle monsters, and that is it.

Amnesia
Penumbra
Darkness Within
Chzo Mythos (freeware series of 4 games)
The Swapper
Dishonored
Darkest Dungeon

You either haven't played Bloodborne, or don't know much about Lovecraft. Tentacle monsters and insanity meters are the tip of the iceberg.

Not so easy when the plot develops to isaac being more resitant to it after each encounter.

And complete and absolute futility of everything you do or could do and the realization of exactly that while everyone around you does not get it, is what lovecraft is about.
Bloodborne is not about that.

It is you who is mistaken.

>Chzo Mythos (freeware series of 4 games)
Been a long time since I've played those.

Quite fond of the one where you're trapped in space hiding behind the pillar puzzle aside

You're not helping my thalassophobia.

How was that?

Darkest Dungeon

>futility
>a 1800s steamer managed to pierce Cthulhu's head and put him back to sleep
>the crew were able to stay sane enough to pilot their ship into his head

>Bloodborne is not about that.
Yes it is. Pay more attention to the endings and the backstory next time.

Obliged.

>and put him back to sleep
The stars weren't right, he never awoke in the first place

If I recall the text describes that the wound from the ship heals almost instantly around the ship.

So even if the steamer never attacked Cthulhu would have just risen up a bit, noticed it wasn't time and gone back to sleep?

I liked Trilby's Notes.
>having to input die

That's exactly it. There's paragraphs in the story that straight up say when the stars are right humanity is doomed

Oxenfree deserves a bit more love.

>be Cthulu
>wake up
>feel like shit
>Have a weird itch on my head
>don't wanna fucking get up
>check the stars
>theyain'tright.jpg
>mfw

Pathologic kinda does this.

Give the terrible old man a playthrough, it's pretty short

You're it.

Loved the Shadow Over Innsmouth intro.

Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem is the obvious recommendation.

Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth is another obvious choice, but unfortunately the game is a broken mess.

If you want games with more subtle Lovecraft influence, you have a lot of choices. I can't even count the number of games which are said to be influenced by Lovecraft.

Side-note: You'll find that Alan Wake is very slightly Lovecraftian if you actually dig to the shallow bottom of its small amount of lore. I'm referring to the Dark Presence, mostly. The game's direct influences are Stephen King and Twin Peaks, obviously, but Stephen King was inspired by H. P. Lovecraft. Alan Wake gets a tiny bit of the Lovecraft flavor indirectly.

Thought it was a shame they never got to make a full Alan Wake sequel.

The forested sections got a bit repetitive, but the whole concept of the encroaching darkness seemed like it could be played with in a lot of ways.