The E3 reveal trailer for Cyanide’s Lovecraftian nonlinear horror RPG Call of Cthulhu opens with a quote from the legend himself, “The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.” I’m hopeful that this game will be able to tap into that unknowable, almost primal, and certainly universal fear of the great many things we cannot explain, because it plays an integral role in what’s made Lovecraft’s works so influential and relevant today.
If “searchers after horror haunt strange, far places,” then I can think of no better destination to search for such horrors than the unnervingly atmospheric island of Darkwater. Call of Cthulhu releases next year for PC, PS4 and Xbox One.
