cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/8149891

1 - 10 Best Lovecraft-Inspired Games According To Metacritic

  • Sundered: Eldritch Edition
  • Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners Of The Earth
  • Cthulhu Saves The World
  • Darkwood
  • Sunless Sea
  • Darkest Dungeon
  • Dusk
  • Bloodborne
  • Eternal Darkness: Sanity’s Requiem
  • Quake

2 - The 20 Best Video Games Inspired By H. P. Lovecraft

  • Amnesia: The Dark Descent
  • Blackout: The Darkest Night
  • Bloodborne **
  • Call of Cthulhu
  • Conarium
  • The Consuming Shadow
  • Curse of the Old Gods
  • Darkwood **
  • Dredge
  • Eldritch
  • Forgive Me Father
  • Gray Dawn
  • Lobotomy Corporation | Monster Management Simulation
  • Remnant: From the Ashes
  • Scorn
  • The Secret World
  • The Sinking City
  • Stygian: Reign of the Old Ones
  • Sundered: Eldritch Edition **
  • Sunless Sea **

3 - Top 10 H.P. Lovecraft Inspired Games (VIDEO)

  • Gatson of the Golden Lightning
  • Shadow Hearts
  • Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened
  • Amnesia: The Dark Descent **
  • Clive Barker’s Undying
  • Bloodborne ***
  • Darkest Dungeon **
  • Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners Of The Earth**
  • Cthulhu Saves The World**
  • Eternal Darkness: Sanity’s Requiem**

4 - 10 Lovecraftian Video Games That Will Give You Nightmares (VIDEO)

  • Call of Cthulhu**
  • The Darkside Detective
  • Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners Of The Earth***
  • Darkwood***
  • Sunless Sea***
  • The Sinking City**
  • Stygian: Reign of the Old Ones**
  • Call of the sea
  • Eternal Darkness: Sanity’s Requiem***
  • Bloodborne ****

5 - The 10 Best Games Inspired by H.P. Lovecraft (VIDEO)

  • Stygian Reign of the Old Ones***
  • Sunless Sea****
  • Call of Cthulhu***
  • Conarium**
  • Eldritch**
  • Remnant From the Ashes**
  • The Sinking City***
  • Dredge**
  • Bloodborne*****
  • Amnesia The Dark Descent***

MY PERSONAL PICK

  • @StovetopEnglish
    17•11 months ago

    I don’t think Scorn belongs on any Lovecraft lists. Its main influence is pretty direct, namely H. R. Giger.

    • @MotoAshEnglish
      7•11 months ago

      Yea, body horror and cosmic horror are quite distinctly different, too.

  • @[email protected]English
    8•11 months ago

    Gonna add SOMA into the mix. That game was intensely Lovecraftian. Hopelessness of man, hyper powerful monsters that cannot be killed, psychological terror, body horror, great shit.

  • pathos
    7•11 months ago

    Big bump for Sundered if you like 2D Metroidvanias. I have played through it at least 5 times (you need to do it 3 times to get all the endings)

  • CharlesReed
    5•11 months ago

    Very nice to see The Sinking City included so many times. There was so much weirdness surrounding its release that I feel like it gets swept under the rug a lot. It’s incredibly underrated in my opinion, and while not the greatest, it has interesting characters and story.

  • @Sterile_TechniqueEnglish
    4•11 months ago

    You’ve got The Secret World on there already, but worth mentioning they did a remake: Secret World Legends. Whole ton of QoL changes, combat was revamped, but otherwise the same game.

    Suuuuuper niche game, but if it happens to be your niche it’ll become one of your all time favorites.

    • ekZeppOPEnglish
      3•11 months ago

      Nice info ty

      • @leave_it_blankEnglish
        3•11 months ago

        No, thank you for this list! I adore Lovecraft!

  • HaruEnglish
    3•11 months ago

    Returnal is a good one for this list as well, has everything you’d expect from a lovecraftian inspire game.