Of Upcoming Lovecraft Games

So having read a bunch of Lovecraft's stories and watched a number of videos analyzing both them and the lore, I have taken an interest as to see how modern works depict his world. Naturally, as someone who doesn't like horror (confusing I know), things like movies tend to be out of the question (that and despite my love for wanting to make videos and movies, I have a hard time watching them....again, confusing I know). However, we have the world of video games to help with that, so even if I can't play them, I can always watch someone else play them (which is always more fun to watch anyway).

There are some games that take inspiration of Lovecraft's work and do it quite well. The main one I can think off the top of my head is Darkest Dungeon, a game where you enter dungeons to face off against all manner of horrors, where death is permanent, maintaining stress is a key component and is a story of delving into madness and terrible truths would certainly feel quite at home in a Lovecraft story. Heck, the developers are called Red Hook Studios and the name itself appears to have been taken from a Lovecraft story called 'The Horror at Red Hook' (not to mention it's logo has a tentacle). Looking for more, I have been keeping up with trailers and gameplay for a few more Lovecraftian horror games.

The Call of Cthulhu:

So two trailers of the same game, but both show off the type of story your going to get (a.k.a. A struggling detective sent to investigate a murder event and ultimately stumbles on things he shouldn't). Come to think of it, that tends to be the theme with a lot of these games, people with troubled pasts trying to do a job to move on, but just ending up finding a pit of madness. It's based on the pen & paper role-playing game, so I suspect it will involve more stealth then actual combat, which (in my opinion) is what you want as you need to feel helpless against such powers.

The Sinking City:

Possibly my favourite video of these ones, this game is a bit more open world with more combat, but still limited enough to make you question fighting. I like this trailer more because of the feel of the madness and how everything has a twisted view of reality. My only complain is the symbol on the door. It is a version of the Elder sign and so they seem to have gone with the more famous version, though not Lovecraft's version. This video should help explain the Elder Sign:

Regardless, I'm interested to see how these games play out and what stories will be told.