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Call of Cthulhu Gets a Spooky, Scary E3 Trailer

Lovecraft invades video games.

Call of Cthulhu, developed by Cyanide Studio and published by Focus Home Interactive, has just received a new trailer ahead of E3. While the trailer doesn’t actually give us any gameplay footage, we do get introduced to the protagonist and the world that we’ll be exploring.

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“Developed by seasoned studio Cyanide, Call of Cthulhu is an RPG-Investigation game with psychological horror and stealth mechanics, set in a deeply immersive world. On a mission to find the truth behind the death of an acclaimed artist and her family on a backwater island, the player will soon uncover a more disturbing truth as the Great Dreamer, Cthulhu, prepares its awakening…”

Lovecraftian horror isn’t a concept that has been widely explored in video games, though last year’s Bloodborne certainly presented it well and went out with a bang. Even so, it’s refreshing to see other studios following suit and exploring Lovecraftian themes to bring out a new brand of horror in gaming. This is one that we’ll be keeping our eye on.

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Zhiqing Wan

Zhiqing is the Reviews Editor for Twinfinite, and a History graduate from Singapore. She's been in the games media industry for nine years, trawling through showfloors, conferences, and spending a ridiculous amount of time making in-depth spreadsheets for min-max-y RPGs. When she's not singing the praises of Amazon's Kindle as the greatest technological invention of the past two decades, you can probably find her in a FromSoft rabbit hole.

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