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‘Click of Cthulhu’ Offers Simple And Free Time-Killing Fun For Summoning a Cosmic Deity
Those who enjoyed Kitfox Games’ The Shrouded Isle, and are looking for more cult management games that veer further into Cthulhu mythos, then Studio Black Flag has just the thing for you. Click of Cthulhu, which you can check out on its itch.io page, is perfect for those cult leaders in training, or for those who are looking to kill a few minutes when waiting for your coworker to respond to an email.
Click of Cthulhu is an idle game, where you click on a resource to acquire it, again and again and again, before eventually automating the process via upgrades. That would be pretty boring on its own, so thankfully, the game also has a city-building element. In order to utilise and acquire more Deep Ones (aka the demonic population of your town), you have to expand your realm by building roads and houses, before constructing mines and other structures for them to labour in. Ultimately, the goal of the game is to build a magic key to unlock the Gates of R’lyeh and summon Cthulhu.
Again, it’s not a deep game, and is meant to be a time killer, but Click of Cthulhu does offer you a chance to indulge your Lovecraftian tendencies while at work. Plus, it’s free and plays in your browser.
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Bloody Body Horror Revealed in ‘Stellar Blade: Blood Rain’, Currently in Development [Trailer]
Shift Up has shifted things dramatically from 2024’s action-adventure game Stellar Blade, offering up a body horror bonanza in the newly announced sequel, Stellar Blade: Blood Rain. The sequel is currently early in development, but if the trailer is any indication, players will be in for plenty of body horror.
Continuing the story from the original Stellar Blade, Blood Rain will star a new protagonist named Eve. Earth has been abandoned, and what is left of humanity has fled to a Colony in outer space.
Shift Up had mentioned during a Q&A following its latest earnings presentation last month that development on Blood Rain (which was still unannounced at the time) was progressing smoothly, and was on track to meet their targeted quality standards.
Shift Up stated that with this new title it would be transitioning to a first-party service model, effectively moving away from the restrictions the game experienced with original publisher Sony, which had the game under an exclusivity agreement for the PlayStation 5. “This will allow us to lead marketing strategies that fully reflect the distinctive identity of the Stellar Blade IP, and we expect to communicate the unique appeal of its universe to players more directly and effectively.”
Whether this means that Xbox Players will finally be able to play the original game (or its sequel) is still not clear. Meanwhile, Stellar Blade is reportedly being ported to the Nintendo Switch 2, but no official confirmation has been made.