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2005

Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth

Tonight at a glance

Platforms
XBOX · PC
Mode
Single player
Age rating
ESRB M
Violence
Strong
Frights
Strong

Why tonight?

  • It goes hard on violence and frights — not a wind-down.

The story

Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth combines an action-horror game with a fairly realistic and immersive first-person shooter, with good stealth elements. The game is based on the works of H. P. Lovecraft, author of "The Call of Cthulhu" and progenitor of the Cthulhu Mythos, and in particular the game is a reimagining of Lovecraft's 1936 novella The Shadow Over Innsmouth. Set mostly in the year 1922, the story follows Jack Walters, a mentally unstable private detective hired to investigate a disappearance case in Innsmouth, a strange and mysterious town that has cut itself from the rest of the United States.

  • Action
  • Science fiction
  • Horror
  • Survival
  • Stealth
  • aliens
  • exploration
  • bloody
  • gravity
  • detective

The look

A few frames, chosen rather than collected.

Production

Players
77 / 100 · 132 players
Critics
80 / 100 · 2 critics
Developer
Headfirst Productions
Publisher
Bethesda Softworks