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Lovecraftian Horror Game ‘Lust For Darkness’ Opens its Gates June 12th
Last year, Lunar Cult Studios launched a Kickstarter for their first-person Cthulhu-inspired game, Lust For Darkness. Now, not only do we get a new trailer for the game, but we also have a release date!
The gates to Lust’ghaa will be open on June 12 on Steam for the game, which if you need reminder, casts you as protagonist Jonathan Moon. Moon’s wife has been missing for a year, so when he receives a letter from his wife to head to a secluded mansion, he wastes no time in doing so. At the mansion, Moon witnesses an eldritch occult ceremony taking place, where the gates to another world, the profane, perverse land of Lusst’ghaa, are opened.
Using portals to travel between two different realities, the player will not only have to search for clues as to what happened to Moon’s wife, but also avoid the alien creatures of Lusst’ghaa, which over the course of hundreds of years of experiments, have transformed their bodies so that they could never cease to experience carnal delights.
In the grim darkness of the far future there is only war, but it was a cheerful illustrator from England who helped to define the terrifying war-torn imagery that inspired what we now know as Grimdark (a hybrid genre combining horror with sci-fi/fantasy).
Unfortunately for fans of Warhammer 40,000, Trench Crusade and countless other sources of Grimdark thrills, veteran artist John Blanche passed away this week after struggling with health issues for the past few years.
While the artist retired back in 2023, he leaves us with an enormous legacy of iconic artwork that continues to inspire gamers and storytellers around the world to this very day.
The news is especially gloomy as it was only last year that Daniel Lowman and Napoleon Dynamite himself Jon Heder released The Grim & the Dark: The Search for John Blanche, a documentary following Heder’s exploration of the Grimdark genre culminating in a heartwarming encounter with Blanche in his own home.
Below is one of my favorite pieces by Blanche, his highly influential depiction of Warhammer 40k’s God-Emperor of Mankind on his Golden Throne.
We send our deepest condolences to John Blanche’s family, friends, and fans.
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